Yifen Shang, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Mengqi Li et al.
In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability. Nanotechnology helps to improve agricultural production by i...
Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Hervé Jactel, John A. Parrotta, Christopher P. Quine et al.
Losses of natural and semi-natural forests, mostly to agriculture, are a significant concern for biodiversity. Against this trend, the area of intensively managed plantation forests increases, and there is much debate about the implications for biodiversity. We provide a comprehensive review of the ...
Daniel A. Friess, Kerrylee Rogers, Catherine E. Lovelock, Ken W. Krauss et al.
Intertidal mangrove forests are a dynamic ecosystem experiencing rapid changes in extent and habitat quality over geological history, today and into the future. Climate and sea level have drastically altered mangrove distribution since their appearance in the geological record ∼75 million years ago ...
K. R. Islam, Ray R. Weil
Chandra Giri, Bruce W. Pengra, Zhiliang Zhu, Ashbindu Singh et al.
K. L. Heong, B. Hardy, Heong, K.L., Hardy, B.
Rice is the staple food for around half the world’s people and about three-quarters of a billion of the world’s poor depend on rice. Each year, an additional 50 million rice consumers are added to the world population, which means that rice production will need to increase markedly. Lowland rice pro...
Leonard Gianessi
Herbicide use is increasingly being adopted around the world. Many developing countries (India, China, Bangladesh) are facing shortages of workers to hand weed fields as millions of people move from rural to urban areas. In these countries, herbicides are far cheaper and more readily available than ...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Md. Mahabub Alam, Prasanta Bhowmik et al.
Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. ...
Emily Beech, Malin Rivers, Sara Oldfield, Paul Smith
This article presents, for the first time, an overview of all known tree species by scientific name and country level distribution, and describes an online database—GlobalTreeSearch—that provides access to this information. Based on our comprehensive analysis of published data sources and expert inp...
Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Ashfaq Ahmad, Ahsan Raza, Muhammad Hasnain et al.
Agricultural production is under threat due to climate change in food insecure regions, especially in Asian countries. Various climate-driven extremes, i.e., drought, heat waves, erratic and intense rainfall patterns, storms, floods, and emerging insect pests have adversely affected the livelihood o...
Sagar Maitra, Akbar Hossain, Marián Brestič, Milan Skalický et al.
Intensive agriculture is based on the use of high-energy inputs and quality planting materials with assured irrigation, but it has failed to assure agricultural sustainability because of creation of ecological imbalance and degradation of natural resources. On the other hand, intercropping systems, ...
M. Alimullah Miyan
Droughts occur both in developed and developing countries with significant impacts and are exacerbating in frequency, severity and duration. Over exploitation of water resources, weather variability and climate change are mostly responsible for such exacerbation. The impacts of droughts encompass th...
Jeffrey A. McNeely, Götz Schroth
Jacek P. Siry, Frederick W. Cubbage, Miyan Rukunuddin Ahmed
M.L. Jat, Debashis Chakraborty, J. K. Ladha, D.S. RANA et al.