Frontiers

Toward Advanced, Intensive, and Precision Cropping Systems: Frontiers in Cultivation Strategies for Regulating Crop Physiology and Ecology

Global agriculture stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual imperative of ensuring food security and quality amidst ...
JSTOR Daily

Effects of nitrogen mineralization on paddy rice yield under low nitrogen input conditions in irrigated rice-based multiple cropping with intensive cropping of vegetables in ...

The farm household responsibility system (FHRS) was adopted in Chinese rural areas during the economic reform in the early 1980s. Since then, many farm households have increased cropping intensity by ...
Salon

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

We have little chance of tackling climate change and reducing biodiversity loss without a redesign of the world’s largest industry: agriculture and food. With crops grown in farm fields, more ...
Beyond Pesticides

USDA Study Reports Pollution Control and Productivity in Organic Ag Outpaces Chemical-Intensive Ag

(Beyond Pesticides, December 9, 2025) In the Journal of Environmental Quality, researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report that a 4-year organically managed corn-soybean-oat system ...
The Conversation

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

Derek Lynch receives funding for his research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. We have little chance of tackling climate change and ...