We present a method for calculating the Acute Insecticide Toxicity Loading (AITL) on US agricultural lands and surrounding areas and an assessment of the changes in AITL from 1992 through 2014. The AITL method accounts for the total mass of insecticides used in the US, acute toxicity to insects using...

This study examines the impacts of a set of agroecological interventions for a typical semiarid African country on the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy analysis utilises the Threshold21-iSDG model, developed by the Millennium Institute (MI), which integrates the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development into one framework....

As support for agroecology grows around the world, an urgent question spanning our field’sscientific, practical, and movement dimensions is how agroecology can “scale” to includemorepeople in more places in fair, sustainable food systems. Our challenge is to seize this opportunitywhile pushing back against the tendency to strip agroecology of its...

Interactions between aboveground and belowground organisms are important drivers of plant growth and performance in natural ecosystems. Making practical use of such above-belowground biotic interactions offers important opportunities for enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, as it could favor crop growth, nutrient supply, and defense against biotic and abiotic stresses. However,...

Im Sonderbericht über Klimawandel und Landsysteme hat der Weltklimarat Anfang August darauf hingewiesen, dass ohne einen Kurswechsel zu nachhaltigen Ernährungssystemen die Pariser Klimaziele nicht mehr erreicht werden können. Mit ihrer Vision "Agrarökologie gegen den Klimawandel" setzt sich Biovision bereits seit längerem dafür ein, dass biologische Landwirtschaft als Methode zur Reduktion von Ursachen des...

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims at compiling original theoretical, methodological, and empirical research exploring how agroecology approaches can promote the transition towards sustainability, particularly of agri-food social-ecological systems, taking into account the complex relationships established between ecological functions and ecosystem services, human wellbeing, innovative socio-technical innovations, and governance models...