Rudy Rabbinge

TL;DR: The UK Government's Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project as mentioned in this paper aims to improve dialogue and understanding between agricultural research and policy by identifying the 100 most important questions for global agriculture.

TL;DR: In this article, a more deliberate adoption of knowledge of plant physiological processes is proposed to identify the physicochemical "packaging" of nutrients, their composition, amount and timing of application to meet plant physiological needs for improved instantaneous uptake.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the case for a science that develops the best ecological means to produce food in a way that has substantially less negative effects on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services and indeed, should be able to contribute to their persistence and enhancement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined Ansai County as a case study to explore strategic land use options that may meet well-defined goals of regional development, using a systems approach that integrated the fragmented and empirical information on the biophysical, agronomic and socioeconomic conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of residue retention in maize production systems of Jalisco, Mexico was conducted using the DSSAT crop simulation models, where crop residues were partially or totally retained were compared with systems with no residue retention.