All Outputs (33)

A Welsh food system fit for future generations (2020)
Report

How to deliver healthy, nutritious food for all in the face of shrinking resources and a growing population, while addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, is a major challenge both globally and for Wales. A raft of recent reports have highli... Read More about A Welsh food system fit for future generations.

Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept (2019)
Journal Article

The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) highlights that human wellbeing depends on nature and is a ‘whole system aware’ view. Land-sea systems are examples of complex systems including interfaces that can be perceived as boundaries, overlooking connec... Read More about Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept.

Creating opportunities to teach and engage with undergraduates and faculty at 2-year colleges and minority serving institutions (2018)
Book Chapter

Profit and hegemony in agribusiness (2018)
Journal Article

The insidious control over farming practices exercised by seed companies is an example of how powerful actors in the agri-food system promote profit over environment and health. More important, is the question of how we can shape a more desirable far... Read More about Profit and hegemony in agribusiness.

Biodiversity and the area-based approach in Wales (2018)
Report

Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries (2018)
Journal Article

The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It h... Read More about Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries.

Insect community composition and functional roles along a tropical agricultural production gradient (2018)
Journal Article

High intensity agricultural production systems are problematic not only for human health and the surrounding environment, but can threaten the provision of ecosystem services on which farm productivity depends. This research investigates the effects... Read More about Insect community composition and functional roles along a tropical agricultural production gradient.

Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems (2017)
Journal Article

Today’s society faces many challenges when it comes to food production: producing food sustainably, producing enough of it, distributing food, consuming enough calories, consuming too many calories, consuming culturally-appropriate foods, and reducin... Read More about Addressing the knowledge gaps in agroecology and identifying guiding principles for transforming conventional agri-food systems.

Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition (2017)
Journal Article

In Costa Rica, considerable effort goes to conservation and protection of biodiversity, while at the same time agricultural pesticide use is among the highest in the world. Several protected areas, some being wetlands or marine reserves, are situated... Read More about Assessing the ecological impact of banana farms on water quality using aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition.

What is in a label? Rainforest-Alliance certified banana production versus non-certified conventional banana production (2016)
Journal Article

Export banana production in Latin America is pesticide intensive, receiving much negative publicity regarding human health problems and environmental degradation. The Rainforest Alliance (RA) certification scheme was established to certify farms that... Read More about What is in a label? Rainforest-Alliance certified banana production versus non-certified conventional banana production.

Disease may wipe out world’s bananas – but here’s how we might just save them (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine

Banana production systems: Identification of alternative systems for more sustainable production (2012)
Journal Article

Large-scale, monoculture production systems dependent on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, increase yields, but are costly and have deleterious impacts on human health and the environment. This research investigates variations in banana productio... Read More about Banana production systems: Identification of alternative systems for more sustainable production.

Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: Is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers? (2010)
Journal Article

This paper presents research conducted during two coffee farming seasons in Costa Rica. The study examined coffee farmers’ weed management practices and is presented in the form of a case study of small-scale farmers’ use of labor and herbicides in w... Read More about Weed control practices on Costa Rican coffee farms: Is herbicide use necessary for small-scale producers?.