Rice-based agri-food systems underpin food and livelihood security across India, spanning irrigated Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), rainfed uplands, and coastal deltas. Rice sustains livelihoods and food security for hundreds of millions of Indians, yet the systems that produce it fa...
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Soil carbon sequestration in farmland systems is increasingly promoted as a “win–win” strategy for climate mitigation, food security and rural development. While global debates often emphasize the biophysical potential to store more carbon in agricultural soils, the broader envir...
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Precision agriculture (PA) represents a transformative approach to farming, employing advanced technologies to enhance productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. This review article provides an in depth analysis of the latest innovations in PA techniques, their diverse applica...
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A field experiment was conducted during the rabi seasons of 2024–25 and 2025–26 at the Research Farm, Jigyasa University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, to evaluate the influence of hydrogel application and nutrient management on nutrient uptake, grain protein content and post-har...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i76158
Agroforestry—deliberate integration of trees with crops and/or livestock on the same land—is increasingly promoted as a natural climate solution because it can store substantial amounts of carbon in biomass and soils while sustaining rural livelihoods. Recent meta-analyses and gl...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i45386
Climate change is intensifying abiotic and biotic stresses that threaten global food security, whilst conventional breeding timelines remain poorly matched to the pace of environmental change. This review critically examines three precision genome editing platforms—clustered regu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i45400
Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to global food security, threatening to undermine decades of agricultural progress through increased temperatures, erratic precipitation patterns, prolonged droughts, and intensified pest and disease pressures. Crop breeding, empowe...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i64022
Global agriculture faces a compound challenge: producing sufficient food for a growing population while dramatically reducing its environmental footprint. Fertilizers—particularly synthetic nitrogen compounds—underpin modern crop yields, yet their overuse drives nitrous oxide (N₂...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i66102
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the primary caloric staple for more than half of the world's population, yet its production is increasingly constrained by the inefficiency of conventional fertilisation practices, mounting environmental burdens, and the imperative to sustain yields unde...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i55466
Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) are increasingly recognised as institutional mechanisms for addressing the market-power asymmetries, transaction costs and information barriers faced by smallholder farmers. This review synthesises economic and extension perspectives on FPOs b...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i64263
Climate change represents one of the gravest systemic threats to global food security, with fruit and vegetable production ranking amongst the most climatically sensitive sectors of modern agriculture. Rising temperatures, intensified drought, erratic precipitation patterns, elev...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i55448
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Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) and vertical farming represent transformative approaches to horticulture that decouple crop production from the vagaries of outdoor climate, land availability, and seasonal constraints. These systems integrate precise manipulation of light...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i44137
Global agriculture faces unprecedented and compounding pressures arising from accelerating climate change, a growing human population, and the progressive degradation of the natural resource base upon which food production depends. Precision agriculture has emerged as a paradigm...
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