Diversifying crop systems represents a promising pathway to improved climate resilience in agriculture. After a century of radical crop system simplification, understanding processes of crop system diversification requires accounting for multiple …
Agricultural diversity, productivity, and human well-being have been popular topics in recent decades, partly fueled by our quest for sustainability. However, the exact nature of the interconnections among these global priorities remains an area yet …
As the 21st century progresses, rural residents across the United States have often found themselves in disadvantaged positions by many socio-economic measures compared to their urban counterparts. In addition, agriculture– once the emblem of …
As part of his SARE grant, Jean has created a story map to serve as a platform to explore the interconnection between farming practices and community well-being, highlighting key management decisions intentionally made by farmers to achieve sustainable outcomes.
Jean’s first-author paper Examining the State of Community Well-Being at the Intersection of Rurality and Agricultural Engagement in the Contiguous United States was recently published in the International Journal of Community Well-Being!
Landscape complexity promotes ecosystem services and agricultural productivity, and often encompasses aspects of compositional or configurational land cover diversity across space. However, a key agricultural diversification practice, crop rotation, …
Ecological theory on diversity suggests that agriculture requires sufficient biodiversity, ecological function, and critical ecosystem services to remain sustainable and resilient. As such, research related to the effect of ecosystem services and …
The county-level landscape complexity data built for our USDA Diversity of Agricultural Landscape project is now published and publicly available! You can access the data at AgDataCommons.
The suggested citation for those using the data is: Burchfield, Emily K.
Check out this pod-cast by our amazing Diversity of Agricultural Landscapes project post-doc (and now assistant professor at Arizona State University!) Andrea Rissing!