Ecosystem service farming integrates natural processes to enhance agricultural productivity while preserving environmental health. By leveraging ecosystem services like pollination, water filtration, soil fertility, and pest control, this approach ensures that farms remain both productive and ecologically balanced. Practices such as agroforestry, conservation tillage, and creating wildlife corridors support biodiversity and help maintain ecosystem functions on farmlands. In turn, this reduces the need for chemical inputs, improves resilience against pests and diseases, and restores water cycles. Ecosystem service farming is a holistic method that not only boosts yields but also promotes environmental sustainability, ensuring that agricultural landscapes provide benefits for generations to come.
Title : Development of Virginia mountain mint as a potential commercial crop in the southern USA
Srinivasa Rao Mentreddy, Alabama A&M University, United States
Title : Socioeconomic constraints in implementing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in crops and solutions for sustainability
Shashi Vemuri, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, India
Title : Suitaiology: A strategic science for reframing agricultural risks under climate extremes — from water-use efficiency to water-situation wisdom
Dachang Zhang, Water & Eco Crisis Foundation, United States
Title : The use of CHP condensate water in greenhouse cultivation
Lisa Huybrechts, Proefstation voor de Groenteteelt vzw, Belgium
Title : Characterization of isolated strains of microorganisms from mineral, mountain, and spring waters from France, Italy, England, South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Dubai, and Bulgaria.
Nedyalka Valcheva, Vocational High School, Bulgaria
Title : Markers of PM produced by biomass combustion and development of a sampling and analysis technique
Enrico Paris , CREA-IT , Italy