Integrated modeling framework for sustainable agricultural intensification

Agricultural scientists are pursuing sustainable intensification strategies to increase global food availability, but integration from research impact at the local-level requires knowledge of demographic and human-environment enhance adaptive capacity farmers cultivating <10 ha. Enhancing close collaboration among transdisciplinary teams these smallholders is critical co-elaborate policy solutions ongoing security crises that likely be attuned with local conditions. Human socio-cultural aspects need considered facilitate both adoption dissemination adapted management practices. Despite this well-known co-produce in human systems, we demonstrate inequality current agricultural smallholder farming systems heavy focus on a few domains framework (SIAF), ultimately reducing overall interventions due lack compatibility prevailing social contexts. Here propose integrate agriculture agronomic models modeling approaches productivity system resilience, while addressing persistent issues security. Researchers should consider scale interventions, ensure attention paid equality political processes, explore change interactions, improve connection nutrition health outcomes, via nutrition-sensitive investments.