ECOLOGY:
Agriculture at a Crossroads
E. Toby Kiers,1* Roger R. B. Leakey,2 Anne-Marie Izac,3 Jack A. Heinemann,4 Erika Rosenthal,5 Dev Nathan,6 Janice Jiggins,7
The present path of agricultural development will not achieve development goals according to a recent assessment, but a solid foundation for improvements exists.
1Institute of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
2James Cook University, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
3Alliance of the CGIAR Centres, c/o IFAD, 200 Via del Serafico, Rome, Italy
4School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
5Center for International Environmental Law, 1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC, USA
6Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India
7Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: ekiers{at}falw.vu.nl
