• In these lands, farming communities adopting regenerative technologies have substantially improved agricultural yields, often only using few or no external inputs

• Wind erosion is a natural process that removes topsoil from cultivated agricultural lands, contributing to an overall decline in soil health, including a breakdown of soil structure and reduced soil fertility.

• Reliance on monocultural species and the decline of natural habitat around farms also reduces or eliminates beneficial insects in the agricultural ecosystem.

• MFA horizontally enriched agricultural functions to include food security, environmental protection, and rural vitality, and MFA research investigates how these functions are jointly produced.

• In China, recent advances in agricultural productivity and poverty reduction have been built on a significant domestic agricultural research and development base.

• In case of increased organic agricultural production, e.g. due to sustainable development policies to reduce the negative impact of conventional agriculture16, competition for biomass between bioenergy and organic farming systems could thus emerge.