Global mean nitrogen recovery efficiency in croplands can be enhanced by optimal nutrient, crop and soil management practices. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 An increase in nitrogen (N) recovery efficiency, also denoted as N use efficiency (NUEr), is crucial to reconcile food production and environmental health.
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An Open Soil Health Assessment Framework Facilitating Sustainable Soil Management. [PDF]
Environ Sci Technol, 2022 The crucial role of healthy soil in achieving sustainable food production and environment is increasingly recognized, as is the importance of proper assessment of soil quality.
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Farmers' perception on soil erosion in Ghana: Implication for developing sustainable soil management strategy. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Farmers’ perception on soil erosion has not adequately reported in the conditions of Ghana though its causes and effects are time and site-specific.
Tesfahunegn GB, Ayuk ET, Adiku SGK.
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Potential of the economic valuation of soil-based ecosystem services to inform sustainable soil management and policy. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The concept of ecosystem services, especially in combination with economic valuation, can illuminate trade-offs involved in soil management, policy and governance, and thus support decision making.
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Conventional and organic soil management as divergent drivers of resident and active fractions of major soil food web constituents. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Conventional agricultural production systems, typified by large inputs of mineral fertilizers and pesticides, reduce soil biodiversity and may negatively affect ecosystem services such as carbon fixation, nutrient cycling and disease suppressiveness ...
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Soil management is key to maintaining soil moisture in urban gardens facing changing climatic conditions. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Urban gardens are vital green spaces, providing food for residents and space for engaged citizenry and community development. In California, climate change conditions (heat and drought) are becoming more extreme, threatening the resilience of urban ...
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Environmental Challenges, 2021 Today, many potential agricultural lands in the Miandorood region of Mazandaran, Iran, are under cultivation of strategic agricultural products, land use change in this region has become a major environmental problem.
Seyyed Akbar Sadaty, PhD Candidate in soil resource management (Soil Physics and Conservation) +1 more
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European Journal of Soil Science, 2023 Current soil‐ and land degradation seriously challenge our societies; it contributes to climate change, loss of biodiversity and loss of agricultural productions.
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Soil use and management, 2023 Sustainable soil management is essential to prevent agricultural soil degradation and maintain food production and core soil‐based ecosystem services. Regenerative agriculture, one approach to sustainable soil management, is rapidly gaining traction in ...
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Sustainable soil management measures: a synthesis of stakeholder recommendations
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023 Soil degradation threatens agricultural production and soil multifunctionality. Efforts for private and public governance are increasingly emerging to leverage sustainable soil management. They require consensus across science, policy, and practice about
Veronika Strauss +4 more
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