Sustainable management of diseases and pests in crops by vermicompost and vermicompost tea. A reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 41 - Trang 1-26 - 2021
Ali Mohd Yatoo, Md. Niamat Ali, Zahoor Ahmad Baba, Birjees Hassan
The intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural field has globally destroyed soil fertility, killed beneficial microorganisms, and also decreased natural resistance in crops, thereby making them more vulnerable to diseases besides affecting human health and the environment. To overcome these problems, it is very important to shift our attention towards eco-friendly al...... hiện toàn bộ
Homegarden agroforestry systems in achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. A reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 42 - Trang 1-21 - 2022
Rashmita Sharma, Usha Mina, B. Mohan Kumar
Homegarden, a type of agroforestry system, is one of the earliest thriving traditional food systems reported. Studying the contribution of homegardens in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is crucial when the COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the achievement of many of the crucial SDGs. In this review, we focused on 94 peer-reviewed papers on homegardens from 2010 to 2021 to interrel...... hiện toàn bộ
Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern BahiaAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 42 - Trang 1-16 - 2022
Neander Marcel Heming, Goetz Schroth, Daniela C. Talora, Deborah Faria
In southern Bahia, Brazil’s traditional cacao region, cacao is mostly grown under the shade of thinned Atlantic Forest (known as cabruca). These agroforestry systems are gradually being replaced by unshaded cacao monocultures that might be more vulnerable to changes in climate; however, the impacts of climate change have not been evaluated yet. We assessed the impact of climate change on the clima...... hiện toàn bộ
Early planting, management of edges and non-crop habitats reduce potyvirus infection in maizeAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 40 - Trang 1-12 - 2020
Gemma Clemente-Orta, Ramon Albajes, Maria Angeles Achon
Viruses are a limiting factor in maize production areas around the world. The knowledge of the interactions between agroecosystems and the virus-vector-host system is limited, but a landscape-scale approach could help fill this gap. In this study, we show how the use of multiple spatial scales, i.e. 200, 500 and 1000 m, is a novel methodology for explaining the incidence of two closely related pot...... hiện toàn bộ
The agronomic and environmental assessment of soil phosphorus levels for crop production: a meta-analysisAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 43 - Trang 1-19 - 2023
Yuan Wang, Yutao Cui, Kexin Wang, Xuanyi He, Yuehua Dong, Shunjin Li, Yixia Wang, Huaiyu Yang, Xinping Chen, Wei Zhang
As an essential element of crop growth, phosphorus (P) plays an important role in maintaining agricultural sustainability and ecological balance. A quantitative understanding of agronomic and environmental soil P thresholds at the global scale is required to enhance P-use efficiency and crop productivity while preventing environmental P losses. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analysis w...... hiện toàn bộ
Weed dispersal by farming at various spatial scales. A reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 33 - Trang 205-217 - 2012
Sandrine Petit, Audrey Alignier, Nathalie Colbach, Alexandre Joannon, Didier Le Cœur, Claudine Thenail
Reducing pesticide use in agriculture is necessary to preserve natural resources. However, pest control without pesticides is a challenging issue. In particular, weed infestation may cause severe losses of crop yield. Weeds have been traditionally managed solely at the field level. However, larger scales must be considered because invasive and herbicide-tolerant weeds are spreading over larger sca...... hiện toàn bộ
Impact of Swiss agricultural policies on nitrate leaching from arable landAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 27 - Trang 243-253 - 2007
M. Decrem, E. Spiess, W. Richner, F. Herzog
From 1993 onwards, various policy measures aiming at reducing nitrogen (N) losses were introduced in Swiss agriculture. We studied the impact of these measures on nitrate leaching under arable land in the Fehraltorf catchment near Zurich. Because of the well-drained soils, the shallow water table and the intensive agricultural activity, the groundwater in this catchment is highly vulnerable to nit...... hiện toàn bộ