Conservation agriculture as a sustainable system for soil health: A review

B Cárceles Rodríguez, VH Durán-Zuazo… - Soil Systems, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

Conservation agriculture for regenerating soil health and climate change mitigation in smallholder systems of South Asia

ML Jat, MK Gathala, M Choudhary, S Sharma… - Advances in …, 2023 - oar.icrisat.org
The increase in agriculture production to meet the food demand of growing human
population from a limited availability of arable land with low environmental footprints and …

Establishing a soil quality index to evaluate soil quality after afforestation in a karst region of Southwest China

P Yu, J Liu, H Tang, X Sun, S Liu, X Tang, Z Ding, M Ma… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
The improvement of soil quality (SQ) evaluation tools can contribute to more precise and
efficient monitoring of SQ changes under different management practices. This study aimed …

An integrated approach for estimating soil health: Incorporating digital elevation models and remote sensing of vegetation

KK Aqdam, S Rezapour, F Asadzadeh… - Computers and Electronics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The deterioration of soil health (SH) in agricultural lands is a global challenge that poses a
threat to food and resource security. We developed a practical framework to facilitate the …

Soil extracellular enzyme activity linkage with soil organic carbon under conservation tillage: A global meta-analysis

Y Zhu, H Zhang, Q Wang, W Zhu, Y Kang - European Journal of Agronomy, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation tillage has a profound impact on soil organic carbon (SOC) and extracellular
enzyme activity (EEA), thereby influencing the global soil nutrient cycle. However, there is …

Identification of a resource-efficient integrated crop management practice for the rice-wheat rotations in south Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains

N Biswakarma, V Pooniya, RR Zhiipao, D Kumar… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) coupled with the integrated crop management (ICM)-practices
based on a whole-farm approach could preserve the agroecosystems to achieve the soil …

Soil properties affect crop yield changes under conservation agriculture: A systematic analysis

X Ren, W Zou, J Jiao, R Stewart… - European Journal of Soil …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation agriculture (CA) has the potential to sustain soil productivity and benefit
agroecosystems, yet it is not fully understood how yield responses of different cropping …

Evaluating the impact of soil erosion on soil quality in an agricultural land, northeastern China

H Fang, Y Zhai, C Li - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of soil erosion on soil quality is still not systematically understood. The purpose
of this study was thus to quantify the impact of soil erosion on soil quality and its change with …

Enhancing productivity, soil health, and reducing global warming potential through diverse conservation agriculture cropping systems in India's Western Indo-Gangetic …

MK Gora, HS Jat, JK Ladha, M Choudhary… - Field Crops …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context The rice-wheat (RW) system, spanning 13.5 million hectares in South Asia, is crucial
for food security and livelihoods. However, intensive conventional tillage-based practices …

A large-scale assessment on spatial variability of potato yield and soil chemical properties in northern China

Y Sheng, P He, X Xu, Y Liu - Soil and Tillage Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the spatial variability of potato yield and soil chemical properties is critical for
designing management strategies and ensuring potato sustainable production. However …