Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Grain legume production offers multiple environmental benefits and can enhance
sustainability of European farming, but their production area is declining constantly. Grain …

Many strategies exist to combat soil degradation through erosion and compaction on
agricultural fields. One of these strategies is conservation agriculture (CA). Reduced or no …

In trying to respond to societal demands for sustainable development, farming systems
worldwide face a range of environmental, technical and economic challenges. These …

We analyze global elemental phosphorus flows in 2009 for (1) mining to products,(2) animal
and human manure flows,(3) crop harvests and animal production,(4) food production,(5) …

The stratification of soil organic matter at different depths is common under conservation
tillage and especially under no-tillage. The degree of stratification, or stratification ratio (SR) …

Abstract The new European Union's Common Agricultural Policy will cover the period from
2015 to 2020. Significant novelties in the payment scheme have been introduced which may …

Abstract Changes in soil organic carbon stocks depend on the management regime and a
variety of environmental factors including climatic conditions and soil properties. So far, the …

The objective of this work was to assess the influence of the row cleaner attack angle, the
gap between discs, the working depth of a narrow tine and the strip tillage machine's …

Soil fertility gradients develop on smallholder farms due to preferential allocation of inputs. A
multi‐location on‐farm trial was conducted in Meru South, Central Kenya whose overall aim …