The ability of conservation agriculture to conserve soil organic carbon and the subsequent impact on soil physical, chemical, and biological properties and yield

KL Page, YP Dang, RC Dalal - Frontiers in sustainable food systems, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Increases in human populations and the emerging challenges of climate change mean that
the world's agricultural systems will need to produce more food in an environment that is …

Limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation

DS Powlson, CM Stirling, ML Jat, BG Gerard… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Emissions Gap Report 2013 from the United Nations Environment Programme
restates the claim that changing to no-till practices in agriculture, as an alternative to …

Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture

C MacLaren, A Mead, D van Balen, L Claessens… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ecological intensification (EI) could help return agriculture into a 'safe operating space'for
humanity. Using a novel application of meta-analysis to data from 30 long-term experiments …

Conservation agriculture for sustainable intensification in South Asia

ML Jat, D Chakraborty, JK Ladha, DS Rana… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Agriculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals requires climate-smart and
profitable farm innovations. In the past decade, attention has been given to conservation …

Beyond conservation agriculture

KE Giller, JA Andersson, M Corbeels… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Global support for Conservation Agriculture (CA) as a pathway to Sustainable Intensification
is strong. CA revolves around three principles: no-till (or minimal soil disturbance), soil …

Sequestering carbon and increasing productivity by conservation agriculture

R Lal - Journal of soil and water conservation, 2015 - jswconline.org
T he quantum jump in food production and progress toward elimination of mass starvation
have been driven by mechanization of plowing and other farm operations, introduction of …

Multiple cropping systems as drivers for providing multiple ecosystem services: from concepts to design

S Gaba, F Lescourret, S Boudsocq, J Enjalbert… - Agronomy for …, 2015 - Springer
Provisioning services, such as the production of food, feed, and fiber, have always been the
main focus of agriculture. Since the 1950s, intensive cropping systems based on the …

Low-carbon agriculture in South America to mitigate global climate change and advance food security

JC de Moraes Sá, R Lal, CC Cerri, K Lorenz… - Environment …, 2017 - Elsevier
The worldwide historical carbon (C) losses due to Land Use and Land-Use Change
between 1870 and 2014 are estimated at 148 Pg C (1 Pg= 1 billion ton). South America is …

No-till farming and conservation agriculture in South Asia–issues, challenges, prospects and benefits

J Somasundaram, NK Sinha, RC Dalal… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative
implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks …

From adoption claims to understanding farmers and contexts: A literature review of Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption among smallholder farmers in southern …

JA Andersson, S D'Souza - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2014 - Elsevier
This literature review of Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption among smallholder farmers
in southern Africa (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) analyses the historical background of …