Soil is an important natural resource providing water, nutrient, and mechanical support for
plant growth. In agroecosystem, continuous manipulation of soil is going on due to addition …

The rapid increase of the world population constantly demands more food production from
agricultural soils. This causes conflicts, since at the same time strong interest arises on novel …

Farmlands are currently among the dominant uses of the land. When managed under low‐
input farming systems, farmlands are associated with diverse cultural and natural heritages …

The European Green Deal strategy, prepared in 2019, involves a number of challenges for
European agriculture. These challenges are broadly linked to a need for agriculture to …

Simulation models represent soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in global carbon (C) cycle
scenarios to support climate‐change studies. It is imperative to increase confidence in long …

During the last century, soils have been over-exploited by humans through agriculture and
industrial development. The need to assess different aspects of soil degradation has …

The depletion of natural resources, energy consumption and environmental issues relating
to fertilizer production processes are driving a move towards a more sustainable use of …

Increasing the European Union's (EU) current efforts to protect the natural environment,
especially in the context of protecting agricultural soils, is one of its basic challenges. The …

Small farms constitute the vast majority of agricultural holdings in the world. Therefore, there
are the questions of how the small farm sector should evolve and whether economic and …

Semi-natural grasslands harbour high biodiversity and play a key role in the supply of
ecosystem services (ES). However, abandonment, changes in traditional management …