Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the
era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and …

Cover crops can provide a wide range of ecosystem services including soil water
conservation, improved soil nutrient supply and retention, and enhanced crop yields …

Soil organic carbon formation remains poorly understood despite its importance for human
livelihoods. Uncertainties remain for the relative contributions of aboveground, root, and …

Agroecology promises a third way between common global agriculture tradeoffs such as
food production and nature conservation, environmental sustainability and ecosystem …

Sustainable land management (SLM) practices, aimed at balancing competitive agricultural
production and environmental protection, have been encouraged throughout the EU through …

The design of sustainable, high-yielding continuous cropping systems requires to maintain,
or even restore, critical ecosystem properties, such as soil functioning. In the rolling Pampa …

Cover crops play a critical role on conservation and sustainable agriculture due to their well-
documented benefits on both soil and crop productivity. Inclusion of legumes (eg, hairy …

Through advancements in technology humans have cultivated more food, used more fossil
fuel reserves, polluted the environment, and caused climate change. This was not the case …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of pesticides in surface and
groundwater of agricultural areas of the Pampas region of Argentina and to develop an …

Rolling hill style topography is a common feature of agricultural land throughout the United
States. Topographic complexity causes subfield variation in soil resources such as water …