Among the soil conservation practices that are used, mulching has been successfully
applied to reduce soil and water losses in different contexts, such as agricultural lands, fire …

Improving soil physical properties is important to soil conservation. Cover cropping can
improve soil physical properties and organic matter content which can reduce soil loss, and …

Conservation agriculture is claimed to be a panacea for the problems of poor agricultural
productivity and soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is actively promoted by …

Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted in Africa as an alternative for coping
with the need to increase food production on the basis of more sustainable farming …

Excessive soil evaporation induced water loss resulting in drought stress is a significant
yield-limiting factor in dry-land regions of China. However, the crop yield response to straw …

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is being advocated to enhance soil health and sustain long
term crop productivity in the developing world. One of CA's key principles is the maintenance …

To date, the most widely adopted resource conserving technology in the Indo-Gangetic
Plains (IGP) of South Asia has been zero-tillage (ZT) wheat after rice, particularly in India …

Despite huge gains in productivity, environmental impacts of industrial agriculture based on
a few high-yielding crop cultivars and the massive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides …

The effect of different conservation agriculture (CA) systems on maize grain yield was
studied across four countries in southern Africa. Maize yield data was obtained from plots …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces multiple problems. The main one is improving the lives of
the 30% of its population that suffers from extreme poverty and food insecurity. As more than …