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 …

Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

No-till agriculture represents a relatively widely adopted management system that aims to
reduce soil erosion, decrease input costs, and sustain long-term crop productivity. However …

One of the primary challenges of our time is to feed a growing and more demanding world
population with reduced external inputs and minimal environmental impacts, all under more …

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been widely promoted as an agro-ecological approach to
sustainable production intensification. Despite numerous initiatives promoting CA across …

The small-scale farmers in Iran and around the world have experienced the highest level of
drought vulnerability among all social groups in recent years. As very little research has …

Widespread implementation of conservation agriculture (CA) in North and South America
and Australia suggests significant farmer profitability achieved through some combination of …

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims for clean water and sanitation for
all by 2030, through eight subgoals dealing with four themes:(i) water quantity and …

Developing countries with small-scale agriculture have yet to exploit the untapped potential
of agricultural mechanization. This is because of the misconception that mechanization is …