Conservation agriculture and soil organic carbon: Principles, processes, practices and policy options

R Francaviglia, M Almagro, JL Vicente-Vicente - Soil Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intensive agriculture causes land degradation and other environmental problems, such as
pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, biodiversity decline, and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Challenges and approaches in microbiome research: from fundamental to applied

C Sergaki, B Lagunas, I Lidbury, ML Gifford… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
We face major agricultural challenges that remain a threat for global food security. Soil
microbes harbor enormous potentials to provide sustainable and economically favorable …

Food security

C Mbow, CE Rosenzweig, LG Barioni, TG Benton… - 2020 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term effectiveness of sustainable land management practices to control runoff, soil erosion, and nutrient loss and the role of rainfall intensity in …

M Martínez-Mena, E Carrillo-López, C Boix-Fayos… - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
Mediterranean environments are especially susceptible to soil erosion and to inappropriate
soil management, leading to accelerated soil loss. Sustainable Land Management (SLM) …

[HTML][HTML] Plant residue chemical quality modulates the soil microbial response related to decomposition and soil organic carbon and nitrogen stabilization in a rainfed …

M Almagro, A Ruiz-Navarro, E Díaz-Pereira… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soils play a major role in the global carbon cycle and are crucial to the management of
climate change. Changes in plant cover derived from different agricultural practices induce …

Risk management and decision making in relation to sustainable development

M Hurlbert, J Krishnaswamy, FX Johnson… - 2019 - diva-portal.org
Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …

Why increased extreme precipitation under climate change negatively affects water security

JPC Eekhout, JE Hunink, W Terink… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
An increase in extreme precipitation is projected for many areas worldwide in the coming
decades. To assess the impact of increased precipitation intensity on water security, we …

The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature's Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

P McElwee, K Calvin, D Campbell… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interlocked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation require
transformative interventions in the land management and food production sectors to reduce …

The evolution of soil conservation policies targeting land abandonment and soil erosion in Spain: A review

CCE van Leeuwen, ELH Cammeraat, J de Vente… - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Land degradation affects natural and cultivated socio-ecosystems worldwide. Soil erosion is
one of the main processes leading to land degradation, and the process is accelerated by …