Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to
global food security. In order to address the nutritional requirements of the ever-increasing …

Continuous decline of earth's natural resources and increased use of hazardous chemical
fertilizers pose a great concern for the future of agriculture. Biofertilizers are a promising …

Microbial inoculants are gaining importance for attaining sustainable agricultural production
systems. Nutrient supply capacity of soil is diminishing continuously owing to soil erosions …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Healthy soil is critical to human health and for achieving sustainable development goals
(SDGs). Although India attained self-sufficiency in food production, realising zero hunger …

Increases in world population and climate change are some of the pressures affecting water
resources for current and future water availability. The variability in water availability can …

The development of irrigation is generally considered an efficient way to reduce poverty in
rural areas, although its impact on the inequality between farmers is more debated. In fact …

Incipient groundwater salinization has been identified in many arid and semi-arid regions
where groundwater is increasingly used for irrigation, but the dominant processes at stake in …

The Sentinel-2 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus program provides
multispectral remote sensing data at decametric spatial resolution and high temporal …

Agriculture has been increasingly relying on groundwater irrigation for the last decades,
leading to severe groundwater depletion and/or nitrate contamination. Understanding the …