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Publikováno v:
Agronomy, Vol 12, Iss 7, p 1534 (2022)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) agriculture is characterized by dependence on erratic rainfall, inadequate conservation practices, and a decline in soil fertility resulting in low crop productivity. Therefore, conservation agriculture (CA) has been proposed
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/05101663d39d4982982007818a923d73
Autor:
Cinisani M. Tfwala, Achamyeleh G. Mengistu, Imoh B. Ukoh Haka, Leon D. van Rensburg, Chris C. Du Preez
Publikováno v:
Heliyon, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp e06233- (2021)
Global diminishing water resources, especially due to climate change have serious impacts on evaporation (E) from the soil surface, transpiration (T) from plants (crops) and grain yield, which relates to water use efficiency of different crops. A stu
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c55103549c204ea6b73a003ed6fd65b0
Autor:
Anja Linstädter, Arnim Kuhn, Christiane Naumann, Sebastian Rasch, Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann, Wulf Amelung, Jorrie Jordaan, Chris C. Du Preez, Michael Bollig
Publikováno v:
Ecology and Society, Vol 21, Iss 3, p 35 (2016)
In the past decades, social-ecological systems (SESs) worldwide have undergone dramatic transformations with often detrimental consequences for livelihoods. Although resilience thinking offers promising conceptual frameworks to understand SES transfo
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https://doaj.org/article/d3b97577c9334f73ae5fb9ffc0838120
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Science, Vol 107, Iss 5/6 (2011)
The decline of soil organic matter as a result of agricultural land use was identified for a review with the ultimate aim of developing a soil protection strategy and policy for South Africa. Such a policy is important because organic matter, especia
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https://doaj.org/article/f2357e2e4f0e4aedb0bad51a20150aaa
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Science, Vol 107, Iss 5/6 (2011)
Degradation of soil as a consequence of land use poses a threat to sustainable agriculture in South Africa, resulting in the need for a soil protection strategy and policy. Development of such a strategy and policy require cognisance of the extent an
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https://doaj.org/article/1859611cff29452f921fb34a1ad83c91
Publikováno v:
Biogeochemistry. 156:131-143
Sequestering carbon (C) into stable soil pools has potential to mitigate increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Carbon accrues in grassland soil restored from cultivation, but the amount of physically protected C (here measured as micr
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Agricultural Extension. 7:277-291
This study aimed to identify the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ decisions to adopt four different conservation agriculture (CA) practices (i.e. minimum tillage, intercropping, cover cropping and crop rotation) in Mozambique. A non-prob
Publikováno v:
Agriculture
Volume 10
Issue 10
Agriculture, Vol 10, Iss 448, p 448 (2020)
Volume 10
Issue 10
Agriculture, Vol 10, Iss 448, p 448 (2020)
Conservation agriculture (CA) practices are advocated to reduce soil degradation, resulting in more sustainable food production as compared to conventional tillage (CT). In this study, the short-term effects of two tillage systems in combination with
Autor:
Roland Pape, Stef Weijers, Lutz Weihermüller, Vladimir Wingate, Alexandra Sandhage-Hofmann, Wulf Amelung, E. Kotzé, Chris C. Du Preez, Dirk Wundram, Jörg Löffler
Publikováno v:
Geoderma 372, 114399-(2020). doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114399
Woody encroachment is increasingly threatening savanna ecosystems, but it remains unclear how this is driven by different land tenures and management systems. In South Africa, communal land is mainly managed under continuous grazing, while commercial
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c46d8e5524f5832e9848e4af08193237
https://hdl.handle.net/2128/24763
https://hdl.handle.net/2128/24763
Autor:
C.M. Tfwala, Leon D. van Rensburg, Chris C. Du Preez, Imoh B. Ukoh Haka, Achamyeleh G. Mengistu
Publikováno v:
Heliyon
Heliyon, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp e06233-(2021)
Heliyon, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp e06233-(2021)
Global diminishing water resources, especially due to climate change have serious impacts on evaporation (E) from the soil surface, transpiration (T) from plants (crops) and grain yield, which relates to water use efficiency of different crops. A stu