Participatory selection of soil quality indicators for monitoring the impacts of regenerative agriculture on ecosystem services
| Autor: | Joris de Vente, Raquel Luján Soto, Mamen Cuéllar Padilla |
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| Přispěvatelé: | La Caixa, Fundación Séneca, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Lujan Soto, Raquel [0000-0002-4321-408X], Cuéllar-Padilla, Mamen [0000-0002-2466-7454], Vente, Joris de [0000-0001-7428-0621], Lujan Soto, Raquel, Cuéllar-Padilla, Mamen, Vente, Joris de |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Southeast Spain
Erosion control Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Almond production Agroecology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Global and Planetary Change Regenerative agriculture Ecology business.industry Impact assessment Environmental resource management 021107 urban & regional planning Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Soil quality Restoration Land degradation Business Soil fertility |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | Improving the understanding and fostering large-scale adoption of regenerative agriculture (RA) requires soil quality monitoring systems that integrate farmers’ and researchers’ knowledge. This is especially relevant for participatory impact assessment in semiarid areas prone to land degradation that typically respond slowly to management changes, often resulting in low RA adoption rates. We developed a framework for the identification and selection of local and technical soil quality indicators and for the development of a visual soil assessment tool, to participatory monitor the impacts of RA by farmers and researchers. We applied this framework in a large-scale restoration project in southeast Spain together with almond farmers implementing RA. Local indicators selected by farmers focused mostly on water regulation, erosion control, soil fertility, crop performance and main supporting, regulating and provisioning ecosystem services. Technical indicators selected by researchers focused mostly on soil properties including aggregate stability, soil nutrients, microbial biomass and activity, and leaf nutrients, covering crucial supporting services. The combination of indicators provided complementary information, improving the feasibility of RA impact assessment. This integrated soil quality monitoring system offers a practical tool to enhance knowledge exchange and mutual learning to support the implementation of RA and optimize the delivery of ecosystem services. This work was supported by ”la Caixa” Foundation (ID100010434) through a PhD fellowship to RLS (LCF/BQ/ES17/ 11600008), and by the DECADE and CAMBIO projects (Seneca Foundation, Regional Research Agency of Murcia, Spain, 20917/PI/18 and 18933/JLI/13) and ADAPT project (Ministry of Science and Innovation with FEDER cofounds, CGL2013-42009-R). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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