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Xiushuang Li, Jianglan Shi, Juan Chen and Xiaohong Tian
Legume green manure (LGM) is an excellent organic amendment conducive to soil quality and nutrient cycling; however, the use of LGM was once repealed in the rain-fed agriculture of northern China. The objective was to investigate the effects that plantin...
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Min Tang, Rui Liu, Hongchen Li, Xiaodong Gao, Pute Wu and Chao Zhang
The implementation of the ?Returning Farmland to Forest? project in the loess hilly region of China has led to the establishment of large-scale economic forests, which have become the dominant industry driving local economic development. However, the reg...
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Hope Mwanake, Bano Mehdi-Schulz, Karsten Schulz, Nzula Kitaka, Luke O. Olang, Jakob Lederer and Mathew Herrnegger
Poor agricultural practices among small-scale sub-Saharan African farmers can lead to soil erosion and reduce agricultural productivity. However, information on such practices is normally not well documented, making it challenging to design future mitiga...
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Victor Hugo Ramírez-Builes and Jürgen Küsters
Coffee (Coffea spp.) represents one of the most important sources of income and goods for the agricultural sector in Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean region. The sustainability of coffee production at the global and regional scale is under th...
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Ndamulelo Nembilwi, Hector Chikoore, Edmore Kori, Rendani B. Munyai and Tshilidzi C. Manyanya
Mopani District Municipality in the northeast of South Africa is largely semi-arid and frequently affected by meteorological droughts. The recent 2015/16 event had devastating impacts on water levels, crop yields, livestock herds and rural livelihoods. W...
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Wenwen Feng, Hui Qian, Panpan Xu and Kai Hou
While irrigated crops produce much higher yields than rain-fed crops, the ionic components of irrigation water have important effects on crop yield. Groundwater is widely used for irrigation in the Baojixia irrigation area in China. The chemical characte...
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Milena Danicic, Vladislav Zekic, Milan Mirosavljevic, Branislava Lalic, Marina Putnik-Delic, Ivana Maksimovic and Anna Dalla Marta
The present study assessed the effect of projected climate change on the sowing time, onset, and duration of flowering, the duration of the growing season, and the grain yield of spring barley in Northern Serbia. An AquaCrop simulation covered two climat...
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Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández and Fred Saunders
The agri-pastoralist communities of the semi-arid region of Chile, with their unusual common land ownership, have not escaped economic neo-liberalism. The general pattern of insatiable demand of land for agricultural production, mining, energy generation...
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Uvirkaa Akumaga, Aondover Tarhule, Claudio Piani, Bouba Traore and Ado A. Yusuf
Climate change is estimated to substantially reduce crop yields in Sub-Saharan West Africa by 2050. Yet, a limited number of studies also suggest that several adaptation measures may mitigate the effects of climate change induced yield loss. In this pape...
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Carlos Ovalle, Soledad Espinoza, Viviana Barahona, Macarena Gerding, Alan Humphries, Alejandro del Pozo
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In dryland Mediterranean environments, the productivity of annual legumes is low during autumn and winter, with plant senescence typically beginning by the middle of spring because of low soil water availability. Therefore, the use of deep-rooted perenni...
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