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Hanaa Tharwat Mohamed Ibrahim, Maxwell Maimela Modiba, Igor Dekemati, Györgyi Gelybó, Márta Birkás and Barbara Simon
Long-term cultivation experiments are gaining more attention due to the possibility of following the changes in soil parameters (e.g., soil organic carbon (SOC), stock and soil health indicators, etc.). Our objective was to assess the status of soil in a...
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Benjamin Ruch, Margita Hefner and André Sradnick
Market gardening is a widespread practice of bio-intensive vegetable production characterized by direct marketing, small-scale farming structures, high crop densities, and innovative cultivation approaches. Currently, deep compost mulch (DCM) is a popula...
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Abdelali El Mekkaoui, Rachid Moussadek, Rachid Mrabet, Ahmed Douaik, Rachid El Haddadi, Outmane Bouhlal, Mariyam Elomari, Matike Ganoudi, Abdelmjid Zouahri and Said Chakiri
Climate change, drought, erosion, water contamination resources, desertification, and loss of soil quality represent major environmental risks worldwide. Facing these risks is the most important issue for sustainable development. Conventional tillage (CT...
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Malgorzata Holka, Jolanta Kowalska and Magdalena Jakubowska
In the face of a changing climate, intensive efforts are needed for limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C. Agricultural production has the potential to play an important role in mitigating climate change. It is necessary to optimize all of t...
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Josue De Los Rios, Arne Poyda, Friedhelm Taube, Christof Kluß, Ralf Loges and Thorsten Reinsch
Many studies recommend no-till (NT) to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) in the topsoil (<30 cm) of arable land to counterbalance greenhouse gas emissions. Its potential use to mitigate SOC losses during conversion and renovation of grassland ecosystems...
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Leigh Whittinghill and Sait Sarr
As urban populations increase, there is growing interest in developing innovative technologies, sustainable urban farming practices, policy measures, and other strategies to address key barriers in urban agriculture that impede improved food security and...
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Patrick M. Carr
There is interest in reducing or even eliminating tillage in organic production systems. In this special Issue, research teams in Europe and North America summarize recent and on-going efforts to develop conservation-tillage systems that can be used on c...
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Caroline Halde, Samuel Gagné, Anaïs Charles and Yvonne Lawley
For more than a decade, studies have aimed to adapt the agronomy of organic no-till systems for the environmental conditions of Eastern Canada. Most research on organic no-till practices in Eastern Canada has been conducted in the province of Québec, whe...
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Sabine Zikeli and Sabine Gruber
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John M. Wallace, Alwyn Williams, Jeffrey A. Liebert, Victoria J. Ackroyd, Rachel A. Vann, William S. Curran, Clair L. Keene, Mark J. VanGessel, Matthew R. Ryan and Steven B. Mirsky
Cover crop-based, organic rotational no-till (CCORNT) corn and soybean production is becoming a viable strategy for reducing tillage in organic annual grain systems in the mid-Atlantic, United States. This strategy relies on mechanical termination of cov...
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