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Organic agriculture and sustainable food production system: Main potentials KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems? KU Leuven
© 2010 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on our environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning of crop residues, have magnified soil erosion losses and the soil resource base has been steadily degraded (Montgomery, 2007). Many soils have been worn down to their nadir for most ...
Assessment of benefits of conservation agriculture on soil functions in arable production systems in Europe University of Antwerp
Conventional farming (CONV) is the norm in European farming, causing adverse effects on some of the five major soil functions, viz. primary productivity, carbon sequestration and regulation, nutrient cycling and provision, water regulation and purification, and habitat for functional and intrinsic biodiversity. Conservation agriculture (CA) is an alternative to enhance soil functions. However, there is no analysis of CA benefits on the five soil ...