Soil Improving Cropping Systems for Sustainable and Profitable Farming in Europe

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: adoption; advice; agricultural advisers; agricultural advisory services; agriculture; air-filled porosity; bio-drilling crops; Bland–Altman statistics; bulk density; carbon dioxide; CO2; compacted subsoils; compaction; compost; conservation agriculture; costs and benefits; cover crops; crop management; crop productivity; crop residue; crop response; crop rotation; crop yield; degree of compaction; deliberative democracy; direct drilling; earthworms; economic dimension; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; environmental dimension; Environmental economics; environmental effects; Europe; governance; greenhouse gas; irrigation; large-scale modelling; long-term effect; macronutrients; manure; mechanized agriculture; Mediterranean soils; minimum tillage; N2O; nitrous oxide; no tillage; no-till; NPK; nutrient content; nutrient management; organic manure; overall sustainability; Pisum sativum L; Podzol soil; principal component analysis; q-methodology; reduced tillage; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regenerative agriculture; relative normalised density; Research and information: general; resource use; scenarios; scoring function; sewage sludge; smallholder agriculture; SOC stocks; socio-economic and environmental indicators; sociocultural dimension; soil bulk density; soil care; soil conservation; soil erosion; soil health; soil improving practices; soil land management; soil organic carbon; soil penetration resistance; soil policy; soil quality; soil quality assessment; soil quality index; soil-improving crop systems; soil-improving cropping systems; soil-water content; SOM; straw incorporation; subsoiling; sustainability framework; sustainability frameworks; sustainable agriculture; sustainable land management; sustainable soil management; tillage; weather conditions

A major challenge for the future is combining both the profitability and sustainability of agriculture. The European H2020 project SoilCare aims to identify, test, and evaluate soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) which contribute to the implementation of agricultural solutions across Europe (See:...