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Crop Diversification in Rice-Based Agroecosystem: Medium-Term Effects on Soil Properties, Carbon and Other Nutrients’ Stoichiometry, and System Productivity
Soil physical and chemical properties play salient roles in terrestrial nutrient cycling; particularly, how they respond to land use change combined...
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Model-based design of crop diversification through new field arrangements in spatially heterogeneous landscapes. A review
Intensive agriculture in Germany is not only highly productive but has also led to detrimental effects in the environment. Crop diversification...
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The Owita agroecosystem: a promising traditional land management system for sustainable farming in Sri Lanka
The Owita agroecosystem is a unique peri-urban land-use system. Typically it is a narrow strip of land with vegetation located between lowland paddy...
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Strategies for managing fungicide resistance in the Brazilian tropical agroecosystem: Safeguarding food safety, health, and the environmental quality
Fungicide resistance is an alarming challenge for the Brazilian tropical agricultural systems, with major implications for food safety, human and...
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Identification and description of relationships between actors involved in crop diversification experiences across Europe
Agriculture can benefit from crop diversification to facilitate its transition to more sustainable agrifood systems. However, these practices remain...
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Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary
The simplification of agricultural landscapes, particularly in the United States (US), has contributed to alarming rates of environmental...
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Intensification for Agroecosystem Services
Agroecosystem itself represents a managed ecosystem in agricultural land by human-managed crops and livestock’s integration that are highly...
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Agroecosystem Service Management and Environmental Sustainability
Agroecosystem means improving the agricultural ecosystem by human-induced management of trees, crops, and livestock in any land use system. Resource...
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Interviews with farmers from the US corn belt highlight opportunity for improved decision support systems and continued structural barriers to farmland diversification
Diversifying high-input, monocropped landscapes like the US Corn Belt would provide both economic and ecosystem service benefits to the agricultural...
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How to quantify the impacts of diversification on sustainability? A review of indicators in coffee systems
Despite the potential of diversification strategies to achieve sustainability, diversified systems such as agroforestry are still not widely...
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Diversification Options in Sugarcane-Based Crop** Systems for Doubling Farmers’ Income in Subtropical India
Crop diversification provides an opportunity for farmers to maximize their profits, fulfilling multiple needs, avoid monsoon threats, and make the...
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Ecological Footprints in Agroecosystem: An Overview
Agroecology has many pyramids on the earth, and has interaction between the living components. It encompasses the key issues such as food system on...
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Crop Diversification: Crop**/System Approach for Enhancing Farmers’ Income
Agriculture including horticulture is the riskiest of all professions as there are many variables affecting the outcome. About 86% Indian...
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Diversification supports farm income and improved working conditions during agroecological transitions in southern Brazil
Management of crop diversity for improved agroecosystem functioning can provide economic co-benefits to farmers. Yet, there remain critical gaps in...
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Short-term impact of crop diversification on soil carbon fluxes and balance in rainfed and irrigated woody crop** systems under semiarid Mediterranean conditions
PurposeDiversification practices such as intercrop** in woody crop** systems have recently been proposed as a promising management strategy for...
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Combining crop diversification practices can benefit cereal production in temperate climates
Diversifying crop** systems by increasing the number of cash and cover crops in crop rotation plays an important role in improving resource use...
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Systems Approach: Analysis, Design and Modelling
The agroecosystem, or the ecosystem modified and steered by humans for the production of goods and services, is the central object of agroecology as...
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The ESSU concept for designing, modeling and auditing ecosystem service provision in intercrop** and agroforestry systems. A review
Duru et al. (Agron Sustain Dev 35:1259-1281, 2015) highlighted a missing tool for studying and improving the performance of crop** systems in the...
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Management of Agroecosystem for Food Security: An Overview
With the escalating world population along with urbanization and changing consumption patterns, the global need for food is projected to elevate....
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How agricultural techniques mediating bottom-up and top-down regulation foster crop protection against pests. A review
The heavy use of synthetic pesticides in agriculture has been responsible for detrimental effects on human and environmental health, making it...
