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Although organic farming was originally promoted as an alternative farming system to address agronomic, environmental and ecological issues, its conve...
Read moreWhile the impact of climate change on crop yields has been extensively studied, the quantification of water shortages on irrigated crop yields has bee...
Read moreChange in cropping practices is required to address the food security issues in Africa. Yet, testing of the performance of such changes, in particular...
Read more1. Intercropping, the practice of growing two or more crops in close association, is attracting increasing interest in developed countries, primarily ...
Read moreComplementarity (CE) and selection effects (SE) have been either invoked to explain the positive diversity-productivity relationship in natural and se...
Read moreAn approximate solution is presented of the differential equation describing soil-moisture flow towards a root absorbing water at a periodically varyi...
Read moreOrganic farming is a promising way to reduce pesticide use but increasing the area under organic farming at the landscape scale could increase pest in...
Read moreIn agriculture, winter cover crop (WCC) residues are incorporated into the soil to improve soil quality, as gradual litter decomposition can improve f...
Read moreGiven that approximately one-quarter of grasslands worldwide have been converted to agriculture, understanding the consequences of agricultural conver...
Read moreIn modern crop production, each plant is often nearly genetically identical to its neighbours, allowing insect pests and pathogens to move easily from...
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