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Helena Kirchner
The Berber and Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 C.E. led to a profound transformation of the agricultural landscape. The layout of the irrigated areas, both rural and urban, is recognisable because it is the result of social and technologica...
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Zhipeng Cheng, Lanfang Bai, Zhen Wang, Fugui Wang, Yukai Wang, Hongwei Liang, Yongqiang Wang, Meiren Rong and Zhigang Wang
The two major concerns of sustainable agriculture are safeguarding food security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Studies on the performance of strip-till with controlled-release blended fertilizer on rainfed maize grain yield, greenhouse gas emiss...
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José Rato-Nunes, José Telo-da-Gama, David Peña, Luís Loures, Angel Albaran, Damian Fernández-Rodríguez, Luis Vicente and António López-Piñeiro
Olive orchards cover over 10 million hectares worldwide, with production techniques undergoing significant changes in the past three decades. The traditional rainfed approach, involving minimal inputs, has given way to irrigated super-intensive systems w...
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Luigi Pari, Luca Cozzolino and Simone Bergonzoli
Many climatic variables are projected to occur with more intense and frequent extreme events, possibly unpredictable patterns and negative feedback loops with other environmental processes. Agriculture has faced uncertainty regarding ground temperature a...
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Brian Omondi Oduor, Miguel Ángel Campo-Bescós, Noemí Lana-Renault, Alberto Alfaro Echarri and Javier Casalí
The conversion of cultivated areas from rainfed to irrigated agriculture alters the watershed?s hydrology and could affect the water quality and quantity. This study examined how streamflow, nitrate load, and nitrate concentration changed after irrigatio...
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Gordon Gilja, Neven Kuspilic, Martina Lacko and Davor Romic
Rainfed agriculture is dependent on rainfall and runoff patterns, especially in lowland areas that rely on pumping operation to remove excess water from the drainage network. Polder areas are extremely vulnerable to saltwater intrusion and subsequent soi...
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German Santacruz-De León, Janete Moran-Ramírez and José Alfredo Ramos-Leal
This paper analyzes the behavior of drought in the face of the impact of climate change and groundwater quality and its implications for agricultural production in a semi-arid area of northeastern Mexico. The pluviometric information of two stations from...
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Sisay A. Belay, Tewodros T. Assefa, Abeyou W. Worqlul, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Petra Schmitter, Manuel R. Reyes, P. V. Vara Prasad and Seifu A. Tilahun
Agriculture in Africa is adversely affected by the loss of soil fertility. Conservation agriculture (CA) was introduced to curb the loss of soil fertility and water shortages and improve crop productivity. However, information on how CA practices enhance...
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Sardorbek Musayev, Jonathan Mellor, Tara Walsh and Emmanouil Anagnostou
Effective weather forecast information helps smallholder farmers improve their adaptation to climate uncertainties and crop productivity. The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of weather forecast adoption on crop productivity. We coup...
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Vengai Mbanyele, Florence Mtambanengwe, Hatirarami Nezomba, Jairos Rurinda and Paul Mapfumo
Increasing within-season dry spells in Southern Africa in recent years have generated growing interest in conservation agriculture (CA) to secure crop yields, especially under rainfed systems. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of CA on finger mill...
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