Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

Increases in human populations and the emerging challenges of climate change mean that
the world's agricultural systems will need to produce more food in an environment that is …

Due to the scarcity of alternative organic amendments, the retention of crop residue in fields
can be considered key in promoting physical, chemical, and biological attributes of soil …

The performance of no-till (NT) in temperate regions may be enhanced through the
integration of additional conservation practices such as cover crop** and crop rotations …

Conservation tillage practices, here defined as no-tillage (NT) or reduced tillage (RT)
with/without residue retention, have been widely used to alleviate the negative effects …

Conservation tillage, defined as no-till with/without straw stubble covering, reduced tillage,
or minimum tillage in this study, is widely used to mitigate the negative effects of intensive …

Cumulative daily load time series show that the early 2000s marked a step‐change increase
in riverine soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) loads entering the Western Lake Erie Basin …

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 …

Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative
implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks …

The objective of this article is to review:(a) the principles that underpin conservation
agriculture (CA) ecologically and operationally;(b) the potential benefits that can be …