Limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation

DS Powlson, CM Stirling, ML Jat, BG Gerard… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Emissions Gap Report 2013 from the United Nations Environment Programme
restates the claim that changing to no-till practices in agriculture, as an alternative to …

Beyond conservation agriculture

KE Giller, JA Andersson, M Corbeels… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Global support for Conservation Agriculture (CA) as a pathway to Sustainable Intensification
is strong. CA revolves around three principles: no-till (or minimal soil disturbance), soil …

Soil “ecosystem” services and natural capital: critical appraisal of research on uncertain ground

PC Baveye, J Baveye, J Gowdy - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature
and in the media to the concept of “ecosystem” services of soils. The monetary valuation of …

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

C Palm, H Blanco-Canqui, F DeClerck, L Gatere… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) changes soil properties and processes compared to
conventional agriculture. These changes can, in turn, affect the delivery of ecosystem …

Emergent properties of microbial activity in heterogeneous soil microenvironments: different research approaches are slowly converging, yet major challenges remain

PC Baveye, W Otten, A Kravchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data
showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (eg, granulometry, pH, soil organic matter …

Soil organic matter research and climate change: merely re-storing carbon versus restoring soil functions

PC Baveye, LS Schnee, P Boivin, M Laba… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last two decades, the sequestration of carbon in soils has often been advocated as
a solution to mitigate the steady increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, one …

Seaweed sustainability–food and nonfood applications

BK Tiwari, DJ Troy - Seaweed sustainability, 2015 - Elsevier
At present sustainability is one of the main societal challenges. The core objective of global
sustainability is to match the supply of food, feed, and fuel with the demand of the world's …

Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15.3. 1 indicator of land degradation in the European Union

C Schillaci, A Jones, D Vieira, M Munafò… - Land Degradation & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Land degradation is the persistent reduction in the capacity of the land to support human
and other life on Earth (IPBES, 2018). This process jeopardizes the provision of ecosystem …

What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation

RA McLeman, J Dupre, L Berrang Ford, J Ford… - Population and …, 2014 - Springer
This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era
droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the …

Bypass and hyperbole in soil research: Worrisome practices critically reviewed through examples

PC Baveye - European Journal of Soil Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Almost 30 years ago, a distinguished soil physical‐chemist, Grant W. Thomas, voiced
serious concern about what he saw in the soil science literature as more a preoccupation …