Agricultural opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

JMF Johnson, AJ Franzluebbers, SL Weyers… - Environmental …, 2007 - Elsevier
Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO2, CH4, and N2O. It
can also be a sink for CO2 through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic …

Shallow non-inversion tillage in organic farming maintains crop yields and increases soil C stocks: a meta-analysis

J Cooper, M Baranski, G Stewart… - Agronomy for …, 2016 - Springer
Reduced tillage is increasingly promoted to improve sustainability and productivity of
agricultural systems. Nonetheless, adoption of reduced tillage by organic farmers has been …

Rice management interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions: a review

S Hussain, S Peng, S Fahad, A Khaliq, J Huang… - … Science and Pollution …, 2015 - Springer
Global warming is one of the gravest threats to crop production and environmental
sustainability. Rice, the staple food of more than half of the world's population, is the most …

Conservation tillage is not conservation agriculture

DC Reicosky - Journal of Soil and water conservation, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A LOOMING COLLISION: GLOBAL POPULATION AND FOOD SECURITY As world
population increases and food production demands rise, kee** our soil healthy and …

Conservation tillage systems: a review of its consequences for greenhouse gas emissions

M Abdalla, B Osborne, G Lanigan… - Soil use and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation tillage (CT) is an umbrella term encompassing many types of tillage and
residue management systems that aim to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture …

No-tillage lessens soil CO2 emissions the most under arid and sandy soil conditions: results from a meta-analysis

K Abdalla, P Chivenge, P Ciais, V Chaplot - Biogeosciences, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
The management of agroecosystems plays a crucial role in the global carbon cycle with soil
tillage leading to known organic carbon redistributions within soils and changes in soil CO 2 …

Current and future glyphosate use in European agriculture

P Neve, M Matzrafi, L Ulber, B Baraibar… - Weed …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There has been a longstanding and contentious debate about the future of glyphosate use
in the European Union (EU). In November 2023, the European Commission approved the …

Carbon dioxide emissions under different soil tillage systems in mechanically harvested sugarcane

AM Silva-Olaya, CEP Cerri, N La Scala Jr… - Environmental …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Soil tillage and other methods of soil management may influence CO 2 emissions because
they accelerate the mineralization of organic carbon in the soil. This study aimed to quantify …

Microbial communities in soil profile are more responsive to legacy effects of wheat-cover crop rotations than tillage systems

A Somenahally, JI DuPont, J Brady… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Declining trends in soil health under continuous monoculture systems of winter wheat are a
concern for sustainable production in the Southern Great Plains of the US. This study was …

Indications for soil carbon saturation in a temperate agroecosystem

H Chung, JH Grove, J Six - Soil Science Society of America …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The soil C saturation concept postulates that there is an upper limit to the equilibrium soil C
level of mineral soils even when soil C input is increased. To test this concept, we analyzed …