Substantially extending the life span of peat- and perlite-based growing media is a measure to increase the sustainability of soilless cultivation. The extraction of peat from pristine peatlands threatens these sensitive ecosystems and carbon sinks, meanwhile resulting in increased emissions of greenhouse gasses. Each batch of peat that is reused, ...
Sustainable agriculture requires the careful optimization of the use of organic amendments to improve soil fertility while minimizing any harmful environmental effects. To understand the events that occur in soil after the addition of different organic amendments, we evaluated the nitrogen (N) mineralization dynamics in soil after adding organic am...
Mechanical biological treatment of municipal solid waste is increasing rapidly inaFrance as well as in other European countries. One of the outputs of this treatment is a compost prepared from the organic matter of the waste. This organic matter can be either collected selectively from the customers as biowaste, or separated from the total MSW in t...
Cette étude avait pour objectif d'établir un état des lieux des acteurs de l'agriculture péri-urbaine de Ouagadougou, leurs pratiques et leurs attentes, et de caractériser les substrats organiques (SO) utilisés. Des enquêtes ont été menées auprès de 64 personnes (céréaliers, maraichers et pépiniéristes) aléatoirement choisies sur les sites les plus...
In the favourable current context for the development of biological treatment of Residual Municipal Solid Wastes (RMSW), the Rotary Drum Reactor (RDR) is a pre-treatment tool increasingly used in construction or rehabilitation facilities. RDR allows a better preparation of waste before mechanical sorting and biological treatment. This preparation p...
We conducted a replicated field plot experiment to investigate the influence of five exogenous organic materials (farmyard manure, cattle slurry and three types of compost), as well as mineral fertilization and two unfertilized control treatments (with and without a crop) on the number, biomass and species composition of earthworms (Lumbricidae) in...
Italy
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7 , Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche / SIGLE / IT / Italy
A greenhouse experiment was carried out at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), at Sadord (13°15' N, 2°18'E), Niger, in conjunction with a feeding trial. Eight types of compost were made with millet stover (refusals and faeces with or without urine from sheep fed millet stover (40 g kg-1 LW), and supplement...
