Good agricultural practices and climate change
Subregional Workshop ENPARD Mashreq, 2015/12/08-09, Cairo (Egypt) Introductory note. ENPARD South initiative (European Commission)
Inclusion of upland crops in rice-based rotations affects chemical properties of clay soil
In the Mekong Delta, alluvial clay soils have been used intensively over many generations for rice monoculture. Currently, farmers are confronted by problems of declining land productivity. Rotations comprising rice and upland crops can increase soil quality, but appropriate cropping systems for paddy soils have received relatively little attention...
Réduction des pesticides : une réflexion sur l'évaluation de l'efficacité des processus de transition agroécologique dan...
Résumé étendu et lien vers la vidéo de la communication. Session : Alternatives aux pesticides : agriculture intelligente et agro-écologie / National audience
A meta-analysis of the predicted effects of climate change on wheat yields using simulation studies
Future climate change is expected to affect wheat yields. However, it is uncertain if the overall change in climate will result in wheat yield increases or decreases. This is due to the opposing effects of temperature, precipitation, and CO2 concentration on wheat yields. In this study, a meta-analysis of simulated yield change was conducted to ide...
Do the current rice cropping systems allow small household farms in Sierra Leone to produce enough rice for their own ne...
Poster / International audience
Unconventional feeds for small ruminants in dry areas have a minor effect on manure nitrogen flow in the soil–plant syst...
Published in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
In dry areas, unconventional feeds are increasingly used for mitigating feed shortages and rangeland degradation. We evaluated how feeding sheep diets containing olive leaves, saltbush leaves and olive cake affects manure quality compared to a barley straw based diet. Soil incubation and plant growth experiments were carried out to measure soil nit...
Silage maize growth simulation using pilote and cropsyst model
Models simulating the effects of water stress on crop growth can be valuable tools for improving water management. PILOTE, anoperative crop model, and CropSyst, a more sophisticated one, are compared on the basis of the simulation of silage maize(Zea maize L.) growth for 2 years (2009-2010) under different water supply regimes in the semi-arid clim...
Assessment of soil structure in the transition layer between topsoil and subsoil using the profil cultural method
In France, agronomists have studied the effects of cropping systems on soil structure using a field method based on a morphological description of soil structure. In this method, called "profil cultural" or soil profile in English, the soil structure of the tilled layer is observed on a vertical face of a pit. Subsoil and more especially the transi...
European Perspectives on the Adoption of Nonchemical Weed Management in Reduced-Tillage Systems for Arable Crops
Noninversion tillage with tine- or disc-based cultivations prior to crop establishment is the most common way of reducing tillage for arable cropping systems with small grain cereals, oilseed rape, and maize in Europe. However, new regulations on pesticide use might hinder further expansion of reduced-tillage systems. European agriculture is asked ...
Un outil de simulation adapté à la gestion des ressources en eau du territoire dans le cadre d’une démarche participativ...
Cet article présente un outil de simulation adapté à la gestion de ressources en eau à l’échelle d’un territoire dans le cadre de démarches participatives. Cet outil associe un modèle de culture, Pilote Ter, et le simulateur technico-économique Olympe. Pilote Ter intègre le modèle de culture Pilote développé par Irstea et un système de base de donn...
