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Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us
The challenge to increase food production is greater than ever,
as the world’s population is set to increase to a predicted nine billion
by 2050 (United Nations, 2008), requiring a 70 to 100% increase in
global food ...
Inter‐annual Declines of Terrestrial Net Primary Production and Carbon Use Efficiency: Global Patterns and Hotspots over 2000 ‐ 2014
Terrestrial net primary production (NPP) generates products of biological origin, on which much of other ecosystem services depend. The primary production provides a basis for food production, biogeochemical cycles, carbon ...
The extent and cost of land degradation
Book chapter
Tillage impact on soil erosion by water: Discrepancies due to climate and soil characteristics
No-tillage (NT) is promoted for soil and water conservation, but research
findings on overland
flow and
soil erosion are inconsistent across different ecosystems, with some studies showing no benefits of NT
over conventional ...
Identification and Comparative Analysis of Differential Gene Expression in Soybean Leaf Tissue under Drought and Flooding Stress Revealed by RNA-Seq
Drought and flooding are two major causes of severe yield loss in soybean worldwide. A lack of knowledge of the molecular mechanisms involved in drought and flood stress has been a limiting factor for the effective management ...
Dryland Systems Annual Report 2015
The CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is
a global agricultural research partnership to realize
the potential of dryland communities. The program
brings together eight CGIAR centers, and numerous
international, ...
Concepts and Methods of Global Assessment of the Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative seeks to develop a
science basis for policy actions to address land degradation. The purpose of this
chapter is to provide with a conceptual framework and sound and ...
Improvement of pearl millet module in APSIM. Characterization of the main water stress patterns within pearl millet production agroecologies in A1, A, B zone (focus on A1&A)
Since tillering is one of the key environmental adaptive mechanism of sorghum&pearl millet (e.g. vanOosterom et al 1998, Jordan et al 2003, Borrell et al 2015), availability of a dynamic tillering module is a crucial feature ...
Bringing experts judgments and local knowledge into yield gap assessments: The Sub-Saharan Africa potato case
Potato farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) produce on average 12 % of the potential yield and 24 Mg ha-1 less than yields obtained in experimental stations as evidenced by this study, that implemented an innovative ...
Overgrazing decreases soil organic carbon stocks the most under dry climates and low soil pH: A meta-analysis shows
Grasslands occupy about 40% of the world’s land surface and store approximately 10% of the global soil
organic carbon (SOC) stock. This SOC pool, in which a larger proportion is held in the topsoil (0–0.3 m), is
strongly ...