Assessing the impact of soil degradation on food production

Bindraban, P.S.; Velde, Marijn van der; Ye, Liming; Berg, M. van den; Materechera, S. A.; Kiba, Delwendé Innocent; Tamene, Lulseged; Ragnarsdóttir, Kristín Vala; Jongschaap, R.E.E.; Hoogmoed, Marianne; Hoogmoed, W.B.; Beek, Christy van; Lynden, Godert van

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.09.015

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“…The most extensive soil degradation appears in SubSaharan Africa and South Asia (Lal 2009;Bindraban et al 2012). According to Sanchez and Suraminathan (2005), in Sub-Saharan Africa, about 75% of the total arable land (95 million ha) is highly degraded, and farmers lose 8 million tons of soil nutrients (equivalent to US$4 billion) annually.…”

Section: Soil Fertility and Soil Qualitymentioning

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“…Mixed farming systems, where nutrients are cycled within the system via animal manure, are well known for good quality of soil organic matter, active soil biology and favorable soil structure (Mäder et al 2002). Lal (2009) and Bindraban et al (2012) highlight that several techniques commonly used in organic agriculture contribute to restoring degraded soils, such as no-till farming (Moos et al 2016), using light machinery, mulching, cover cropping, integrated nutrient management, residue management, crop rotation, planting crop mixtures, manure application and use of N-fixing plants. These techniques can be considered a starting point for developing sustainable systems to restore degraded soils (Bindraban et al 2012).…”

Section: Maintaining and Improving Soil Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lal (2009) and Bindraban et al (2012) highlight that several techniques commonly used in organic agriculture contribute to restoring degraded soils, such as no-till farming (Moos et al 2016), using light machinery, mulching, cover cropping, integrated nutrient management, residue management, crop rotation, planting crop mixtures, manure application and use of N-fixing plants. These techniques can be considered a starting point for developing sustainable systems to restore degraded soils (Bindraban et al 2012). Bhattacharyya et al (2015) proposed to work on solutions at the level of watersheds, as the various elements of these units are subject to relatively similar climatic conditions and therefore similar management measures show promise in mitigating environmental changes.…”

Section: Maintaining and Improving Soil Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In a broader context, temperature affects many other environmental factors in complex ways. Examples of such influences include, but are not limited to (1) the positive feedback between ambient temperature and the global 383 carbon cycle (Grace, 2004;Chapin III et al, 2009), (2) the role of soil temperature in controlling the rate of soil respiration (Conant et al, 2000;Bond-Lamberty and Thomson, 2010) and soil degradation (Bindraban et al, 2012), and (3) the cause-effect relationships between global warming and decreased biodiversity (Mayhew et al, 2008), increased mortality (Chung et al, 2009), and shifts of crop phenology (Peñuelas et al, 2009) and growing seasons (Steltzer and Post, 2009). Moreover, temperature is a critical input parameter in many eco-environmental models in the fields of crop growth simulation (Verdoodt et al, 2004;Bechini et al, 2006), agro-ecological zoning (Caldiz et al, 2001;Ye et al, 2008), and food security assessment Van Ranst, 2002, 2009;Ye et al, 2012), for example.…”

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Time-series modeling and prediction of global monthly absolute temperature for environmental decision making

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A generalized, structural, time series modeling framework was developed to analyze the monthly records of absolute surface temperature, one of the most important environmental parameters, using a deterministicstochastic combined (DSC) approach. Although the development of the framework was based on the characterization of the variation patterns of a global dataset, the methodology could be applied to any monthly absolute temperature record. Deterministic processes were used to characterize the variation patterns of the global trend and the cyclic oscillations of the temperature signal, involving polynomial functions and the Fourier method, respectively, while stochastic processes were employed to account for any remaining patterns in the temperature signal, involving seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) models. A prediction of the monthly global surface temperature during the second decade of the 21st century using the DSC model shows that the global temperature will likely continue to rise at twice the average rate of the past 150 years. The evaluation of prediction accuracy shows that DSC models perform systematically well against selected models of other authors, suggesting that DSC models, when coupled with other ecoenvironmental models, can be used as a supplemental tool for short-term (∼10-year) environmental planning and decision making.

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“…Rozelle et al, 1997;Wang, 2004;Bindraban et al, 2012). Policy responses have been commensurately ardent.…”

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Abatement costs of soil conservation in China's Loess Plateau: Balancing income with conservation in an agricultural system

Hou

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Keske

2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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a b s t r a c tThis study proposes the use of marginal abatement cost curves to calculate environmental damages of agricultural systems in China's Loess Plateau. Total system costs and revenues, management characteristics and pollution attributes are imputed into a directional output distance function, which is then used to determine shadow prices and abatement cost curves for soil and nitrogen loss. Marginal abatement costs curves are an effective way to compare economic and conservation tradeoffs when field-specific data are scarce. The results show that sustainable agricultural practices can balance soil conservation and agricultural production; land need not be retired, as is current policy.Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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Assessing the impact of soil degradation on food production

Cited by 155 publications

References 34 publications

Organic Agriculture 3.0 is innovation with research

Organic Agriculture 3.0 is innovation with research

Time-series modeling and prediction of global monthly absolute temperature for environmental decision making

Abatement costs of soil conservation in China's Loess Plateau: Balancing income with conservation in an agricultural system

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