Integration crop-livestock system increases the sustainability of soybean cultivation through improved soil health and plant physiology

Gonçalves e Silva, João Antônio; Habermann, Eduardo; de Pinho Costa, Kátia Aparecida; da Silva, Luciana Maria; da Costa Severiano, Eduardo; Costa, Adriano Carvalho; Silva, Fabiano Guimarães; de Oliveira, Thales Caetano; Dário, Bruno Matheus Mendes; Vilela, Lourival; Pinho Costa, João Victor Campos; Martinez, Carlos Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2023.108770

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“…Organic agriculture has significantly expanded, using fewer inputs and reducing environmental degradation . Other alternatives consist of crop intensification, which integrates resource management practices to increase productivity and profitability, or the growth of crops in innovative conditions, such as aquaponic farming that combines vegetable cultivation and aquaculture …”

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“…9 Organic agriculture has significantly expanded, using fewer inputs and reducing environmental degradation. 10 Other alternatives consist of crop intensification, which integrates resource management practices to increase productivity and profit- ability, 11 or the growth of crops in innovative conditions, such as aquaponic farming that combines vegetable cultivation and aquaculture. 12 In 2021, the production capacity of the agri-food sector globally reached 11.3 billion metric tons of food, of which approximately 1 billion metric tons was associated with vegetable production such as carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and garlic, among others.…”

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Low Energy and Carbon Hydroponic Tomato Cultivation in Northern Spain: Nutritional and Environmental Assessment

Martínez,

Fernández-Ríos,

Laso

et al. 2024

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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The agri-food sector is one of the most impactful on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the largest consumers of energy and natural resources. In this context, the objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental impacts of hydroponic tomatoes cultivated in northern Spain using a waste product as biomass to heat the greenhouses and solar energy for powering the irrigation system to identify their main environmental hotspots and improvement measures. For this purpose, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used. The functional units (FUs) chosen were 1 kg of tomatoes and an alternate FU based on nutrition, e.g., NRF9.3. The influence of including biogenic CO 2 emissions has been considered using a "−1/+1″ approach to assess the uptake and release of biogenic carbon throughout the whole life cycle. The main results showed that greenhouse gas emissions varied between 1.4 kg CO 2 equiv and 2.5 kg CO 2 equiv considering biogenic carbon, whereas the total energy demand of the production of hydroponic tomatoes was 9.7 MJ. Fertilization and the greenhouse structure were identified as the main contributors to environmental burdens; hence, improvement opportunities were focused on these critical points.

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