Soil quality assessments in integrated crop–livestock–forest systems: A review

Valani, Gustavo Pereira; Martíni, Aline Fachin; Silva, Laura Fernanda Simões da; Bovi, Renata Cristina; Cooper, Miguel

doi:10.1111/sum.12667

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“…According to Vinholis et al (2020), an integrated croplivestock-forest system (CLFS) is an agro-ecosystem management practice that can improve the soil's biological, chemical, and physical conditions. This low carbon agricultural technique combines different farming systems such as crop-forest, crop-livestock, forest-livestock, and crop-livestock-forest (Valani et al 2021). This technology's benefit includes increasing cycling and nutrient utilization efficiency, reducing production costs, and protecting climate change by reducing GHG emissions.…”

Section: Integrated Crop-livestock-forest System (T3)mentioning

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Evaluation of Low-Carbon Sustainable Technologies in Agriculture Sector through Grey Ordinal Priority Approach

Islam

2021

IJGS

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The agriculture sector plays a vital role in the economy, society, and environment, the three dimensions of sustainability. The agriculture sector contributes 12% to 14% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the atmosphere, negatively impacting climate change. Using low-carbon and sustainable agricultural technologies can help mitigate climate change and global food security issues. But selecting and prioritizing the best technologies among all alternatives has always been an issue for decision-makers because of various uncertainty related to the agricultural sector. Therefore, the current study intends to identify and prioritize the key low-carbon and sustainable agricultural technologies. The current study makes a pioneering attempt in employing the Grey Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA-G), a modern multi-attribute decision-making technique, for the evaluation of low-carbon and sustainable technologies for the agricultural sector.

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Section: Integrated Crop-livestock-forest System (T3)mentioning

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Evaluation of Low-Carbon Sustainable Technologies in Agriculture Sector through Grey Ordinal Priority Approach

Islam

2021

IJGS

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“…Despite the challenges for its (re-)integration in some regions (Schut et al, 2021), such systems have several benefits (Sharma et al, 2019). No-tillage is one of the pillars of integrated farming systems, being adopted in more than 65% of these systems (Valani et al, 2020), but few studies have analyzed soil and water conservation under integrated farming systems (Moraes et al, 2014).…”

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Soil Structural Quality and Relationships With Root Properties in Single and Integrated Farming Systems

Cavalieri-Polizeli

Marcolino

Tormena

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Single farming systems (SFS) such as monocultures may negatively affect soil structural quality. This study tested the hypothesis that integrated farming systems (IFS), i.e., the combination of cropping and forestry and/or livestock farming, improves soil structural quality, root development and soil organic carbon. An experimental area was set up in 2012 at the Canguiri experimental farm belonging to the Federal University of Paraná, Southern Brazil. The soils are predominantly Ferralsols. The experimental treatments representing different farming systems, organized in a random block design with three replicates, were: Forestry (F), Conventional Crop Production (C), Livestock (L), and integrated Crop-Forestry (CF), Crop-Livestock (CL), Livestock-Forestry (LF), and Crop-Livestock-Forestry (CLF). In situ measurements and sampling were carried out in the 0–0.3 m layer during summer 2019/20, and included soil penetration resistance (PR), soil structural quality based on visual evaluation of soil structure (SqVESS scores), root length (RL), root volume (RV) and soil organic carbon content (SOC). Soil structural quality, penetration resistance, root length and volume, and SOC varied between farming systems, but no significant differences were found between single (C, L, F) and integrated farming systems (CF, CL, LF, CLF). The single system Forestry (F) and the integrated systems including forestry (LF, CF, CLF) tended to have higher SqVESS scores, i.e. poorer soil structural quality, and higher PR, which we associate with the generally drier soil conditions that are due to higher soil water uptake and higher interception and reduce the frequency of wetting-drying cycles. Roots were concentrated in the shallow soil layer (0–0.1 m depth), and this was especially pronounced in the Crop (C) single farming system. Based on the measured values, our results suggest an acceptable soil structural quality in all farming systems. Our data revealed strong, significant relationships between soil structural quality, penetration resistance, root growth and SOC, demonstrating that improvements in soil structure results in lower soil penetration resistance, higher root volumes and higher SOC, and vice versa. Soil PR was positively correlated with SqVESS (R2 = 0.84), indicating that better soil structural quality resulted in lower soil mechanical resistance. This, in turn, increased root length and volume, which increases carbon input to soil and therefore increases SOC in the long run.

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“…This favors the complexation of toxic elements, improves the soil cation exchange capacity (Cogo et al 2013) and increases the soil enzymatic activity, mainly hydrolases and oxidoreductases, when compared to conventional systems (Zago et al 2020). However, Valani et al (2020) pointed out that integration systems are underexplored, despite their potential for soil management in global scale, especially for the recovery of degraded pastures.…”

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to ecosystem functions (Valani et al 2020), and is more advantageous than conventional systems by presenting higher yields, lower production costs, better efficiency of inputs and lower systematic risk, due to the diversified income sources (Kichel et al 2014).Studies have shown the potential of integrated farming systems to improve the soil physical, 1

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Fertility, carbon stock and aggregate stability of an Alfisol under integrated farming systems

Silva

Oliveira

Martins

et al. 2021

Pesqui. Agropecu. Trop.

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Integrated farming systems are promising strategies for the recovery of pastures and degraded soils. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of integrated farming systems arrangements, after four years of implementation, on the fertility, carbon stock and aggregate stability of an Alfisol, in the semiarid region of the Paraíba state, Brazil. A randomized block experimental design was used, with 5 treatments and 4 replications: Brachiaria decumbens; B. decumbens + Tabebuia impetiginous; B. decumbens + Gliricidia sepium; B. decumbens + Mimosa caesalpiniifolia; and B. decumbens + maize. The soil chemical attributes, fertility, carbon stock and structural and aggregate stability were evaluated in the 0.00-0.10, 0.10-0.20 and 0.20-0.30 m layers. The B. decumbens + maize system presented an organic matter content 11.93 % higher than B. decumbens, and was higher than the other systems evaluated. Concerning the carbon stock in the 0.00-0.10 m layer, in B. decumbens the uptake was 2.66 Mg ha-1 higher than that of the B. decumbens + maize system and, on average, 4.69 Mg ha-1 higher than for the systems with the arboreal component. In the medium-term, B. decumbens is more efficient in adding carbon to the soil. The soil structural stability, aggregate stability index and fertility were not affected by the different arrangements after four years of implementation.

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Soil quality assessments in integrated crop–livestock–forest systems: A review

Cited by 19 publications

References 135 publications

Evaluation of Low-Carbon Sustainable Technologies in Agriculture Sector through Grey Ordinal Priority Approach

Evaluation of Low-Carbon Sustainable Technologies in Agriculture Sector through Grey Ordinal Priority Approach

Soil Structural Quality and Relationships With Root Properties in Single and Integrated Farming Systems

Fertility, carbon stock and aggregate stability of an Alfisol under integrated farming systems

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