Seven years resource-conserving agriculture effect on soil quality and crop productivity in the Ethiopian drylands

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 163, Issue , 2016, Pages 99-109

  Araya, Tesfay ^a,b   Nyssen, Jan ^c   Govaerts, Bram ^d   Deckers, Jozef ^e   Sommer, Rolf ^f   Bauer, Hans ^e   Gebrehiwot, Kindeya ^b   Cornelis, Wim M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Raised bed; Semi arid; Soil health; Vertisol

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION;

CONSERVATION AGRICULTURES; RAISED BED; SEMI ARID; SOIL HEALTH; VERTISOLS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGROECOLOGY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; DRYLAND FARMING; ORGANIC CARBON; OVERGRAZING; PHOSPHORUS; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL QUALITY; VERTISOL;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84975453883     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2016.05.011     Document Type: Article

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