Conservation agriculture as a sustainable option for the central Mexican highlands

Govaerts, Bram; Sayre, Ken D.; Goudeseune, Bart; Corte, Pieter De; Lichter, Kelly; Dendooven, Luc; Deckers, Jozef

doi:10.1016/j.still.2008.05.018

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“…Evidence shows that CA can enhance soil health, contribute to higher and more stable yields, and reduce production costs Govaerts et al 2005;Kassam et al 2009). The aforementioned benefits contribute to medium -and longer-term sustainable development and can be observed after 10-12 years, if not sooner (Govaerts et al 2005(Govaerts et al , 2009.…”

Section: Potential Trade-offs Of Agricultural Technologies From a Genmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, nutrition- and climate-smart food production: Opportunities and trade-offs

2013

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Future food and nutrition security is threatened by climate change, overexploitation of natural resources and pervasive social inequalities. Promising solutions are often technology-focused and not necessarily developed considering gender and social disparities. This paper addresses issues of gender and human development opportunities and tradeoffs related to promoting improved technologies for agricultural development. We examined these aspects for conservation agriculture (CA) as part of a cropping system with nutrition-and climate-smart potential. The paper is based on a literature review and field experiences from Zambia and Mexico. Findings point up situations where the promotion of CA for smallholders in developing countries may have undesired effects from gender and human development perspectives, specifically relating to drudgery, nutrition and food security, residue use, assets, mechanization and extension. The direction and magnitude of potential trade-offs depend on the local context and the specific intervention. The analysis is followed by a discussion of opportunities and pathways for mitigating the trade-offs, including gender transformative approaches; engagement with alternative or non-traditional partners with different but complementary perspectives and strengths; "smart" combinations of technologies and approaches; and policies for inclusive development.

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Gender, nutrition- and climate-smart food production: Opportunities and trade-offs

2013

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“…Altering crop rotation can influence SOC by changing quantity and quality of organic matter input (Govaerts et al, 2009) and thus indirectly has the potential to alter soil aggregation. For example, inclusion of legumes in crop rotations can influence soil aggregation and their stability because of the higher binding capacity of their fine roots as well as organic substances that released from legumes roots are known to contribute to the formation of new soil aggregate (Hillel, 2004).…”

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“…Among the CA practices, over last three decades, ZT have been intensively tested, applied and demonstrated in order to maintain or improve the stock of organic carbon in soil and reduce CO 2 emissions (Dimassi et al, 2014). A comparative analysis of SOC under different medium and long term studies revealed that ZT accounted higher SOC in the tune of 3.86-31.0% over conventional tillage (Balota et al, 2004;Govaerts et al, 2009). They also suggested that to achieve the beneficial effect of ZT in terms of higher SOC, its long term implementation is essential.…”

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Conservation Agriculture and Soil Quality– An Overview

Yadav¹,

Parihar²,

Kumar³

et al. 2017

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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“…Las tres prácticas que integran el sistema bajo AC son la mínima remoción del suelo, la cobertura permanente del suelo y la rotación de cultivos (Govaerts et al, 2009;Moreno et al, 2011). La mínima remoción refiere a la siembra directa para evitar la alteración mecánica del suelo.…”

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“…The three practices that integrate the system under AC are the minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation (Govaerts et al, 2009;Moreno et al, 2011). The minimum clearance refers to direct seeding to avoid mechanical soil disturbance.…”

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Adopción de prácticas de agricultura de conservación en Tlaxcala, México

Robles

Medel

Toledo

et al. 2017

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ResumenLa agricultura de conservación (AC) es una combinación de medidas agronómicas, biológicas y mecánicas que mejoran la calidad del suelo. La AC es una innovación en el proceso de producción agrícola que integra las prácticas de mínima remoción del suelo, la cobertura permanente del suelo y la rotación de cultivos. La decisión de los agricultores en adoptar una nueva tecnología agrícola depende en gran medida del tipo de información que pueda obtener para tomar la decisión de adoptarla. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las fuentes de información que tienen los productores en Tlaxcala, México sobre las prácticas de AC. La información de campo integra 461 observaciones, las cuales se tipificaron en cuatro categorías de acuerdo a las prácticas de AC que realizan. Se emplearon indicadores de redes sociales e indicadores estadísticos para analizar cada categoría. Se observó que la fuente de conocimiento de los productores que realizan AC son principalmente proveedores de servicios profesionales (PSP) y centros de enseñanza e investigación (IE). Los productores que realizan las tres prácticas de AC son los de mayor capacidad de búsqueda de información, aunque no son los de mayores referencias como fuentes de información hacia otros productores. Una estrategia de AC deberá considerar que la difusión, más que la adopción en sí, es un aspecto central para incrementar el número de productores que adoptan a la AC. AbstractThe conservation agriculture (AC) is a combination of agronomic, biological and mechanical measures that improve soil quality. The AC is an innovation in the agricultural production process that integrates practices minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation. The decision of farmers to adopt new agricultural technology depends largely on the type of information you can get to make the decision to adopt it. The aim of this study was to analyze the sources of information that are producers in Tlaxcala, Mexico on AC practices. It integrates information field 461 observations, which were typed into four categories according to AC practices they perform. The indicators of social networks and statistical indicators were used to analyze each category. It was noted that the source of knowledge of producers who are mainly AC professional service providers (PSP) and teaching and research centers (IE). Producers who perform the three practices AC are the most searchable information, but are not older references as sources of information to other producers. AC strategy should consider that diffusion rather than adoption itself is central to increasing the number of producers who adopt the AC.Keywords: knowledge sources, network analysis, producers diffusers, technology transfer. IntroducciónLa agricultura de conservación (AC) es una alternativa para mejorar tanto la sostenibilidad como las exigencias de rentabilidad, riesgo y externalidades de los cultivos agrícolas. La sostenibilidad de la agricultura según Kassam (2009) esta cuestionada por el aumento en el costo de los alimentos ...

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Conservation agriculture as a sustainable option for the central Mexican highlands

Cited by 181 publications

References 34 publications

Gender, nutrition- and climate-smart food production: Opportunities and trade-offs

Gender, nutrition- and climate-smart food production: Opportunities and trade-offs

Conservation Agriculture and Soil Quality– An Overview

Adopción de prácticas de agricultura de conservación en Tlaxcala, México

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