Despite the numerous advantages of soil fertility management (SFM) practices and substantial investments to promote adoption, uptake of these technologies remains low across sub-Saharan Africa. We study the adoption and intensity of key SFM practices - improved fallow, animal manure, compost,...

Irrigation water in rice cultivation significantly affects the arsenic (As) mobilization in the paddy field soil. This research assessed the effect of rainwater (RW) and groundwater (GW) on arsenic (As) dissolution dynamics of paddy field soil. The up-flow column flooding experiments were...

Water interactions with soil and vegetation are greatly altered in agricultural watersheds compared to natural landscapes, which impacts sources and fates of organic carbon (OC). While mineral soil horizons in natural ecosystems primarily act as filters for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leached...

Life on Earth depends on healthy soils. Soils are a finite resource, crucial for food and nutrition security as well as for climate change mitigation and adaptation, preserving nature and biodiversity, regulating water and nutrient cycles and sustaining our cultural and landscape heritage. In...

"Sustainable soil and water management practices play a crucial role in ensuring agricultural security by safeguarding natural resources while enhancing productivity and resilience against environmental challenges. As global populations rise and climate variability intensifies, the effective...

During summer, utmost people are too lazy to water the potted shops on their rooftop auditoriums every day. Explained in this report is a simple and instigative automatic factory watering system that you can make in an easy way. It's an Arduino Uno grounded automatic factory saddening system...

Studying the interrelation of soil water and plant water is essential for an in-depth understanding of eco-hydrological processes. However, water use relationships and comparative studies between shrubs and alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau remain poorly understand. In this study, we...

Crop production under irrigated agriculture faces numerous challenges including premature drying and poor yield due to poor soil and water quality. Crops such as maize and beans have been failing to yield optimally while leafy vegetables have been experiencing premature drying up at Katumba...

This article contributes to recent efforts to demonstrate the significance of gender in shaping human-environment interactions through an in-depth study of a model collective in the water and soil conservation campaigns that the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched during the early 1950s....

This paper focuses on smallholder maize production in Malawi by investigating the link between productivity and soil fertility management. Many studies conducted in Malawi indicate declining levels of maize productivity thereby posing food security concerns, since maize is the staple crop for...

Mega cities have been experienced with a common practice of vegetable farms irrigated with waste water. Wastewater is a rich source of organic and inorganic material vital for the growth of plant along with heavy metals that might be fatal for humans and animals if the concentration of those...

Between June 24 and September 13, 2009 the Agriculture Commission of the Romanian Parliament conducted an inquiry into the state of land reclamation works in Romania. The main objectives were: rehabilitation and maintenance works, the exploitation of the works, the way in which the financial...

Today's socio-economic development leads to a dilution of the "border" between rural and urban areas, especially if we look at economically developed economies, members of the OECD and/or the most powerful economies in the world united in the G7. Technology and computerization of agriculture and...

The paper based on the researches carried out during 2007-2009 in the conditions of the preluvosoil from Agricultural Research and Development Station Oradea. This area is characterized by moderate wet climate. The following indicators for characterization of the soil-water-plant system were...

In this paper, we examine the impact of soil conservation adoption on gender-specific resource allocations within households in Zambia. The extension of funding of conservation farming (CF) training sessions in 2007 in specific districts in Zambia provides variation in CF takeup. We use this...

The paper is based on the researches carried out in the long term trial placed on the preluvosoil from Oradea in 1976, for establishing the soil water balance. In the irrigated variant the soil moisture was determined 10 to 10 days for maintaining the soil water reserve on irrigation depth (0...

This paper investigates the reasons for the low application of external fertilizers on farms in Kenya and Uganda. The analysis uses a large panel of household data with rich soil fertility data at the plot level. The authors control for maize seed selection and household effects by using a...

The effect of addition of Agnihotra ash to farm soil was analysed. Four farm soil samples and one soil sample from newly purchased land were selected for the study. Initial microbial count was taken before addition of ash. Ash supplemented soil was analysed after incubation of one week. The...

Farmers and researchers in western Kenya have used community-based learning approaches to jointly develop a ‘dynamic expertise’ of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM). This transformative learning approach builds on farmers’ ‘folk ecology’ and outsiders’ knowledge, taking...

This Thematic Issue aims to provide a review of new research into the links between soil and water issues in Europe to help inform policymakers, including a subliminal message that the soil-water links must be considered at their proper spatial scales.

This Thematic Issue aims to provide a review of new research into the links between soil and water issues in Europe to help inform policymakers, including a subliminal message that the soil-water links must be considered at their proper spatial scales.

Range assessment in the past involved the monitoring of the growing condition of natural vegetation, and thus prospect for yield of animal products. The assumptions were: (1) that land will be managed to maintain range ecology vegetation to the exclusion of annual food crops, (2) that land...