This paper studies the impacts of the large-scale Road Sector Development Program in Ethiopia between 1997 and 2016 on local economic activity and land cover (urbanization and cropland). It exploits spatial and temporal variation in road upgrades across Ethiopia, together with high-resolution...

Urbanization is gaining pace worldwide and is the most elemental cause of global land transformation. This necessitates land use land cover change to be analyzed on various spatial and temporal scales to understand its potential impacts on the environment. This work focuses on the urbanization...

The marketization of agricultural land affects the average land productivity not only through improving land allocation efficiency but also through reducing land price under the perfect market. The effect of the improvement of land allocation efficiency on the average land productivity is...

In face of increased efforts to mitigate climate change, biofuels may be included in reduction plans forgreenhouse gas emissions. Feedstock for first generation biofuels and food crops both use arable land andmay compete for it. Also, fuel is an input for the production and transport of food....

This paper studies the impacts of the large-scale Road Sector Development Program in Ethiopia between 1997 and 2016 on local economic activity and land cover (urbanization and cropland). It exploits spatial and temporal variation in road upgrades across Ethiopia, together with high-resolution...

Life cycle assessments (LCA) are an essential tool to explore the environmental impacts associated with a product or service over the course of the entire life cycle. For accurate modelling, data on all relevant potential environmental impacts should be included in an LCA. To consider land in...

In this article, we analyze competition for agricultural land as an important, scarce and immobile input. The cost of cultivating a parcel of land depends strongly on the distance from the farmer to the plot, leading to spatially small land markets. To investigate this issue, we are able to use...

This J.S.M. thesis examines whether Costa Rican legal rules in the 1970s regulating renters, sharecroppers, and others who farmed land that they did not own were functional or not in promoting development. It considered the history of agricultural activity and pattern of land ownership from the...

This paper examines how differences in climate across space influence the value of New Zealandagricultural land. We use the Ricardian approach to price the climate, using property valuationdata from 1993 to 2018. We apply the ‘spatial first differences’ method, which comparesdifferences in...

We examine the potential for incentivizing reforestation of abandoned agricultural lands in New York State through two tax policies: a property tax exemption and an income tax credit. We compare the incentivization structures of both policies by simulating net benefits to landowners and total...

Greenhouse farming is a major source of plastic contamination in agricultural soils because it is characterized by the high production of plastic films that pollute agricultural farmlands with macroplastics and microplastics. Particularly, microplastics can penetrate the agricultural soil and...

Mining, smelting and tailing deposition activities can cause metal(loid) contamination in surrounding soils, threatening ecosystems and human health. Microbial indicators have a crucial role in evaluating soil quality. Selecting the Xikuangshan antimony mine in China as the research area, the...

Arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) accumulate easily in rice grains that pose an unignorable threat to human health worldwide. The opposite releasing mechanisms of As and Cd in the soil complicate measures to reduce the accumulation of As and Cd simultaneously in rice. We performed soil incubation...

Solanum nigrum L. has been described as a Cd hyperaccumulator, but the potential for continuous remediation, long-term effects of different planting methods, or chemical chelating agents have not been fully characterized. The potential for continuous phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated farmland...

Clay mineralogy of five genetically young soil profiles, formed from Miocene marls and argillaceous limestone, were investigated to detect changes in their clay mineral assemblage under temperate climate conditions. Soil profiles were described, sampled, and their basic properties analyzed...

In the context of climate change and the high anthropogenic pressure on land, water erosion became a global issue, requiring increased attention from specialists and community members due to the agricultural implications. The process lead to irreversible changes in soil along the slope and to...

We estimate the impact of the tariffs that U.S. export crops face on farmland rental rates. The estimation of the impact of the localized measure on the rents faces two aggregation problems that lead to identification challenges: a) aggregating tariffs across trading partners to obtain...

This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...

This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...

This research revealed the main socio-environmental pressures on indigenous lands located in the Amazon Biome. To achieve the objectives, ten analysis variables were used [deforestation (area and proportion), hot spots, mining(mining in river, area of mining and mining in isolated points),...

The terms “solar farm” and “wind farm” could not more perfectly demonstrate the inevitable pairing of renewable energy and agriculture as uses of land. At the same time, harvesting the sun and wind and converting both to energy forms usable to mankind are far from traditional...

Site-|specific management for irrigation purpose remains a great challenge especially within mixed cropping system due to complex correlations and the spatial variability of soil properties. This variability generates crop yield heterogeneity within agricultural fields. This study was conducted...

In this study, a meta-analysis was carried out to address the quantitative relevance of considering postharvest nitrous oxide (N 2 O) measurements in herbaceous crops (excluding rice) and using static chambers (i.e., noncontinuous measurements). We compiled data from 17 studies carried out in...

Soil organic matter (SOM) in different density fractions has different characteristics and turnover rates. The environmental fates and risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) associated with different SOM fractions are inevitably different during the transformation of SOM. Four...

Several ancient urban centres worldwide are characterized by natural and anthropogenic cavities excavated just beneath the walkable floor (about 1-3 m depth). Sometimes these caves have been excavated by underground waters in calcareous rocks or the most cases they were manmade since the Roman...

To verify an effective scheme for alleviating obstacles during continuous cropping, the effects of biofertilizer (BF) and water-soluble (WS) fertilizer applications on yield, quality, and soil properties were evaluated during the 2018-2019 growth seasons in fields continuously planted with sweet...

Understanding the effects of rotational grazing on soil nitrogen (N) mineralization and cycling is critical for better management and sustainable development of grassland ecosystems. However, these effects in annual pastures, as well as the underlying mechanisms involved, are unclear. In this...

Soil seed bank (SSB) is an important component in the process of rehabilitating degraded lands and forecasting the future vegetation cover of a given area and to take a required conservation approach accordingly. The present study was conducted in Hirmi dryland vegetation, Tigray regional state,...

Rampant soil degradation associated with accelerated soil erosion on the continent of Africa is estimated to contribute to crop yield reductions of about 16%, let alone the current climate change challenges. This study sought to evaluate the soil erosion smartness of conservation agriculture...

Mountain grasslands contain large stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC), of which a good part is in labile particulate form. This labile SOC may be protected by cold climate that limits microbial activity. Strong climate change in mountain regions threatens to destabilize these SOC stocks....

The responsiveness of microbially-mediated processes such as methane oxidation to environmental change is likely to be dependent on the correct species or strains of methane oxidizers being present to exploit the new conditions. It is unclear whether the slow dispersal of microbes will limit the...

AbstractSoil genesis deals with factors and forming processes explaining soil development and its current physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties. Kaolinite, gibbsite, and Fe sesquioxides are minerals commonly found in highly weathered soils within humid tropics, product of extensive...

Afforestation is a common and effective method for restoring degraded ecosystems worldwide. Robinia pseudoacacia is a main non-native tree species that has been widely planted in the Loess Plateau for revegetation. However, suitability and sustainability of R. pseudoacacia must be considered due...

As digital soil mapping (DSM) applications have been developed at multiple extents over the two last decades, large areas of the world are now covered by several DSM products with similar resolution and targeted soil properties. Thus, from these products, end-users must carefully select the one...

Continuous inputs of organic matter are vital for sustaining soil organic carbon (SOC) and productivity of soils in smallholder crop-livestock systems. However, the dynamics of the different inputs i.e. maize shoots, roots and manure used are poorly understood. Along with organic inputs, use of...

Agroforestry systems play important roles in increasing carbon (C) sequestration and mitigating climate change in western Canada. However, the effect of different agroforestry systems and their component land-uses on soil organic C (SOC) stability is poorly understood. We studied SOC stability...

We present a set of new geomorphometric variables that express landscape position relative to breaklines in hillslopes, and test whether these variables are of value in explaining soil property variation in three study sites in the United States, the Netherlands, and Spain. Underlying this work...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution in agricultural soil threatens soil quality and human health which has attracted extensive attention worldwide. However, little information is available on appropriate extraction methods for different typical agricultural soils. In this study, an experiment was...

Preserving biopore geometry is an important first step in evaluating its effect on the movement of water, air, and chemical substances through the soil. This is usually accomplished by making and extracting a cast of the biopore. To prevent damage to or distortion of the cast, sufficiently...

Understanding rainfall-driven soil water dynamics (SWD) in soil profiles is crucial for improving hydrometeorological modeling. This study characterized the spatiotemporal patterns of rainfall-driven SWD in soil profiles and quantified the impacts of environmental factors using the random forest...