The role of legumes in climate smart cropping systems

DOI: 10.18697/ajfand.79.16285 12280 CLIMATE SMART CROPS ...

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Legumes to reduce ecological footprints for climate-smart cropping ...

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Nitrogen Efficient Plants for Climate Smart Arable Cropping Systems ...

Increasing pulse and legume cropping areas to the rotational optimum of 20% (1M ha) across UK farms. This would reduce nitrogen fertiliser use by 233,000t, ...

B1 - 3 Climate-smart crop production systems in practice

Instead of growing maize alone, or maize in rotation with soybean, the pigeon pea is grown with soybean. Once these legumes are harvested, the pigeon pea is ...

NRCS Climate-Smart Mitigation Activities - USDA

This practice limits soil-disturbing activities used to grow and harvest crops in systems where the field surface is tilled prior to planting. Producers who ...

Crops Diversification and the Role of Orphan Legumes to Improve ...

The ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen makes legumes excellent partners within various farming systems, as they provide nitrogen and therefore reduce the needs ...

Farmer perceptions of legumes and their functions in smallholder ...

Legumes play an important role in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) farming systems through the provision of food, feed, fuel, income and a range of biophysical ...

Climate-Smart Agriculture - World Bank

CSA is a set of agricultural practices and technologies which simultaneously boost productivity, enhance resilience and reduce GHG emissions. Although it is ...

Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project Summaries

By creating a system that aims to turn commodity camelina into a unique Climate-Smart crop, camelina may become a reliable, stable, low-CI feedstock to meet the ...

Potential of legume-based cropping systems for climate change ...

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Role of Legumes in Cropping System for Soil Ecosystem Improvement

In the present context of climate change and global warming, legumes can be considered for mitigation of ill effects of climate change and ...

Legumes in cropping systems improve yields - Rural 21

Legume-based rotations offer a critical pathway for enhancing global crop production, especially in cropping systems with low input and low ...

Contribution of Legume Intercrop as a Climate Smart Agriculture ...

legume in an intercropping system ... Potential role of cereal- legume intercropping systems in integrated soil fertility management.

Multiple benefits of legumes for agriculture sustainability: an overview

Food security, lowering the risk of climate change and meeting the increasing demand for energy will increasingly be critical challenges in the years to ...

Legumes and the Climate Crisis - The Global Bean Project

Legumes have enormous potential in this area thanks to unique characteristics including their ability to perform nitrogen fixation and high protein content.

A comprehensive review on grain legumes as climate-smart crops

Grain legumes are the major sources of dietary proteins with multifaceted impact on ecosystem services. Being the C3 crops climate change (more specifically eCO ...

The Role of Legumes in the Climate Crisis - YouTube

Watch the recording of the event and explore some of the ways in which legumes can contribute to climate change mitigation, agricultural ...

Role of Legumes in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Statistics on food demand and fertilizer requirements highlight the dependence on foreign imports of fertilizer for food crop production. However, legume crops ...

Long Term Benefits of Legume Based Cropping Systems on Soil ...

Due to socioeconomic and environmental benefits, legumes could be introduced in cropping systems to reduce external inputs and increase crop ...

Carbon footprint of cropping systems with grain legumes and cover ...

Résumé : Agriculture contributes to a significant proportion of global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) but can also participate in climate change mitigation ...