Sustainable Soil and Water Management in Arid Climates in the Mediterranean Climate Zone DOI

Ertuğrul Karaş

IntechOpen eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 3, 2025

Climate change and global warming pose serious threats to agriculture, water resources, the environment, especially in Mediterranean climate zone. This region is facing rising temperatures decreasing rainfall, while frequency of extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, heavy increasing. The basin holds only 1.2% world’s renewable it expected that freshwater resources will decrease by 25–50% 2050. Turkey one most affected countries, with diminishing sources significant losses agricultural land, creating challenges for both supply rural development. Rising have negatively impacted traditional farming practices. For example, planting dates winter crops like wheat barley shifted, resulting lower yields due stress. Moreover, shortages led reduced soil moisture, making harder grow during critical periods. In Turkey, much used agriculture comes from groundwater, which rapidly depleting, causing a decline groundwater levels increased energy costs extraction. To overcome these challenges, sustainable management practices must be implemented. Efficient irrigation techniques, water-saving methods, solutions enhance productivity are crucial addressing issues.

Language: Английский

Optimizing sustainable agriculture: A comprehensive review of agronomic practices and their impacts on soil attributes DOI Creative Commons
Ahmed Abed Gatea Al-Shammary,

Layth Saleem Salman Al-Shihmani,

J. Fernández‐Gálvez

et al.

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 364, P. 121487 - 121487

Published: June 17, 2024

This study explores agronomic management (AM) effects on soil parameters under diverse conditions. Investigating tillage practices (TP), nutrient (NM), crop rotation (CR), organic matter (OM), irrigation (IM), and mulching (MS), it aims to reveal impacts productivity, availability, microbial activity, overall health. Varied TP affect quality through compaction, porosity, erosion risk. Proper NM is vital for cycling, preventing imbalances acidification. CR disrupts pest cycles, reduces weed pressure, boosts recycling. OM enhances by influencing carbon, pH, fertility, water retention. Optimizing IM regulates content without inducing waterlogging. MS contributes content, retention, structure, temperature-moisture regulation, benefiting biota, aggregation, health agricultural productivity. The review emphasizes integrated nutrient, CR, management's positive impact fertility activity. Different variations production. Judicious implementation of these essential sustainable agriculture. synthesis identifies uncertainties proposes research directions optimizing productivity while ensuring environmental sustainability. Ongoing inquiry can guide a balanced approach between yields resilient stewardship future generations.

Language: Английский

Citations

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Controlled-release fertiliser: Recent developments and perspectives DOI Creative Commons

Shaurya Govil,

Nguyen Van Duc Long, Marc Escribà‐Gelonch

et al.

Industrial Crops and Products, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 219, P. 119160 - 119160

Published: July 15, 2024

Traditional fertilisers, though widely used, pose challenges such as low nutrient utilization efficiency and adverse environmental impacts. Controlled release fertiliser (CRF) plays an important role in sustainable agriculture. Its implementation is considered a transformative approach, promoting environmentally conscious methods for enhancing crop productivity. CRF not only prevents loss but also ensures customized pattern that aligns with plant physiological biochemical processes. Despite these advantages, has yet to find extensive adoption the commercial agricultural practices. This primarily due its cost-intensive nature, relatively modest efficiency, predominant use of petroleum-derived synthetic polymers coatings. review aims provide concise summary significant advancements, emerging materials technologies, potential future applications sustainability. Particularly, technologies plasmas, flow chemistry, metal−organic frameworks, nanotechnologies, microfluidic sensing have been explored development. While highlighting advantages CRFs, we address disadvantages discuss recommendations successful transition from traditional fertilisers maximizing their advantages.

Language: Английский

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Water resistant, biodegradable and flexible corn starch/carboxymethyl cellulose composite film for slow-release fertilizer coating materials DOI

Guirong Hu,

Xianyu Lan,

Baolin Peng

et al.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 260, P. 129476 - 129476

Published: Jan. 17, 2024

Language: Английский

Citations

8
Nanoparticles as catalysts of agricultural revolution: enhancing crop tolerance to abiotic stress: a review DOI Creative Commons

Yahan Cao,

Khalid G. Biro Turk,

N. Bibi

et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Ensuring global food security and achieving sustainable agricultural productivity remains one of the foremost challenges contemporary era. The increasing impacts climate change environmental stressors like drought, salinity, heavy metal (HM) toxicity threaten crop worldwide. Addressing these demands development innovative technologies that can increase production, reduce impacts, bolster resilience agroecosystems against variation. Nanotechnology, particularly application nanoparticles (NPs), represents an approach to strengthen enhance sustainability agriculture. NPs have special physicochemical properties, including a high surface-area-to-volume ratio ability penetrate plant tissues, which enhances nutrient uptake, stress resistance, photosynthetic efficiency. This review paper explores how abiotic impact crops role in bolstering resistance challenges. main emphasis is on potential boost tolerance by triggering defense mechanisms, improving growth under stress, yield. demonstrated addressing key challenges, such as leaching, declining soil fertility, reduced yield due poor water management. However, applying must consider regulatory concerns, accumulation, non-target organisms, consumer perceptions NP-enhanced products. To mitigate land should be integrated with precision agriculture technologies, allowing targeted nano-fertilizers nano-pesticides. Although further research necessary assess their advantages address present promising cost-effective for enhancing future.

Language: Английский

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Green Chemistry and Sustainable Chemistry Related to Water Challenges: Solutions and Prospects in a Changing Climate DOI
Borhane Mahjoub, Cheïma Fersi,

Maroua Bouteffeha

et al.

Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 101000 - 101000

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Citations

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Phosphorus Release from Nano-Hydroxyapatite Derived from Biowastes in the Presence of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria: A Soil Column Experiment DOI Creative Commons
Laura Pilotto, Francesca Scalera, Clara Piccirillo

et al.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

Phosphorus applications in agriculture can lead to significant environmental impacts, necessitating a revolution current agricultural practices. This study explores the potential of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (nHAPs) synthesized from poultry bones as P fertilizers. nHAPs were produced at 300 °C (nHAP300) and 700 (nHAP700), their effectiveness was evaluated. An vitro solubilization test with Pseudomonas alloputida evaluated bacterium's ability solubilize nanoparticles, assessing dissolved organic acids produced. Additionally, soil leaching measured losses bioavailable compared conventional fertilizer, triple superphosphate (TSP). nHAP300 displayed heterogeneous sizes, while nHAP700 approximately 100 nm size, content 8.8% 19.4%, respectively. successfully solubilized both types demonstrating higher solubility than nHAP300. The TSP treatment resulted (6.35 mg) nHAP treatments (nHAP300 0.32 mg; 0.28 mg), indicating for recycling waste. Our findings indicate that are more efficient release but less prone Utilizing these enables phosphorus recovery waste holds sustainable applications.

Language: Английский

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Review of current trends in chitosan based controlled and slow-release fertilizer: From green chemistry to circular economy DOI
E.M. Eddarai, Mouad El Mouzahim,

Badreddine Ragaoui

et al.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 278, P. 134982 - 134982

Published: Aug. 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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Optimizing fabrication of coated fertilizers integrated with biochar for enhanced slow-release properties: Mechanisms and cost-effectiveness analysis DOI
Cheng Yang,

Mengqiao Wu,

Jiawei Lu

et al.

Industrial Crops and Products, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 222, P. 120077 - 120077

Published: Nov. 19, 2024

Language: Английский

Citations

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An Overview of Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Sustainable Electricity Production DOI Creative Commons
Wilgince Apollon

Membranes, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(11), P. 884 - 884

Published: Nov. 17, 2023

The over-exploitation of fossil fuels and their negative environmental impacts have attracted the attention researchers worldwide, efforts been made to propose alternatives for production sustainable clean energy. One proposed alternative is implementation bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which are environmentally friendly. MFCs devices that use bacterial activity break down organic matter while generating electricity. Furthermore, can produce bioelectricity from various substrates, including domestic wastewater (DWW), municipal (MWW), potato fruit wastes, reducing contamination decreasing energy consumption treatment costs. This review focuses on recent advancements regarding design, configuration, operation mode MFCs, well capacity (e.g., 2203 mW/m2) (i.e., H2: 438.7 mg/L CH4: 358.7 mg/L). this highlights practical applications, challenges, life-cycle assessment (LCA) MFCs. Despite promising biotechnological development great should be implement them in a real-time commercially viable manner.

Language: Английский

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Smart Fertilizer technologies: An environmental impact assessment for sustainable agriculture DOI Creative Commons
Sukhdeep Singh, Ravinder Singh, Kulpreet Singh

et al.

Smart Agricultural Technology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8, P. 100504 - 100504

Published: July 17, 2024

The global food supply heavily depends on utilizing fertilizers to meet production goals. adverse impacts of traditional fertilization practices the environment have necessitated exploration new alternatives in form smart fertilizer technologies (SFTs). This review seeks categorize SFTs, which are slow and controlled-release Fertilizers (SCRFs), nano fertilizers, biological describes their operational principles. It examines environmental implications conventional outlines attributes SFTs that effectively address these concerns. findings demonstrate a pronounced advantage including enhanced crop yields, minimized nutrient loss, improved use efficiency, reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nevertheless, amidst benefits, challenges constraints associated with technologies, such as expenses potential specific components, also discussed. A comparative assessment emphasizes importance balanced approach, considering three crucial factors: safety, cost-effectiveness. While no single SFT achieves optimal balance across dimensions, integrating multiple may help mitigate individual drawbacks. Also, financial cost-to-benefit analyses essential gauge applicability diverse cropping environments. Future perspectives shed light emerging innovative approaches overcome prevailing cultivate more impactful role fostering sustainable agriculture.

Language: Английский

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