Innovative Organic Fertilizers and Cover Crops: Perspectives for Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change and Organic Agriculture

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(12), P. 2871 - 2871

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Anthropogenic activities have resulted in land desertification various regions of the world, leading to degradation critical soil characteristics such as organic matter (OM) content, nutrient stock, and prevailing biodiversity. Restoring degraded soils through amendments diversified crop rotations is thus an intrinsic part farming. This review discusses a wide range farming impacts on health productivity by focusing fertilizers diversification. Conventional were considered vital for agricultural production harvest high yields. Nevertheless, they are now deemed environmentally hazardous obstacle sustainable agroecosystems due intensive chemical inputs that damage over time long-lasting impacts. fertilization results depletion, loss microbial diversity, reduction, deterioration physical soil. Conversely, makes use naturally existing resources improve health. Organic biochar, manure, fermented grass soil’s physical, chemical, biological properties promote growth diversity beneficial microorganisms—important cycling stability. They facilitate uptake nutrients, hinder pathogen growth, mitigate heavy metals, decompose xenobiotic substances. Moreover, growing cover crops also major strategy Diversified rotation with combinatorial may yields without any detrimental environment soil, ensuring food production, safety, security. integrated approach contributes minimizing their effects environmental It reducing along enhancing OM, biomass, nitrogen fixation, carbon sequestration. Therefore, offer climate change mitigation.

Language: Английский

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Holobiome Harmony: Linking Environmental Sustainability, Agriculture, and Human Health for a Thriving Planet and One Health

Microorganisms, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(3), P. 514 - 514

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

The holobiome is an interconnected network of microbial ecosystems spanning soil, plants, animals, humans, and the environment. Microbial interactions drive nutrient cycling, pathogen suppression, climate regulation. Soil microbiomes facilitate carbon sequestration enhance soil fertility, while marine contribute to capture stability. However, industrial agriculture, extensive herbicide use, antibiotic overuse, change threaten diversity, leading ecosystem health disruptions. Probiotic interventions help restore balance. In human health, probiotics support gut microbiota reduce inflammation, regulate metabolism. improve degrade contaminants, increasing crop yields health. Case studies show that inoculants effectively remediate degraded soils uptake. Artificial intelligence transforming microbiome research by enabling predictive modeling, precision probiotic design, consortia optimization. Interdisciplinary collaboration supportive policies are essential for restoring equilibria, ensuring resilience, promoting long-term sustainability. integration artificial intelligence, clinical research, sustainable practices crucial advancing science. framework underscores need interdisciplinary address global challenges, bridging environmental sustainability, public a resilient future.

Language: Английский

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Carbon farming initiative: a national-scale public-private partnership to promote regenerative agriculture in Brazil

Experimental Agriculture, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 60

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Summary Climate change (CC) challenges food and climate through reduced crop yields increasing production risk. Regenerative agriculture (RA) emerged as a pivotal strategy for enhancing productivity soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, contributing to agriculture’s CC mitigation resilience. Nevertheless, expanding RA’s main is providing sufficient science-based decision support farmers other stakeholders. In this context, we present herein the largest public-private partnership in Brazil conduct research multidisciplinary collaborative scientific network on RA describe Carbon Farming Program approaches. Bayer SA leads initiative, which also includes 11 partner institutions ( i.e., Universities, Research Institutions Foundations, Farmers organisations). The programme aims assess benefits of improvement cropland management, intensified biodiverse rotation plans SOC, health, productivity, profitability no-till system. has multi-scale approach with three steps (‘Research Partners’, ‘On-Farm Sites’, ‘Carbon at Scale’). total, it encompasses 1,906 232 000 hectares across Brazilian edaphoclimatic conditions. gathered large database, integrating SOC fertility determinations, yields, derive quantitative evaluation impacts sustainable agricultural land management practices adoption. Moreover, enabled breaking gap knowledge development novel mathematical model predict dynamics tropical agroecosystems. This worth supporting assertive decisions along specific planning promote scalability insertion global C market.

Language: Английский

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Do irrigated and rainfed agrosystems change aboveground and root carbon and nitrogen stocks in a semiarid environment?

Journal of Arid Environments, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 224, P. 105223 - 105223

Published: July 12, 2024

Language: Английский

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