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Towards Conservation Agriculture systems in Moldova

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dc.contributor.author BOINCEAN, Boris
dc.contributor.author KASSAM, Amir
dc.contributor.author BASCH, Gottlieb
dc.contributor.author REICOSKY, Don
dc.contributor.author GONZALEZ, Emilio
dc.contributor.author REYNOLDS, Tony
dc.contributor.author ILUSCA, Marina
dc.contributor.author CEBOTARI, Marin
dc.contributor.author RUSNAC, Grigore
dc.contributor.author CUZEAC, Vadim
dc.contributor.author BULAT, Lidia
dc.contributor.author PASAT, Dorian
dc.contributor.author STADNIC, Stanislav
dc.contributor.author GAVRILAS, Sergiu
dc.contributor.author BOAGHII, Ion
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-20T11:20:24Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-20T11:20:24Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation BOINCEAN, Boris, KASSAM, Amir, BASCH, Gottlieb et al. Towards Conservation Agriculture systems in Moldova. In: AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2016, N. 1(4), pp. 369 386. ISSN 2471-2086. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2471-2086
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.3934/agrfood.2016.4.369
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.utm.md/handle/5014/22348
dc.description.abstract As the world population and food production demands rise, keeping agricultural soils and landscapes healthy and productive are of paramount importance to sustaining local and global food security and the flow of ecosystem services to society. The global population, expected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, will put additional pressure on the available land area and resources for agricultural production. Sustainable production intensification for food security is a major challenge to both industrialized and developing countries. The paper focuses on the results from long-term multi-factorial experiments involving tillage practices, crop rotations and fertilization to study the interactions amongst the treatments in the context of sustainable production intensification. The paper discusses the results in relation to reported performance of crops and soil quality in Conservation Agriculture systems that are based on no or minimum soil disturbance (no-till seeding and weeding), maintenance of soil mulch cover with crop biomass and cover crops, and diversified cropping s involving annuals and perennials. Conservation Agriculture also emphasizes the necessity of an agro-ecosystems approach to the management of agricultural land for sustainable production intensification, as well as to the site-specificity of agricultural production. Arguments in favor of avoiding the use of soil tillage are discussed together with agro-ecological principles for sustainable intensification of agriculture. More interdisciplinary systems research is required to support the transformation of agriculture from the conventional tillage agriculture to a more sustainable agriculture based on the principles and practices of Conservation Agriculture, along with other complementary practices of integrated crop, nutrient, water, pest, energy and farm power management. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher AIMS Press en_US
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States *
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ *
dc.subject no-till en_US
dc.subject mouldboard plough en_US
dc.subject crop rotation en_US
dc.subject soil tillage en_US
dc.subject ecosystems en_US
dc.subject societal services en_US
dc.title Towards Conservation Agriculture systems in Moldova en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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