A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization
A major challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals linked to Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition, under the current global crop production paradigm, is that increasing crop yields often have negative environmental impacts. It is therefore urgent to develop and adopt optimal soil-improving...
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| author | Cuevas González, Julián Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N. Del Moral Torres, Fernando Tsanis, Ioannis K. |
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| description | A major challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals linked to Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition, under the current global crop production paradigm, is that increasing crop yields often have negative environmental impacts. It is therefore urgent to develop and adopt optimal soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) that can allow us to decouple these system parameters. Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that limits agricultural potential and is closely linked to agricultural mismanagement and water resources overexploitation, especially in arid climates. Here we review literature seeking to ameliorate the negative effect of soil salinization on crop productivity and conduct a global meta-analysis of 128 paired soil quality and yield observations from 30 studies. In this regard, we compared the effectivity of different SICS that aim to cope with soil salinization across 11 countries, in order to reveal those that are the most promising. The analysis shows that besides case-specific optimization of irrigation and drainage management, combinations of soil amendments, conditioners, and residue management can contribute to significant reductions of soil salinity while significantly increasing crop yields. These results highlight that conservation agriculture can also achieve the higher yields required for upscaling and sustaining crop production. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-75652023-04-12T18:53:42Z A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization Cuevas González, Julián Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N. Del Moral Torres, Fernando Tsanis, Ioannis K. soil improving crop systems irrigation management nutrient management soil management crop rotation salinity tolerance A major challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals linked to Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition, under the current global crop production paradigm, is that increasing crop yields often have negative environmental impacts. It is therefore urgent to develop and adopt optimal soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) that can allow us to decouple these system parameters. Soil salinization is a major environmental hazard that limits agricultural potential and is closely linked to agricultural mismanagement and water resources overexploitation, especially in arid climates. Here we review literature seeking to ameliorate the negative effect of soil salinization on crop productivity and conduct a global meta-analysis of 128 paired soil quality and yield observations from 30 studies. In this regard, we compared the effectivity of different SICS that aim to cope with soil salinization across 11 countries, in order to reveal those that are the most promising. The analysis shows that besides case-specific optimization of irrigation and drainage management, combinations of soil amendments, conditioners, and residue management can contribute to significant reductions of soil salinity while significantly increasing crop yields. These results highlight that conservation agriculture can also achieve the higher yields required for upscaling and sustaining crop production. 2020-01-17T12:56:15Z 2020-01-17T12:56:15Z 2019-06-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2073-4395 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7565 en https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/6/295 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | soil improving crop systems irrigation management nutrient management soil management crop rotation salinity tolerance Cuevas González, Julián Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N. Del Moral Torres, Fernando Tsanis, Ioannis K. A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title | A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title_full | A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title_fullStr | A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title_short | A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization |
| title_sort | review of soil-improving cropping systems for soil salinization |
| topic | soil improving crop systems irrigation management nutrient management soil management crop rotation salinity tolerance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7565 |
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