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What regulates decomposition in agroecosystems? Insights from reading the tea leaves

Litter decomposition is a critical Earth process, recycling nutrients and setting a portion of plant tissue on a path toward soil organic matter. Despite this importance, we...

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High-shade dryland agrivoltaic conditions enhanced carbon uptake and...

The increasing global demand for food and energy is intensifying land-use competition. Agrivoltaic systems are a multifunctional land-use approach that vertically integrates the...

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Applying mulch and manure in smallholder cropping systems: challenges,...

Soil fertility plays an important role in crop production. However, continuous cropping with minimal fertilizer application has resulted in declining soil fertility and...

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Long-term regenerative practices enhance in-field biodiversity and soil...

Agricultural intensification has resulted in arable systems dominated by monocultures that are reliant on agrochemical inputs and frequent tillage to maintain high crop yields....

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Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid...

California’s central coast differs from many agricultural areas in the U.S., which feature large tracts of monoculture production fields and relatively simple landscapes. Known...

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What Possible Future for the “Toxic” Landscapes? an Agroecological...

This research brief outlines the steps to shift from intensive maize monocropping to multi-species systems through the integration of perennial crops (coffee, banana..). The...

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Service-Smart Shade Trees: Choosing Species & Spacing for Tea Producers in...

This research brief reveals how smart shade design can make Lao tea farms more productive and resilient. Across nine plots in Xieng Khouang, results show that trees shape...

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Strengthening Soil Health Monitoring in Laos: A Pathway to Sustainable Food Security

Soil is involved in 13 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In Laos, there are worrying signs of widespread soil degradation threatening national food security. Yet,...

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Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term...

No-till (NT) cropping systems have been proposed as a strategy to combat soil degradation by storing soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN). We quantified the impacts...

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Multicriteria assessment of recently implemented conservation agriculture...

Soil fertility depletion is a major challenge for annual rainfed cropping systems in the northwestern region of Cambodia which has recently undergone rapid agrarian changes. On-...

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A dataset for soil organic carbon in agricultural systems for the Southeast...

The determination of changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) content under different cropping systems is necessary for policy development oriented towards soil conservation, C...

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Regenerative agriculture—agroecology without politics?

Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum worldwide among practitioners, scientists and policy makers, and it is often associated with agroecology. Indeed, regenerative...

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Evaluation of Agroecological Performance Under Geographical Aspects and...

This study evaluates agroecological performance in Battambang province, Cambodia, using the FAO Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE). It compares farms across...

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Unlocking local variety diverstiy: disentangling yeld variability in...

Rice yield variability in Preah Vihear, Cambodia, was studied through on-farm trials testing nine varieties under different ecosystems and management systems. Climate factors...

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