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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,... -
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... -
How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon stocks
It’s right under our feet. We barely notice as we go about our lives, yet it is nothing less than the largest carbon repository among all of Earth’s ecosystems. This distinction... -
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-... -
Scaling up bio-input pathways for rice production toward agroecology...
Rice is vital to Cambodia's economy and food security, accounting for 16.7% of the country's GDP in 2024. However, the increasing reliance on chemical pesticides to meet export... -
Cover crops: Allies for the soil, crops and farmers
This manual will help you to develop a better understanding of cover crops, including their main characteristics, advantages and considerations, and the choices involved in... -
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... -
Building soil health in crop production system with resilience to climate change
Soil health is the capacity of "soil to function as a living system, with ecosystem and land use boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water...