It is only relatively recently that national adaptation strategies have begun to develop measures by which forestry can adapt to climate change; often those measures opt to use a relatively

Impact of climate change on crop growth, groundwater recharge and nitrogen leaching in winter wheat production in Germany was assessed using the agro-ecosystem model HERMES with a downscaled

The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services -goods and resources- ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to understand the

Adaptation offorest management to climate change requires an understanding of the effects of climate on forests, industries and communities; prediction of how these effects might change over

Cover crops have long been touted for their ability to reduce erosion, fix atmospheric nitrogen, reduce nitrogen leaching, and improve soil health. In recent decades, there has been resurgence in

Climate change exerts direct effects on ecosystems but has additional indirect effects due to changes in agricultural practice. These include the increased use of pesticides, changes in the areas

Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been practised for three decades and has spread widely. We estimate that there are now some 106 million ha of arable and permanent crops grown without tillage in

The objective of this article is to review: (a) the principles that underpin conservation agriculture (CA) ecologically and operationally; (b) the potential benefits that can be harnessed through

In scope of crop salinity tolerance, an experiment was carried out in a field using saline water (6.57 dS m−1) and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) on two tomato cultivars (Solanum lycopersicum,

The PRUDENCE project has generated a set of spatially and temporally high- resolution climate data, which provides new opportunities for assessing the impacts ofclimate variability and change on