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

Changes in land use and production systems are to a large extent responsible for land degradation. In Portugal this process has been triggered mainly by socioeconomic drivers, such as

Climate change may have profound effects on phosphorus (P) transport in streams and on lake eutrophication. Phosphorus loading from land to streams is expected to increase in northern temperate

Few, if any, political scientists currently study climate changeadaptation or areeven awarethat there is a large and growing interdisciplinary field of study devoted not just to mitigating

The aim of the present review is to highlight the possibilities of a sustainable crop production in the arid Mediterranean region, which is predicted to suffer from increasingly severe droughts

The project ADAPTACLIMA, promoted by EPAL, the largest Portuguese Water Supply Utility, aims to provide the company with an adaptation strategy in the medium and long term to reduce the

The effects of climate change will be felt by most farmers in Europe over the next decades. This study provides consistent results of the impact of climate change on arable agriculture in Europe