Soil health and climate change: a critical nexus

Soil health and climate change: a critical nexusA healthy soil has the capacity to sustain biological activity, maintain environmental quality and promote plant and animal health. This chapter reviews the impact of climate change on the key components of soil health, including soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Holistically, under the nexus of climate change and farming systems, this chapter also reviews some of the key management practices that have been demonstrated to improve

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Knowledge of the nutritional and nutraceutical value of wheat and its determining factors may be used to select wheat for inclusion in the diet

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Karanis in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250BC housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture

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Given the considerable investment in soil management

carotovorum and pseudostem wet rot and rhizome rot - in some parts of the world called rhizome necrosis and corm rot-

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fibrous root system provides greater root volume and therefore potential access to a greater soil water volume enabling sorghum to withstand greater periods of water stress if there is ample stored soil water

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Ireland appears to be in the process of a remarkable social change

The disease is especially serious in plantations of the Cavendish subgroup where the fruits produced are either downgraded or rejected