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Limited capability of organic farming and conservation tillage to enhance agroecosystem resilience to severe drought

Raphaël Wittwer, Valentin H. Klaus, Emily Miranda Oliveira, Qing Sun, Yujie Liu, Anna K. Gilgen, Nina Buchmann, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

Agricultural Systems · 2023

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CONTEXT: Climate change increasingly threatens food security, particularly through prolonged phases of drought. It is therefore important to evaluate and develop arable cropping systems with an enhanced capability to withstand severe drought events to ensure food production. However, it is still poorly understood whether specific management strategies, in particular organic farming and conservation tillage that are thought to be more resilient to drought, can enhance the ability of agroecosystem to withstand drought. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was, therefore, to test the ability of organic farming and conservation tillage practices to withstand drought within expected boundaries of climate scenarios for the end of the century. METHODS: This study summarizes the effects of

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103721
Catalogue ID
SNmoh7j376-vk06nx
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