A5072388702- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
Technical University of Munich
2023-2025
Lancaster University
2015-2024
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2023-2024
University of Buenos Aires
2024
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2024
Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute
2024
Scarborough General Hospital
2023
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
2023
World Agroforestry Centre
2013-2023
University Teaching Hospital
2023
Significance This report is unique in presenting a high-resolution dataset of biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions by global livestock. information will allow the global-change research community enhancing our understanding sustainability livestock systems their role food security, livelihoods environmental sustainability.
Crop-livestock production systems are the largest cause of human alteration global nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles. Our comprehensive spatially explicit inventory N P budgets in livestock crop shows that beginning 20th century, nutrient were either balanced or surpluses small; between 1900 1950, soil surplus almost doubled to 36 trillion grams (Tg) · y(-1) increased by a factor 8 2 Tg y(-1). Between 1950 2000, 138 11 P. Most is an environmental loss; lost runoff accumulates as...
Significance The livestock sector contributes significantly to global warming through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, is an invaluable source of nutrition and livelihood for millions poor people. Therefore, climate mitigation policies involving must be designed with extreme care. Here we demonstrate large potential inherent in heterogeneity production systems. We find that even within existing systems, autonomous transitions from extensive more productive systems would...
East Africa. A review of catchment studies (n = 37) conducted in Africa evaluating the impacts Land Use and Cover Changes (LULCC) on discharge, surface runoff, low flows. Forest cover loss is accompanied by increased stream discharges runoff. No significant difference discharge observed between bamboo pine plantation catchments, cultivated tea catchments. Trend analyses show that despite forest loss, 63% watersheds non-significant changes annual while 31% increasing trends. Half trends wet...
Conservation agriculture involves reduced tillage, permanent soil cover and crop rotations to enhance fertility supply food from a dwindling land resource. Recently, conservation has been promoted in Southern Africa, mainly for maize-based farming systems. However, maize yields under rain-fed conditions are often variable. There is therefore need identify factors that influence yield conditions. Here, we studied grain data experiments lasting 5 years more We assessed the effect of long-term...
More than 100 countries pledged to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the 2015 Paris Agreement of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Yet technical information about how much mitigation is needed sector vs. feasible remains poor. We identify a preliminary global target for reducing from agriculture ~1 GtCO2 e yr-1 by 2030 limit warming 2100 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. plausible development pathways with cobenefits deliver only 21-40% mitigation....
The effects of land use and cover (LULC) on groundwater recharge surface runoff how these are affected by LULC changes interest for sustainable water resources management. However, there is limited quantitative evidence to in semi-arid tropical subtropical regions affect the subsurface components hydrologic cycle, particularly recharge. Effective resource management requires conclusive understanding runoff. We reviewed a total 27 studies (2 modeling 25 experimental), which reported pre- post...
Abstract Europe imports large amounts of soybean that are predominantly used for livestock feed, mainly sourced from Brazil, USA and Argentina. In addition, the demand GM-free human consumption is project to increase. Soybean has higher protein quality digestibility than other legumes, along with high concentrations isoflavones, phytosterols minerals enhance nutritional value as a food ingredient. Here, we examine potential increase production across feed direct consumption, review possible...
Climate-induced livelihood transitions in the agricultural systems of Africa are increasingly likely. There is limited evidence on what such might look like. We carried out fieldwork 12 sites Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to understand changes farming recent past, test hypothesis that sedentary farmers zones may become warmer drier future be forced increase their reliance livestock vis-à-vis cropping future. estimated contribution crop activities incomes, food security poverty. Householders...
Planning for agricultural adaptation and mitigation has to lean on informed decision-making processes. Stakeholder involvement, consensus building the integration of comprehensive reliable information represent crucial, yet challenging, pillars successful outcomes. The spatially-explicit multi-criteria decision support framework “targetCSA” presented here aims aid targeting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) at national level. This integrates quantitative, such as vulnerability indicators (e.g....
What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? lessons can we learn from secure households? agricultural options and management strategies likely benefit female-headed households in particular? This paper addresses these questions using a unique dataset of 600 allows us explore wide range indicators capturing different aspects performance well-being for types households—female-headed, male-headed, secure, insecure—and assess livelihoods how they influence...
Regional effects of farming on hydrology are associated mostly with irrigation. In this work, we show how rainfed agriculture can also leave large-scale imprints. The extent and speed expansion across the South American plains over past four decades provide an unprecedented case hydrology. Remote sensing analysis shows that as annual crops replaced native vegetation pastures, floods gradually doubled their coverage, increasing sensitivity to precipitation. Groundwater shifted from deep (12 6...