Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe
Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to farming capable of providing solutions for numerous of the agri-environmental concerns in Europe. Certainly, most of the challenges addressed in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) could be tackled through Conservation Agriculture (CA). Not only t...
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| author | Emilio J. González-Sánchez Amir Kassam Gottlieb Basch Bernhard Streit Antonio Holgado-Cabrera Paula Triviño-Tarradas |
| author_facet | Emilio J. González-Sánchez Amir Kassam Gottlieb Basch Bernhard Streit Antonio Holgado-Cabrera Paula Triviño-Tarradas |
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| description | Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to farming capable of providing solutions for numerous of the agri-environmental concerns in Europe. Certainly, most of the challenges addressed in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) could be tackled through Conservation Agriculture (CA). Not only the agri-environmental ones, but also those concerning farmer and rural communities’ prosperity. The optimisation of inputs and similar yields than conventional tillage, make Conservation Agriculture a profitable system compared to the tillage based agriculture. Whereas this sustainable agricultural system was conceived for protecting agrarian soils from its degradation, the numerous collateral benefits that emanate from soil conservation, i.e., climate change mitigation and adaptation, have raised Conservation Agriculture as one of the global emerging agrosciences, being adopted by an increasing number of farmers worldwide, including Europe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5209ad0015a3415eb9498a1262fed2be2022-12-22T01:39:31ZengAIMS PressAIMS Agriculture and Food2471-20862016-10-011438740810.3934/agrfood.2016.4.387agrfood-01-00387Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in EuropeEmilio J. González-SánchezAmir KassamGottlieb BaschBernhard Streit0Antonio Holgado-Cabrera1Paula Triviño-TarradasBern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, SwitzerlandEuropean Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF), BelgiumConservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to farming capable of providing solutions for numerous of the agri-environmental concerns in Europe. Certainly, most of the challenges addressed in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) could be tackled through Conservation Agriculture (CA). Not only the agri-environmental ones, but also those concerning farmer and rural communities’ prosperity. The optimisation of inputs and similar yields than conventional tillage, make Conservation Agriculture a profitable system compared to the tillage based agriculture. Whereas this sustainable agricultural system was conceived for protecting agrarian soils from its degradation, the numerous collateral benefits that emanate from soil conservation, i.e., climate change mitigation and adaptation, have raised Conservation Agriculture as one of the global emerging agrosciences, being adopted by an increasing number of farmers worldwide, including Europe.http://www.aimspress.com/agriculture/article/1025/fulltext.htmlno tillageerosionclimate changegroundcoversenvironmental policyCAP |
| spellingShingle | Emilio J. González-Sánchez Amir Kassam Gottlieb Basch Bernhard Streit Antonio Holgado-Cabrera Paula Triviño-Tarradas Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe AIMS Agriculture and Food no tillage erosion climate change groundcovers environmental policy CAP |
| title | Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe |
| title_full | Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe |
| title_fullStr | Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe |
| title_short | Conservation Agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri-environmental and economic challenges in Europe |
| title_sort | conservation agriculture and its contribution to the achievement of agri environmental and economic challenges in europe |
| topic | no tillage erosion climate change groundcovers environmental policy CAP |
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