Search results for Soil
Soil health
Healthy soils are as important to life on earth as clean air and water. Healthy soils not only lead to healthy and productive crops, they also provide...
Soil compaction and erosion
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Soil: carbon sequestration
Besides the ocean, soils are the largest carbon storehouse. With proper management, agricultural soils can even store significantly more carbon than t...
Impact of soil management on carbon sequestration
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
Soils need a sufficient supply of organic material to improve or maintain soil quality. Organic residues such as crop residues and grass clippings com...
Application of organic soil improvers
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Agroecological strategies for promoting climate change mitigation and adaptation by enhancing soil ecosystem services and sustainable crop production
soil
General introductionARTEMIS is an internal research project of EJP SOIL, aimed at exploring the potential of soils in supporting climate change mitiga...
Agroforestry
ILVO studies the impact of agroforestry systems on soil quality, water, climate, biodiversity, and (crop) yield.
...vices to society such as: Increased biodiversityMore carbon storage in the soilMitigating the effects of climate changeAir purificationLandscape an...
Quinoa
...ultivation rotation because the cultivation does not exhaust the soil and requires little or no crop protection. Local cultivation is technically p...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Water in agriculture
ILVO joins the Belgian Soil Service and various practical research centers, to study how we can reduce water losses via drainage.
Water holding capacity of the soil
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Agroecology
...oach of agroecology is summarized in seven principles: striving for more soil health through good management of the organic matter content and by s...
Linked Themes: Healthy soil and crops
Desealing
...e, which disrupt some of the natural functions of non-paved space. Indeed, soil and open space perform many functions that maintain ecological bala...
Drought tolerant crops
...ystems will still absorb water from deeper soil layers in order to maintain their evaporation and growth.In addition, plants can also close their s...