#tillage — Public Fediverse posts

Iowa State University: Digging deeper on how tillage methods affect soil health, yield. “Tillage’s impact on soil carbon is also important to companies that pay farmers to reduce tilling to help meet corporate carbon emissions goals…. A database built by Iowa State researchers aims to provide more certainty by digging deep into the effects of tillage, integrating the results of more than […]

#Ghana: Minimum #tillage adoption boosts maize #yields (+4%) & dietary diversity (+14%), and decreases household #foodinsecurity (-42%) & labor demand (-11%), highlighting the need to promote #smallholders adoption: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287441 #Africa #maize #nutrition #foodsecurity

People who only talk about #CO2 are totally distracted. The current food inflation or even food crisis is a result of both climate change and land degradation. #LandDegradation is caused by deforestation, #overgrazing and #tillage. #Deforestation affects both local and global climate. It also leads to soil erosion. As farmland gets abandoned and overgrazing continues, desertification is unavoidable and local and global #climatechange will worsen. It is a vicious cycle.

https://inweh.unu.edu/world-loses-trillions-of-dollars-worth-of-natures-benefits-each-year-due-to-land-degradation/