Sentences with phrase «agricultural best management practices»

Other techniques, such as planting cover crops and no - till soil management, can further increase CO2 uptake and reduce energy use.25, 26 Use of agricultural best management practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fields.

Soil carbon lost from Mollisols of the North Central U.S.A. with 20 years of agricultural best management practices, Gregg R. Sanford et al., Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, v162, pp 68 et seq..

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The Code of Conduct includes requirements on good agricultural practices, farm management, and social and environmental protection.

The CORIGAP Project will develop best management platforms to underpin the certification of farmers who implement good agricultural practices for rice or Rice GAP.

[19] The study concludes, «Additional investments in soil organic carbon (SOC) research is needed to better understand the agricultural management practices that are most likely to sequester SOC or at least retain more net SOC stocks.»

Carbon sequestration through tree planting and better agricultural soil management practices has a large number of arguments in favor of it.

We could probably do very much better than 10 % if we include the efforts by conservationists to reforest and improve agricultural management practices in addition to Savory's method of restoring desertified ground and improvement of rangeland.

Conclusions: «Additional investments in SOC research is needed to better understand the agricultural management practices that are most likely to sequester SOC or at least retain more net SOC stocks.»

We are looking at whether or not various best management practices currently in use by governments will be effective in the long run for reducing the load of nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment that is reaching the Chesapeake Bay from municipalities and agricultural areas and causing a decline in the health of the Bay.