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A Novel Crop Shortlisting Method for Sustainable Agricultural Diversification Across EU (Italy)
<p>In order to shortlist possible options from a pool of 2700 crops, a crop-climate-soil matching ex-ercise was performed across Italian territory and crops with more than 70% suitability where chosen for further analysis. In the second phase, a multicriteria ranking index was employed to assign ranks to chosen crops of 4 main types; (i) cereals and pseudocereals, (ii) legumes, (iii) starchy roots/ tubers and (iv) vegetables. In order to provide a comprehensive analysis, major crops that are grown in the region where also included in the analysis. The results of evaluation of 4 major criteria (a) calorie and nutrition demand b) functions and uses c) availability and acces-sibility to their genomic material d) possession of adaptive traits, and e) physiological traits) re-vealed the potential for teff, faba bean, cowpea, green arrow arum, Jerusalem artichoke, Fig-leaved Gourd and Watercress. </p>
Data for "Crop Diversification in Viticulture with Aromatic Plants: Effects of Intercropping on Grapevine Productivity in a Steep-Slope Vineyard in the Mosel Area, Germany"
<p>This dataset is corresponding to an open-access article named "Crop Diversification in Viticulture with Aromatic Plants: Effects of Intercropping on Grapevine Productivity in a Steep-Slope Vineyard in the Mosel Area, Germany" published in Agriculture (https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/2/95; <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11020095">https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11020095</a>), funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 project Diverfarming [grant agreement 728003]. </p>
Inventory of tools and resources for crop diversification available for stakeholders
<p>The aim of the database is to give an overview of existing resources, tools and methods to promote crop diversification strategies (rotation, multiple cropping, intercropping) at different levels (including the value chain and territory levels). This version contains 143 resources.</p> <p>Each resource is described with a set of criteria: strategies used / described in the resource, purpose of the resource (what is an end-user doing with the resource), expected performances, area of validity, context of use, but also characteristics for use (cost, training, required time to collect data…).</p> <p>A toolbox was also designed to support end-users to navigate among this database and aims to help different type of end-users to identify interesting and adapted resources to foster crop diversification.</p> <p></p>
Dataset for the article "Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Farming Practices and Crop Diversification Strategies in Mediterranean Cereal-Based Systems"
<p>Datasets from the surveys applied for the article "Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Farming Practices and Crop Diversification Strategies in Mediterranean Cereal-Based Systems" <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.861225">https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.861225</a></p>
Fig. 2 in Crop diversification for sustainable insect pest management in eggplant (Solanales: Solanaceae)
Fig. 2. Total ion current (TIC) mode chromatographic plot of marigold leaf volatiles sampled using the thermal desorption (TD) technique.
Fig. 3 in Crop diversification for sustainable insect pest management in eggplant (Solanales: Solanaceae)
Fig. 3. Total ion current (TIC) mode chromatographic plot of mint leaf volatiles sampled using the thermal desorption (TD) technique.
Dataset for the article Maintaining favourable carbon balance in boreal clay soil is challenging even under no-till and crop diversification
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Datasets for Crop Diversification Study in the UK
<p>Output of analysis for ranking 1820 crops for more that 2700 grid points across the UK. Some areas are missing due to lack of either soil or climate data from UK met office or British Geological Survey. The excel file shows all the primary data that were collected for the highly suitable crops and also the grid that was used for running the analysis. </p>
Diversification and Management Practices in Selected European Regions. A Data-analysis of Arable Crops Production and soil organic carbon
<p>This data set contains a data-mining performed to assess the impact of intercropping, tillage and fertilizer type on soil organic carbon and crop yield in arable crops from four selected European pedoclimatic regions and typical cropping systems in the Atlantic, Boreal, Mediterranean North, and Mediterranean South regions. A further meta-analysis was performed with these data. </p> <p>These data correspond to the open-access articles:</p> <p>- Diversified Arable Cropping Systems and Management Schemes in Selected European Regions Have Positive Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Content. Agriculture 2019, 9, 261. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/12/261?type=check_update&version=2</p> <p>- Diversification and Management Practices in Selected European Regions. A Data-analysis of Arable Crops Production. Agronomy 2020, 10, 297; doi:10.3390/agronomy10020297. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/2/297</p> <p>- Deficit Drip Irrigation in Processing Tomato Production in the Mediterranean Basin: A Data Analysis for Italy. Agriculture 2019, 9, 79; doi:10.3390/agriculture9040079. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/9/4/79?type=check_update&version=2</p> <p>The research and publications have been funded by he European Commission Horizon 2020 project Diverfarming [grant agreement 728003]. </p>
Barriers to crop diversification across 25 European case-studies (dataset)
<p>The data set presents the presence or absence of barriers to crop diversification at different levels of value chain across contrasted European case-studies. Data were collected based on participatory workshops involving a causal analysis of challenges of crop diversification and complementary interviews with the 25 innovations teams of case-studies at the chore of the DiverIMPACTS project (https://www.diverimpacts.net/). These data account for the initial perception of barriers in the initial phase of the innovation project and may have evolved since.</p> <p>For more information about the data collection and project and further discussion, please refer to the paper "<strong>Innovating within or outside dominant food systems? Different challenges for contrasting crop diversification strategies in Europe</strong>" of Morel et al. submitted to the journal Plos One.</p>
Synergism between production and soil health through crop diversification, organic amendments and crop protection in wheat-based systems
<ol> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>One of the critical challenges in agriculture is enhancing yield without compromising its foundation, a healthy environment, and, particularly, soils. Hence, there is an urgent need to identify management practices that simultaneously support soil health and production and help achieve environmentally sound production systems.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>To investigate how management influences production and soil health under realistic agronomic conditions, we conducted an on-farm study involving 60 wheat fields managed conventionally, under no-till, or organically. We assessed 68 variables defining management, production, and soil health properties. We examined how management systems and individual practices describing crop diversification, fertiliser inputs, agrochemical use, and soil disturbance influenced production – quantity and quality – and soil health focusing on aspects ranging from soil organic matter over soil structure to microbial abundance and diversity.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Our on-farm comparison showed marked differences between soil health and production in the current system: organic management resulted in the best overall soil health (+ 47%) but the most significant yield gap (- 34%) compared to conventional management. No-till systems were generally intermediate, exhibiting a smaller yield gap (- 17%) and only a marginally improved level of soil health (+ 5%) compared to conventional management. Yet, the overlap between management systems in production and soil health properties was considerably large.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Our results further highlight the importance of soil health for productivity by revealing positive associations between crop yield and soil health properties, particularly under conventional management, whereas factors such as weed pressure were more dominant in organic systems.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>None of the three systems showed advantages in supporting production-soil health-based multifunctionality. In contrast, a cross-system analysis suggests that multifunctional agroecosystems could be achieved through a combination of crop diversification and organic amendments with effective crop protection.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span><em>Synthesis and applications</em>: Our on-farm study implies that current trade-offs in managing production and soil health could be overcome through more balanced systems incorporating conventional and alternative approaches. Such multifunctionality supporting systems could unlock synergies between vital ecosystem services and help achieve productive yet environmentally sound agriculture supported by healthy soils.</span></li> </ol>
Synergism between production and soil health through crop diversification, organic amendments and crop protection in wheat-based systems
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Sixty years of crop diversification with perennials improves yields more than no-tillage in Ohio grain cropping systems
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Long-term evidence shows crop-rotation diversification increases agricultural resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America
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Data from: Sensitivity of the farmland bird community to crop diversification in Sweden: does the CAP fit?
Crop diversification has been introduced as an environmental strategy in the 'Greening' of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2015–2020. The primary target of crop diversification is soil and ecosystem resilience, but claims for potential benefits for farmland biodiversity are also common. However, understanding of relationships between the number (compositional heterogeneity) and spatial arrangement (configurational heterogeneity) of crop fields and biodiversity is generally poor, making such claims relatively unfounded. In this study, we monitored crop and farmland bird diversity on 178 farms across Sweden's main agricultural areas. From a pre-implementation assessment, we show that >97% of the assessed farms would not be required to change their management under the CAP crop diversification measure (minimum of three crops for farms with 30+ ha), suggesting that this measure has generated little change on Swedish farms. While accounting for non-crop elements and farming system (conventional or organic), we show that crop structural diversity (i.e. the management and vegetation structure of crops) rather than crop diversity senso lato positively affected richness of non-crop breeding bird species with stronger effects in arable, compared with forest-dominated landscapes. No such effects were observed among field-nesting farmland bird species. Organic farming had little influence on farmland birds with positive effects only in the most arable-dominated landscapes and for field-nesting species only. In forest-dominated landscapes, organic farms even held lower field-nester densities compared with conventional farms, possibly due to the dominance of grasslands on organic farms that in these landscapes support lower densities of field-nesting species compared with cereals. Policy implications. Our study illustrates the importance of a consideration of structural instead of species diversity of crops for biodiversity, in this case farmland birds. We also underline the absence of such a distinction in current EU Common Agricultural Policy Greening, while simultaneously setting levels on crop diversification too low resulting in little to no change in landscape-scale crop diversity on Swedish farmland. We recommend that future efforts to manage farmland biodiversity should include ways of increasing the structural diversity of crops at the scale of farms and landscapes.
Data set of studies and indicators on the impacts of crop diversification through coffee agroforestry.
<p>The dataset contains information about 215 papers that were included in the review study. </p>
Crop Diversification Effects on Soil Aggregation and Aggregate-Associated Carbon and Nitrogen in Short-Term Rainfed Olive Groves under SemiaridMediterranean Conditions
<p>Soil particle aggregation and their associated carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) content can<br> provide valuable diagnostic indicators of changes in soil properties in response to the implementation<br> of different agricultural management practices. In this sense, there is limited knowledge regarding the<br> impact of intercropping on soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) pools in aggregates. This<br> study aimed to evaluate the short-term effect (4 years) of three crop diversifications in rainfed olive<br> orchards on soil aggregation, SOC and TN concentration and SOC stocks (SOC-S) under semi-arid<br> Mediterranean conditions. Olive orchards were diversified with Crocus sativus (D-S), Vicia sativa and<br> Avena sativa in rotation (D-O) and Lavandula x intermedia (D-L) and compared with monocropping<br> system (CT). Soil samples were collected at two depths (0–10 and 10–30 cm) and analysed for soil<br> aggregate mass, SOC and TN content in aggregate-size fractions obtained by the wet-sieving method.<br> Changes caused by crop diversifications on SOC-S were also determined. Overall, after 4 years,<br> a reduction in aggregation values was observed. However, D-S increased the macroaggregates<br> (>250 m) percentage, Mean Weigh Diameter values, and Geometric Mean Value in the 0–10 cm.<br> Across treatments, aggregate-associated C in 0–10 cm was higher in the D-S treatment, while in<br> the 10–30 cm soil layer, the greatest values were found in CT. Regarding the SOC-S, after 4 years,<br> significant losses were recorded under CT management in 0–10 cm (1.21 Mg ha1) and 10–30 cm<br> (0.84 Mg ha1), while D-O and D-L showed similar values to those obtained at the beginning of the<br> study. The highest increases in SOC-S were found in D-S, with an increase of 5.88% in the 0–10 cm<br> and 14.47% in the 10–30 cm. Our results showed the high potential of the diversified cropping system<br> to increase soil stability and SOC sequestration.</p>
Dataset on Behavioral Distortions Affecting Farmers' Crop Diversification Decisions
<p><span>Based on a qualitative analysis conducted using QDA Miner Lite software, data extracted from nine studies examining behavioral distortions among farmers in relation to their resistance to adopting crop diversity has been compiled. These studies sourced from literature have yielded a total of 36 statements from farmers, each representing various cognitive biases categorized with codes D1 – Endowment effect, D2 – status quo bias, D3 - anchoring, D4 – hyperbolic discounting, D5 – bounded rattionality, and D6 – cognitive distortion. The statements, initially in textual form, were organized into a structured table format for comprehensive analysis and comparison across different studies. This approach facilitates a detailed examination of how farmers' perceptions, decisions, and practices are influenced by cognitive biases such as the endowment effect, status quo bias, cognitive distortion, hyperbolic discounting, bounded rationality, and anchoring. The table serves as a framework for understanding the complexities and challenges farmers face in transitioning from monoculture to diversified cropping systems, shedding light on the psychological and practical barriers that hinder agricultural innovation and sustainability efforts globally.</span></p>
Crop diversification and digestate application effect on the productivity and efficiency of irrigated winter crop systems
<p>This dataset was done gathering and calculating data from an experiment integrated in the Circular Agronomics project. In October 2019 an experiment was setup in a randomized block design where 5 different irrigated winter crops were grown in 2 3-year rotations by 3 seasons. Several crop and and soil variables were measured to test for responses under different fertiliser treatments, including untreated and dried acidified digestates. There were also different crop precedents especifically for wheat, since this was the common crop between both rotations (cereal and diverse). With the gathered data we were able to calculate and test for differences in grain yield and N concentration, N uptake efficiency and water use efficiency of the different crops under different fertilisation and rotation (wheat) treatments. Also the soil was tested for differences in soil nitrates at 3 time points during the 3 seasons and soil total nitrogen at the end of the experiment. (Start: 2019-09-20 ; End: 2022-08-30)</p>
Data from: Sensitivity of the farmland bird community to crop diversification in Sweden: does the CAP fit?
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