On top of that, the amount of land used for agriculture will likely expand in the future, and the ways we use that land will ...

Historically, conventional agriculture has accelerated soil erosion to rates that exceed that of soil formation (Table 2). Erosion is often accelerated by agricultural practices that leave the ...

The connection between soil conservation and sustainable agriculture. In Advances in Soil and Water Conservation, eds. Pierce FJ and WW Frye. (Ann Arbor, MI: Chelsea, 1998). Lal, R. Soil erosion ...

Across rugged highlands, terraces crafted from stone and earth stretch over steep hillsides like giant ripples of water. They ...

This model of agriculture is marked by practices such as monoculture (planting the same one or two crops over a large area year after year), raising crops and livestock in isolation from each other, ...

Relentless tilling and disturbance from farm vehicles have allowed wind and ... matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion from the wind is not as bad as it used to be in the ...

More than 36 billion tonnes of fertile soil is lost from world agricultural systems each year through soil erosion. The economic cost associated with on-farm and off-farm soil erosion is estimated at ...

erosion, depleted and contaminated soil and water resources, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, labor abuses, and the decline of the family farm. The concept of sustainable agriculture embraces ...

which worked to combat erosion caused by dust storms by reforming farming methods. “...Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized,” he ann ...