Harnessing ecosystem services with Conservation Agriculture

Harnessing ecosystem services with Conservation AgricultureThis chapter presents the relationship between Conservation Agriculture (CA) and ecosystem services. Ecosystem services comprise resources and processes supplied by nature that benefit farmers and societies. Services that benefit farmers operate in production fields and those that benefit societies operate across landscapes and watersheds. Ecosystem services are categorized into supporting, regulating, provisioning and cultural services. This chapter

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Sections 2–5 cover crop model inter-comparison

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This chapter provides a synthesis of publically available information and literature describing the research and development activities on cacao tissue culture and of field-test evaluations of SE-derived plants

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This chapter discusses the various types of allelochemicals

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