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Smart Management of Sustainable and Conservation Agriculture

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2244

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Andrea Peruzzi

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: sustainable management of turfs; non-chemical weed control in urban and suburban areas; use of automatic mowers in turfs and agriculture; precision agriculture; smart strategies and machines for organic and conservation management of agriculture
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Dr. Christian Frasconi

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: farm mechanization and farm machinery; precision agriculture; conservation agriculture; nonchemical weed control
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Dr. Mino Sportelli

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: turfgrass; sustainable turfgrass management; conservation agriculture; sustainable weed control; weed detection; autonomous weed control
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Dr. Daniele Antichi

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: sustainable agricultural systems; agroecology; cover crops; intercropping; agroforestry; conservation agriculture; organic farming
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable Agriculture (SA) allows us to achieve food security, maximizing socio-economic benefits and minimizing environmental drawbacks. Organic Agriculture (OA), Conservation Agriculture (CA), Integrated Agriculture (IA) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM)-based Agriculture can be considered SA applications. In particular, CA is widely acknowledged as a strategy to reduce the risks of erosion and nutrient loss and increase soil organic matter and carbon sink capacity, but generally, it relies on a large use of agrochemicals. Applying CA techniques to system banning (OA) or reducing (IA, IPM) the use of agrochemicals and focusing on agroecosystem health and soil fertility improvement, could be a win–win strategy to build up regenerative systems, able to contribute to food security, environmental health, mitigation of global warming and soil desertification.

Sustainable CA systems leverage modern technologies, necessary to increase the use efficiency of land, water, fuel, fertilizer and pesticides and to enhance provisioning and supporting ecosystem services.

This Special Issue will look at the "Smart Management of Sustainable and Conservation Agriculture".

We invite experts and researchers to contribute with original research, reviews, etc.,

covering all topics, submitting manuscripts related to these innovative systems, i.e., farm mechanization, precision, organic and conservation management and agroecological strategies.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Peruzzi
Prof. Dr. Christian Frasconi
Dr. Mino Sportelli
Prof. Dr. Daniele Antichi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable agriculture
  • organic agriculture
  • conservation agriculture
  • precision agriculture
  • Integrated pest management (IPM)
  • smart agronomical strategies for SA, OA and CA
  • smart machines for SA OA and CA
  • tillage, planting, crop protection in SA, OA and CA
  • crop protection in SA, OA and CA
  • weed control in SA, OA and CA
  • pest management in SA, OA and CA
  • technical and economical drawbacks of SA, OA and CA farming systems

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N2 Use in Perennial Swards Intercropped with Young Poplars, Clone I-214 (Populus × euramericana (Dode) Guinier), in the Mediterranean Area under Rainfed Conditions
by Lorenzo Gabriele Tramacere, Massimo Sbrana and Daniele Antichi
Agronomy 2023, 13(7), 1761; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13071761 - 29 Jun 2023
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Intercropping perennial legumes with trees can reduce Nitrogen (N) losses, due to the high amount of N accumulated in stable forms in the soil and permanent soil cover during the whole year. Although N cycling improvement in mature agroforestry systems (AFS) was well [...] Read more.
Intercropping perennial legumes with trees can reduce Nitrogen (N) losses, due to the high amount of N accumulated in stable forms in the soil and permanent soil cover during the whole year. Although N cycling improvement in mature agroforestry systems (AFS) was well documented, there is a lack of knowledge regarding systems in transition to AF. In this work, we studied the association of two perennial forage crops, namely ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) and sulla (Hedysarum coronarium L.), with 1-year old poplars, to evaluate: (i) the agronomic performance of sulla and ryegrass with vs. without intercropped poplar trees; (ii) the N-fixing ability of sulla in association with trees; (iii) the N transfer effect from sulla and growth promoting effect on poplar; and finally (iv) the nitrate leaching reduction due to the presence of poplar trees associated to forage crops. The layout was arranged in a two-factor randomized complete blocks design (RCB) with three replicates. The first factor tested (crop species) implied two different swards, namely sulla and ryegrass. The second factor (cropping system) included two different systems: PAST i.e., a pastoral system without trees, and SIPAST, i.e., a silvo-pastoral system with one poplar tree row beside the sward. Sulla resulted more productive than ryegrass when associated with trees (+35%). No clear trend was observed about the tree influence on N-fixation in sulla, but the amount of N fixed resulted higher in in sulla grown in the SIPAST near the trees (+35%). Poplar plants, even in the first year after planting, resulted effective yet in reducing the nitrate flux from the crops towards ditches. Further investigations are needed to study other swards in young AF and better understand the N dynamics; in particular, it could be worth to assess the nutrient flux in the soil solution. Full article
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