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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

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Characterization of root length density and root surface area density in jujube-wheat intercropping system in Southern Xinjiang

A field experiment was conducted in Hetian to characterize the rhizosphere of wheat and jujube trees intercropping systems. In the maturity of winter wheat and flowering stage of jujube trees, the root samples of sole wheat, sole five-year-old jujube tree and five-year-old jujube tree intercropped with wheat were collected by...
China
Journal article
2014

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer application and rhizobial inoculation on yield and water use efficiency of pea/maize intercropping system

Pea-maize intercropping has been a vital crop production mode in irrigated areas of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. However, there some problems of heavy fertilization while symbiotic N2 fixation have been neglected in local crop production in the region. Thus, field trials were conducted in Wuwei City, Gansu Province, in...
China
Journal article
2014

Effects of different P applications on inorganic P components in irrigated sierozems under maize-chickpea intercropping

The dosage effects of phosphorous applications on yield of maize and chickpea under mono-cropping and intercropping systems were investigated using Jiang-Gu inorganic phosphorus fractionation method in irrigated sierozems in the Gansu Yellow River Irrigation District. The results showed that the contents of inorganic phosphorus were in the following order: OP >...
China
Journal article
2015

Effects of nutrient uptake and utilization on yield of intercropping systems in Northwest China

Nutrient uptake and utilization play an important role in yield advantage of intercropping. However, the effects of nutrient and utilization on yield advantage of new intercropping systems are rarely explored in Northwest China. A field experiment was carried out to investigate those effects under maize & potato, maize & rapeseed,...
China
Journal article
2015

Effects of continuous intercropping on crop productivity and chemical properties of soil fertility in Orthic Antrosols

Being the kernel of the traditional agriculture of China, and one of the major practices in developing ecological agriculture, intercropping still occupies an important position in modern agriculture in China as well as other parts of the world. One of the advantages of intercropping are higher yields relative to monocultures,...
China
Journal article
2016

Intercropping enhances agroecosystem services and functioning: Current knowledge and perspectives

Intercropping is one of the traditional farming systems practiced by farmers in China for more than 2,000 years with some intriguing ecological principles. Previous studies have shown that intercropping enhances not only crop productivity but also the efficient utilization of resources, both above-ground and below-ground. Recent research efforts have made...
China
Journal article
2016
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