A guideline to agricultural management: three layers for sustainable management: the biosphere: healthy soils and (bio)diverse landscapes (green bar); solutions: based on functioning of the natural system (yellow bar); enabling conditions: finding the social and economic enable conditions (blue bar).
5 Ecology Department, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany. 6 Department of Environmental Systems , Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. 7 Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.
The primary cause of degradation in sub-Saharan (SSA) is expansion and intensification of agriculture in efforts to feed its growing population. Effective solutions will support resilient systems, and must cut across agricultural, environmental, and socioeconomic objectives. While many studies compare and contrast the effects of different management practices on properties ...