Quantifying the adoption of conservation agriculture: Development and application of the Conservation Agriculture Appraisal Index

Laura I. Ruiz-Espinosa, Nele Verhulst, Floris van Ogtrop, Rebecca Cross, Bram Govaerts, Harm van Rees and Richard Trethowan

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 220, issue C

Abstract: Estimates of conservation agriculture (CA) adoption vary worldwide because of a lack of a standardized methodology to quantify the simultaneous utilization of its core principles of minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil organic cover and crop diversification. Comparisons of CA adoption among farms across regions requires estimation of the farm area and cropping season where CA principles are applied.

Keywords: Standardized framework; Conservation agriculture adoption; Soil disturbance; Soil cover; Crop diversification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104095

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