
Conservation agriculture [Italy]
Sustainable crop production and residue management under no-tillage to improve soil fertility and increase environmental benefits
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Sustainable crop production and residue management under no-tillage to improve soil fertility and increase environmental benefits
Controlled grazing in deciduous woods seasonally limited in summer when grass cover in rangeland suffers water stress.
SELECTIVE CUTTING OF FOREST TREES TO PREVENT FIRES AND AVOID THE RISK OF DAMAGED TREES FALLING DOWN.
Application of manure in valuable pastures to increase grass recover and reduce shrub encroachment
Firebreaks are stripes cleared of vegetation that divide a continuous forest in smaller patches to reduce spreading of wildfires and allow intervention.
Vegetated water basins for the control of diffuse pollution
Application of precision farming and variable rate application technology for spatial optimization of organic amendments use
Reconstitution of soils is a pedotechnique based on the treatment of organic and non-organic pedomaterials to achieve benefits in areas with barren, degraded, desertified and/ or sealed soils.
The Agrigento province area is affected by aridity and water scarcity. The availabe surface and underground waters are polluted or saline and therefore not suitable for irrigation purposes. Dam and artificial reservoires have been costructed in the past decades to meet the growing water demand of agriculture and civil uses. …
The best practice was the ecological restoration of natural habitats from rainfed croplands in the protected area of the mud volcanos of Macalube d'Aragona (Sicily). The practice consisted of the plantation of authoctonous plant species that are very relevant for local biodiversity such as Lygeum spartum and the protection of …