In subsequent years, maize is the primary crop ... of enhancing crop productivity that also happens to minimize soil erosion (Hellin 2003). The redistribution of topsoil from historical sediment ...

Wuhan, China - A research team led by Professor Mingqiu Dai from Huazhong Agricultural University published a study titled ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires ...

But due to the big need to feed a big population many farmers now grow the same crops such as maize or sorghum ... tillage of the soil makes it bare and open to erosion by air and running water.

While cover crops modestly increase soil carbon, the reduction in erosion is a separate benefit. Globally, cover crops could reduce soil carbon erosion by 25%, with a 20% reduction in the central U.S.