Machinery for sowing wheat directly into rice residues has become more common in the rice-wheat systems of the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, with increasing numbers of farmers now potentially able to access the benefits of residue retention. However, surface residue retention affects soil water and temperature dynamics, thus the optimum sowing date and irrigation management for...

West African land use systems have been experiencing one of the fastest transformations in world over recent decades. The Sudanian savanna is an interesting example, as it hosts cultivation some crops typical Guinean well Sahel. Therefore, this region likely to experience further changes its crop portfolio next decades due migration processes responding environmental change. Simulation approach...

Accurate early season predictions of crop yield at the within-field scale can be used to address a range production, management, and precision agricultural challenges. While remote sensing insights has been research goal for many years, it is only recently that observations with required spatio-temporal resolutions, together efficient assimilation methods integrate these into modeling framework...

In the context of climate change, sowing date and cultivar choice can influence productivity sorghum, especially where production is constrained by low soil fertility early terminal drought across challenging agro-ecologies north-eastern Nigeria. Planting within an optimal window to fit cultivar’s maturity length critical for maximizing/increasing crop yield following appropriate climate-smart ...

Abstract. Compound weather events may lead to extreme impacts that can affect many aspects of society including agriculture. Identifying the underlying mechanisms cause impacts, such as crop failure, is crucial importance improve their understanding and forecasting. In this study, we investigate whether key meteorological drivers be identified using least absolute shrinkage selection operator (...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important and manageable property of soils that impacts on multiple ecosystem services through its effect on soil processes such as nitrogen (N) cycling and soil physical properties. There is considerable interest in increasing SOC concentration in agro-ecosystems worldwide. In some agro-ecosystems, increased SOC has been found to enhance the provision of ecosyst...