Agroforestry with N2-fixing trees: Sustainable development's friend or foe?

TL;DR: Woody species alongside earth contour bunds enhance soil water infiltration capacity in the Sahel, West Africa.

TL;DR: This work evaluated three schemes of low levels of shade, which avoid the loss of production, as a strategy to adapt coffee to possible climate change, using the microclimate simulator software Envi-met.

TL;DR: This study investigates the germination performance of Leucaena diversifolia seeds in a thermal gradient, considering climate change scenarios, to understand how temperature increases may impact the recruitment of this multipurpose native species in agroecosystems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis showed that nitrogen-fixing trees more than double soil nitrous oxide emissions relative to non-fixed trees and soils, and that if planted in reforestation projects at the global scale, nitrogen fixing trees could increase global soil NO 2 emissions from natural terrestrial ecosystems by up to 4.1%, offsetting climate change mitigation via reforestation.

TL;DR: On 13 October 1908, Fritz Haber filed his patent on the "synthesis of ammonia from its elements" for which he was later awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Solutions to the nutrient challenges that face global agriculture can be informed by analyses of trajectories of change within, as well as across, agricultural systems.

TL;DR: This paper used 23 atmospheric chemistry transport models to calculate current and future (2030) deposition of reactive nitrogen (NOy, NHx) and sulfate (SOx) to land and ocean surfaces.

TL;DR: A soil fertility replenishment approach has been developed based on naturally available resources: nitrogen-fixing leguminous tree fallows that accumulate 100 to 200 kg N ha, indigenous rock phosphate applications, and biomass transfers of the nutrient-accumulating shrub Tithonia diversifolia.