Editorial: Agricultural diversification: Benefits and barriers for sustainable soil management

Benefits of sustainaBle land ManageMent

Soil Management for Sustainable Intensification: Some Guidelines

One of the fundamental lessons learned through the past half century of agricultural research is that there are no “one size fits all” best management practices. The interaction of different soils with different cultures in different climates results in the need for unique approaches to sustainable agricultural systems in each situation. The transition to systems that are both sustainable and s...

Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes: A Spatially Explicit Approach to Support Sustainable Soil Management

Soil degradation has been associated with a lack of adequate consideration of soil ecosystem services. We demonstrate a broadly applicable method for mapping changes in the supply of two priority soil ecosystem services to support decisions about sustainable land-use configurations. We used a landscape-scale study area of 302 km(2) in northern Victoria, south-eastern Australia, which has been c...

Factor Affecting the Sustainable Management of Agricultural Water

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the factors affecting the sustainable management of agricultural water in Hamedan. The study population included all wheat farmers possessing irrigated farms in Hamedan city (N=1800). Of these farmers a sample of 317 people has been selected by using randomized multi-stage sampling method. The data were collected through a questionnaire's tool wi...

Implementation Barriers for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in India

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been receiving significant attention of practitioners and researchers for many years. Main areas are integration of activities; cooperation and coordination; vendor selection and development; logistics management; utilization of resource in optimum manner; and so on to gain economic benefits. Due to growing concern about environmental and social consequences, a...