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Abstract

This article aims to provide a review of major challenges and research needs for the diffusion of conservation agriculture (CA) and the improvement of crop–soil–water conditions in Southern Europe and Northern Africa. A multidisciplinary study and a participatory approach are at the basis of an international project of research and innovation action, “Research-based participatory approaches for adopting conservation agriculture in the Mediterranean Area-CAMA”. It aims to understand the reasons and the research needs that limit a large CA diffusion in the Mediterranean countries. CAMA aims to provide significant advances to CA through multidisciplinary research at the field and farm scales (with main emphasis on smallholder), encompassing a socio-economic analysis of the reasons that obstacle the CA diffusion, legume crop improvement as a component of improved CA cropping systems, and a network of long-term experiments on CA and soil characteristic modification. Its results will be available to scientific and farming communities.

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Title
Open Questions and Research Needs in the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean Area
Author
Rinaldi, Michele 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Almeida, Ana Sofia 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jorge Álvaro Fuentes 3 ; Annabi, Mohamed 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Annicchiarico, Paolo 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Castellini, Mirko 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Carlos Cantero Martinez 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cruz, Maria Gabriela 6 ; Giuseppe D’Alessandro 7 ; Gitsopoulos, Thomas 8 ; Marandola, Danilo 1 ; Marguerie, Mathieu 9 ; Lamouchi, Salah 10 ; Latati, Mourad 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Antonio Lopez Francos 12 ; Moussadek, Rachid 13 ; Pecetti, Luciano 1 

 Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, 26900 Lodi, Italy; [email protected] (P.A.); [email protected] (M.C.); [email protected] (D.M.); [email protected] (L.P.) 
 Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, 2780-157 Oerias, Portugal; [email protected] 
 Spanish National Research Council, 28006 Madrid, Spain; [email protected] 
 Agronomic Sciences and Techniques Laboratory, National Institute of Agronomic Research of Tunisia, Carthage University, Ariana 2049, Tunisia; [email protected] 
 Crop and Forest Sciences Department, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain; [email protected] 
 Portuguese Association for Mobilization of Soil Conservation, 7005-161 Evora, Portugal; [email protected] 
 AGROMNIA SRL, 76011 Bisceglie, Italy; [email protected] 
 Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 11145 Athens, Greece; [email protected] 
 Institut du Vegetal, 75116 Paris, France; [email protected] 
10  Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Tunis 1005, Tunisia; [email protected] 
11  Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Laboratoire AIPV, El Harrach 16007, Algeria; [email protected] 
12  Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Saragoza, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain; [email protected] 
13  Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Morocco, Rabat 10090, Morocco; [email protected] 
First page
1112
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734395
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2670054177
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.