Which kind of research topics in environmental sciences could be interesting for Central Asia territory?
Undoubtedly climate -smart agriculture fitted with climate mitigating technolgies to moderate increasing impact of climate change on agriculture. Sustaining agriculture against climate change is the biggezt challenge , humanity has ever been challenged....
Organic farming practices are climate smart as they don't require external inputs
Conservation agriculture to mitigate impact of climate change.
But one issue is very common in all these beautiful responses , that changing climate affecting agriculture is a concern for everyone...
Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Contributions of Framework and Practices to Climate-Smart Agriculture:Integrated Soil Fertility Management combines agronomic practices relating to crops, mineral fertilizers, organic inputs and other amendments that are tailored for different cropping systems, soil fertility status and socioeconomic profiles.
KEY MESSAGE
1 ISFM interventions are built on the premises of increasing productivity and profitability for smallholder farming systems. Practising ISFM has further shown to enhance the stability of yields under adverse rainfall oscillations. Lastly, important reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can be made through ISFM owing to greater uptake of N fertilizers by crops and soil C sequestration.
2 A number of ISFM practices have been successfully brought to scale, each of which leading to major improvements of livelihoods and land use. What’s more, these programs illustrated that access of farmers to quality inputs, information, off-takers and credit is of huge importance to achieve effective adoption of ISFM. Field trials with ISFM-based maize and soybean rotations at 6 weeks after planting. The taller crops have received fertilizers micro-dosing while the shorter crops have not.PDF enclosed
I fully agree with my colleagues that the climate change is a very important driver especially for arid regions. We should keep always this in mind, however, for CA region irrigated agriculture and its impact on overall ecological situation should be first issue for ecologists. Because agriculture is the biggest water consumer with more than 80% share. The high quality freshwater is a resource of crucial importance for all sectors of socio-economy
Thus, in addition to already mentioned ideas I would add following:
Water pollution and salinization and its impact on drinking water quality and ecosystem biodiversity;
Development of intensive water saving agriculture technologies;
Investigations directed to reduce water losses in irrigation canals;
Reuse of high mineralized collector-drainage waters by introduction of salt-tolerant crops and hydrobionts.
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