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Proxy global assessment of land degradation

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Dynamics of the Global Savanna and Grassland Biomes

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Peer Review #3 of "Soil type and fertilizer rate affect wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield, quality and nutrient use efficiency in Ayiba, northern Ethiopia (v0.1)"

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Peer Review #3 of "Soil type and fertilizer rate affect wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield, quality and nutrient use efficiency in Ayiba, northern Ethiopia (v0.2)"

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Peer Review #2 of "Soil type and fertilizer rate affect wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield, quality and nutrient use efficiency in Ayiba, northern Ethiopia (v0.1)"

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More microbial manipulation and plant defense than soil fertility for biochar in food production: A field experiment of replanted ginseng with different biochars

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The Impact of Soil Conservation on Fertilizers and Pesticides Utilization and the Economic Efficiency of Rice Cultivating Households in Vietnam

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Organic Metabolism

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Development of algorithms based on the integration of vegetation indices and meteorological data for the identification of low productivity agricultural areas

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Indigenous food systems in transition: flourishing amidst changing forest-farm-food nexus among the Solegas of South India

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Rapeseed Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series Coupled with Growing Degree-Days InformationPreprint

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Unveiling the Intra-Annual and Inter-Annual Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Inflow to Rivers and Driving Factors in Cloud-Prone Regions: A Case Study in Minjiang River Basin, China

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Scope of the Book

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Environmental impact of crude oil spills

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Land Breeds Life: the Effect of Land rental on Farmers' Food expenditurePreprint

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Palm Oil Mill Effluent: A Potential Solution for Enhancing Soil Fertility

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Aboveground physiological response and yield prediction of Chloris gayana and Digitaria eriantha grown in rehabilitated coal mined soils using random forest algorithm

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Addressing Food Security in Sub‐Saharan African Region: The Role of Financial Sector Development and Informality

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Effects of Agricultural Land Practices Management on Sustainable Crop Production

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Probing into Nexus Between Industrial Development and Dryland Degradation in the Global South

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Influence of Abattoir Waste Blood Meal on Soil Chemical Properties, Growth and Yield of African Chili Pepper (Capsicum Frutescens) in Nutrient Deficient-tropical Soil

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Sustainable Soil Management in Failed or Destabilized States

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Climate Change-Induced Cost on Soil Security and Its Implication on Food Security in Homa-Bay County, Kenya

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Carbon from Methane Plasmalysis in Agriculture: from Low-emission Hydrogen to Soil-health

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Challenges and problems of agricultural land use changes according to territorial planning documents: case of Poland and Ukraine

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Integrating nano-biosensors into plants: A smart approach for plant disease management to enhance agriculture resilience

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Degradation of chemical and physico-chemical composition of rice-paddy soils in the akdala rice-growing massif and ways to restore their fertility

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Response of soil strength and density to compost application: A study on the vegetative phase of pineapple

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From Chemometrics to AI-Powered Prediction: Evaluating Mobile vs. Benchtop MIR Spectrometers for Soil Salinity-Alkalinity Indicators PredictionPreprint

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Mobile and benchtop MIR spectrometer comparison for soil salinity indicators prediction in arid and semi-arid areas

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National mapping of compound soil erosion across China: Integrating 137Cs tracer technique and random-forest machine learning

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Enhancing crop production through arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Shehzad, M., Iqbal, M. M., Ahmad, A., Mehmood, K., Zahid, N., Maqbool, M., Javeed, H. M. R., Mubeen, K., Qayyum, M. A., & Naz, T. (2026) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-45130-0.00015-1

Scaling and Extrapolation of Soil Degradation Assessments

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Soil Degradation as a Planetary Threat to Agricultural Productivity and Long-Term Food Security: A Global Synthesis of Impacts and Rehabilitation Strategies

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Monitoring of agricultural soil degradation by remote-sensing methods: a review

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