Project number: 14.01.11.04.01

Innovative Field-Crop Systems (Tillage, Crop Rotation and Cover-Cropping)

Conservation agriculture: soil tillage, crop rotation and cover crops

"Conservation agriculture" (CA) aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and subsequently aims at improved livelihoods of farmers through the application of the three CA principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations.

CA holds tremendous potential for all sizes of farms and agro-ecological systems, but its adoption is perhaps most urgently required by smallholder farmers, especially those facing acute labour shortages. It is a way to combine profitable agricultural production with environmental concerns and sustainability and it has been proven to work in a variety of agroecological zones and farming systems." FAO, 2012.

Jaffuel G., Blanco-Pérez R., Büchi L., Mäder P., Fliessbach A., Charles R., Degen T., Turlings T.C.J., Campos-Herrera R.
Effects of cover crops on the overwintering success of entomopathogenic nematodes and their antagonists.
Applied Soil Ecology, 114, 2017, 62-73.

Wendling M., Büchi L., Amossé C., Jeangros B., Walter A., Charles R.
Specific interactions leading to transgressive overyielding in cover crop mixtures.
Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 241, 2017, 88-99.

Herrera J. M., Büchi L., Rubio G., Torres-Guerrero C., Wendling M., Stamp P., Pellet D.
Root decomposition at high and low N supply throughout a crop rotation.
European Journal of Agronomy, 84, 2017, 105-112.

Büchi L., Valsangiacomo A., Enguerrand B., Charles R.
Agrarumweltindikator für die Bodenbedeckung auf Landwirtschaftsbetrieben.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 8, (2), 2017, 48-55.
other Languages: french

Wendling M., Büchi L., Amossé C., Sinaj S., Walter A., Charles R.
Cover crop root system and nutrient accumulation.
In: Journées SSP. 4-5 février, Publ. Société Suisse de Pédologie, Genève. 2016, 1.

Büchi L., Mouly P., Amossé C., Bally C., Wendling M., Charles R.
Zerstörungsfreie Methode zur Schätzung der Biomasse von Zwischenkulturen.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 7, (3), 2016, 136-143.
other Languages: french

Jeangros B.
Leguminosen, ein wesentlicher Bestandteil nachhaltiger Produktionssysteme.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 7, (3), 2016, 119.
other Languages: french

Büchi L., Valsangiacomo A., Burel E., Charles R.
Integrating simulation data from a crop model in the development of an agri-environmental indicator for soil cover in Switzerland.
European Journal of Agronomy, online, (18 November), 2015, 1-11.

Amossé C., Dugon J., Chassot A., Courtois N., Etter J.-D., Fietier A., Grünig K., Henggartner W., Ramseier H., Rossier N., Sturny W., Wittwer R., Zimmermann A., Jeangros B., Charles R.
Verhalten verschiedener Zwischenkulturen in einem Netzwerk von On-Farm-Versuchen.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 6, (11-12), 2015, 524-533.
other Languages: french

Büchi L., Gebhard C.-A., Liebisch F., Sinaj S., Ramseier H., Charles R.
Accumulation of biologically fixed nitrogen by legumes cultivated as cover crops in Switzerland.
Plant and Soil, online 23. April, 2015, 1-13.

Tribouillois H., Fort F., Cruz P., Charles R., Flores O., Garnier E., Justes E.
A functional characterisation of a wide range of cover crop species: growth and nitrogen acquisition rates, leaf traits and ecological strategies.
PLOS ONE, online , (March 19), 2015, 1-17.

Aouinaït C., Jeangros B., Nassar V., Crole-Rees A.
Caractérisation des innovations en production végétale: l'exemple du colza HOLL.
Recherche Agronomique Suisse, 5, (3), 2014, 104-111.

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