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Multi-scale trade-off analysis of cereal residue use for livestock feeding vs. soil mulching in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe (Record no. 30513)

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control field G98858
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control field MX-TxCIM
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022 0# - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 0308-521X
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Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2014.03.002
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) CIS-7595
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Baudron, F.
Miscellaneous information Formerly Sustainable Intensification Program
-- Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Field link and sequence number INT3245
9 (RLIN) 910
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Multi-scale trade-off analysis of cereal residue use for livestock feeding vs. soil mulching in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Barking, Essex (United Kingdom) :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Elsevier,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Peer review
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Summary, etc. Cereal residues represent a major resource for livestock feeding during the dry season in southern Africa. When kept on the soil surface instead of feeding them to livestock, crop residues can contribute to increasing soil fertility and maintaining crop productivity in the short- and the long-term. We explored these trade-offs for smallholder cotton?sorghum farming systems in the semi-arid Zambezi Valley, northern Zimbabwe. The analysis was done using simulation models at three scales, the plot, the farm and the territory, to simulate the effects of different sorghum residue allocations to livestock feeding vs. soil mulching, in combination with different application rates of mineral nitrogen fertilizer on crop productivity. The plot-scale simulations suggest that without N fertilization soil mulching has a positive effect on cotton yields only if small quantities of sorghum residues are used as mulch (average cotton yields of 2.24 ± 0.41 kg ha−1 with a mulch of 100 kg ha−1 vs. 1.91 ± 0.29 kg ha−1 without mulch). Greater quantities of mulch have a negative effect on cotton yield without N fertilization due to N immobilization in the soil microbial biomass. With applications of 100 kg N ha−1, quantities of mulch up to 3 t ha−1 have no negative effect on cotton yield. Results at farm-scale highlight the fundamental role of livestock as a source of traction, and the need to feed a greater proportion of sorghum residues to livestock as herd and farm sizes increase. Farmers with no livestock attained maximum crop production when 100% of their sorghum residue remained in the field, as they do not have access to cattle manure. The optimum fraction of crop residue to be retained in the fields for maximum farm crop production varied for farmers with 2 or less heads of cattle (80% retention), with 2?3 heads (60?80%), with 4 or more heads (40?60%). At the scale of the entire territory, total cotton and sorghum production increased with the density of cattle, at the expense of soil mulching with crop residues. The results of our simulations suggest that (i) the optimum level of residue retention depends on the scale at which trade-offs are analyzed; (ii) the retention of all of the crop residue as mulch appears unrealistic and undesirable in farming systems that rely on livestock for traction; and (iii) crop residue mulching could be made more attractive to farmers by paying due attention to balancing C to N ratios in the soil and by promoting small-scale mechanization to replace animal traction.
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Text of note Conservation Agriculture Program
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Language note Text in English
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Affiliation CIMMYT Informa No. 1907
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StaffID INT3245
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Conservation agriculture
9 (RLIN) 2619
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Simulation models
9 (RLIN) 2569
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Equity
9 (RLIN) 10883
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Crop residues
9 (RLIN) 1064
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
9 (RLIN) 4496
Geographic name Zimbabwe
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Delmotte, S.,
9 (RLIN) 2545
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Corbeels, M.
Field link and sequence number Job0042
Miscellaneous information Formerly Sustainable Intensification Program
9 (RLIN) 1964
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 118
Personal name Herrera, J.M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 338
Personal name Tittonell, P.
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Title Agricultural Systems
Related parts v. 134, p. 97–106
Place, publisher, and date of publication Barking, Essex (United Kingdom) : Elsevier, 2015.
Record control number 444466
International Standard Serial Number 0308-521X
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Koha item type Article
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
08/04/2015   CIS-7595 08/04/2015 Article Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 08/04/2015

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