Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming
This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most situations. It also analyzes both the negative impacts they can have and the ecosystem services they can provide: soil protection aga
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Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming
Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming
Eric Justes Editor
Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming
Editor Eric Justes UMR AGIR Inra-INP Toulouse Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
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The expert group would like to dedicate this study to the memory of Nadine Cohen- Brisson (INRA Avignon) and Fruck Dorsainvil (Faculty of Agronomics, Haiti), who sadly left us far too soon, in 2011 and 2010, respectively. Nadine was the initial designer of the STICS crop model. She harnessed the support of her colleagues at the INRA as well as other French bodies to construct, parametrize and “validate” a French crop model, with its own specific characteristics. The model obtained the recognition of the international agronomic
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