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Understanding adoption of soil fertility practices in Andean smallholder communities.
The Andean highlands have been under cultivation for millennia, but growing demand for food, modernization, and climate change have led to agricultural intensification and soil degradation. Participatory research towards the plant ...
Supervisor: Steven Fonte
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Synergistic transport of pesticides and microplastics by preferential flow
Problem context Pesticides and plastic mulching are widely used in agriculture and horticulture. However, pesticide residues and plastic debris have become an increasingly challenging problem for soil and environmental, as pest ...
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Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

The impact of climate and land use change on land degradation in a semi-arid catchment
Climate change is expected to have a negative impact on land degradation, mainly due to the projected increase in extreme precipitation. Land use change may amplify (e.g. due to agricultural intensification) or decrease (e.g. due ...
Supervisor: Jantiene Baartman
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Pesticide risks awareness and sustainable plant protection transition
Pesticides are heavily used in agriculture to reduce crop losses due to pests, weeds and pathogens. Between 1961 and 2011 the global agricultural production more than tripled, largely due to pesticide use. Currently, global pestic ...
Supervisor: Violette Geissen, Paula Harkes & Esperanza Huerta Lwanga

Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

How to address soil pollution by pesticides in African soils?
Pesticides are heavily used in agriculture to reduce crop losses due to pests, weeds and pathogens. Between 1961 and 2011 the global agricultural production more than tripled, largely due to pesticide use. Currently, global pestic ...
Supervisor: Vera Silva & Xiaomei Yang
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Assessing the role of cover crop biodiversity in improving soil structure and related ecosystem services in semiarid agro-ecosystems
The adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, in particular the implementation of cover crops can substantially reduce emissions and sequester some of the CO2 removed from the atmosphere by plants, contributing to climate ch ...
Supervisor: Jantiene Baartman
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Scenarios of land degradation and restoration under climate change in Madagascar
Land degradation in different forms (deforestation, landslides, soil erosion) is a huge problem in Madagascar. WU-SLM has, in collaboration with partners, developed a prototype simulation platform to assess the consequences of alt ...
Supervisor: Luuk Fleskens
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Deficit irrigation strategies and crop yields
Problem context In the Middle East fresh water amounts are very limited. Israel is performing extensive lysimeter research to investigate the effects of deficit irrigation and various salinity levels on agricultural production. ...
Supervisor: Alon Ben Gal
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Effects of plastic debris and pesticides on soil microbial community
Problem context : Plastic mulches are widely used in South Spain for organic and conventional vegetables production to maintain soil moisture and prevent weeds in semi-arid areas. In this region three plastic types can be dis ...
Supervisor: Nicolas Beriot and Esperanza Huerta
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

TITLE: Microplastics as carriers of pesticides, from soil to earthworms approach.
Problem context Microplastics (particles less than 5mm) are emerging contaminants as they are persistent, can reach high densities and interact with abiotic and biotic environments. However, they have been studied almost exclusi ...
Supervisor: Esperanza Huerta and Vera de Silva
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

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