Agro-ecosystem resilience
Successful solutions
- Improved soil health through the use of cover crops, crop rotations, organic amendment application (composts, livestock manures) and conservation tillage practices.
- Enhanced soil biodiversity through a suite of soil and crop management practices.
- Identification of optimal ranges in soil physical quality parameters that affect movement and storage of crop-essential air and water.
- Improved quality of agricultural drainage water through innovative water and nutrient management practices.
- Determined the values of soil legacy phosphorus in sustaining crop production, improving water quality and promoting farming profitability.
- Improved air quality and use of crop nutrients through the adoption of 4R (right source, rate, right place and right time) nutrient management strategies.
- Soil, air and water quality models applicable to field, regional and national scales and water quality models including the Canadian agri-environmental indicators.
- Soil, crop and water management technologies that increase soil and crop resilience to climate variability and change.