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The contributions of legumes to reducing the environmental risk of agricultural production

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Peoples M.B., Hauggaard-Nielsen H., Huguenin-Elie O., Jensen E.S., Justes E., Williams M.
2019

Fertilizer nitrogen (N) produced by the Haber-Bosch process using fossil fuels has played a key role in improving global food production. Unfortunately, less than half of the 109 million tonnes of fertilizer N currently consumed by agriculture each year is assimilated into the aboveground biomass of crops. While some fertilizer N will also be recovered by roots, much of the remainder is either ...

Systèmes et modes de culture; Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières; Fertilisation; Météorologie et climatologie; Biologie du sol

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