ABSTRACT Agricultural management significantly influences soil physical properties and soil erosion. However, there are few studies investigating the long-term effects of agricultural management on soil erosion and physical properties. Here, we assessed the impacts of 20-year agricultural land uses under different management practices on soil physical properties and interrill erosion. This study was conducted on an experimental farm of the Embrapa Western Agriculture, Brazil, and the treatments consisted of soybean cropping under conventional tillage (CT) and no-tillage (NT), crop-livestock integration […]

The Brazilian program of environmental services, called “Water Supplier”, is based on financial incentives relative to the erosion reduction by the implementation of voluntary soil conservation projects by farmers. However, this program has no pre-established restrictions of eligibility of application areas or conservation proposals. With a view to contribute to the methodological development of this program, a new approach was proposed, by analysis of two main changes: introduction of eligibility criteria, and the use of land suitability for recommendation of […]