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Patrick C. Wall
Researcher at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publications - 17
Citations - 1675
Patrick C. Wall is an academic researcher from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conservation agriculture & Tillage. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 17 publications receiving 1538 citations.
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Effects of conservation agriculture techniques on infiltration and soil water content in Zambia and Zimbabwe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of CA techniques on soil moisture relations in two researcher-managed trials in Zambia and Zimbabwe and found significantly higher water infiltration on both sites on CA fields compared to conventionally ploughed fields.
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Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems?
Nele Verhulst,Bram Govaerts,Els Verachtert,A. Castellanos-Navarrete,Monica Mezzalama,Patrick C. Wall,A. Chocobar,Jozef Deckers,Ken D. Sayre +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative soil quality evaluation is performed in which the performance of the system is determined in relation to alternatives, and the results show that the effect of a reduction in tillage on the variation in total porosity with depth may be related to differences in traffic on different sites, or on soil quality at the time tillage was reduced or stopped.
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Tailoring conservation agriculture to the needs of small farmers in developing countries: an analysis of issues
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of surface crop residue retention and minimal soil movement in small-scale conservation agriculture and propose a method to overcome the difficulty of the use of the plow.
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Rotation in conservation agriculture systems of Zambia: effects on soil quality and water relations.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of crop rotations on soil quality, soil moisture relations and maize productivity were investigated in a multi-seasonal trial in Monze, southern Zambia.
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Effects of conservation agriculture on soil quality and productivity in contrasting agro‐ecological environments of Zimbabwe
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on CA research at two contrasting on-farm sites and one on-station long-term trial in Zimbabwe and show that there is no immediate increase in maize yield when changing from a tilled to a CA system, but there is gradual improvement in some soil quality indicators over time.