Weed Management in Conservation Agriculture Systems

Dr Gottlieb Basch is a Full Professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Évora, Portugal. He is President of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation and has contributed to a number of EIP AGRI Focus Groups, EU Horizon and other research projects on more sustainable methods of crop cultivation.Dr Emilio J. González-Sánchez is Associate Professor in the School for Agriculture and Forestry Engineering at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He is Secretary-General of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation, has coordinated several EU LIFE research projects and has been an international consultant on Conservation Agriculture for the FAO and World Bank.John Geraghty is a Lecturer at South East Technological University, Ireland. He has over 25 years’ research, development and consulting experience in soil and crop management, including working for the United Nations World Food Programme, with a particular focus on Conservation Agriculture techniques.Dr Seyed Vahid Eslami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding at the University of Birjand, Iran. He has worked on crop/weed ecology as well as weed behaviour and management strategies for 20 years. He has published widely on crop-weed ecophysiological responses to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity.Dr Sjoerd W. Duiker is Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics at Penn State University, USA. He has made significant contributions to both research and extension in developing more sustainable soil management practices in such areas as no-till systems, the use of cover crops, mulches and more diverse crop rotations. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Northeast Cover Crops Council which brings together universities, farmers, government agencies and others to optimise cover crop use in the north-eastern states of the USA. Professor Duiker is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing collection Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems.Dr Saidi Mkomwa is Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the African Conservation Tillage Network with over 30 years‘ experience of developing and promoting Conservation Agriculture techniques in Africa. Amongst other responsibilities he is Chair of the Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group for Southern Africa. He is based in Kenya.Dr Marie Bartz is a Researcher in the Centre of Functional Ecology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil. She has published widely on earthworms and other aspects of soil biodiversity.

“Keys to successful cropland management are threefold: keep the soil there (covered against erosion); keep the nutrients in (for balanced crop nutrition); keep the weeds out! … The third one – keeping weeds out – can be the trickiest to manage, hence the huge relevance of this timely book. Drawing from international research and field experience, this important, well-illustrated book offers many useful pointers to progress in practice. With over 50 authors including participating farmers, the whole represents a powerful compilation of discussion with research findings and commercial field evidence.” (Agriculture for Development)

• 1.Weed ecology in Conservation Agriculture systems: an overview: Seyed Vahid Eslami, University of Birjand, Iran; Carol C. Baskin and Jerry M. Baskin, University of Kentucky, USA;2.Modeling weed population dynamics in conservation agriculture systems: Jose L. Gonzalez-Andujar, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC), Spain; and Cesar Fernandez-Quintanilla, Instituto de Ciencia Agrarias (CSIC), Spain;Part 1 Cultural, physical and chemical weed management techniques3.Cultural techniques to control weeds in Conservation Agriculture systems: Francisco Skora Neto, No-till Brazilian Federation (FEBRAPDP)/formerly Agronomic Institute of Parana (IAPAR), Brazil;4.Allelopathic weed control in Conservation Agriculture systems: Omer Farooq and Sami Ul-Allah, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan; Amar Matloob, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Pakistan; Mubshar Hussain, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan; and Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman;5.Thermal weed control in Conservation Agriculture: Bernhard Streit and Martin V. Bauer, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland;6.Using herbicides in Conservation Agriculture systems: the state of the art: Per Kudsk, Aarhus University, Denmark;7.Advances in the reduction of herbicide use in Conservation Agriculture: French case studies: Stéphane Cordeau, Maé Guinet, Nicolas Munier-Jolain, and Guillaume Adeux, Université de Bourgogne Europe, Institut Agro, INRAE, Agroécologie, France; and Violaine Deytieux, INRAE, U2E, Unité Expérimentale du domaine d’Epoisses, France;Part 2 Weed management in specific production systems8.Weed management in perennial Conservation Agriculture systems: optimising use of groundcover: Emilio J. Gonzalez-Sanchez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Julio Roman-Vazquez, European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF), Belgium; Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez, Asociación Española Agricultura de Conservación Suelos Vivos, Spain; Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo, IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Spain; Francisco Marquez-Garcia, Antonio M. Conde-Lopez and Miguel A. Repullo-Ruiberriz de Torres, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Manuel Moreno-Garcia and Rafaela Ordoñez-Fernandez, IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Spain; and Jesus A. Gil-Ribes, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain;9.Weed management in no-tillage vegetable cultivation: using the Sistema de Plantio Direto de Hortaliças to achieve an agroecological transition: Marcelo Zanella and Darlan Rodrigo Marchesi, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina (EPAGRI), Brazil; Arcângelo Loss and Guilherme Wilbert Ferreira, Federal University of Santa Catarina State (UFSC), Brazil; and Jamil Abdalla Fayad, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Senior, Brazil;10.Weed management in organic Conservation Agriculture systems: Paolo Bàrberi, Stefano Carlesi and Federico Leoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy;11.Weed management in Conservation Agriculture-based production of annual crops: Ademir Calegari, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Brazil; Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; Rolf Derpsch, Consultant (formerly GTZ), Germany; Ray Archuleta, USDA-ARS, USA; Martin Cubilla, FEPASIDAS, Paraguay; Frédéric Thomas, Farmer, France; Sergio Argenteri, Farmer, Italy; Fabricio Krzyzaniak, Agronomist Consultant, Paraguay; Kleso Silva Franco Junior, University CESEP, Brazil; Donizeti Aparecido Fornarolli, Consultant, Brazil; Benedito Noedi Rodrigues, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Brazil; Ronaldo Hissayuki Hojo, Regional Development Institute – Paraná, Brazil; Ken Moriya, FEPASIDAS/Agriculture Ministry, Paraguay; Cassio Egidio Cavenaghi Pretes, Londrina State University, Brazil; and Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil;12.Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems: farmers’ testimonies: Gottlieb Basch, Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED) – Universidade de Évora, Portugal; Søren Ilsøe, Knudstrupgaard Farm, Denmark; Miguel Barnuevo-Rocko, Finca Munibañez s/n Chinchilla, Spain; Anderson Schmitz, Schmitz Family Farm, Brazil; Marcelo Zanella, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina (EPAGRI), Brazil; Benjamin Dias Osorio Filho, Chalé do Seival/State University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Luiz Antônio Pradella, Pradella Group, Brazil; Valmor dos Santos, Inovação Agrícola, Brazil; Corey Loessin, Aidra Farms Ltd, Canada; and Marie Luise Carolina Bartz, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil/University of Coimbra, Portugal;