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Arable land is land worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation. Eurostat a, Agriculture glossary, accessed 22 November 2023...

Highlights: Arable lands have been converted into artisanal small-scale mining (galamsey) sites. Food crop production now competes with mining activities for land and labour...

Abandoning grassland, as well as a focus on monocultural plantation forests on the habitat, hurts biodiversity and affects its capacity to provide services which enable effective ecosystem functioning...

Conservation of arable soils through targeted erosion management

In this report, we evaluate the from the soil perspective and provide baseline data for the two impact indicators (soil erosion, soil organic carbon) related to soil in the context of the Common...

Following a request from EU Member States, the Commission is proposing today a temporary short-term derogation from rules on crop rotation and maintenance of non-productive features on arable land. The impact...

While agricultural systems are a major pillar in global food security, their productivity is currently threatened by many environmental issues, such as land degradation. However...

This dataset (GIS map) (2015) represents the Cover Management factor (C-factor), one of the input layers when calculating the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) model...

While agricultural systems are a major pillar in global food security, their productivity is currently threatened by many environmental issues, such as land degradation. However...