Agronomy for Sustainable Development最新文献

{"title":"Pragmatic principles for supporting the agroecological transition in the field: a review","authors":"Laurent Hazard,&nbsp;Maarten Crivits,&nbsp;Alain Ducos,&nbsp;Alix Levain,&nbsp;Marie-Benoit Magrini,&nbsp;Chloé Salembier","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01092-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01092-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The agroecological transition of agriculture is slow despite the wealth of knowledge produced to support it. Given the complexity and uncertainty of changing situations, the deterministic approach aimed at defining ideal transition pathways to speed up the transition seems fruitless to us. Our view is that paths are made by walking, tracing a singular route that depends on the surprises that arise. However, actors are currently not equipped to march into the unknown, a march toward greater sustainability. The challenge is to equip actors to implement agroecological principles in local, changing, complex, and uncertain situations. To this end, we propose 10 principles drawn from an argued review of pragmatic philosophy and formulated on the basis of 16 years’ experience in participatory research with French farmers in agroecological transition in the Roquefort area. Pragmatic philosophy is a theory of action rooted in a democratic ideal. It offers a universal, normative and coherent framework for conducting individual, and collective inquiries to establish what is possible, what works, and what is desirable in a situation of change. The 10 pragmatic principles we propose will enable farmers, intermediaries and consumers to create sustainable production and consumption practices. They will also be useful for those who accompany them in the transition, such as advisors, researchers, sales representatives, and employees of local authorities. Pragmatism represents a paradigm shift away from the project logic and planning that currently dominate change management. Such a shift must be accompanied by in-depth education to develop the collective skills needed to envision that another world is possible, to manage complexity and uncertainty, by being able to deliberate democratically and cooperate in action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13593-026-01092-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147287211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of pesticide reduction strategies in cropping systems. A review","authors":"Han Zhang,&nbsp;David Makowski","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01086-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01086-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The unsustainable and excessive use of pesticides in agriculture causes multi-faceted environmental and human health problems worldwide. Numerous strategies have been proposed to reduce pesticide use; however, the knowledge regarding their performance is scattered. To move forward, it is crucial to evaluate pesticide reduction strategies and identify the most efficient ones. The objective of this work is to globally synthesize published literature on pesticide reduction strategies in order to describe their main characteristics and assess their performances across a wide range of indicators. Based on a systematic review of ten papers from the secondary literature involving generalized linear mixed-effect models and text mining techniques, we reviewed 97 primary research papers reporting 135 studies assessing pesticide reduction strategies. Sixteen types of individual strategy were identified, among which the most investigated strategies were site-specific pesticide application, physical/mechanical control, and advanced machinery. Herbicide was the most studied pesticide group regarding pesticide reduction. The most frequent method used to assess pesticide reduction strategies was field experiment (83%). Fifty-one indicators reflecting the impacts of pesticide reduction strategies were grouped into four categories: economic output, pest control efficacy, pesticide related input, and side effects. Pesticide reduction strategies had a higher likelihood to reduce pesticide input and side effects than to improve economic output and pest control efficacy. The primary literature was then allocated to two main topics: topic 1 includes weed management in cereals, and topic 2 concerns insect and disease management in fruits. Studies focusing on topic 2 and studies combining several pesticide reduction strategies had higher probabilities to report positive effects from pesticide reduction strategies than topic 1 and single strategies, respectively. We also found that organic systems produce more positive results than low-input systems, especially regarding side effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147287162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clarifying factors involved in historical soybean yield suppression in Japan using national statistics and a crop model","authors":"Sohei Kobayashi,&nbsp;Yoji Kunimitsu,&nbsp;Satoshi Nakano","doi":"10.1007/s13593-025-01078-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-025-01078-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p> Soybean yields have remained below 2.0 t ha⁻¹ for over 30 years in Asian countries; however, few studies have analyzed national statistical data in detail to explore the underlying factors. This is the first study to analyze precisely and comprehensively factors involved in the historical soybean yield suppression in Japan by using national production-cost and other statistics, coupled with a crop model. Panel data of 5–6 land-size sections for 1987–2018 were prepared to analyze the regression of actual yield against 13 production input-related variables, model-predicted potential yield, and agricultural social capital score by each data class for the whole country (i.e., Japan), two climatic regions (temperate and subarctic), and two field types (converted paddy and upland). Although potential yield rose by 8% for the studied 32 years at the country/national level, actual yield declined by 18%, and this was primarily attributed to trends in converted paddy fields in the temperate region. Panel regression analyses showed that for this field type and region, a total of 14–21% actual yield reduction occurred with decreased water management input, as well as increases in weed control failure and converted paddy fields, resulting in a 16% reduction at the country level. In contrast, the increased potential yield, mainly due to climatic changes (warming), contributed to improving actual yields by 7–8% in the region and country, thereby partially offsetting the above yield reduction. Against our expectation, no actual yield improvement was observed with increased agricultural social capital score, but rather a 19% reduction for the country. Implications of the results for policymakers and scientists aiming to improve country-level soybean yields in Japan were discussed, as well as the importance of potential yield as an explanatory variable and that of spatial error model for panel data of land-size sections. </p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13593-025-01078-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147287209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A 7-year multi-criteria analysis of sugarcane intercropping compared to conventional cropping systems","authors":"Mathias Christina,&nbsp;Julien Chetty,&nbsp;Aude Ripoche,&nbsp;Antoine Versini,&nbsp;Karim Barkaoui,&nbsp;Benjamin Heuclin,&nbsp;Marion Schwartz,&nbsp;Sacha Delmotte,&nbsp;Sandrine Auzoux,&nbsp;Alizé Mansuy","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01085-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01085-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Long-term studies are crucial for evaluating how intercropping affects the agronomic, environmental, and socio-economic sustainability of sugarcane systems. Intercropping with cover crops is expected to improve soil fertility and reduce herbicide use; however, its long-term effects on yield, weed dynamics, and production costs remain unclear, particularly under tropical conditions. Weed pressure has been hypothesized to drive yield decline over time, yet the temporal evolution of weed communities and their consequences for system sustainability remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that intercropping would modify ecosystem functions and services by increasing weed diversity and soil fertility, reducing herbicide use, and also increasing labor and production costs. To test this hypothesis, we conducted the first 7-year field experiment on Reunion Island, comparing four sugarcane intercropping systems with conventional chemical and low weed control systems. A multi-criteria approach assessed weed community dynamics, soil fertility, sugarcane yield and quality, herbicide use, labor, and economic performance over a complete crop cycle, including multiple ratoons. We show that weed pressure increased over time in both chemical and intercropping systems due to greater weed cover and species richness. Weed community structure differed during the first 3 years but later homogenized under sugarcane dominance. This increase led to more manual weeding in intercropping systems and to increased herbicide use in chemical ones, resulting in a 61% reduction in herbicide use under intercropping. After 7 years, soil chemical and biological fertility remained unchanged, while physical fertility improved with companion crop and weed development. Sugarcane yield and sucrose content were maintained, but production costs and working hours increased. This study demonstrates that sugarcane intercropping reduces herbicide dependence without compromising yield, though at higher labor costs. Systems maintaining spontaneous flora in inter-rows appear to offer a promising compromise for sustainable weed management. Further research on this system should be conducted in different pedoclimatic conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13593-026-01085-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146205079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overcoming yield gaps in organic and biodynamic viticulture: insights from an 18-year field trial","authors":"Johanna Döring,&nbsp;Katharina Steng,&nbsp;Yvette Wohlfahrt,&nbsp;Georg Meißner,&nbsp;Matthias Friedel,&nbsp;Mathias Scheidweiler,&nbsp;Manfred Stoll,&nbsp;Marco Hofmann,&nbsp;Randolf Kauer","doi":"10.1007/s13593-025-01079-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-025-01079-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Addressing environmental degradation and fostering agricultural sustainability are critical challenges of the twenty-first century. Agroecological practices such as organic and biodynamic farming are vital for transforming agriculture and enhancing ecosystem services by avoiding synthetic inputs. While often criticized for lower yields, little is known about how these systems adapt and perform over extended periods under varying climatic conditions, particularly for perennial crops such as grapevines. This represents a major knowledge gap, as understanding their long-term adaptive capacity is essential for designing resilient and sustainable production systems under climate change. This 18-year field trial in Geisenheim, Germany, addresses this gap by assessing the long-term effects of organic, biodynamic, and integrated management on <i>Vitis vinifera</i> cv. Riesling. It represents the only long-term study on perennial crops to systematically compare these systems’ impact on agronomic parameters, plant performance, and grape quality, observing their evolution post-conversion and response to climatic variability. Initially, organic (−17%) and biodynamic (−14%) systems showed lower yields and reduced vine vigor compared to integrated management. However, yield gaps narrowed significantly after approximately a decade. Change point analysis revealed improved relative yields in organic and biodynamic plots 8–9 years after conversion, accompanied by stable or improved Ravaz index values. Notably, in hot, dry vintages, organic and biodynamic systems exhibited enhanced yield effect sizes (+2.3% and +9.0%, respectively) and increased yeast-available nitrogen. Conversely, yield gaps persisted in cooler, wetter vintages, likely due to pathogen-induced losses. Nutrient deficiencies were not the primary cause of initial yield reductions, and grape quality parameters showed minimal treatment differences. These long-term findings demonstrate that organic and biodynamic viticulture can overcome initial yield deficits and potentially outperform integrated management under increasingly warm, dry conditions. The results highlight the adaptive capacity and climate resilience of agroecological systems, offering a sustainable path for future perennial agriculture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13593-025-01079-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146196670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing crop rotations to support sustainable and healthy diets","authors":"Caroline De Clerck,&nbsp;Tom Desmarez,&nbsp;Mathieu Delandmeter,&nbsp;Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho,&nbsp;Benjamin Dumont,&nbsp;Jérôme Bindelle","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01084-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01084-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Balancing the social and environmental costs of food production with the nutritional needs of future populations under climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing twenty-first century agriculture. While dietary shifts toward environmentally sustainable and healthy diets are widely recognized as a key lever, there is limited guidance on how cropping systems can be designed to reliably supply such diets. Addressing this gap, our study aimed to link crop production planning directly with dietary recommendations, specifically the universal EAT-Lancet guideline diet proposed in 2019 to enable 9 billion people to eat healthily within planetary boundaries. We developed an innovative decision-support model to optimize cropping systems for supplying specific food systems according to EAT-Lancet recommendations. The model compares vegan, ovo-lacto vegetarian, and omnivorous diets while minimizing commodity imports and exports. It evaluates the composition and rotation of crops, the integration of grazing animals, and the balance of food and feed supplies, allowing for testing of alternative dietary scenarios and agroecological practices. Results indicate that longer and more diverse crop rotations, particularly those integrating temporary pastures and forage cover crops, are more likely to meet EAT-Lancet dietary requirements. Crop–livestock integration reduces excesses and deficits across commodities while providing sufficient calories and nutrients. Essential components include rapeseed for oil and oilseed meal, legumes for pulses, and multiple cereals. By explicitly linking crop system design to dietary guidelines, our model fills a critical knowledge gap, providing a practical tool to support multiobjective, sustainable food production. It offers actionable insights for aligning agricultural planning with healthy diets, advancing the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of future food systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviewer acknowledgments—ASD 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01093-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01093-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change point to future challenges for the adaptation of grain legumes","authors":"Marie Marteau-Bazouni,&nbsp;Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy,&nbsp;Nicolas Guilpart","doi":"10.1007/s13593-026-01088-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-026-01088-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The diversification of cropping systems using grain legumes has been identified as a crucial lever in the transition towards more sustainable agriculture in Europe. However, climate change will likely impact the yields and services provided by these crops. Increasing the production area of grain legumes will therefore require the design of effective adaptation strategies. Of all the factors constraining grain legume development in Europe, the impact of climate change is one that has received little attention from researchers to date. This study contributes to filling this gap by evaluating stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation options, as well as the barriers hindering adaptation. We conducted 33 interviews with stakeholders involved at various stages of the value chains for five major grain legume species in France. Interviewees’ perceptions depended on their location and the grain legume species considered. Although most interviewees perceived climate change as a constraint for grain legumes, they identified opportunities for specific crops and regions. The interviewees had either observed, imagined, or experimented with a diverse range of adaptation options. Despite this diversity, the interviewees reported barriers of various natures that need to be removed to support adaptation. This diagnosis points to three major challenges for the adaptation of grain legumes: (i) addressing the antagonistic symptoms of climate change, including the perceived increase in climate variability, and the lack of methods for anticipating long-term climatic changes; (ii) dealing simultaneously with adapting to climate change and unlocking socio-technical systems regarding grain legumes; and (iii) filling knowledge gaps on grain legume response to climate change. To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and identify opportunities and challenges for the adaptation of grain legumes in Europe.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13593-026-01088-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Farm motorization and expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa lead farmers to intensify legume cropping systems","authors":"Juliette Lairez,&nbsp;Teatske Bakker,&nbsp;Amélie d’Anfray,&nbsp;Tomoé Bourdier,&nbsp;Eveline Sawadogo-Compaoré","doi":"10.1007/s13593-025-01076-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-025-01076-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In certain Sub-Saharan African countries, a transition is underway that involves increased motorization and herbicide use. This study is the first to investigate whether these recent changes are transforming the way legumes (cowpeas, groundnuts, and Bambara beans) are grown by men and women across a range of farm types. Reducing this knowledge gap is crucial to ensure that legumes remain a sustainable lever for agroecological intensification in evolving farming systems. In Benin and Burkina Faso, 261 households were interviewed regarding their farming systems. A hierarchical clustering was used to identify farm types with contrasting constraints. Ten farm types were identified, ranging from a very small, highly constrained sorghum farm in Central-North Burkina (2.5 ha, no motorization) to a large maize-soybean farm owning tractors (62 ha). Our findings indicate that compared to home-consumed cereals (sorghum and maize) and cash crops (cotton and soybean), no farm prioritized traditional legumes at the farm level. While the most constrained farms in North Burkina Faso already dedicated 25–30% of their land to pure legume crops and frequently practiced legume-sorghum intercropping (61% of farms), an opposite trend was observed in West Burkina Faso and in Benin, where some constraints have been lifted with motorization. The use of motorization on the main crops and farm expansion has led farmers there to also intensify traditional legume cropping systems by using herbicides, simplifying crop rotations and avoiding intercropping. In all study sites, traditional legumes continue to be more highly valued by women than by men. This study identifies research perspectives tied to the dual challenge of implementing agroecological intensification with legumes in West Africa: small-scale subsistence farmers need financial and technical support due to land constraints, while larger, labor-constrained farms require mechanization and improved land access for women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145972571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intercropping increases soil multifunctionality potentially by increasing the abundance of functional genes: evidence from a long-term field experiment","authors":"Xiao-Tong Yin,&nbsp;Chuan-Lin Xiao,&nbsp;Zi-Heng Hao,&nbsp;Cheng-Bao Wang,&nbsp;Jun Mao,&nbsp;Rui-Peng Yu,&nbsp;Peter Christie,&nbsp;Long Li","doi":"10.1007/s13593-025-01081-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13593-025-01081-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ecosystem functionality and essential services for human well-being have been degraded by intensively managed monoculture cropping systems. Intercropping may offer a means of maintaining and increasing agricultural soil multifunctionality without reducing productivity. However, whether the maintained or enhanced soil multifunctionality by intercropping is related to the potential function changes of soil microbiome driven by intercropping is poorly understood, limiting the optimization of these systems for sustainable intensification. Therefore, we investigated crop yields and soil multifunctionality in a long-term field experiment established in 2009. The study evaluated soil physical structure stability, carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) cycling, abiotic stress regulation and related functional genes under intercropping systems (chickpea/maize, faba bean/maize, oilseed rape/maize, and soybean/maize) and monocultures of the component crops at three P fertilizer application rates (0, 40, and 80 kg P ha^-1). Intercropping significantly increased crop grain yields and soil multifunctionality by 27.3 and 34.6%, respectively, compared with the weighted mean values of monocultures, irrespective of phosphorus application rate. It also significantly increased the relative abundance of genes related to C-, N-, and P-cycling functions by 15.2%, 10.8%, and 26.3%, and the relative abundance of genes was related to weighted mean diameter of aggregates, soil compaction, total nitrogen, soil microbial biomass carbon, soil respiration, soil nitrate reductase, β-cellobiohydrolase and leucine aminopeptidase. There were synergies between soil C and N cycling and between physical structure stability and C or N cycling, and trade-offs were observed between physical structure stability and phosphorus cycling. The positive effect of intercropping on soil multifunctionality was associated with enhanced enzyme activities and other soil properties and consequently increased crop yields. The results highlight the important role of intercropping in sustaining soil function and elucidate the mechanisms involved, offering novel insights into its role in reducing dependence on non-renewable P resources in agricultural ecosystems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7721,"journal":{"name":"Agronomy for Sustainable Development","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145955187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}