The examples demonstrate the wealth of soil knowledge and experience in soil management in Alpine countries.
A soil survey was carried out taking into account the local soil knowledge, and soil management and irrigation practices information were obtained through interviews.
Previous analyses of soil mapping from the temporal perspective have concluded that soil classification systems have co-evolved with gains in soil knowledge.
Local soil land typologies and the extent of local soil knowledge are described for two distinct cultures in West Africa's Ivory Coast: the Bété of the equatorial forest zone and the Senufo of the guinea-savanna zone.
The expansion of the use of soil knowledge to address issues beyond agronomic production, such as land use planning, environmental concerns, food security, energy security, water security, and human health, to name a few, requires new ways to communicate what we know about the soils we map as well as bringing forth research questions that were not widely considered in earlier soils studies.
The increasing attention paid to local soil knowledge in recent years is the result of a greater recognition that the knowledge of people who have been interacting with their soils for long time can offer many insights about the sustainable management of tropical soils.
The increasing attention paid to local soil knowledge results from a greater recognition that farmer knowledge can offer many insights into the sustainable management of tropical soils and that the integration of local and technical knowledge systems helps extension workers and scientists work more closely with farmers.
The objectives of the present study were to (1) identify the dominant soil types and their vulnerability using elicitation of local soil knowledge, (2) characterise the physical and chemical properties of the soils and (3) link them to the relief position and land use in order to (4) initiate sustainable soil use based on recommendations deduced from objectives (1) to (3).
We show how a plausible CLT model, and parameters for this model, can be found by the structured use of soil knowledge about the pedogenic processes in the particular environment and the physical properties of the soil material, along with some limited descriptive statistics on the target variable.
Plus you can wow strangers at cocktail parties with your random green bean and potting soil knowledge.
