Long Term Experiments: Meeting future challenges

Nov 3, 2023

Figure 1: Souleymane talk presenting his work on albedo dynamics in conservation agriculture.

Figure 1: Souleymane talk presenting his work on albedo dynamics in conservation agriculture.

Several colleagues from the RAIZ project attended an international conference about long-term experiments in agronomy, organized by Rothamsted Research, UK, in June 2023: Long Term Experiments: Meeting future challenges https://www.aab.org.uk/event/long-term-experiments-meeting-future-challenges/

Souleymane DIOP, a PhD student co-funded by the RAIZ project gave a talk in the session Seven « Responses to Weather and Climate Change » about his work on CIMMYT long-term experiments on conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe: « Climatic effect of no-tillage and mulch due to albedo change differs with soil type: a field study in Zimbabwe »

Figure 1: Souleymane talk presenting his work on albedo dynamics in conservation agriculture.
Dr Rémi Cardinael (Cirad, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Remi-Cardinael) gave a talk in session one « Sustaining Cropping Systems » to present a recent publication « Sustaining maize yields and soil carbon following land clearing in the forest–savannah transition zone of West Africa: Results from a 20-year experiment » (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378429021002811).

He also presented with Prof Regis Chikowo (UZ, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Regis-Chikowo) a poster about a new experiment in Zimbabwe : « A new long-term experiment to explore the impact of rainfall extremes on the agronomic and environmental performances of cropping systems in the sub humid tropics ». This experiment is used in the PhD of Abderrahim Bouhenache, cofunded by the RAIZ project. The poster can be found here :

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371874355_A_new_long-term_experiment_to_explore_the_impact_of_rainfall_extremes_on_the_agronomic_and_environmental_performances_of_cropping_systems_in_the_sub_humid_tropics

Figure 2 : Dr Rémi Cardinael (left) and Prof Regis Chikowo (right) presenting a poster about a new experiment in Zimbabwe.
Antoine Couëdel (Cirad) also gave an online talk about a study involving several scientists from the RAIZ project: « A comparison of 16 soil-crop models using four term experiments in sub-Saharan Africa to guide improvement ».