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Limited tree growth and severe erosion

Agroforestry: subsoiling with banks

Agroforestry: infiltration trenches

Agroforestry: control site

Agroforestry: trunk diameter

Agroforestry: crown diameter

Agroforestry: plant height

Agroforestry: soil water content 2007

Agroforestry: soil water content 2008

Agroforestry: dissemination to farmers Yumbel #1

Agroforestry: dissemination to farmers Yumbel #2

Agroforestry: dissemination to farmers Yumbel #3

Poster: agroforestry

Site 1: No tillage

Site 1: No tillage and contour ploughing

Site 1: No tillage and barrier hedges of phalaris

Site 1: No tillage and subsoiling

Site 1: Conventional tillage

Site 1: Performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff

Site 1: Performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff

Site 2: No tillage

Site 2: No tillage and infiltration trenches

Site 2: No tillage and contour ridging with subsoi
New crop rotation for the rehabilitation of soil fertility in Mediterranean agriculture farming systems. Cereal-pasture legumes.

Site 3: Cereal-pasture legumes crop rotation
New crop rotation for the rehabilitation of soil fertility in Mediterranean agriculture farming systems. Cereal-grain legumes.

Site 4: cereal-grain legumes crop rotation
200 farmers visited the experimental site for a field day on 11 November 2009.<br />

Farmer visit 11 November 2009
400 farmers from Yumbel visited the demonstration experiments on 2 October 2009.

Farmer visit 2 October 2009

No tillage machine

Contour ploughing

Conventional tillage with animal traction

Runoff tanks #2

Runoff tanks #1

Severe water erosion

Effect of tillage on soil compaction

Comparative yields in the 2007 and 2008 seasons

Runoff, 2008

Soil loss, 2008

Temporal variation in soil moisture content

Students visiting study site #1

Farmers in Cauquenes

Visit of teachers extensionist and policy-makers

Desire meeting in Cauquenes station

Students visiting study site #2

Students visiting study site #3

Poster: erosion mitigation
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