TY - CHAP

T1 - Crop Production Under Urbanisation

T2 - An Experimental Approach to Understand and Model Agricultural Intensification

AU - Buerkert, Andreas

AU - Hoffmann, Ellen

AU - Suddapuli Hewage, Renuka

AU - Goenster-Jordan, Sven

AU - Sourav, Suman Kumar

AU - Mock, Andrea

AU - Vazhacharickal, Prem José

AU - Subbarayappa, C. T.

AU - Mudalagiriyappa,

AU - Hanumanthappa, D. C.

AU - Peth, Stephan

AU - Wachendorf, Michael

N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgements This work is carried out as part of the Indo-German Research Unit FOR2432 “Social-Ecological Systems in the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition” jointly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India (“The Rural-Urban Interface of Bengaluru-a Space of Transitions in Agriculture, Economics, and Society”). Co-funding and infrastructural support has come from the University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore (UASB), GKVK Campus which is gratefully acknowledged.

PY - 2021/9/19

Y1 - 2021/9/19

N2 - Rural–urban transformation has major implications on agricultural land use. This is also the case in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, where farmers shift from low intensity subsistence agriculture under rainfed conditions to irrigated, market-oriented production of crops and vegetables. As little is known about the effects of this intensification on water use, nutrient leaching, losses of carbon and nitrogen, and soil quality, a long-term experiment was established under well-defined on-station conditions to generate a typical intensity gradient in an in situ laboratory of change. Measurements of key agronomic, soil-related, and meteorological parameters at high temporal and spatial resolution allow to assess externalities and efficiencies of resource use and to predict long-term consequences of intensification on agricultural sustainability. The two long-term rotation experiments established under rainfed and irrigated conditions also allow to collect and calibrate ground-based multi- and hyperspectral crop reflectance data needed for upscaling to high resolution satellite images that cover a North–South research transect across the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru.

AB - Rural–urban transformation has major implications on agricultural land use. This is also the case in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, where farmers shift from low intensity subsistence agriculture under rainfed conditions to irrigated, market-oriented production of crops and vegetables. As little is known about the effects of this intensification on water use, nutrient leaching, losses of carbon and nitrogen, and soil quality, a long-term experiment was established under well-defined on-station conditions to generate a typical intensity gradient in an in situ laboratory of change. Measurements of key agronomic, soil-related, and meteorological parameters at high temporal and spatial resolution allow to assess externalities and efficiencies of resource use and to predict long-term consequences of intensification on agricultural sustainability. The two long-term rotation experiments established under rainfed and irrigated conditions also allow to collect and calibrate ground-based multi- and hyperspectral crop reflectance data needed for upscaling to high resolution satellite images that cover a North–South research transect across the rural–urban interface of Bengaluru.

KW - Agricultural production intensity

KW - Crop rotation

KW - Long-term cropping experiments

KW - Nutrient fluxes

KW - Reference data

KW - Rural–urban transformation

KW - Scenario analysis

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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79972-4_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79972-4_7

M3 - Contribution to book/anthology

AN - SCOPUS:85115669023

SN - 978-3-030-79971-7

SN - 978-3-030-79974-8

T3 - Urban Book Series

SP - 71

EP - 83

BT - The Rural-Urban Interface

CY - Cham

ER -