Short-term yield gains or long-term sustainability? A synthesis of conservation agriculture (CA) long-term experiments in Southern Africa

Grain yield data collected from Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems across experiments of varying experimental duration, established in trial locations of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe under an increasingly variable climate. Data contains different agro-environmental yield response moderators such as type of crop diversifcation and amount of rainfall and aims to identify cropping systems that may provide both short-term gains and longer-term sustainability.