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Social and environmental awareness of consumers force supply chains to be more sustainable. This paper studies the coordination problem for a single manufacturer-single retailer sustainable supply chain model in presence of consumers? environmen[...]Article
Measurement in interdisciplinary research can be difficult due to incompatibility of measures used in the different disciplines. These difficulties arise when measurements from different disciplines need to be combined to quantify an attribute f[...]Article
Two thirds of human water use is linked to agricultural practices including crop irrigation. Furthermore, excess irrigation leads to drainage problems. For this reason, reduced irrigation strategies need to be implemented to protect water resour[...]Article
H. Mairech ; A. López-Bernal ; M. Moriondo ; C. Dibari ; L. Regni ; P. Proietti ; F.J. Villalobos ; L. Testi |Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a widely spread tree species in the Mediterranean. In the last decades, olive farming has known major management changes with high economic and environmental impacts. The fast track expansion of this modern olive farm[...]Article
Dealing jointly with both systemic and social complexity is a challenge that we face with sustainability issues. However, joining these two aspects of complexity is more a post-normal science call than an effective practice. Roughly speaking, [...]Article
Models are important tools to integrate ecological and socio-economic knowledge to better understand and manage social-ecological systems. Challenges include, among others, the adequate representation of feedback loops between the socio-economic[...]Ouvrage
Depuis une vingtaine dannées, on constate un foisonnement de nouveaux projets collectifs et innovateurs qui favorisent lagriculture au Québec, ainsi quune multiplication des acteurs engagés dans le développement agricole à léchelle locale. L[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; A. Malik ; S. Maroufpoor |Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is one of the most basic components of the hydrologic cycle that is effective in irrigation system design and management, water resources planning and scheduling, and hydrologic water balance. Thus, precise estimati[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; L. Zhang ; J. Deng ; A. Juma ; K. Wang |Accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is essential for water resources management, planning, and scheduling. This study focuses on estimating, predicting and modeling crop coefficients kc of maize which is an important parameter f[...]Article
Predicting crop yield response to management and environmental variables is a crucial step towards nutrient management optimization. With the increase in the amount of data generated by agricultural machinery, more sophisticated models are neces[...]Article
Desertification is a serious and perilous threat to natural ecosystems. Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of this process through the evaluation and monitoring of important indicators appears to be a challenging task. This resear[...]Article
Recent research studies and policies about innovative solutions to reduce water and energy consumption in food production are briefly reviewed. Options to increase water use efficiency and productivity include soil mulching, drip irrigation, def[...]E-Book
N. Zumel ; J. Mount ; J. Howard, préf. ; R.L. Thomas, préf. | Shelter Island (USA) : Manning Publications | 2020Practical Data Science with R, Second Edition is a task-based tutorial that leads readers through dozens of useful, data analysis practices using the R language. By concentrating on the most important tasks youll face on the job, this friendly [...]Article
Most crop models were developed and tested in homogeneous field conditions. However, these crop models are increasingly applied beyond the field scale for larger regions. Inadequate representation of the spatial variability at a larger scale int[...]Article
One of the greatest 21st century challenges is meeting the need to feed a growing world population which is expected to increase by about 35% by 2050. To meet this challenge, it is necessary to make major improvements on current food production [...]Article
A. Zezza ; F. DeMaria ; T. Laureti ; L. Secondi |The organic food certification system in Italy, based on the EU legislation, relies on private control bodies (CBs) that are supervised by national authorities. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether it is possible to test for differenc[...]Article
Almost one third of all food produced in the world currently goes to waste. One of the targets under the Responsible consumption and production sustainable development goal calls for halving the per capita food waste at the consumer level as w[...]Article
Agricultural specialization has disconnected crop and livestock production in many farms and regions. As a result, crop farms are deficient in nitrogen to fertilize their crops, while livestock farms are deficient in proteins to feed their anima[...]Article
Climate change, in addition to reducing rainfall and increasing temperature, has led to a decline in water quality and increased groundwater salinity in Iran. These factors have a negative effect on crop yields. Therefore, the assessment of the [...]Article
C. Labrousse ; W. Ludwig ; S. Pinel ; M. Sadaoui ; G. Lacquement |In the Mediterranean, climate change and human pressures are expected to significantly impact the availability of surface water resources. In order to quantify these impacts during the last 60 years (19592018), we examined the hydro-climatic an[...]Ouvrage
M. Zribi, ed. ; L. Brocca, ed. ; Y. Tramblay, ed. ; F. Molle, ed. | Amsterdam [Pays-Bas] : Elsevier | 2020Water Resources in the Mediterranean Region summarizes and collates scientific developments around water resources in the Mediterranean socio-economic environment through a multidisciplinary framework synthesizing hydrology, hydrogeology, climat[...]Article
Water management projects have an important role in regional environmental protection and socio-economic development. Environmental policies, strategies, and special measures are designed in order to balance the use and non-use values arising fo[...]Article
One of the most important challenges in any society is the issue of food and water supply. Undoubtedly, agriculture has a major role in water consumption, and grains have the largest use in the food of people. Bread is also an essential commodit[...]E-Book
K. Boote, ed. | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing | Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science | 2019This collection provides a comprehensive review of key advances in crop modelling, with a focus on developing the next generation of whole-farm models to improve decision making and support for farmers. Chapters review advances in modelling indi[...]Ouvrage
C. Bedos, coord. ; S. Génermont, coord. ; J.-F. Castell, coord. ; P. Cellier, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Synthèses | 2019Lagriculture, via la conduite des cultures et de lélevage, est source de polluants atmosphériques : ammoniac, produits phytopharmaceutiques, oxydes dazote, composés organiques volatils biogéniques, particules primaires et secondaires Elle es[...]E-Book
M.R. Mosquera-Losada, ed. ; R. Prabhu, ed. | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing | Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science | 2019Agroforestry seeks to balance protection of forest resources, the exploitation of the ecosystem services that trees can contribute to agriculture and the role of agroforestry in diversifying the range of agricultural products and markets. This v[...]Article
Increasing pressures on water resources are causing many countries in Mediterranean to (re)consider various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency for agricultural like Tunisia country. The price mechanism remains the most appropriate instru[...]Article
H. Bahri ; M. Annabi ; H. Cheikh Mhamed ; A. Frija |Several circulation models are forecasting climate changes in the Mediterranean region. Accordingly, it is expected that water scarcity in the region will be higher with drastic shifts of hydrological and erosive watershed responses. In Tunisia,[...]Article
Le modèle agricole productiviste de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle est désormais en fin de course et lémergence dun nouveau modèle ne pourra pas se construire de la même manière que le précédent. Lhypothèse soutenue ici est que cette transf[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper