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A. Naulleau ; I. Shili-Touzi ; C. Levas ; W. Koussani ; M. Ben Mimoun ; L. Hossard |Grain self-sufficiency is an increasing priority for Mediterranean countries, especially following the COVID-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine. In Tunisia, it concerns around 250,000 cereal growers whose production systems also include other annu[...]
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O. Kaissi ; E.H. Bouras ; S. Belaqziz ; L. Jallal ; A. Chehbouni ; S. Er-Raki |Global water scarcity poses a significant challenge to agricultural sustainability, particularly in semi-arid regions like Morocco. This study evaluates the benefits of coupling AquaCrop-OSPy with optimization algorithms to improve irrigation sc[...]
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Climate change intensifies agricultural resource demands across European wheat production regions through weather extremes and water scarcity, necessitating decision support systems that optimize multiple sustainability objectives under diverse [...]
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I. Loudiyi ; R. Balaghi ; I. Jacquemin ; M. Lahlou ; L. François |Climate change poses significant challenges to cereal crop productivity, highlighting the urgent need for effective adaptation strategies to ensure agricultural sustainability. This study investigates the impact of sowing dates on the yields of [...]
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Wheat is the dominant food crop in its contribution to global nutrition, and production has, and may continue to, increase in line with the increase in the global population. However, the production of wheat for breadmaking in countries with hig[...]
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R. Ceriani ; J. Fohrafellner ; P. Maenhout ; K.A. Jarosch ; L. Weiss ; C. Di Bene ; V. Baratella ; G. Carboni ; V. Mereu ; M. Stefanova ; F. Fava ; E. Valkama |Context Conservation Agriculture (CA) aims to enhance the sustainability of agricultural production by minimizing soil disturbance, maintaining soil cover and implementing crop rotations. Despite its potential benefits, the effects of CA on cere[...]
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H. Ouerghemmi ; A. Frija ; Z. Shiri ; I. Carpentier ; A. Oumer ; I. Gharbi ; H. Rejeb ; B. Dhehibi |This paper investigates Tunisia's agricultural policy landscape by examining how national policies on wheat and forage contribute to or hinder agroecological transition. It maps policy actors, assesses their alignment with strategic priorities, [...]
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A. Amazirh ; A. Chehbouni ; A. Kreiner ; O.D. Adeniyi ; G.A. Zeleke ; E. Bouras ; A. Chakir ; J. Wheeler ; B.A. Barnieh ; K. Khechba ; S. Zoltan |Accurately predicting wheat yields at the field scale is critical for ensuring food security and enabling decisionmakers to plan imports and ensure adequate food supplies, particularly in Morocco, where agriculture contributes 11 to 18% of the n[...]
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Y. Nakamoto ; T. Tanaka ; S. Tokito ; L.X. Sun ; X.P. Song ; I. Becker-Reshef ; J. Guo ; K. Matsumoto |Satellite-based crop forecasting in major exporting regions can trigger production shifts in the opposite hemisphere by leveraging seasonal disparities between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to stabilize global crop supply and markets. Ho[...]
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C. Cavalaris ; M. Kosti ; M. Moraitis ; C. Karamoutis ; S. Koukou ; V. Giouvanis ; A. Kyparissis ; A.T. Balafoutis |Improving environmental sustainability while maintaining economic viability is a major challenge for Mediterranean cereal production, where conventional systems are associated with high input use, elevated greenhouse gas emissions, and strong co[...]
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A. Elbeltagi ; M. Kumar ; X.C. Cao ; A. Salem ; A. Azzam ; A.A. Khalil |Managing and modeling different water resources in arid regions is the key to an accurate estimation of water uses and achieving agricultural sustainability under limited water. In this study, four Egyptian Nile Delta Governorates namely Ad Daka[...]
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Soil health is essential for sustainable and resilient agricultural systems, supporting food production and maintaining vital ecosystem services. In the Mediterranean region, including Tunisia, it is seriously threatened by both natural and anth[...]
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High-resolution yield forecasting is essential for advancing precision agriculture and improving the sustainability of wheat and barley production. While most previous studies focus on field-scale predictions, pixel-level approaches are needed t[...]
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L. Ousayd ; E. Bouras ; A. Mamassi ; A. Chehbouni ; V. Ongoma |Wheat production in Morocco remains constrained by persistent yield gaps arising from climatic variability, soil fertility decline, and suboptimal farm management. This study aimed to quantify attainable and actual yields of bread wheat (Triticu[...]
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M. Grosse-Heilmann ; E. Cristiano ; G. Pusceddu ; M. Marrocu ; F. Viola ; R. Deidda |Agricultural heritage is a cultural pillar of the Mediterranean region, where durum wheat plays a central role in traditional landscapes and food systems. Projected climate change is expected to alter crop productivity and place additional press[...]
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Crop yields are increasingly threatened by intensifying droughts in southern Europe, yet the long-term, spatially explicit quantification of yield response to agricultural drought remains limited. Remote sensing can address this gap by providing[...]
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Global food security is a major challenge in the 21st century, exacerbated by increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events under climate change. The extreme climatic events around flowering, such as intense heatwaves and drought[...]
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Securing maize crop production is essential in our changing world. However, it remains unclear to what extent climate conditions and farmers' practices, such as fertility management and irrigation, can impact future maize crop production in Euro[...]
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N. Ed-dahmany ; L. Bounoua ; M.A. Lachkham ; N. Boukachaba ; M.Y. Khebiza ; H. Bahi |This study assesses the impact of the Green Morocco Plan (GMP) on cereal production in Morocco between 1994 and 2020, focusing on spatial and temporal variations and their relationship with seasonal rainfall. Given the limited availability of ot[...]
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Wheat contributes similar to 20% of global dietary calories. Climate change threatens production, but adaptation is possible by expanding cultivation into abandoned croplands. Here we assess the potential of recultivating abandoned croplands for[...]
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I. Gharbi ; H. Ouerghemmi ; M.Z. Dhraief ; W. Toukabri ; N. Ferchichi ; M. Oueslati ; H. Bahri ; A. Frija ; M. Annabi |Tunisia's wheat seed system faces structural and institutional constrains that limit its performance, resilience, and contribution to food sovereignty under climate variability and import dependence. This study applies a functional Social Networ[...]
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Aim of study: To identify and characterize flash droughts (FD) in areas with rainfed cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions, analyzing their effects on cereal gross primary productivity (GPP), yield, and phenology from 2000-2023. Area of st[...]
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M. Marrocu ; M. Dettori ; L. Massidda ; G. Urracci ; G. Pusceddu ; V. Mereu ; S. Manca ; G. Carboni |This study evaluates the effect of three water regimes: full irrigation (I100: 100% of Plant Water Requirement); reduced irrigation (I50: 50% of PWR); no irrigation (I0: rainfed), on durum wheat production in southern Sardinia. The crop performa[...]
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H. Ghazouani ; D. De Caro ; M. Ippolito ; F. Capodici ; G. Ciraolo |Climate change and water scarcity are major threats to the sustainability of wheat production in Mediterranean regions. Thus, timely and reliable water demand assessments are crucial to drive decisions on crop management strategies that are usef[...]
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This study examines the economic vulnerability of cereal production to climate change across four key regions of northern Algeria, Blida, Tizi Ouzou, Tiaret, and Sétif, selected for their agro-climatic diversity and strategic contribution to nat[...]
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Assessing the agricultural sustainability of farms is challenging, since it involves various aspects that can change over time and differ by location. This paper develops a composite index to evaluate the sustainability of cereal farming in Cata[...]
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M. Alboghdady ; S. Abbas ; M.K. Alashry ; Y.C. Hu ; S. El-Hendawy |Egypt, the world's second-largest wheat importer, has been working hard to narrow the gap between its domestic wheat production and consumption. However, these efforts have been hampered by water scarcity and the negative impact of climate chang[...]
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B. Mirgol ; B. Dieppois ; J. Northey ; J. Eden ; L. Jarlan ; S. Khabba ; M.L. Page ; G. Mahé |Climate change poses severe risks to food security, contributing to declining wheat yields in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where agriculture is a vital source of food, income, and employment. This study investigates climate change ad[...]
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H. Webber ; D. Cooke ; C. Wang ; S. Asseng ; P. Martre ; F. Ewert ; B. Kimball ; G. Hoogenboom ; S. Evett ; A. Chanzy ; S. Garrigues ; A. Olioso ; K.S. Copeland ; J.L. Steiner ; D. Cammarano ; Y. Chen ; M. Crepeau ; E. Diamantopoulos ; R. Ferrise ; L. Manceau ; T. Gaiser ; Y. Gao ; S. Gayler ; J.R. Guarin ; T. Hunt ; G. Jégo ; G. Padovan ; E. Pattey ; D. Ripoche ; A. Rodriguez ; M. Ruiz-Ramos ; V. Shelia ; A.K. Srivastava ; I. Supit ; F. Tao ; K. Thorp ; M. Viswanathan ; T. Weber ; J. White |Under climate change and increasingly extreme weather, projections of water demand and drought stress from process-based crop models can inform risk management and adaptation strategies. Previous studies investigating maize crop models demonstra[...]
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A. Macedo João ; D. Freire ; H. Rocha ; J. Dias |This study analyses Portugal’s wheat productive capacity, exploring the reasons behind its recent steady decline despite achieving self-sufficiency in the 20th century. Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), which proved to be hi[...]
