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In arid and semi-arid regions, agriculture is an important element of the national economy, but this sector is a large consumer of water. In a context of high pressure on water resources, appropriate management is required. In semi-arid, intensi[...]Article
CONTEXT Declining rainfall with increasing variability, increasing temperature extremes, and declining soil fertility are threatening crop production and ultimately food security in the rainfed Mediterranean environment in Morocco. Conservation[...]Article
A. Schlattmann ; F. Neuendorf ; K. Burkhard ; E. Probst ; E. Pujades ; W. Mauser ; S. Attinger ; C. von Haaren |Water provision and distribution are subject to conflicts between users worldwide, with agriculture as a major driver of discords. Water sensitive ecosystems and their services are often impaired by man-made water shortage. Nevertheless, they ar[...]Article
CONTEXT Digitalisation impacts value creation and capture in all industries economic sectors. One of the somewhat less researched and less well-understood contexts is agriculture. OBJECTIVE To describe the impacts of digitalisation on value crea[...]Article
J.-E. Bergez ; A. Béthinger ; C. Bockstaller ; C. Cederberg ; E. Ceschia ; N. Guilpart ; S. Lange ; F. Müller ; P. Reidsma ; C. Riviere ; C. Schader ; O. Therond ; H.M.G. van der Werf |Agriculture's primary function is the production of food, feed, fibre and fuel for the fast-growing world population. However, it also affects human health and ecosystem integrity. Policymakers make policies in order to avoid harmful impacts. Ho[...]Article
J. Zhao ; M. Bindi ; J. Eitzinger ; R. Ferrise ; Z. Gaile ; A. Gobin ; A. Holzkämper ; K.-C. Kersebaum ; J. Kozyra ; Z. Kriauciuniene ; E. Loit ; P. Nejedlik ; C. Nendel ; Ü. Niinemets ; T. Palosuo ; P. Peltonen-Sainio ; V. Potopová ; M. Ruiz-Ramos ; P. Reidsma ; B. Rijk ; M. Trnka ; M.K. van Ittersum ; J.E. Olesen |To date, assessing the adaptive measures to climate change effects on cropping systems have generally been based on data from field trials and crop models. This strategy can only explore a restricted number of options with a limited spatial exte[...]Article
T.E. Epule ; A. Chehbouni ; T. Chfadi ; V. Ongoma ; S. Er-Raki ; S. Khabba ; D. Etongo ; A.L. Martínez-Cruz ; E.L. Molua ; S. Achli ; W. Salih ; C. Chuwah ; M. Jemo ; I. Chairi |Agriculture is an important sector of the Moroccan economy, employing a huge portion of the Moroccan population and contributing about 14 - 20% to the country's GDP. Unfortunately, agricultural production in Morocco is impacted by climatic, non-[...]Article
E. Stephens ; J. Timsina ; G. Martin ; M. van Wijk ; L. Klerkx ; P. Reidsma ; V. Snow |CONTEXT In May 2020, approximately four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the journal's editorial team realized there was an opportunity to collect information from a diverse range of agricultural systems on how the pandemic was playing out and[...]Article
T. Kuhn ; N. Möhring ; A. Töpel ; F. Jakob ; W. Britz ; S. Bröring ; A. Pich ; U. Schwaneberg ; M. Rennings |CONTEXT Policies and strategies at EU and national level aim at a reduced use of pesticides in agriculture, such as the Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU Commission. Technological progress can lower pesticide application and contribute to a sustai[...]Article
Land abandonment and the lack of generational renewal in farming are serious issues in European agriculture with social, environmental and economic implications. This article reports on the recent experiences of joint cropland management (JCM) i[...]Article
P. Adair ; M. Lazereg ; A. Bouzid ; S.A. Ferroukhi |Larticle retrace les différentes étapes de lévolution, notamment de létatisation à la libéralisation, que lagriculture algérienne a traversées depuis lindépendance. Il évalue limpact des réformes et des diverses politiques publiques relati[...]Article
S.A. Ferroukhi ; A. Bouzid ; S. Grimes ; R. Kaabache ; M. Lazereg ; M. Tifouri |Le covid-19 et la crise ukrainienne ont remis à lordre du jour, pour tous, la question de « lurgence alimentaire ». Si la nécessité dassurer la sécurité alimentaire fait lunanimité, en Algérie, ce nest cependant pas le cas pour lorientatio[...]Article
Land evaluation has an important role in agriculture. Developing countries such as Egypt face many challenges as far as food security is concerned due to the increasing rates of population growth and the limited agriculture resources. The presen[...]Article
D. Masseroni ; F. Gangi ; A. Galli ; R. Ceriani ; C. De Gaetani ; C. Gandolfi |Border irrigation is one of the most ancient but, at the same time, still widely applied irrigation methods across the world. Due to the intrinsic characteristics of the method, the water volumes involved are often difficult to measure and this [...]Article
Grâce à lingéniosité des sociétés humaines, lagriculture sest modernisée et est parvenue à nourrir lHumanité. Face au contexte géopolitique et climatique, une histoire de lalimentation reste encore à bâtir.Article
For the first time in history, the majority of humankind now reside in an urban environment, with that figure expected to reach two thirds by 2050 [...]Article
Potato crops are one of the main sources of income for farmers living in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Given the high sensitivity of potatoes to water stress, water shortages can cause considerable losses in terms of potato yield and quality. To [...]Article
Whilst current policies recognize the impacts that changes in climates and markets have imposed on the Italian food system, less attention is given to the development of systematic approaches to identify alternative cropping systems across Italy[...]Article
La conjonction dun système migratoire sous contrainte dans lequel sont insérés les ouvriers saisonniers agricoles marocains en France et le délaissement des espaces productifs agricoles français dans lesquels ils travaillent est à lorigine de [...]Article
N. Beithou ; A. Qandil ; M.B. Khalid ; J. Horvatinec ; G. Ondrasek |Food security is an essential issue for human survival and civilization. Whenever food–water security is in doubt, the community is negatively affected. Globally, Jordan is the second most water-stressed country, located in an arid, politi[...]Article
In recent years, the concept of the circular economy has been gaining relevance and its importance has grown both in academia and in rural municipalities in general. The rural development policy of the European Union, in addition to prioritizing[...]Article
N. Debonne ; M. Bürgi ; V. Diogo ; J. Helfenstein ; F. Herzog ; C. Levers ; F. Mohr ; R. Swart ; P.H. Verburg |A range of intensifying pressures is making the future of European agriculture dynamic and contested. Insights into these pressures are needed to inform debates about the future of the sector. In this study, we use a foresight approach to identi[...]Article
Two contrasting models of development seek to radically transform food and farming today. The first focuses on modernizing and sustaining capitalism through the promotion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in food and agriculture. The sec[...]Article
Meteorological drought is defined as the event that arises when precipitation is lower than average and initially affects rainfed crops; this is transformed into hydrological drought when persistent drought affects water storage. We have studied[...]Article
Irrigated agriculture accounts for ∼90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding irrigation onto currently underperforming rainfed croplands is cr[...]Article
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems worldwide, although one of the main factors affecting their survival is the coexistence between agriculture and conservation. This paper analyses the complex balance between [...]Article
S. Mohammed ; A. Elbeltagi ; B. Bashir ; K. Alsafadi ; F. Alsilibe ; A. Alsalman ; M. Zeraatpisheh ; A. Széles ; E. Harsányi |Drought is a natural hazard which affects ecosystems in the eastern Mediterranean. However, limited historical data for drought monitoring and forecasting are available in the eastern Mediterranean. Thus, implementing machine learning (ML) algor[...]Article
Assessment of groundwater contamination is an efficient means to discover and carry out the demarcation of the more vulnerable zones to pollution from human activities. This study is focused on the plain of El Asnam (Northern Algeria) characteri[...]Article
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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a great impact on the agricultural sector, especially in developing countries. In particular, it caused exceptional challenges to small and local-scale farmers. Field questionnaires and interv[...]