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Agricultural production systems are sensitive to weather and climate anomalies and extremes as well as to other environmental and socio-economic adverse events. An adequate evaluation of the resilience of such systems helps to assess food securi[...]Article
The last few years have seen an exponential development of urban agriculture projects within global North countries, especially professional intra-urban farms which are professional forms of agriculture located within densely settled areas of ci[...]Article
This "perspectives" article draws upon close to 50 years of experience in the development and application of crop, soil and farm systems models in pursuit of enhanced productivity and sustainability of agricultural systems. The scientific founda[...]Article
E. Pelzer ; M. Bonifazi ; M. Soulié ; L. Guichard ; M. Quinio ; R. Ballot ; M.-H. Jeuffroy |Legume crops have a number of advantages for dealing with current environmental and food challenges. However, the area under grain and forage legumes has greatly decreased in recent decades in Europe. Attempts to foster the development of legume[...]Article
Good management of water resources requires a good allocation of their availability, especially in public irrigated schemes in Tunisia. This paper contributes to a better reallocation of available water resources at the farm and regional levels.[...]Article
La covid a mis en lumière l'importance de la sécurité alimentaire et des approvisionnements. De plus en plus de pays revendiquent le droit à la souveraineté alimentaire.Article
D. Sarri ; S. Lombardo ; A. Pagliai ; C. Perna ; R. Lisci ; V. De Pascale ; M. Rimediotti ; G. Cencini ; M. Vieri |This study shows a new methodological proposal for wine farm management, as a result of the progressive development of the technological innovations and their adoption. The study was carried out in Italy involving farmers, workers, or owners of [...]Article
G. Nguyen ; F. Purseigle ; J. Brailly ; B. Legagneux |Répondant à la difficile transmission familiale des exploitations ou aux stratégies de croissance des plus grandes d'entre elles, l'essor de la prestation de services est lune des tendances marquantes de l'évolution de l'agriculture française. [...]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
I. Cisternas ; I. Velásquez ; A. Caro ; A. Rodriguez |Agriculture production highly depends on water and soil factors which increasingly need to be utilized efficiently. Precision agriculture, through the set of information technologies that it uses, allows to effectively manage these resources. Th[...]Article
N. Hotelier-Rous ; G. Laroche ; E. Durocher ; D. Rivest ; A. Olivier ; F. Liagre ; A. Cogliastro |This study sought to shed light on the political and organizational dynamics favoring the deployment of agroforestry in temperate environments. Development paths of agroforestry practices in Québec (Canada) and France were analyzed regarding fiv[...]Article
For most poor countries of today, using agriculture for development is widely recognized as a promising strategy. Yet, in these countries, investment in agriculture has mostly been lagging relative to international norms and recommendations. Cur[...]Article
La mise en uvre de systèmes de culture durables et performants dans la filière fruits et légumes est un enjeu majeur des prochaines années. Au travers dun certain nombre de projets et de partenariats, le CTIFL a développé plusieurs approches s[...]Article
No one would dispute that agricultural systems and food diets are not sustainable from an environmental and health point of view, and that increasing their sustainability must be a major objective of farm and food policies. Simultaneously, clima[...]Article
Conservation practices (CPs) are frequently presented as a solution to the environmental impacts of intensified agriculture systems. CPs have, however, not been universally adopted by farmers, despite significant state financial support. Meta-an[...]Article
V. De Leijster ; R.W. Verburg ; M.J. Santos ; M.J. Wassen ; M. Martínez-Mena ; J. de Vente ; P.A. Verweij |Agroecological practices have been shown to control erosion, increase soil fertility, carbon stocks, pollination and biodiversity. As a consequence, these ecosystem services can contribute to a better farm economic resilience on the long-term; h[...]Article
J. Sarkis ; M.J. Cohen ; P. Dewick ; P. Schröder |As members of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production we have as virtually everyone else paid close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic which is one of the most comprehensive and tragic p[...]Article
P. Reidsma ; M.P.M. Meuwissen ; F. Accatino ; F. Appel ; I. Bardaji ; I. Coopmans ; C. Gavrilescu ; F. Heinrich ; V. Krupin ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; M. Peneva ; J. Rommel ; S. Severini ; B. Soriano ; J. Urquhart ; K. Zawalinska ; W. Paas |An increasing variety of stresses and shocks provides challenges and opportunities for EU farming systems. This article presents findings of a participatory assessment on the sustainability and resilience of eleven EU farming systems, to inform [...]Article
Farm succession is a key policy concern of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and the European Commission's proposals for the future. This article uses the agent‐based model AgriPoliS to study the effects of the availability of potential [...]Article
A variety of indicator-based methods have been developed for the sustainability assessment of farming systems (FSs). However, many of them lack holisticity, focus on a specific agricultural sector/product, and do not provide aggregated results t[...]Article
V. Alary ; S. Messad ; A. Aboul-Naga ; M.A. Osman ; T.H. Abdelsabour ; A.-A.E. Salah ; X. Juanes |On newly cultivated lands in deserts as in the majority of dryland areas, the sustainability of agricultural systems is often debated in terms of socioeconomic viability and agro-ecological longevity. In these contexts, livestock production syst[...]Article
I. Coopmans ; J. Dessein ; F. Accatino ; F. Antonioli ; C. Gavrilescu ; P. Gradziuk ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; M.P.M. Meuwissen ; M. Peneva ; B. Soriano ; J. Urquhart ; E. Wauters |Sufficient generational renewal is an important contributor to resilient farming systems but across the EU there is widespread concern over the so‐called young farmer problem. This article recommends several policy areas to support gener[...]Article
D. Andrade ; F. Pasini ; F.R. Scarano |Agriculture is one of the main examples of the interface humankind-nature-technology. However, innovation in agriculture has often been associated to only one component of this tryptic: technology - in particular its development, use and applica[...]Article
M.P.M. Meuwissen ; P.H. Feindt ; P. Midmore ; E. Wauters ; R. Finger ; F. Appel ; A. Spiegel ; E. Mathijs ; K.J.A.M. Termeer ; A. Balmann ; Y. de Mey ; P. Reidsma |Many farming systems in Europe are struggling to respond to accumulating economic, environmental, institutional and social challenges. From a resilience perspective, they need three distinct capacities to continue delivering products, income and[...]Article
To cope with ever-increasing demand and ensure food security, agronomic systems have shifted over time from traditional agriculture, based on the organic fertilization of soils, to intensive and specialized farming that use chemical fertilizatio[...]Article
C. Antier ; P. Kudsk ; X. Reboud ; L. Ulber ; P.V. Baret ; A. Messéan |Monitoring pesticide use is essential for assessing farming practices and the risks associated with the use of pesticides. Currently, there are neither consolidated, public data available on glyphosate use in Europe, nor a standardized categoriz[...]Article
Prior to any sustainability assessment and/or any effort to understand or develop the agricultural sector, the acknowledgment of the diversity of farming systems (FSs) is crucial. Typologies are often used for this purpose. The goals of this stu[...]Article
C. Dibari ; S. Costafreda-Aumedes ; G. Argenti ; M. Bindi ; F. Carotenuto ; M. Moriondo ; G. Padovan ; A. Pardini ; N. Staglianò ; C. Vagnoli ; L. Brilli |As the basis of livestock feeding and related performances, pastures evolution and dynamics need to be carefully monitored and assessed, particularly in the Alps where the effects of land abandonment are further amplified by climate change. As s[...]Article
Olive agroecosystems have for several decades undergone management changes aimed to meet the demands of new agricultural policy trends and of consumers and society. While the main role of olive groves is the production of olives and oil, its mul[...]Article
Z. Bensmira ; S. Bouju ; H. Benchaben ; M. Bensmira ; M.-L. Penin ; C. Noûs |Les effets des changements climatiques se sont accentués au cours des dernières décennies en Algérie, entraînant des conséquences importantes sur les systèmes de production. Cest le cas notamment dans la steppe, où lagro-pastoralisme dépend fo[...]