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The need to produce safe food products for an ever-growing world population while reducing the impact on climate change makes it necessary for the farm business to combine productivity and sustainability. As more efficient and sustainable produc[...]Article
A. Hebinck ; L. Klerkx ; B. Elzen ; K.P.W. Kok ; B. König ; K. Schiller ; J. Tschersich ; B. van Mierlo ; T. von Wirth |Dominant agricultural and food systems lead to continuous resource depletion and unacceptable environmental and social impacts. While current calls for changing agrifood systems are increasingly framed in the context of sustainability transition[...]Article
The change of scale and potential reconfiguration of decision-making powers make the French context of reterritorialization of food seem favorable to the transition of agri-food systems in certain areas. However, it also includes a movement towa[...]Article
Peri-urban agriculture (PUA) plays a fundamental role in securing sustainable cities by providing food, cultural and environmental services. The 'Huerta de Murcia' in south-eastern Spain, is one of the most singular examples of PUA. With more th[...]Article
Un programme agro-écologique pour réinventer l'énergie de la terre et optimiser les rendements grâce au carbone écologique et à des cultures associées.Article
Des mesures à léchelle internationale sont nécessaires pour anticiper des accidents climatiques de plus en plus probables dans les vastes bassins de productions.Article
M. Mazzon ; L. Cavani ; C. Ciavatta ; G. Campanelli ; G. Burgio ; C. Marzadori |Organic management aims to maintain and/or enhance the soil quality by adopting crop rotation, reduced tillage, and application of organic fertilizers. Several studies highlight the advantages of organic management in terms of soil quality and s[...]Article
L. Egli ; M. Schröter ; C. Scherber ; T. Tscharntke ; R. Seppelt |Stabilizing agricultural production is fundamental to food security. At the national level, increasing the effective diversity of cultivated crops has been found to increase temporal production stability, i.e., the year-to-year stability of tota[...]Article
Larticle examine les conditions sociales de ladhésion dagriculteurs au mode de production biologique. À partir dune enquête ethnographique menée auprès de maraîchers, il interroge les contextes dans lesquels se forgent et sexpriment les dis[...]Article
This article takes up the question of how food sovereignty, and accompanying agricultural models that will help combat climate change, may be institutionalized through policy processes. I draw on the theories of Antonio Gramsci and his successor[...]Article
The purpose of this paper is to consider implementation of Artificial Intelligence as a part of Precision Dairy Farming, as a way of processing, analysing and managing Big data, in order to enable sustainable dairy cattle farm. Increasing the vo[...]Article
L. Rempelos ; M. Baranski ; J. Wang ; T.N. Adams ; K. Adebusuyi ; J.J. Beckman ; C.J. Brockbank ; B.S. Douglas ; T. Feng ; J.D. Greenway ; M. Gür ; E. Iyaremye ; C.L. Kong ; R. Korkut ; S.S. Kumar ; J. Kwedibana ; J. Masselos ; B.N. Mutalemwa ; B.S. Nkambule ; O.B. Oduwole ; A.K. Oladipo ; J.O. Olumeh ; L. Petrovic ; N. Röhrig ; S.A. Wyld ; L. Xu ; Y. Pan ; E. Chatzidimitriou ; H. Davis ; A. Magistrali ; E. Sufar ; G. Hasanaliyeva ; H.H. Kalee ; A. Willson ; M. Thapa ; P. Davenport ; D. Srednicka-Tober ; N. Volakakis ; A. Watson ; C.J. Seal ; M. Goltz ; P. Kindersley ; P.O. Iversen ; C. Leifert |The environmental and biodiversity benefits of organic farming are widely recognized, but there is still controversy about the effects of organic production methods on the nutritional composition of food and human health. In the first part of th[...]Article
J.N. Landers ; P.L. de Freitas ; M.C. de Oliveira ; S.P. da Silva Neto ; R. Ralisch ; E.A. Kueneman |The origins, history, and recent advances in Conservation Agriculture (CA) are reported. CA is now practiced worldwide on some 200 million hectares, important for mitigating climate change and ensuring food security. Its bedrock is Zero Tillage [...]Article
G. Di Vita ; R. Vecchio ; M. Borrello ; R. Zanchini ; G. Maesano ; G. Gulisano ; F. Brun ; M. D'Amico |The current study assesses consumer preferences toward different production methods of clementines (Citrus clementina). Based on a survey of Italian urban individuals (N = 345), responsible for household food purchases, it investigates whether c[...]Article
D. Sadi ; L. Aziz ; A. Khattabi |Connue pour labondance des terres collectives et des ressources hydriques, la commune rurale El Faid, relevant de la province de Taroudant, est considérée comme lune des zones les plus propices pour lagriculture. La présente étude a pour obje[...]Article
Z. Ranjbar ; M. Chizari ; H. Sadighi ; H. Farhadian ; P. Lebailly ; T. Dogot ; J.A. Ortegon Rojas ; Y.K. Parra-Acosta ; H. Azadi |Agriculture is the origin of existence and survival in any society. However, this sector is always associated with risk and uncertainty, and farmers are faced with many challenges. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to explore the (pro[...]Article
Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on arid regions such as Tunisia country. This research uses a bottom-up approach, which seeks to gain insights from the farmers themselves based on a farm h[...]Article
This paper investigates in the foreground the state of agricultural systems in interdependence with climate change, a condition synec vanon of decarbonization of agriculture. The relationship between ecologically responsible agricultural systems[...]Article
Organic agriculture in Europe is expanding, yet is still in the early stages in less developed areas of Europe. Understanding the factors of converting to organic agriculture is a key component for both policy design and attaining effective supp[...]Article
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P.-M. Aubert ; B. Gardin ; E. Huber ; M. Schiavo ; C. Alliot |This paper proposes an innovative framework to describe sustainable transitions of food systems while considering simultaneously socio-economic and environmental issues, in a just transition perspective. This framework (i) describes the structur[...]Article
L. Aldieri ; M. Brahmi ; X. Cheng ; C.P. Vinci |The objective of the analysis is to investigate the production efficiency in the USA and Europe through the channel of knowledge spillovers from technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Since the empirical evidence concerning the cli[...]Article
S.S. Ali ; R. Al-Tohamy ; E. Koutra ; M.S. Moawad ; M. Kornaros ; A.M. Mustafa ; Y.A.-G. Mahmoud ; A. Badr ; M.E.H. Osman ; T. Elsamahy ; H. Jiao ; J. Sun |The high demand for sufficient and safe food, and continuous damage of environment by conventional agriculture are major challenges facing the globe. The necessity of smart alternatives and more sustainable practices in food production is crucia[...]Article
H. Azadi ; S. Movahhed Moghaddam ; S. Burkart ; H. Mahmoudi ; S. Van Passel ; A. Kurban ; D. Lopez-Carr |Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is seeking to overcome the food security problem and develop rural livelihoods while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. However, when such synergies exist, the situation of small-scale farmers is ofte[...]Article
J. Buyck ; A. Meyfroidt ; C. Brand ; G. Jourdan |Our contribution aims at pointing out how the food issue challenges metropolitan areas while at the same time identifying potential for sustainable urban planning. To that end, we investigate to what extent taking into account agricultural and f[...]Article
The environmental impact of conventional food production systems imposes a rapid transition towards sustainable production systems through the adoption of agroecological practices. The barriers and accelerators of the adoption of agroecological [...]Article
Agricultural technologies have long been promoted by governments and development organizations as effective ways to increase farm productivity and reduce poverty. However, adoption of many seemingly beneficial technologies remains low. Empirical[...]Article
M.J. Knowling ; B. Bennett ; B. Ostendorf ; S. Westra ; R.R. Walker ; A. Pellegrino ; E.J. Edwards ; C. Collins ; V. Pagay ; D. Grigg |Context: Effective vineyard decision making at strategic and operational timescales requires consideration of many factors, including vineyard design and management options, exogenous factors that are outside of the decision maker's control such[...]Article
The urgent need to implement agricultural systems that provide greater sustainability and resilience to the challenges of the climate change process has meant that alternative paradigms for agri-food systems and agriculture have become more rele[...]