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Soil erosion is a threat for the sustainability of agriculture and severely affects the Mediterranean crops. Olive groves are among the rainfed agriculture lands that exhibit soil and water losses due to the impact of unsustainable practices suc[...]
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K. Fotia ; A. Mehmeti ; I. Tsirogiannis ; G. Nanos ; A.P. Mamolos ; N. Malamos ; P. Barouchas ; M. Todorovic |Olive cultivation is expanding rapidly in the northwestern part of Greece, under both rainfed and irrigated practices. Irrigation can result in larger yields and economic returns, but trade-offs in the water–energy–pollution nexus remain a contr[...]
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Les agriculteurs auront des profils de plus en plus diversifiés. La puissance publique aura des difficultés à répondre à leurs attentes.
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Agroforestry as active area of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research aims to bridge several artificial divides that have respectable historical roots but hinder progress toward sustainable development goals. These include: (1) The segre[...]
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Resilient crop-livestock production systems become crucial to face environmental challenges such as climate mitigation. Progress in the SDG 2.4.1 indicator (proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture) requires r[...]
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Improvements in the sustainability of agricultural production depend essentially on advances in the efficient use of nitrogen. Precision farming promises solutions in this respect. Variable rate technologies allow the right quantities of fertili[...]
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In the current context of resource scarcity, global climate change, environmental degradation, and increasing food demand, the circular economy (CE) represents a promising strategy for supporting sustainable, restorative, and regenerative agricu[...]
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L. Viguier ; N. Cavan ; C. Bockstaller ; S. Cadoux ; G. Corre-Hellou ; S. Dubois ; R. Duval ; O. Keichinger ; C. Toque ; A.-L. Toupet de Cordoue ; F. Angevin |A major path helping agriculture achieve the dual challenges of production and environmental preservation, consists of transitioning from the current, external input-based, conventional farming systems to a biodiversity-based agricultural system[...]
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Simulating organic agriculture is a considerable challenge. One reason is that few models are capable of simulating crop-pest interactions and the yield losses they cause. Here, a recently developed process-based crop-pest model (Pest-EPIC) was [...]
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European rural landscapes contain high nature value farmlands that, in addition to being the main economic activity in many rural areas, host habitats and species of great conservation value. The maintenance of these farming systems largely depe[...]
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The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization [...]
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Whereas many studies adopting a broad perspective on sustainability have highlighted the differences and interactions between alternative and conventional models of agricultural production, very few have investigated the contradictions internal [...]
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Les agriculteurs français utilisent de moins en moins de produits phytosanitaires. Néanmoins, une pharmacopée efficace doit toujours être à leur disposition.
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Z. Saber ; R. van Zelm ; H. Pirdashti ; A.M. Schipper ; M. Esmaeili ; A. Motevali ; A. Nabavi-Pelesaraei ; M.A.J. Huijbregts |Eco-efficiency, defined as the economic profit per unit of environmental impact, can largely differ between farms that produce the same crop. Understanding the underlying drivers of differences in eco-efficiency can help to identify effective op[...]
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N.M. Hashem ; E.M. Hassanein ; J.-F. Hocquette ; A. Gonzalez-Bulnes ; F.A. Ahmed ; Y.A. Attia ; K.A. Asiry |In the near future, the year 2050, agricultural production should expand to fulfill the needs of approximately 9.7 billion inhabitants. Such an objective should be harmonized with social, economic, and environmental sustainability aspects to mai[...]
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The Mediterranean region is expected to be a hotspot for climate change, making the resilience of farming systems a major challenge. Some studies have used quantitative models at the farm scale to analyze the resilience of farming systems but wi[...]
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Intensive agricultural farming systems have negative impacts on the ecosystem. Therefore, the use of crop rotation emerges as an opportunity to improve the environmental sustainability of agricultural systems. In the region of Galicia in north-w[...]
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Milk production in Europe is facing major challenges to ensure its economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is essential that holistic concepts are developed to ensure the future sustainability of the sector and to assist farmers a[...]
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M.P.M. Meuwissen ; P.H. Feindt ; T. Slijper ; A. Spiegel ; R. Finger ; Y. de Mey ; W. Paas ; K.J.A.M. Termeer ; P.M. Poortvliet ; M. Peneva ; J. Urquhart ; M. Vigani ; J.E. Black ; P. Nicholas-Davies ; D. Maye ; F. Appel ; F. Heinrich ; A. Balmann ; J. Bijttebier ; I. Coopmans ; E. Wauters ; E. Mathijs ; H. Hansson ; C.J. Lagerkvist ; J. Rommel ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; F. Accatino ; C. Pineau ; B. Soriano ; I. Bardaji ; S. Severini ; S. Senni ; C. Zinnanti ; C. Gavrilescu ; I.S. Bruma ; K.M. Dobay ; D. Matei ; L. Tanasa ; D.M. Voicilas ; K. Zawalinska ; P. Gradziuk ; V. Krupin ; A. Martikainen ; H. Herrera ; P. Reidsma |Context Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including the unknown and previously unimaginable, such as the Covid-19 crisis. Objective This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed to the crisis, (ii) [...]
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Nous sommes confrontés à la conjonction de divers maux : la diminution de la biodiversité favorise le développement de nouvelles pandémies qui trouvent un terrain fertile dans nos modes de vie, en particulier alimentaires. On sait de mieux en mi[...]
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Une étude sur la filière laitière dans la wilaya de Skikda (Algérie) a permis d’analyser la saisonnalité de la production laitière chez 157 exploitations bovines et les implications relatives à la collecte de lait par l’industrie. Les enquêtes o[...]
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M. Aronica ; M.F. Cracolici ; D. Insolda ; D. Piacentino ; S. Tosi |Rural areas still suffer from a lack of sustainable development, and the diversification of farms may be a step in the right direction. The paper provides a detailed picture of the diversification of Sicilian farms into tourism services. Specifi[...]
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There is an increasing awareness about the importance of the role that small food and beverage producers play in the socio-economic development in many countries. However, since they face many specific problems which create obstacles for their e[...]
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The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new and periodically entering the[...]
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Both in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, the resilience of agri-food systems depends on the human ability to balance between socio-economic and ecological trade-offs. Recent ecosystem services literature acknowledges that smallholder farme[...]
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Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the world’s food produced by family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of farms worldwide, their distribution and that of farmland, using th[...]
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La production de lait de vache connaît une restructuration profonde et rapide, entre concentration géographique et agrandissement des exploitations. La mise en place et la gestion des quotas laitiers ont accompagné et encadré cette restructurati[...]
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The application of true cost accounting (TCA) at farm level requires a common framework and metric for measuring, capturing and valuing sustainability. We propose such a framework and farm metric that build on the four capitals—natural, social, [...]
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Le secteur agricole constitue une activité importante au Maroc, représentant 14% du produit national brut et employant 40% de la population active. Avec l'émergence de la pandémie de la Covid-19, il a été ébranlé par des incertitudes économiques[...]
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The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID-19. Overall, the impacts on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by a combination of a generalized economic recession and disruptions[...]
