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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a cornerstone policy of the European Union, increasingly focused on promoting environmentally sustainable practices. In 2014, the CAP introduced Greening payments and a crop diversification requirement to [...]![]()
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This paper presents a systematic review on smart environments in digital agriculture and highlights the increasing interest in integrating advanced technologies throughout the agricultural life cycle. The study emphasizes the importance of these[...]![]()
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CONTEXT The yield gap-the difference between potential and actual yield-represents a fundamental challenge in agriculture. Closing this gap is crucial for increasing the productivity of arable land, thereby ensuring sustainable food security wit[...]![]()
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S. Barakat ; H.I. Elkhouly ; A. Sofey ; N. Harraz |Accurate prediction of agricultural production costs is crucial for sustainable development in Egypt, where productivity is highly sensitive to fluctuating economic and environmental conditions. This study introduces a hybrid machine learning mo[...]![]()
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M.A. Dipu ; J. Checco ; L. Williams ; Y. Sultanbawa ; N.A. Jones ; A. Abdul Aziz |CONTEXT While there are thousands of native food plants worldwide, only four major crops account for 50 % of global primary crop production. This trend underscores a troubling erosion of agricultural diversity and the systematic sidelining of na[...]![]()
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This study explores the important financial challenges faced by Spanish agricultural and livestock companies to meet stringent environmental regulations without compromising their competitiveness. Using a Delphi method integrated with a systemat[...]![]()
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Agroecology is still a marginal approach to agricultural development in Africa when compared to industrial approaches, despite growing evidence of its potential to address core challenges of food insecurity, poverty, and soil degradation. This p[...]![]()
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Common pitfalls in evaluating model performance and strategies for avoidance in agricultural studies
C.P.J. Chen ; R.R. White ; R. Wright |Predictive modeling is a cornerstone of data-driven research and decision-making in precision agriculture, yet achieving robust, interpretable, and reproducible model evaluations remains challenging. This study addresses two central issues in mo[...]![]()
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Collectively owned and controlled by farm producers, co-operatives have been prominent and successful in many countries. The empirical literature on co-operatives is extensive, part of which considers the various determinants of co-operative mem[...]![]()
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M. den Herder ; S. Westaway ; L. Arguile ; R. Dumper-Pollard ; R. Borek ; T. Zylowski ; A. Syp ; A. Pisanelli ; C. Consalvo ; M. Ciolfi ; D. Lorenzoni ; M. Sandor ; A. Gliga ; H. Wustenberghs ; A. Alonso-Adame ; R. Michel-Villarreal ; T. Orfanidou ; N. Noble ; V. Holzner ; N. Riekötter ; L.G. Smith |Modern agriculture has advanced food security but at an environmental cost. Organic farming and agroforestry have been proposed as alternatives, however, evaluating their sustainability is challenging due to heterogeneity of the sector, a relati[...]![]()
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Taxes on agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides are often discussed, but there are large knowledge gaps as existing evidence on the functioning, experiences and limitations is outdated and scattered. We fill this gap by synthesiz[...]![]()
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Machine learning (ML), especially deep learning (DL), is gaining popularity in the agroecosystem modelling community due to its ability to improve the efficiency of computationally intensive tasks. By reviewing previous modelling studies using t[...]![]()
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This study evaluates the olive-growing sector in Algerias arid areas, which covers 16 500 hec-tares with 4 501 397 olive trees, including 3 963 844 massed and 537 553 isolated trees. Biskra province leads with 30% of the southern olive-growing [...]![]()
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Livestock farming is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, leading to calls for reduced meat consumption and production. However, existing research often overlooks the specificities of pastoralism, an extensive form of livestock farmi[...]![]()
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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is crucial for ensuring the future of agriculture and the rural development in the EU. The shortcomings of CAP in the previous period, challenges related to the global economic and geopolitical situation, the[...]![]()
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K.T. Erekalo ; M. Gemtou ; M. Kornelis ; S.M. Pedersen ; T. Christensen ; S. Denver |The transition to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is essential for sustainable food production, yet adoption varies widely due to differences in farmers' experiences, motivations, and constraints. Following an extended Theory of Planned Behavior[...]![]()
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L.S. Kyrgiakos ; D.D. Tosiliani ; A. Angelopoulos ; V. Bonomelli ; G. Kleftodimos ; M. Vasileiou ; C. Kleisiari ; A. Oikonomou ; P. Prosperi ; H. Belhouchette ; G. Vlontzos |The agricultural sector in the Mediterranean Basin is the largest consumer of water, using 70% of freshwater resources for crop irrigation, which accounts for 85% of the regions agricultural output. With climate change and population growth exp[...]![]()
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C. Coman ; E. Coman ; V. Gherhes ; A. Bucs ; D. Rad |The growing demand for sustainable food production has driven significant advancements in modern agriculture, including increasing interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), a high-tech solution designed to provide fresh, local, and o[...]![]()
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The integration of smart sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has emerged as a key strategy for enhancing productivity and sustainability in agriculture and aquaculture under increasing climate and resource pressures. This r[...]![]()
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S.M. Sundstrom ; T. Awada ; E.M. Bennett ; B. Bestelmeyer ; J. Hodbod ; A. Pacheco ; S. Spiegal ; C.R. Allen |Context - Industrialized approaches to agriculture have prioritized stability, efficiency and productivity, which has masked underlying vulnerabilities in our capacity to produce and access food, fiber and fuel, and to maintain farming livelihoo[...]![]()
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Y. Li ; J. Helfenstein ; R. Swart ; C. Levers ; F. Mohr ; V. Diogo ; M. Bürgi ; T.G. Williams ; R. Zafeiriou ; A. Zarina ; J. Ammann ; V. Rolo ; P.H. Verburg ; M. Beckmann ; J. Hernik ; T. Kizos ; F. Herzog |Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative[...]![]()
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The benefits and positive effects of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) on different urban dimensions have already been extensively recognized by scholars and practitioners so far. Even possible risks of these professional and non-profession[...]![]()
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The study investigates the environmental impact of the EU agri-food sector, focusing on emissions per capita and their relationship with economic growth through a Bayesian Vector Autoregression (BVAR) framework. It reveals that greening efforts [...]![]()
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In the context of the most recent reform of the European Common Agricultural Policy (2023-2027), new voluntary environment-friendly measures have been introduced. These measures, termed eco-schemes, represent one-year arrangements with limited r[...]![]()
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Smallholder farmers are key to achieving a more resilient and inclusive process of rural transformation in the developing world. This article reflects on trends in farm size and the implications for the viability of small-scale producers across [...]![]()
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L'adoption de pratiques agroécologiques (PAE) constitue une étape majeure pour aller vers une agriculture plus durable. Nous mobilisons le cadre analytique de l'économie de l'innovation et des transitions studies pour explorer les déterminants d[...]![]()
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Spain is the world's leading producer of organic fresh lemons, with production concentrated in the southeast. Given the relevance of this region in lemon production and the role of organic agriculture in sustainable development, this study estab[...]![]()
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This study evaluates the profitability and competitiveness of wheat and sunflower, strategic crops vital for food security, in Tekirdag, Türkiye. Utilizing the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), we analyze their[...]![]()
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S. Wunder ; C. Fraccaroli ; E. Varela ; S. Bruzzese ; M. Termansen |Agri-environmental schemes (AES), a subtype of payments for ecosystem services (PES), aim to address Europe's environmental and climate objectives by incentivising farmers to maintain or shift to farming practices that deliver additional ecosyst[...]![]()
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L. Regni ; P. Sdringola ; B. Torquati ; N. Evangelisti ; M. Chiorri ; L. Arcioni ; P. Proietti |The productive sectors related to agriculture have the potential to contribute significantly to the energy transition. The paper describes an in-depth investigation on the extra virgin olive oil production towards the decarbonization of the sect[...]