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Successful implementation of Europes agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper unde[...]Article
G. Timpanaro ; G. Chinnici ; R. Selvaggi ; G. Cascone ; V.T. Foti ; A. Scuderi |Agriculture is a risky industry and is present in every management choice the farmer makes. Farms can experiment with different tools that can contain the impact of adverse events to protect production facilities, investments, and income generat[...]Article
S. Schaub ; J. Ghazoul ; R. Huber ; W. Zhang ; A. Sander ; C. Rees ; S. Banerjee ; R. Finger |Agri-environmental schemes (AESs) are increasingly implemented to promote the adoption of environmentally friendly practices by farmers. We use a systematic review to explore the role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' deci[...]Article
G. Leduc ; L. Billaudet ; E. Engström ; H. Hansson ; M. Ryan |Values act as driving forces for individuals to behave in a certain way or to choose certain actions. They may explain current differences of converted organic land among EU countries. In this paper, we identified and compared the types of value[...]Article
Water is an issue in Spain, where it is generally scarce, and its availability is highly variable in different areas and times, particularly in agriculture, the main water consumer. Water pricing is one of the policy instruments used to control [...]Article
B. Thareau ; A. Sigwalt ; N. Ben Arfa ; T. Petit |Les espaces de fonds de vallées sont des territoires où se superposent des politiques publiques d'environnement (PPE). Dans le cadre du programme de recherche FARMAINE, nous avons interrogé le rôle de ces politiques publiques dans l'évolution de[...]Article
S. De Leo ; A. Di Fonzo ; S. Giuca ; M. Gaito ; G. Bonati |The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the economic convenience of adopting adaptation measures to climate change at farm level. Concerns raised about climate risks on agriculture indicate that adaptation of the agricultural se[...]Article
Many Member States and diverse stakeholders continue to present conservative positions in the CAP reform process to enhance environmental sustainability. During the last process of reform, the Italian Ministry of Agriculture favoured the mainten[...]Article
G. Harik ; I. Alameddine ; R. Zurayk ; M. El-Fadel |A spatio-temporal Agent Based Modeling (ABM) framework is developed to probabilistically predict farmers' decisions concerning their future farming practices when faced with potential water scarcity induced by future climate change. The proposed[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
I. Chakib | 2023As climate change and contemporary agricultural challenges intensify, the adoption of agroecology stands out as a paramount solution. Despite its historical relevance, the concept of agroecology remains ambiguous. Our study contributes to a prof[...]Article
Monoculture farming pollutes the environment by increasing the use of inputs, accelerating soil erosion, polluting water resources, raising carbon level in the atmosphere, and decreasing biodiversity. Therefore, farmers are advised to implement [...]Article
Agroecology is not a new concept. Its rising prominence, however, is linked to greater societal awareness of environmental pressures associated with agricultural practices, a decline in the number of farmers, the growing market power of major co[...]Article
In recent years, CGIAR researchers have investigated the effectiveness of using agrobiodiversity, and more particularly crop and crop varietal diversity, as an adaptive practice to mitigate climate-change impacts on agriculture and to contribute[...]Article
Adoption of sustainable agriculture innovations is acknowledged to be an effective response to agro-ecological challenges, such as climate change, pests, drought, natural catastrophes, and food insecurity. However, its level of dissemination is [...]Article
Most studies on climate changes impacts on agriculture focus on modeling techniques based on large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmers perception of climate changes impacts can affect crop diversity and crop man[...]Article
Like in all Mediterranean countries, Table olive farming has an important tradition and production potential in western Turkey, and thus it is critical to assess the risk sources and risk management strategies that farmers perceive. This study i[...]Article
Even though agricultural activities have always had to face systemic risk, increasing uncertainty linked to market conditions, policy revision and climate change require the adoption of extensive, functional and informed risk management strategi[...]Article
E. Revoyron ; M. Le Bail ; J.-M. Meynard ; A. Gunnarsson ; M. Seghetti ; L. Colombo |Context : Diversified cropping systems are a main pillar of agroecological practices, but their development is hindered by technological lock-in of agri-food systems around a few major crops. There are only a few examples where minor crops succe[...]Article
Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) have undergone tremendous development in the recent past. With the sharp increase in documentation requirements for agricultural businesses, the potential of FMIS to become widely used comprehensive man[...]Article
M. Galardi ; L. Filugelli ; R. Moruzzo ; F. Riccioli ; F. Mutinelli ; S. Espinosa Diaz ; L. Contalbrigo |In the European framework of multifunctional agriculture, Social Farming (SF) has constantly been spreading. In Italy, these practices are legally connected to Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI), creating new perspectives and challenges for far[...]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
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A. Berthe ; P. Grouiez ; M. Fautras |Literature on biogas production mainly studies the outputs of production or the technical dimension of its organization. We argue that there is a need to study this process in a more institutional political economy perspective to understand the [...]Article
To achieve social sustainability, there is a need to incorporate social metrics of farmers well-being into agricultural monitoring systems. We contribute to the operationalisation of the measurement of farmers well-being by determining how far[...]Article
A. Mayer ; C. Egger ; A. Loyau ; C. Plutzar ; D.S. Schmeller ; V. Gaube |Mountain pastures are embedded in highly sensitive mountain ecosystems and provide forage for livestock during summer. In years when forage in the lowlands becomes scarce due to over-grazing and land degradation, or climate-related extreme event[...]Article
Increasing the levels of ecosystem services that contribute to agricultural production (ES) is a challenge for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural advisors lack low-data operational approaches for assessing ES and knowledge [...]Article
L.-A. Sutherland ; L. Madureira ; B. Elzen ; C. Noble ; N. Bechtet ; L. Townsend ; E. Zarokosta ; P. Triboulet |In this article we assess the diversity of sources of advice identified by 678 adopters, 295 non-adopters and 107 droppers (or dis-adopters, who have ceased or reduced the use) of agricultural innovations across 13 European countries. For most i[...]Article
M. Yazdanpanah ; K. Klein ; T. Zobeidi ; S. Sieber ; K. Lohr |Sustainable water usage is an important global concern and an urgent priority, especially in dryland regions such as Iran. The Iranian government is actively addressing the challenge of water scarcity by encouraging farmers to adopt new water ap[...]Article
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F.T. Payen ; D. Moran ; J.-Y. Cahurel ; M. Aitkenhead ; P. Alexander ; M. MacLeod |The adoption of soil organic carbon sequestration (SCS) practices on agricultural land offers the double advantage of offsetting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving soil quality. However, little is known about the drivers that might inf[...]Article
J. Blasch ; B. van der Kroon ; P. van Beukering ; R. Munster ; S. Fabiani ; P. Nino ; S. Vanino |Precision farming (PF) technologies can help to mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture by reducing fertiliser use and irrigation while saving cost for the farmer. However, these technologies are not widely adopted in Europe. We study f[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
S. Kartakis | 2022The agricultural sector is one of the responsible industries intensifying climate change, while at the same time is extremely vulnerable to its harmful impacts. Precision agriculture technologies can aid to alleviate environmental damage by redu[...]Article
The article analyses the crisis and double bind situation to which Catalan dairy farmers find themselves subjected. Two contradictory commands are being imposed on them: act as if nature does not matter and increase production because, otherw[...]Article
M. Albert ; J.-E. Bergez ; S. Couture ; R. Faivre ; M. Willaume |Agricultural practices are heterogeneous among farmers in the face of climate hazards. Structural and material resources as well as risk preferences explain some of this heterogeneity, but little is known about how psychological factors associat[...]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
E. Paroissien ; L. Latruffe ; L. Piet |This article investigates the effects of economic performance and neighbours characteristics on farmers exit behaviour before retirement age. Using a unique set of social security data describing all French farmers under 50 over the years 2004[...]Article
Climate change is a global environmental threat to all economic activities, especially the livestock activity. The South of Tunisia, where animal husbandry is a fundamental element of the domestic economy, is more influenced by these negatives e[...]Article
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the perceptions of Greeks-farmers regarding success and to investigate the factors that are considered as indicators to explain, predict, and determine perceptional entrepreneurial success. This research [...]Article
The way knowledge hiding co-exists with knowledge sharing in organizations remains under-researched and under-theorized. We focus on family farms, a context where knowledge sharing has been previously heralded as a critical activity for business[...]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
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
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
This research examined livestock farmers intention to move manure waste to an allocated landfill and the impact of financial support by municipalities on farmers behavior. The theoretical framework was developed using the Theory of Planned Beh[...]Article
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To achieve sustainability, agricultural insurance is one of the main tools capable of reducing the vulnerability of farmers. This is the reason it is important to investigate the different factors that affect the farmers agricultural insurance [...]Article
La sécurité alimentaire en Tunisie ou à léchelle nationale est une question sensible et stratégique. La grande diversité du domaine climatique tunisien et l'extension des terres agricoles sur une superficie de 10 millions d'hectares, dont (5 mi[...]Article
Diffuse water pollution is a major problem in many agroecosystems, especially in irrigated areas linked to ecosystems of high ecological value. Pollution abatement policies imply the modification of agricultural measures and are usually rejected[...]Article
S. Mugnier ; C. Husson ; S. Cournut |Combining cattle and sheep on the same farm can be a promising way for farmers to face uncertainties and produce in an agroecological manner. Previous studies showed benefits of mixed-species grazing on animal health and pasture use. However, fe[...]Article
Organic agriculture (OA) in Egypt is well-developed and still fast growing. Improving the relation between organic farmers and the other agents in the chain can provide a positive contribution to the whole organic chain competitiveness. One poss[...]Article
L. Fredriksson ; M. Rizov ; S. Davidova ; A. Bailey |Bulgaria has a long tradition of smallholder farming, predominantly producing for self-consumption. As a result of land reform and farm restructuring, many rural households received agricultural land. Some developed commercial farms but most hou[...]Article
S.F. Conway ; J. McDonagh ; M. Farrell ; A. Kinsella |Limited uptake of financial incentives, designed to confront global trends of an ageing farming population and low levels of land mobility, reveal resistance or at best ambivalence, amongst farmers towards altering existing farm management and o[...]Article
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 [...]Article
This article investigates the stability of farmers risk attitude over time. To this end, we estimate responses to changes in agricultural policies and production shocks. We use a unique panel data of over 36,000 Italian farms specialised in cer[...]Article
R. Sardaro ; N. Faccilongo ; F. Conto ; P. La Sala |The paper investigates the attitude of farmers to participate in an on-farm conservation programme based on the cultivation of vine landraces in Apulia, southern Italy, in place of the current commercial varieties, as an adaptation strategy to c[...]Article
This study was designed to investigate how dairy farmers of AL-Dhulel cooperative Dairy Society (ACDS) perceive climate change, the adaptation strategies adopted by farmers to cope with the impact of climate change and the barriers to the adopti[...]Article
Reforms in agriculture have become an integral part in policymakers agenda. Research on past reforms in various sectors showed their effect on farmers decision making regarding the continuum of farm work. This research objective is to expand a[...]Article
This article addresses the problem of succession in family farms in a context of generational change. Family businesses are characterized by their long-term orientation and by having a positive effect through environmental goals that remain in p[...]Article
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[...]Article
In South-east Spain the implementation of desalinated seawater for irrigation was planned as an alternative water supply for farmers. However, most high-volume desalination plants are underused as farmers current demands are lower than was prev[...]Article
A. Wezel ; S. Stöckli ; E. Tasser ; H. Nitsch ; A. Vincent |An ongoing decrease in habitat and species diversity is occurring in many areas across Europe, including in grasslands in mountain areas, calling for adapted biodiversity management and measures. In this context, we carried out 79 interviews wit[...]Article
I. Coopmans ; J. Bijttebier ; F. Marchand ; E. Mathijs ; L. Messely ; E. Rogge ; A. Sanders ; E. Wauters |Context : Resilience represents the ability of systems to anticipate, withstand, or adapt to challenges. Times of great stress and disturbance offer opportunity to identify and confirm key contributors to agri-food system resilience. The COVID-1[...]Article
The aim of our study was to determine the level of anxiety among farmers in different agricultural branches in Turkey during the COVID-19 outbreak and to examine its association with socioeconomic concerns and social support variables. Based on [...]Article
Among the multiple adaptations that exist to face climate change, irrigation is one straightforward option for wine growing. Yet, widespread development of irrigation may strengthen water scarcity and further increase farmers' vulnerability to w[...]Article
Aujourdhui la biomasse est identifiée comme la seule source de carbone naturelle et renouvelable connue qui soit suffisamment importante pour être substituée aux combustibles fossiles. Dorénavant, il est attendu de cette ressource des fonctions[...]Article
Farmers operate in a changing market, policy and social environment so questions arise as to how they experience these changes and react in their business orientation. This topic was examined in the period 2011 to 2016 in a strongly fluctuating [...]Article
CONTEXT Successful scaling up from crop level research to adoption by farmers depends on its practitioners being aware of the constraints that arise as scaling up proceeds. Promising ideas from crop level research are not adopted by farmers in m[...]Article
Understanding the evidence-based factors that influence the adoption of organic farming yields benefits in terms of managing said adoption effectively. We searched relevant articles published in databases including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed[...]Article
A.C. Hoek ; S. Malekpour ; R. Raven ; E. Court ; E. Byrne |A transformation of the food system will require action and changes in decision making from individuals across the entire food system. This paper synthesises the literature and develops a framework for analysing the factors which influence decis[...]Article
Smart irrigation techniques have the potential for improving water application efficiencies at the farm level, thereby helping to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and providing an economic advantage to farmers. Here we gauge the wi[...]Article
S. Hayran ; S. Duru ; B. Kapur ; A. Gül ; Y.S. Turgut |Climate change is responsible for the negative effects in human life causing a decrease in agricultural products, biodiversity, soil fertility, and forest areas. In contrast, climate change increases plant diseases and pests, the cost of agricul[...]Article
Peri-urban agriculture can foster the resilience of metropolitan areas through the provision of local food and other multifunctional agricultural amenities and externalities. However, in peri-urban areas, farming is characterized by strong socia[...]Article
The emerging Information and Communication Technology play a vital role in electronic agriculture. The application of such technologies as blockchain, Internet-of-Things, wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, and machine learning can improv[...]Article
Policymakers often assume that farmers with pro-environmental behavior are more likely to follow proper pesticide practices and thus, in order to improve the safety of their pesticide practices, they implement strategies and programs designed to[...]Article
Trouver des moyens déconomiser leau en agriculture est un enjeu crucial. En Europe, lagriculture est le principal utilisateur deau, avec plus de 50 % des prélèvements totaux. Dans de larges portions du territoire européen, les utilisations d[...]Article
Greening, which was introduced during the last reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, targets the enhancement of ecological sustainability in European agriculture. Due to its association with such sustainability gains, growing agricultural [...]Article
It can easily take years for agricultural innovations to find real-world practical application. There are a wide range of reasons for this which are familiar to the agricultural research community. But how can innovations succeed in making it fr[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
La production agricole actuelle est fortement remise en question face aux nouveaux enjeux climatiques mais également environnementaux, économiques, réglementaires et sociétaux. Pour y faire face, linnovation est aujourdhui au centre de nombreu[...]Article
This paper aims to determine farmers willingness to pay for irrigation water, using the residual value method, for the most representative crops at six Irrigation Communities from the Alentejo region, southern Portugal. The main objective of th[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Riche de ses forêts classées et ressources naturelles, la République de Guinée cherche à les protéger au sein de parcs nationaux. Mais, daprès les statistiques du PNUD et de la FAO (2020), la Guinée est également lun des pays qui souffre le pl[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
A. Zaatra ; M. Requier-Desjardins ; H. Rey-Valette ; T. Blayac | 2021Cet article présente une évaluation multicritère de la vulnérabilité des exploitations agricoles au changement climatique à léchelle dun territoire rural du sud de la France : le Pays Haut Languedoc et Vignoble (PHLV). Un indice de la vulnérab[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Farmers preferences for agri-environmental incentive programs, learning from experiences in Ontario
E. Lemaitre-Curri | 2021Based on a literature review, an international benchmark, and a case study in Ontario, the dissertation explores farmers preferences for agri-environmental incentive programs. We use literature in agricultural, environmental and behavioural eco[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Bourceret | 2021Lapprovisionnement des citoyens en eau potable de qualité est un enjeu de santé publique, auquel sajoutent des enjeux environnementaux et économiques. Lagriculture est lune des principales menaces pour la qualité de la ressource en eau potab[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Insect pollination plays a major role into the production of many crops including kiwi, which requires high level of pollination in order to produce appropriate fruit weight eligible for export. Until recently, one European study has explored th[...]Article
This study investigated the impact of diverse technical and economic factors on sustainable dairy small ruminant farmer market choices in Cyprus. It determined the factors that affect farmer choice between selling milk to a large dairy processor[...]Article
Water scarcity is becoming a major challenge worldwide. The agricultural sector, as a main user of freshwater, may significantly increase its water use efficiency by promoting water saving strategies. This paper proposes a socio-psychological mo[...]Article
I. Berni ; A. Menouni ; I. Ghazi El ; R.-C. Duca ; M.-P. Kestemont ; L. Godderis ; S. El Jaafari |Unsafe pesticide use is a significant concern in rural areas, resulting in serious threats to farmer and environmental health. This problem can be especially severe in developing countries, including Morocco. However, few studies have explored t[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Zaatra | 2021Plusieurs études confirment une accélération sans précédent du changement climatique (CC), qui présente une source omniprésente de risque pour l'agriculture. Dans les politiques publiques, le CC est devenu un sujet de préoccupation. Bien que, le[...]Article
Notre étude sinscrit dans le cadre dun projet de recherche, Smart, qui sintéresse globalement à la mise en place dun système déconomie circulaire autour dune innovation environnementale : les films de semi-forçage en plastique recyclé. Un [...]Article
Research on short food supply chains (SFSCs) has experienced a remarkable growth during recent years, offering ample evidence that the creation of such alternative food distribution networks can bring multiple benefits to both farmers and consum[...]Article
Aim of study: Farmers behavior is shaped by their individual attitudes towards risk. Consequently, an understanding of the heterogeneous risk attitudes among farmers is key to predicting their decision-making. Therefore, there is a need for rel[...]Article
A. Pardo ; V. Rolo ; E.D. Concepción ; M. Díaz ; Y. Kazakova ; V. Stefanova ; K. Marsden ; K. Brandt ; M. Jay ; S. Piskol ; R. Oppermann ; A. Schraml ; G. Moreno |Agricultural intensification continues to threaten habitat and biological diversity in farmland. In Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has established several measures to support biodiversity-fostering elements such as landscape featur[...]Article
M.P. Vilas ; P.J. Thorburn ; S. Fielke ; T. Webster ; M. Mooij ; J.S. Biggs ; Y.-F. Zhang ; A. Adham ; A. Davis ; B. Dungan ; R. Butler ; P. Fitch |Intensive agricultural practices represent a major threat to aquatic ecosystems because they impair water quality. However, this can be ameliorated by farmers improving crop management provided they are aware of their contribution to declining w[...]Article
The drained Karla basin in the Thessaly region of Central Greece has been used for decades as arable land without an existing policy that takes the significance of the former wetland into account. In order to reestablish the ecological balance o[...]Article
A. Thomas ; C. Lamine ; B. Allès ; Y. Chiffoleau ; A. Doré ; S. Dubuisson-Quellier ; M. Hannachi |We discuss in this paper the role of the economic and social organization in agriculture and the food industry, in relation with the Health-Agriculture-Food-Environment (HAFEN) concept. The aim is to better understand the potential impact of the[...]Article
Adoption decisions represent a crucial topic in sustainable agriculture research, particularly in the organic agriculture sector; to understand farmers decision-making, research has to delve more deeply into the influences of farmers behavior.[...]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
Lobjectif de cet article est de proposer un état de lart du rôle joué par la conception (design) du contrat agro-environnemental sur la participation des agriculteurs. La diversité des dispositifs en Europe et dans le monde conduit les auteurs[...]Article
Climate change constitutes a major threat to agricultural production, food security, and natural resource management. Saudi Arabia is particularly susceptible to increasing temperatures and extreme climatic events, such as arid weather and droug[...]Article
The overexploitation of groundwater for irrigation purposes is a general problem affecting the management of common resources. The objective of this study was to analyze some of the policy options when facing this issue. A choice experiment was [...]Article
Over the last 30 years, the European Union has significantly reformed its Common Agricultural Policy by introducing direct payments to farmers and reducing price support levels. While the European agricultural prices become more volatile, all ec[...]Article
The challenge of sustainability and the need to secure the production of high-quality, affordable and healthy food, have led to the emergence of alternative food production/distribution schemes that, based on technological or organizational inno[...]Article
There are numerous studies and publications about sustainable agriculture. Many papers argue that sustainable agriculture is necessary, and analyze how this goal could be achieved. At the same time, studies question the sustainability of agricul[...]Article
Lobjectif de cet article est de contribuer à lanalyse de lévolution de nos relations au vivant non humain, en sattachant à mettre à jour la nature des changements qui sont à luvre aujourdhui au sein de la diversité des voies de la transit[...]Article
M. Ghanian ; O.M. Ghoochani ; M. Dehghanpour ; M. Taqipour ; F. Taheri ; M. Cotton |Adaptation to climate change is a matter of urgent social scientific analysis. Within the agricultural sector of many developing nations, farmers must make long-term decisions to adapt to climate change impacts in order to provide food security [...]Article
Plastic production and consumption around the world have seen a rapid increase since the end of World War II, with an expected peak in the next 20 years. Agriculture is among the causes of this due to its intensive farming practices and the use [...]Article
N. Dahbi ; L. Messaoudi |Les eaux usées sont de plus en plus utilisées par les agriculteurs des pays en développement. Cette utilisation est motivée principalement par : (a) la pénurie grandissante des ressources en eau et les tensions de plus en plus fortes sur ces res[...]Article
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While there is broad agreement in theory that farmers' expertise should be integrated into discussions of land management and climate change adaptation in the food system, it is unknown how much research practice has integrated these recommendat[...]Article
M. Kernecker ; A. Knierim ; A. Wurbs ; T. Kraus ; F. Borges |Technological innovations are changing mechanisation in agriculture. The most recent wave of innovations referred to as smart farming technologies (SFT), promise to improve farming by responding to economic, ecological, and social challenges and[...]Article
Ce travail vise à expliciter linteraction entre les producteurs dolives, étant les acteurs sociaux, et les instruments entretenus par les acteurs publics dans le cadre de la politique publique de développement mise en uvre. Le résultat attein[...]Article
This study aimed at exploring the frequency of use and perceived benefits of application of organic matter to the soil in a group of Italian farmers, investigating also the preferred sources of information, to identify potential interventions to[...]Article
A. Gara ; M. Nahdi ; L. Laajili Ghezal |Land degradation is a serious threat in Tunisia. That is why many strategies of soil and water conservation have been established since the 90s in many areas in the country such as Oued Sabaihia watershed, located at Zaghouen governorate. In thi[...]Article
S.M. Pedersen ; K.M. Lind ; O. Xhoxhi ; A. Yazar ; S.-E. Jacobsen ; J.E. Orum |In order to look for a more diverse and sustainable cropping system with high value crops in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, the drought and salt tolerant crop quinoa was analysed as an alternative to the current major crops, for instance wh[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Partant dun constat relatif aux défis et contraintes auxquels le secteur agricole est exposé, à savoir la variabilité du revenu ainsi que le statut du métier dagriculteur, nous nous interrogeons sur les motivations et organisations de la pluri[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
S. Grando ; F. Bartolini ; I. Bonjean ; G. Brunori ; E. Mathijs ; P. Prosperi ; D. Vergamini | Bingley [Royaune Uni] : Emerald | Research in Rural Sociology and Development | 2020This chapter opens the second part of the Volume, focusing on the small farms' role and dynamics within the evolving food system. Assessing small farmers' actual and potential contribution to the change towards a sustainable food and nutrition s[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Les agriculteurs irrigants en Tunisie font face à des risques divers, notamment les situations de manque deau de plus en plus fréquentes à cause dun ensemble de changements dordre institutionnel, politique et climatique. Pour se protéger cont[...]Article
G. Sevinç ; M.H. Aydogdu ; M. Cançelik ; M.R. Sevinç |Despite agricultural support in Turkey, agricultural production areas, production quantities, and the number of farmers have gradually decreased. In this research, we aimed to determine farmers attitudes toward public agricultural support polic[...]Article
For agricultural industries to capture many environmental and economic benefits that have been demonstrated for precision agriculture (PA) technologies, an understanding of the factors affecting adoption of these technologies is required to adeq[...]Article
Despite a constant decline in grassland areas between the 1970s and 2010 at the regional and national scale in France, in particular on lowlands, grasslands have been maintained locally. This raises questions about long-term changes on the farms[...]Article
Climate change poses a major challenge for farmers, but agricultural sustainability, mitigation, and adaptation can effectively decrease climate impacts on agricultural systems. Changes in farming practices are necessary to reduce emissions and [...]Article
A. Chalak ; A. Irani ; J. Chaaban ; I. Bashour ; K. Seyfert ; K. Smoot ; G.K. Abebe |With increasing food insecurity and climate change, conservation agriculture has emerged as a sustainable alternative to intensive conventional agriculture as a source of food supply. Yet the adoption rate of conservation agriculture is still lo[...]Article
R. Hijbeek ; A.A. Pronk ; M.K. van Ittersum ; A. Verhagen ; G. Ruysschaert ; J. Bijttebier ; L. Zavattaro ; L. Bechini ; N. Schlatter ; H.F.M. ten Berge |Soil organic matter (SOM) in agricultural soils builds up via - among others - the use of organic inputs such as straw, compost, farmyard manure or the cultivation of green manures or cover crops. SOM has benefits for long-term soil fertility an[...]Article
The number of young farmers has decreased over recent decades in several developed countries such as the United States and European countries. A recent strategy adopted by the European Union to address the resulting age imbalance is the Young Fa[...]Article
Farmers, as the first link in the agri-food value chain, are key in assuring its sustainability. Farmers behavior and attitudes towards implementing sustainable farm practices is influenced by their perceptions of risk affecting the farm and th[...]Article
Entrepreneurial turns, serendipitous events, entrepreneurial skills and values are critical to the success of rural SMEs. Likewise, Resource Orchestration is an important element of strategic, entrepreneurial activities. An analysis of a case [...]Article
N.M. Thompson ; C. Bir ; D.A. Widmar ; J.R. Mintert |The objective of this research was to evaluate producers perspectives of four key precision agriculture technologies (variable rate fertilizer application, precision soil sampling, guidance and autosteer, and yield monitoring) in terms of the b[...]Article
Transitioning towards agroecology involves the integration of biodiversity based ecosystem services into farming systems: for example, relying on biological pest control rather than pesticides. One promising approach for pest control relies on t[...]Article
M.Z. Dhraief ; B. Dhehibi ; H. Daly-Hassen ; M. Zlaoui ; C. Khatoui ; S. Jemni ; O. Jebali ; M. Rekik |Due to the decrease of household incomes, the increase of food prices, and the negative effects of climate change on agricultural production, Tunisia faces a food insecurity challenge, especially in rural and arid areas. The purpose of our resea[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lobjectif visé par cette investigation était didentifier les facteurs susceptibles dinfluencer la décision des agriculteurs tunisiens dadopter ou de ne pas adopter une innovation technologique damélioration des systèmes de production : hach[...]Article
A.P. Barnes ; I. Soto ; V. Eory ; B. Beck ; A. Balafoutis ; B. Sanchez ; J. Vangeyte ; S. Fountas ; T. van der Wal ; M. Gómez-Barbero |Precision agricultural technologies (PATs) allow more detailed management of in-field variability. Policy and advisory communities have championed PATs as a route to preserving natural capital whilst increasing productivity from agricultural lan[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
Plant Protection Products (PPPs) are often perceived by citizens as very harmful for human health and for the environment. The tendency in EU policy is to stimulate reduction in use of PPPs. Can we maintain high yield while using less PPPs? This[...]Article
This article examines the emergence of a new generation of innovative young farmers in Italy who are making a success of running farms (often very small) while contravening the basic tenets of the modernization script. We argue that the success [...]Article
In Europe, research and extension services (RES) play a relevant role in the agricultural sector. A Structural Equation Model has evaluated the impact of RES on perceived farm performance in a sample of 247 holdings. Our interest is not only on [...]Article
Apple production in the Fes-Meknes region of Morocco is highly affected by pests and adverse weather conditions. A survey of apple farmers knowledge, perceptions and practices (KPP) in pest management and climate change was conducted in spring [...]Article
We used discrete-choice experiments (DCE) to elicit farmers preferences among alternative agri-environmental schemes (AES) designed to reduce soil risk of erosion, maintain soil fertility, enhance countryside landscape, and preserve agrobiodive[...]Article
The excessive use of pesticides has multiple adverse effects on the environment and human health. For a long time this problem was focused on the technical, agronomic, medicinal and pest managements aspects, while the problem is a behavioral pr[...]Article
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Cet article sappuie sur lanalyse des effets de lapplication du second pilier de la Politique Agricole Commune dans les territoires ruraux français. Des entretiens réalisés auprès dacteurs institutionnels et professionnels, ruraux [...]Article
J. Bijttebier ; G. Ruysschaert ; R. Hijbeek ; M. Werner ; E. Wauters ; A.A. Pronk ; L. Zavattaro ; L. Bechini ; C. Grignani ; H. Ten Berge ; F. Marchand |Non-inversion tillage (NIT) is often recommended as a soil conservation measure, protecting soil structure and soil life and preventing erosion. As the adoption of this measure is still below policy targets in many European regions, this study a[...]Article
Integrated pest management (IPM) is widely encouraged among the European Union (EU) member states. The successful adoption of IPM techniques requires strong farmer motivation and participation. However, few studies have explored EU farmers ince[...]Article
En Tunisie, où lessentiel du territoire se situe en zones arides et semi-arides, les agriculteurs sont confrontés à des crises liées à la rareté de leau et ont développé plusieurs stratégies dadaptation. Ces stratégies traduisent aussi leurs [...]Article
Agricultural landscapes offer unique habitats for many species. Because agriculture is a major land use worldwide, changes in farming practices can have major repercussions for biodiversity. Particularly in Western Europe, ongoing intensificatio[...]Article
F. Bareille ; E. Letort |Previous studies on the productive value of biodiversity have emphasised that crop diversity increases crop yields. Here, we focus on the management of crop biodiversity for wheat, winter barley and rapeseed productions. We introduce productive [...]Article
F. Declerck ; R. Mauget |Dans lindustrie alimentaire française, la part de marché des coopératives agricoles a augmenté denviron 7 % de 2000 à 2015, principalement par lacquisition de sociétés commerciales. Dans certains cas, les agriculteurs fournisseurs de ces entr[...]Article
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The article focuses on the identification of connection patterns between socioeconomic characteristics and respondents motivation. The research was performed on a sample of 202 shareholders of agricultural cooperatives in five Croatian counties[...]Article
The main purpose of this study was to measure farmers sustainable agriculture perception and its determinants in Turkey based on a case study in Mersin Province. The data were collected from randomly selected 239 farmers in June 2017. The data [...]Article
It is stated that farmers need to become more entrepreneurial to compete in modern agriculture. Much of the literature on agricultural entrepreneurship, however, has been focused on established farmers and little is known about what determines t[...]Article
Les agriculteurs choisissent leurs itinéraires techniques non seulement en fonction des contraintes auxquelles ils font face et de leur profit espéré, mais aussi en fonction de leurs motivations et préférences personnelles. Les auteurs proposent[...]Article
Irrigation water demand is highly variable and depends on farmer behaviour, which affects the performance of irrigation networks. The irrigation depth applied to each farm also depends on farmer behaviour and is affected by precise and imprecise[...]Article
Effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AESs) as tools to enhance the rural environment can be achieved not only by increasing uptake rates, but also by avoiding participating farmers abandoning the scheme once they are in. For this reason,[...]Article
R. Fofack ; J.-P. Billaud ; M. Kuper ; O. Petit |Cet article sattache à analyser comment lévolution des pratiques de pompage pour lexploitation des eaux souterraines offre une grille de lecture des transformations sociales et territoriales qui traversent un territoire agricole rural au nord[...]Article
Soil and water conservation technologies (SWCT) are important to farmers, to the research community, as well as to the policy makers, given that declining soil health, and increasing erosion and moisture stress have implications for agricultural[...]Article
I. Mekki ; J.S. Bailly ; F. Jacob ; H. Chebbi ; T. Ajmi ; Y. Blanca ; A. Zaïri ; A. Biarnès |Mediterranean agricultural landscapes provide ecosystem services and disservices that are driven by land use pattern dynamics, the latter of which results from the crop spatiotemporal distribution. Farmland fragmentation is known to be a driver [...]Article
Des éleveurs laitiers en Coopérative dutilisation de matériel en commun (Cuma) développent de nouvelles pratiques pour gagner en autonomie fourragère et protéique, voire économique et décisionnelle. Ce mouvement dautonomisation sarticule avec[...]Article
A. Ashkenazy ; T. Chebach ; K. Knickel ; S. Peter ; R. Offenbach |The limited resilience of agricultural and food systems, and of rural communities, has become an important concern in rural and agricultural policy. However, while the term has been heavily theorised and discussed, particularly in the natural an[...]Article
Cet article croise une socio-anthropologie de la connaissance et une sociologie de laction publique afin de rendre compte des effets dun soutien public accordé à un groupe dagriculteurs pour ses activités de production et formalisation de con[...]Article
Controlling groundwater diffuse pollution induced by agricultural practices remains a significant challenge and has been receiving strong attention in the European Union (EU) for the last 25 years. The EUs Nitrates Directive (91/676EC) and its [...]Article
H. Amamou ; M.B. Sassi ; H. Aouadi ; H. Khemiri ; M. Mahouachi ; Y. Beckers ; H. Hammami |The perception of risks due to climate change by farmers and the measures they take to address those risks are of paramount importance in policy-making if the implementations of targeted adaptation and mitigation strategies are to be economicall[...]Article
This study was conducted in the Konya province, which is one of the most important grain production centers of Turkey. The primary data was obtained by questionnaires that were given out to 54 producers. The main purpose of this study is investi[...]Article
Il s'agit ici d'interroger les investissements dans l'environnement ou dans des valeurs et représentations environnementales des acteurs et actrices des circuits courts de proximité agroalimentaires (CCPA) (vente à la ferme, marchés, AMAP, magas[...]Article
Organic farming is the most widespread alternative form of agriculture, widely applied all around the world. Within the last few decades, the cultivation of organic products presented a rising trend, due to consumer preferences for safe products[...]Article
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Intuition is a critical component of farmers decision making and underlies human capital. A model of decision making, including intuition as a factor, was developed and used to determine the important variables associated with intuition. Struct[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Cette étude a été réalisée en partenariat avec la CACG et lIrstea. Elle a pour objectif détudier la perception du compteur à télérelève par les agriculteurs, didentifier les résistances liées à son adoption, son intérêt potentiel pour les agr[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Dans un contexte de lutte contre le changement climatique et contre les conséquences engendrées par les émissions des activités humaines, la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre sintègre dans les politiques internationales, européenn[...]Article
S. Laughrea ; P. Mundler ; A. Royer |Cet article analyse les motivations conduisant des producteurs agricoles du Québec à créer et à adhérer à des coopératives spécialisées en circuits alimentaires de proximité (CAP). Si ces dernières sont bien implantées en France, elles demeurent[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lobjectif visé par ce travail est didentifier les facteurs susceptibles dinfluencer la décision des agriculteurs tunisiens dadopter ou de ne pas adopter une innovation technologique damélioration des systèmes de production : un hachoir pour[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le secteur agricole au Maroc représente actuellement 14% du Produit Intérieur Brut. Sa pérennité et le maintien de ses performances sont cruciaux pour léconomie du pays. Face aux impacts prévus des changements climatiques et de lépuisement des[...]Article
H. Braiki ; J. Burte ; A. Imache ; E. Hassenforder ; H. Habaieb ; S. Bouarfa |La Tunisie cherche à réorienter ses politiques daménagement et de conservation des eaux et des sols (ACES) afin quelles gagnent en efficacité, en sappuyant sur des démarches participatives innovantes. Cette orientation sinscrit dans des cont[...]Article
M. Azzi ; J. Calatrava ; S. Bedrani |Algeria is among the most water-stressed countries in the world. Because of its climatic conditions, irrigation is essential for agricultural production. Water prices paid by farmers in public irrigation districts are very low and do not cover t[...]Article
C. Perrin ; B. Nougaredes ; L. Sini ; P. Branduini ; L. Salvatiuca |Many countries have implemented laws and planning instruments to preserve farmland on the urban fringe. This paper aims at a better understanding of the governance changes in peri-urban farmland protection following decentralisation processes in[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Rouabhi | 2018Dans la région de Sétif, l'agriculture occupe un rôle très important sur le plan socioéconomique ; au fil des années elle a été souvent influencée par la faiblesse des précipitations annuelles, en effet, le climat semi aride local est très contr[...]Article
I. Duvernoy ; I. Zambon ; A. Sateriano ; L. Salvati |Peri-urban agriculture has preserved around central cities a land-use mosaic and contributes to the sustainable growth of metropolitan regions constituting green infrastructures, supplying urban markets, and improving social inclusion. The prese[...]Article
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L'adoption de films de paillage contenant des substances dérivées du traitement chimique des déchets urbains et agricoles (SBO) représente une solution possible à la pollution causée par lutilisation de plastiques en agriculture. Cette recherch[...]Article
S. Idda ; B. Bonté ; H. Mansour ; S.-A. Bellal ; M. Kuper |Durant les cinq dernières décennies, le Sahara algérien a connu plusieurs programmes de développement agricole fondés sur l'exploitation de l'eau souterraine. Les pompages d'eau souterraine effectués dans les nouveaux périmètres de mise en valeu[...]Article
La mise à contribution du monde agricole dans la définition de politiques en faveur de lagriculture est loin daller de soi, dès lors quil sagit non seulement de saccorder sur des grands objectifs, mais aussi de définir comment les traduire [...]Article
Dans cet article, lauteur analyse les mécanismes par lesquels des agriculteurs innovateurs partagent leurs expériences de réduction des pesticides au sein dune revue professionnelle agricole. Il souligne que leur engagement dans laction relèv[...]Article
Depuis la découverte de son grand potentiel hydrique, et la baisse du coût de mobilisation de l'eau souterraine, le Sahara, où existait une agriculture oasienne en difficulté, est considéré comme l'espoir de l'agriculture algérienne. Sous l'effe[...]Article
Des facteurs variés tels que les politiques publiques en faveur du relogement des populations démunies, la promotion de la privatisation des droits fonciers agricoles, ainsi que plus généralement la croissance économique ont favorisé létalement[...]Article
A. Hmouri ; Z. Bouzidi ; M. Kuper |Les systèmes dirrigation communautaires sont souvent mis en avant pour leur mise en pratique des principes de participation et de gestion des communs. Ces systèmes sont aussi des arènes dantagonismes et de conflits, et des objets de convoitise[...]Article
Laccès à la terre est une condition indispensable de linstallation en agriculture. Larticle sappuie sur une enquête menée dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Il décrit trois circuits déchange organisés autour de la famille, de lespace socioprofess[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lagriculture a aujourdhui un rôle à jouer dans le cadre de la transition énergétique. En effet, celle-ci constitue lun des principaux foyers de biomasse à partir de laquelle des énergies dites renouvelables pour la production de chaleur et d[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Létude présentée ici fait partie du projet FORECAST. Lobjectif de ce projet est de récolter des données pour les outils danalyse et de spatialisation (Olympe et MapVillage) pour ainsi appréhender les systèmes agricoles en milieu forestier et [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
En réponse aux règlementations environnementales récentes incitant à une gestion préventive des ressources naturelles, le système de production 0 pesticide représente une des solutions globales préconisées pour cette gestion préventive. Lobject[...]Article
L. Guichard ; F. Dedieu ; M.-H. Jeuffroy ; J.-M. Meynard ; R. Reau ; I. Savini |Le plan national Ecophyto, lancé en 2008 par le gouvernement français, qui visait une réduction de lusage des pesticides de 50 % en dix ans, « si possible », est un échec : en effet, au cours des cinq premières années de son application, la con[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le PTCE (pôle territorial de coopération économique) du jardin du Gros-Morne (Martinique) est le regroupement de plusieurs entreprises de production artisanale, agricole, culturelle de la ville du Gros Morne et des villes limitrophes du Nord Atl[...]Article
Nous nous intéressons dans cet article aux pratiques de travail du sol dagriculteurs engagés dans trois modèles dagriculture aux degrés dinstitutionnalisation différents (agriculture de conservation, agriculture biologique et agriculture rais[...]Article
Les oasis marocaines constituent un rempart écologique contre lavancée de la désertification et une source de revenus pour les populations établies dans ces espaces. Elles recèlent une variété de ressources végétales et animales dans un environ[...]Article
G. Schifani ; G. Migliore ; F. Caracciolo ; P. Romeo ; L. Cembalo ; G. Cicia |This paper discusses contractual features to manage and coordinate a hypothetical bio-energy supply chain. The present study focuses on farmers operating in two Regions of Italy, namely Sicily and Campania, somewhat representative of areas with [...]Article
Au Liban, des défis de caractère interne et externe pèsent sur le secteur agricole et freinent son développement. Des coûts de production élevés, lutilisation non règlementée des produits chimiques et labsence de services de vulgarisation peuv[...]Article
Larticle propose de sinterroger sur une inflexion éventuelle des conceptions quont les viticulteurs des maux quils subissent lorsquils épandent des pesticides. Désormais en effet des victimes de pesticides se sont constituées en association[...]Article
A. Belhadi ; M. Mehenni ; L. Reguieg ; H. Yakhlef |Pour protéger leurs cultures et sécuriser leurs rendements, les agriculteurs ont recours à une panoplie de moyens de lutte contre les organismes nuisibles, dont les insectes nuisibles et les maladies cryptogamiques. Parmi ces derniers, la lutte [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le projet Biosorg vise à développer et à optimiser la création de filières de production et de transformation de Sorghos à usages multiples. Dans ce cadre, notre travail vise à définir et analyser les perceptions quont les agriculteurs du Sorgh[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
La robotique agricole, est le moyen qui va révolutionner le quotidien des agriculteurs. Le robot est la meilleure solution pour une agriculture de précision, plus compétitive, plus respectueuse de lenvironnement et facilitant le travail agricol[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le présent travail sintéresse aux origines et aux facteurs dempilement des conflits liés à lusage de leau en agriculture, lanalyse de leurs enjeux socio-politiques ainsi que les mécanismes qui contribuent à leur régulation dans les terrains[...]Article
Cet article interroge la figure du « paysan résilient », telle quelle est mise en avant dans les discours actuels de nombreux bailleurs. Les questions de la gestion des risques et de ladaptation étant étudiées depuis fort longtemps en agricult[...]