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Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural sector in ways that are often unclear to predict. If in the short- and medium-terms farmers may adapt to climate change by adjusting their agricultural practices, in the long-term, these adju[...]Article
T. Berchoux ; C.W. Hutton ; O. Hensengerth ; H.E. Voepel ; V.P.D. Tri ; P.T. Vu ; N. Hung ; D. Parsons ; S.E. Darby |The Mekong Delta faces significant challenges in supplying Vietnam and its export market countries with agricultural commodities, while ensuring livelihoods and providing living space to its growing population in the context of climate change an[...]Article
Cropping system models are deployed as valuable tools for informing agronomic decisions and advancing research. To meet this demand, early career scientists are increasingly tasked with building crop models to fit into these system modelling fra[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
K.K. Guzel | 2023This thesis aims to couple the gap between Agent Based Modelling (ABM) and Mathemathical Programming (MP) in the context of sustainable agricultural systems, with a focus on reducing the use of phytosanitary products Also, aiming to use of the s[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le stress hydrique constitue lun des facteurs les plus menaçant pour le secteur agricole. Ladaptation à cette situation critique est devenue une question cruciale. La betterave à sucre fait partie des cultures dont le rendement a été impacté p[...]E-Book
D. Cammarano, ed. ; F.K. Van Evert, ed. ; C. Kempenaar, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | Progress in Precision Agriculture | 2023This book describes how models are used to monitor crops and soils in precision agriculture, and how they are used to support farmers decisions. The introductory section starts with an overview of precision agriculture from the early days of yi[...]Article
F. Beauvais ; O. Cantat ; P. Legouee ; P. Madeline ; S. Brunel-Muguet ; L. Boulonne ; H. Gaillard ; C. Jolivet ; M.-P. Bataille ; M. Medjkane |Cinquième pays producteur de blé tendre (Triticum aestivum L.) dans le monde, la France subit depuis le milieu des années 1990 le changement climatique qui perturbe la filière céréalière, avec dores et déjà une stagnation des rendements attribu[...]Article
R.S. Makar ; S.A. Shahin ; M. El-Nazer ; A. Wheida ; M. Abd El-Hady |Climate change and its impact on agriculture and water resources have become a global concern. The implications of extreme weather events on food production and water resource availability are starting to have social and economic effects worldwi[...]Article
Agent-based models (ABMs) are an increasingly popular choice for simulating large systems of interacting components, and have been applied across a wide variety of natural and environmental systems. However, ABMs can be incredibly disparate and [...]Article
A.M.S. Kheir ; G. Hoogenboom ; K.A. Ammar ; M. Ahmed ; T. Feike ; A. Elnashar ; B. Liu ; Z. Ding ; S. Asseng |Current wheat crop management practices in the Nile Delta of Egypt are unsustainable due to the overuse of limited water resources. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate opportunities to maximize wheat yield and resource efficiency[...]Article
L. Mohimont ; F. Alin ; M. Rondeau ; N. Gaveau ; L.A. Steffenel |During the last decades, researchers have developed novel computing methods to help viticulturists solve their problems, primarily those linked to yield estimation of their crops. This article aims to summarize the existing research associated w[...]Article
Predicting crop yields is one of the most challenging tasks in agriculture. It plays an essential role in decision making at global, regional, and field levels. Soil, meteorological, environmental, and crop parameters are used to predict crop yi[...]Article
A. Mamassi ; H. Marrou ; M. El Gharous ; J. Wellens ; F.-E. Jabbour ; Y. Zeroual ; A. Hamma ; B. Tychon |Crop models have evolved over the past decade to incorporate more soil-related processes. While this may open avenues to support farmers regarding fertilization practices, it also widens the pitfalls related to model parametrization. Open-access[...]Article
Many mountain regions in Europe have experienced massive migrations towards metropolitan areas, with far-reaching implications for societies and the environment, especially croplands and grasslands. In this work, we tailored a geospatial framewo[...]Article
Une méthode par théorisation ancrée interroge la capacité des Systèmes dInformation Géographique à répondre aux attentes dune gestion de leau territorialisée qui sorganise à différentes échelles, entre acteurs techniques et politiques. À tra[...]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
Scarcity of water has emerged as a major problem globally due to climate change and population growth, especially in semi-arid and arid regions. Egypt is currently experiencing serious water challenges due to its limited water resources. The wat[...]Article
F. Taghikhah ; J. Borevitz ; R. Costanza ; A. Voinov |Threats to sustainable food production are accelerating due to climate change, population growth, depletion of natural capital, and global market instability. This causes significant risks to farmers, consumers, and financial and policy institut[...]Article
C. Mosnier ; M. Benoît ; J.J. Minviel ; P. Veysset |Mixed farming systems are gaining interest both as a risk management strategy and to apply agroecological principles. This study set out to assess the sustainability of mixed systems compared to their specialized counterparts. The Orfee bioecono[...]Article
C. Gascuel ; F. Lescourret ; B. Dedieu ; C. Détang-Dessendre ; P. Faverdin ; L. Hazard ; I. Litrico ; S. Petit ; L. Roques ; X. Reboud ; M. Tixier-Boichard ; H. De Vries ; T. Caquet |A profound transformation of agricultural production methods has become unavoidable due to the increase in the worlds population, and environmental and climatic challenges. Agroecology is now recognized as a challenging model for agricultural s[...]Article
The effect of robotic milking systems on economic performance of dairy farms with a simulation model
The most remarkable technology brought to dairy farms by the digital transformation in agriculture is undoubtedly robotic milking systems (RMS). Knowing the economic impact of this technology is essential for farmers to adopt. For this purpose, [...]Article
K.H. Dakpo ; L. Latruffe ; Y. Desjeux ; P. Jeanneaux |In this article, we assess farms technical efficiency accounting for their production heterogeneity and correcting for the potential endogeneity associated with the adoption of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) agri-environmental schemes (AESs).[...]Article
Water scarcity is a serious problem across many nations. In recent years, water scarcity has increased due to land-use and climate change, particularly in areas that are arid or semi-arid, like, for instance, Iran. While land-use changes influen[...]Article
A. Lyra ; A. Loukas ; P. Sidiropoulos ; K. Voudouris ; N. Mylopoulos |The scope of this study is to assess the effects of agronomic and water resources management scenarios on groundwater balance, seawater intrusion, and nitrate pollution and the comparison of the developed scenarios relative to the current crop p[...]Article
T. Berchoux ; C. Hutton ; O. Hensengerth ; H.E. Voepel ; V.P.D. Tri ; P.T. Vu ; N. Hung ; S. Eslami ; D.R. Parsons ; S.E. Darby |Dans SSRN (online, March)The Mekong Delta faces significant challenges in sustainably supplying Vietnam and its export market countries with agricultural commodities, while ensuring livelihoods and providing living space to its growing population in the context of clima[...]Article
Participatory modeling to assess the impacts of climate change in a mediterranean vineyard watershed
A. Naulleau ; C. Gary ; L. Prévot ; V. Berteloot ; J.-C. Fabre ; D. Crevoisier ; R. Gaudin ; L. Hossard |The diversity of both pedoclimatic and socio-economic contexts in agricultural landscapes makes evaluating the impacts of climate change a challenge. Models are pertinent tools to quantitatively explore possible futures, and participatory approa[...]Article
Consumers increasingly prefer more direct and more transparent food distribution channels, such as short food supply chains (SFSCs). Nonetheless, SFSCs face a variety of issues and challenges in their creation and functioning, resulting in limit[...]Article
M. Moulery ; E. Sanz Sanz ; M. Debolini ; C. Napoleone ; D. Josselin ; L. Mabire ; J.L. Vicente-Vicente |Foodshed approaches allow for the assessment of the theoretical food self-sufficiency capacity of a specific region based on biophysical conditions. Recent analyses show that the focus needs to be shifted from foodshed size portrayed as an isotr[...]Article
M. Barbouchi ; R. Lhissou ; R. Abdelfattah ; A. El Alem ; K. Chokmani ; N. Ben Aissa ; H. Cheikh Mhamed ; M. Annabi ; H. Bahri |The monitoring of cereal productions, mainly through yield estimations, has played an important role in providing reliable information to decision makers in order to ensure the proper management of agricultural markets. In this context, remote s[...]Article
The spread of coronavirus worldwide has affected consumer behavior in many ways. This paper tries to investigate the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) on food consumption behavior of consumers. Food consumption motivation data were assessed an[...]Article
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S. McGarraghy ; G. Olafsdottir ; R. Kazakov ; E. Huber ; W. Loveluck ; I.Y. Gudbrandsdottir ; L. Cechura ; G. Esposito ; A. Samoggia ; P.-M. Aubert ; D. Barling ; I. Duric ; T.J. Jaghdani ; M. Thakur ; N.M. Saviolidis ; S.G. Bogason |System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple products, [...]Article
L. Hossard ; C. Tardivo ; J.-M. Barbier ; R. Cittadini ; S. Delmotte ; C. Le Page |The Companion Modeling approach aims to stimulate learning and sharing of perceptions among several actors through the co-construction and use of a model, while the Integrated Assessment of Agricultural Systems aims to assess a large set of perf[...]Article
We propose to analyze the direct effect of climate change on the agricultural production of irrigated and non-irrigated plants, in the short and long term, in Tunisia. The methodological is based on the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) mode[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Boussaadi | 2022Soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks were estimated over a 10-year period (19942004) using the farm-scale biogeochemical model FarmSim, which couples the CERES-EGC arable crop model and the PaSim grassland model. FarmSim was run with spatially expl[...]Ouvrage
Nourrir le monde, sans pétrole, en régénérant la nature et le climat : telle est léquation alimentaire de notre temps. Face à la difficulté de lexercice, notre société dabondance hésite entre lutopie béate dun retour à la nature sauvage [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lobjectif de ce stage est de déterminer quels indicateurs produits par le modèle de culture SARRA-H peuvent être intégrés dans loutil dévaluation environnementale FootPrint Target de Green Score Capital, dans lobjectif dévaluer les scores a[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
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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[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Y. Nasrallah | 2022In a context of the need to transform the agricultural sector to a more resilient and sustainable one. As a part of the Naturellement Popcorn project led by Nataïs, the European leader of popcorn production with its several partners, a task wa[...]Article
The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/CE (WFD) of 2000 was issued by the European Union (EU) to prevent water deterioration and promote its restoration. It introduced a water pricing policy in the agricultural sector that is based on a polluter[...]Article
La France, comme beaucoup de pays pratiquant une agriculture moderne, est une grande consommatrice de produits phytosanitaires. Depuis plusieurs années, des programmes, tels que le plan Ecophyto, ont été mis en place pour inciter les agriculteur[...]E-Book
Cet ouvrage expose les fondements théoriques indispensables à lutilisation des systèmes dinformation géographique (SIG) en présentant de manière simple les modèles vecteur et raster, les standards OGC, le SQL spatial ou les modèles numériques [...]Article
Olive trees are one of the few alternative crops available for farmers in arid environments. In many of these regions, surface irrigation is increasing. The aim of this study was to estimate the pattern of water soil reserves through the season [...]Article
M. Vittuari ; M. Masotti ; E. Iori ; L. Falasconi ; T. Gallina Toschi ; A. Segré |The COVID-19 outbreak forced national governments to the adoption of social distancing and movement limitation measures aimed to reduce the diffusion of the virus and to mitigate its highly disruptive impact on the healthcare systems. Reduced in[...]Article
This paper aims to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of dairy farms and find its determinants. To accomplish this problem, the Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied. The data were obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data Network database f[...]Article
C.K. Kaymaz ; C. Cakir ; S. Birinci ; Y. Kizilkan |Ecotourism has become an integral part of the tourism sector for raising awareness of environmental protection, reducing the negative effects of tourism while using natural and cultural tourist attractions sustainably. The study primarily aims t[...]Article
Improving the agrarian structure is an overall objective of land consolidation schemes. Unfavorably shaped parcels are optimally rearranged in the land reallocation process and redistributed to pre-determined blocks. In conventional reallocation[...]Article
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This paper combines process design and modelling with life cycle sustainability assessment to identify opportunities for improving the environmental and economic performance in the cheese industry. Considering both the production and consumption[...]Article
M. Moriondo ; M. Bindi ; L. Brilli ; S. Costafreda-Aumedes ; C. Dibari ; L. Leolini ; G. Padovan ; G. Trombi ; A. Karali ; K.V. Varotsos ; G. Lemesios ; C. Giannakopoulos ; C. Papadaskalopoulou ; P. Merante |The impact of climate change on the agricultural systems of three major islands in the Mediterranean basin, namely Sicily, Crete and Cyprus, was evaluated using a suite of specifically calibrated crop models and the outputs of a regional circula[...]Article
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K.H. Dakpo ; L. Latruffe ; Y. Desjeux ; P. Jeanneaux |Our objective is to extend the latent class stochastic frontier (LCSFM) model to compute productivity change, using the robust transitive productivity Färe-Primont index. The application is to three types of grazing livestock farms in France ove[...]Article
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[...]Article
S. Nikolicic ; M. Kilibarda ; M. Maslaric ; D. Mircetic ; S. Bojic |One of the basic problems of sustainability in modern society is the reduction of waste, particularly when it comes to food. Food waste has negative impacts on different dimensions of sustainability: social (hunger), economic (resource costs), a[...]Article
S. Taïbi ; F.Z.H. Anza ; S. Zeroual |Le réchauffement climatique est susceptible d'avoir de graves répercussions sur la disponibilité des ressources en eau à travers les changements dans les régimes de précipitations et l'augmentation des températures. Comprendre ces changements en[...]Article
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[...]Article
The crop yield modeling remains a central input in the assessment of climate change risks. This study aims at investigating to what extent that rainfall, temperature and runoff could ably transmit significant information needed for analyzing and[...]Article
En Tunisie, malgré le développement remarquable des technologies de production, les rendements du blé dur en irrigué restent toujours en dessous des attentes. Plusieurs facteurs concourent à cette faiblesse en relation avec la disponibilité en e[...]Article
Traceability regulations are a way to protect consumers by forcing firms to identify and track products step-by-step through all stages of production, processing, and distribution. Traceability is often used in conjunction with country-of-origin[...]Article
C. Caldeira ; V. De Laurentiis ; A. Ghose ; S. Corrado ; S. Sala |National studies on food waste quantification in EU countries present highly discrepant results due to the different quantification approaches adopted. The European Commission has published a delegated act establishing a common methodology and m[...]Article
This study is framed within the concept of sustainability of local foods such as extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) and considers the effects of country of origin (COO) and ethnocentrism as relevant factors in decision making about product choice. Ou[...]Article
Today, the benefits of climate diversity and scaling up farmers' coordination to the landscape are particularly crucial in meeting increasing food demand and planning crop cultivation. The growing population with changing dietary patterns create[...]Article
The main objective of this study was to characterize the spatial structure of periurban agriculture for the purpose of operational urban development, avoiding the use of cumbersome and costly surveys when the public action sphere is extended to [...]Article
Combining an olive growth simulation model with a specific module for economic componentsnamely, net margin (NM) and irrigation water productivity (IWP)resulted in the AdaptaOlive v2.0 model. This model, used with perturbed climate (PC) and im[...]Article
Value chain analysis has been widely used as a diagnostic approach to identify and address complex issues across value chains in an agricultural development context. While comprehensive, the method is primarily qualitative and static in nature, [...]Article
Pro-ecological behavior of consumers on the food market is conditioned by many factors, among which the literature on the subject particularly indicates, is high environmental awareness. Among other factors, the influence of social groups is als[...]Article
S. Ouda ; T. Noreldin ; J.J. Alarcon ; R. Ragab ; G. Caruso ; A. Sekara ; M.T. Abdelhamid |In many areas of the world, water shortages prevail and threaten food production. Deficit irrigation was commonly investigated in dry areas as a precious and sustainable production approach. Using the CropSyst model to simulate the effects of di[...]Article
Food waste has been receiving much scholarly attention from the academic domain, non-profit organizations and governments as the environmental damages and financial losses it causes increase each day, prompting the decision-makers to take preven[...]Article
M. Raimondo ; M. Raimondo ; C. Nazzaro ; G. Marotta ; F. Caracciolo |This study aims at estimating the wheat yield response to future challenges (land degradation and climate change) through a statistical emulator. Data from Global Agro-ecological Zones on the overall wheat yields of 254 provinces for nine main w[...]Article
A. Malago ; S. Comero ; F. Bouraoui ; C.M. Kazezyilmaz-Alhan ; B.M. Gawlik ; P. Easton ; C. Laspidou |Understanding the complex relationships amongst Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE nexus) together with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical for the development of a sustainable and secure future in the Medit[...]Article
This study proposes a novel method to assess the overall economic effects of agricultural droughts using a coupled agronomic-economic approach that accounts for the direct and indirect impacts of this hazard in the economy. The proposed methodol[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le programme dadaptation au changement climatique dans les zones vulnérables en Tunisie a vu le jour dans le contexte tunisien caractérisé par des défis environnementaux et socio-économiques. Le suivi-évaluation de ce programme nécessite une ca[...]Article
Lérosion hydrique est une préoccupation agronomique, économique et environnementale importante en milieu semi-aride méditerranéen. Le choix de la méthode pour lestimer dépend des données disponibles et des conditions de la zone détude. Cet ar[...]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
Mon projet de stage a été réalisé sur le secteur de Rihana (délégation de Regueb, gouvernorat de Sidi Bouzid), une des zones dintervention de PACTE. Son objectif est de créer un jeu de simulation, avec les acteurs concernés par la problématique[...]Article
A. Attia ; A. Attia ; S. El-Hendawy ; N. Al-Suhaibani ; M.U. Tahir ; M. Mubushar ; M. dos Santos Vianna ; H. Ullah ; E. Mansour ; A. Datta |Crop models may potentially explore alternative ways to improve agroecosystem resilience in arid regions of Middle East and North Africa. Mapping the outputs behavior as a function of the inputs and quantifying the uncertainty contribution of in[...]Article
Water storage requirements in the Mediterranean region vary in time and are strongly affected by the local geography and climate conditions. The objective of this study is to assess the implications of climate change on the water balance of an a[...]Article
R. Padró ; E. Tello ; I. Marco ; J.R. Olarieta ; M.M. Grasa ; C. Font |There is a need for a socioecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems that recover the organic functioning and the closure of socio-metabolic cycles at the lower feasible scales. This implies an agroecology leap forward aimed at[...]Article
Decision support systems and models for aiding irrigation and nutrient management of vegetable crops
Vegetable growers in Europe are continually under increasing pressure to optimize irrigation and nutrient management. This results from the widespread effects of climate change and of competition from other sectors for water, and increasing soci[...]Article
This introductory article presents the three main challenges faced in economics to issues raised by dietary models. The first part of this paper examines the dietary models that maximise the health profile of a population under various constrain[...]Article
Land reclamation is critically required to overcome the environmental and anthropogenic challenges in arid lands. The Western Nile Delta region, Egypt, is experiencing rapid reclamation processes for agriculture expansion. West Nubaria (781.92 k[...]Article
M.L. Giannitsopoulos ; A.R. Graves ; P.J. Burgess ; J. Crous-Duran ; G. Moreno ; F. Herzog ; J.H.N. Palma ; S. Kay ; S. Garcia de Jalon |There is an increasing demand to study the long-term effects of land use from both local farm and wider societal and environmental perspectives. This study applied an approach to evaluate both the financial profitability of arable, agroforestry,[...]Article
J. Rocha ; C. Carvalho-Santos ; P. Diogo ; P. Beça ; J.J. Keizer ; J.P. Nunes |Future climate for the Mediterranean climatic region is expected to bring an increase in temperatures, decrease in the precipitation quantity and shifts in the seasonal precipitation pattern. Although the impacts of climate change on water resou[...]Article
We examine empirically the predictability of conditions associated with a higher probability of a price spike in agricultural commodity markets. We find that the forward spread is the most significant indicator of probable price jumps in maize, [...]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
D. Sarkar ; S.K. Kar ; A. Chattopadhyay ; Shikha, ; A. Rakshit ; V.K. Tripathi ; P.K. Dubey ; P.C. Abhilash |Maximizing food production for feeding a rapidly growing human population while minimizing critical resource use and soil quality degradation is a major challenge for global sustainability. Sustainable agricultural practices based on low-externa[...]Article
Most crop models were developed and tested in homogeneous field conditions. However, these crop models are increasingly applied beyond the field scale for larger regions. Inadequate representation of the spatial variability at a larger scale int[...]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
Cultivation and sustainability of Date palm in Palestine is the main focus of this paper. Lifecycle and food supply chain are represented using integrated definition block diagram showing the inputs and outputs of date palm tree cultivation. Dou[...]Article
Wheat yield potentials under rainfed Mediterranean conditions have been long limited by late-in-season occurrence of enhanced water deficits and high temperatures, coinciding with sensitive reproductive stages. Present study aims to quantify and[...]Article
Dealing jointly with both systemic and social complexity is a challenge that we face with sustainability issues. However, joining these two aspects of complexity is more a post-normal science call than an effective practice. Roughly speaking, [...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; L. Zhang ; J. Deng ; A. Juma ; K. Wang |Accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is essential for water resources management, planning, and scheduling. This study focuses on estimating, predicting and modeling crop coefficients kc of maize which is an important parameter f[...]Article
In this paper we argue that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with case studies or environmental modelling. But what is missing is the articulation of necessary complimentary measures (reflected in theory, method, models and techniques for da[...]Article
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A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; Y. Hong |Modeling crop water use as a useful decision tool for agricultural policy decision-makers to improve water-use efficiency has been increasing. This study aimed to estimate, forecast, and model the green and blue water footprints (WFg and WFb, re[...]Article
F. Maggi ; D. La Cecilia ; F.H.M. Tang ; A. McBratney |Agricultural pesticides can become persistent environmental pollutants. Among many, glyphosate (GLP) is under particular scrutiny because of its extensive use and its alleged threats to the ecosystem and human health. Here, we introduce the firs[...]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
Crop water production functions (quantifying crop yield as a function of irrigation rate) can help in the design of management systems that reduce the water footprint. We examined the role of parameter uncertainties in characterizing production [...]Article
Desertification is a serious and perilous threat to natural ecosystems. Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of this process through the evaluation and monitoring of important indicators appears to be a challenging task. This resear[...]