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Y. Chiffoleau ; T. Dourian ; G. Enderli ; D. Mattioni ; G. Akermann ; A. Loconto ; F. Galli ; G. Emese ; Z. Perényi ; L. Colombo ; S. Massari ; D. Desclaux |Agrobiodiversity is in rapid decline, due to the intensification of agriculture and the development of food value chains based on industrial processing techniques. However, consumers are not generally involved in developing solutions to reverse [...]Article
J. Zhao ; L. Yu ; T. Newbold ; X. Shen ; X. Liu ; F. Hua ; K. Kanniah ; K. Ma |Largely driven by agricultural pressures, biodiversity has experienced great changes globally. Exploring biodiversity responses to agricultural practices associated with agricultural intensification can benefit biodiversity conservation in agric[...]Article
Assessing the sustainability of agriculture is a relevant methodological issue with practical implications. In this study, a systematic approach is followed to develop a composite indicator that ranks the sustainability performance of Spanish re[...]Article
A.J. Romera ; M. Sharifi ; S. Charters |Farm systems around the world have become less complex, dominated by monocultures, but at the same time much more complicated due to the increasing demands from society, leading to ever increasing compliance and regulatory requirements. Digital [...]Article
L. Villani ; G. Castelli ; E.A. Yimer ; A. Nkwasa ; D. Penna ; A. Van Griensven ; E. Bresci |CONTEXT Climate change's profound implications for Mediterranean agriculture underscores the urgency of adaptation strategies. These strategies, whether incentivized or farmer-driven, are pivotal in mitigating crop yield losses and harnessing ev[...]Article
M. Gemtou ; K. Kakkavou ; E. Anastasiou ; S. Fountas ; S.M. Pedersen ; G. Isakhanyan ; K.T. Erekalo ; S. Pazos-Vidal |Agriculture is currently facing major challenges related to ensuring the food security of a rising population and climate change with extreme weather patterns. At the same time, agriculture is a cause of environmental degradation, pollution and [...]Article
Agricultural technology integration has become a key strategy for attaining agricultural sustainability. This study examined the integration of technology in agricultural practices towards agricultural sustainability, using Greece as a case stud[...]Article
Agriculture and livestock farming are activities that depend on energy consumption. Photovoltaic self-consumption systems can reduce the production costs of these actors, especially in periods of high-energy price volatility. This work aimed to [...]Article
P. Boufounou ; N. Lathiras ; K. Toudas ; C. Malesios |The primary sector is particularly important in Greece, especially considering the country's current financial crisis, which has lasted since 2010. In an innovative way, this paper investigates the role of Contractual Agriculture as a tool for f[...]Article
N. Rogy ; A. Pastor ; A. Sferratore ; N. Géhéniau ; A. Hélias ; E. Loiseau |To cope with climate change, agricultural territories are forced to implement adaptation strategies, including the implementation of irrigation infrastructures. These strategies are deployed over a long term, and their environmental performance [...]Article
W.A. Varella ; G.C. Oliveira Neto ; E. Stefani ; I. Costa ; R.C. Monteiro ; W. Conde ; W. da Silva Junior ; R.C. Baptestone ; R.D. Goes ; R. Riccotta ; M.A. Gaspar ; P.R. Felisoni ; F.K. Ohashi ; H.D. Nascimento ; A.A. Fernandes ; F.S. Martins |Innovation has been the transforming tool of precision agriculture as a response to population growth and the demand for more food with quality, less waste, food security, and sustainable management of environmental resources. The challenges are[...]Article
In the modern era, the imperative of digitalisation to enhance competitiveness spans various sectors, with agriculture being no exception. Agriculture 4.0, strategically positioned to address challenges like climate change, food security, and re[...]Article
H. Moreno-Ramón ; J. Ulzurrum ; A. Lidon ; A. Sanjuan |Rice fields in southern Europe are mainly located in wetlands of high ecological value, such as L'Albufera, one of the most important rice-growing areas in Spain. Considering the unique characteristics of this environment, it is crucial to ident[...]Article
The EU Green Deal requires the reduction in pesticides and fertilisers in food crop production, whilst the sustainable development goals require reductions in food loss and food waste. In a complex and interacting system like the food system, th[...]Article
This study investigates the impact of ex-ante policy scenarios on conventional farmers intentions to adopt smart farming applications and identifies influential factors. Through survey data collected from 117 conventional farmers, three scenari[...]Article
Government support for enterprises can be provided in different forms, such as subsidies, tax incentives, or direct public investment. Government support can also be given to develop environmentally and socially responsible initiatives. In the a[...]Article
Living Labs (LLs) has become a cutting-edge approach to research and innovation across several domains, including agriculture. Research on using novel techniques for agricultural development in practice is lacking. This knowledge gap significant[...]Article
Agriculture is the backbone of many economies across the globe [...]Bulletin : Revue
Alim'agri, n. 1574 - Février 2024 - L'agriculture entre en Jeux
2024Les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024 qui ont lieu du 26 juillet au 11 août et du 28 août au 8 septembre sont pour la France un moment unique par son ampleur et son retentissement. Dans cette célébration, le pays sapprête à ray[...]Article
Agrobiodiversity is often touted as a crucial adaptation strategy to mitigate risks linked to climate change by increasing the response capability of a system to external shocks and, consequently, the smallholder's resilience. This scoping revie[...]Article
O. Rozenstein ; Y. Cohen ; V. Alchanatis ; K. Behrendt ; D.J. Bonfil ; G. Eshel ; A. Harari ; W.E. Harris ; I. Klapp ; Y. Laor ; R. Linker ; T. Paz-Kagan ; S. Peets ; S.M. Rutter ; Y. Salzer ; J. Lowenberg-DeBoer |Sustainability in our food and fiber agriculture systems is inherently knowledge intensive. It is more likely to be achieved by using all the knowledge, technology, and resources available, including data-driven agricultural technology and preci[...]Article
The European Green Deal aims to mitigate the environmental impact of food production while improving the income of primary producers and strengthening the EU's competitiveness. We examine how the degree of ecologisation affects farms' total fact[...]Article
This article presents findings from interviews that were conducted with agriculture and food system researchers to understand their views about what it means to conduct responsible or trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) research. Findin[...]Article
Y. Zhang ; L. Pichon ; S. Roux ; A. Pellegrino ; T. Simonneau ; B. Tisseyre |Inverse modeling (IM) is a valuable tool in agriculture for estimating model parameters that aid in decision-making. It is particularly useful when parameters cannot be directly measured or easily estimated due to logistical constraints in agric[...]Article
CONTEXT Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), which involve the collective action of various institutions such as governments, private companies, NGOs, and donors, have become a popular approach for developing agricultural value chains to impr[...]Article
La situation des agriculteurs est inconfortable. Ils doivent anticiper les changements, notamment climatiques, sans pour autant avoir de solutions appropriées et pérennes.Article
Climate change not only affects weather conditions, patterns, and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events but also changes the structure of government spending. Agriculture is an important sector of the European Union (EU). However,[...]Article
M.-A. Magne ; A. Alaphilippe ; A. Bérard ; S. Cournut ; B. Dumont ; Marie G. ; M. Hedde ; K. Morel ; S. Mugnier ; V. Parnaudeau ; M.-O. Nozières-Petit ; R. Paut ; T. Puech ; C. Robert ; J. Ryschawy ; R. Sabatier ; F. Stark ; A. Vialatte ; G. Martin |In response to criticism of current specialized and input-intensive agriculture, diversified farming systems (DFS) have increased in popularity. The most advanced forms of DFS include perennial components (e.g., perennial crops, trees), function[...]Article
The European Commission is directing efforts into triggering the storage of carbon in agricultural soils by encouraging the adoption of carbon farming practices under the European Green Deal and in other key EU policies. However, farmers that wa[...]Article
The European Parliament has recently passed the Nature Recovery law to restore degraded ecosystems and prevent natural disasters as part of its Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and Green Deal. In this respect, wetlands can provide a wide range o[...]E-Book
S. Krishnan, ed. ; A.J. Anand, ed. ; N. Prasanth, ed. ; S. Goundar, ed. ; C. Ananth, ed. | Boca Raton [États-Unis] : CRC Press | 2024Predictive Analysis in Smart Agricultureexplores computational engineering techniques and applications in agriculture development. Recent technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, big data, and machine learning are focused on for smart agricult[...]Article
Green transformation, including the latest European Green Plan, is a part of the European Union (EU) environmental policy, with agriculture occupying a special position in this transformation, being both part of the problem and its solution. Wit[...]Article
R. Matysik-Pejas ; M. Bogusz ; K. Daniek ; M. Szafranska ; L. Satola ; A. Krasnodebski ; P. Dziekanski |The level of agricultural development in European Union countries is characterized by great diversity. This is due to differences in natural conditions, the type of agricultural production, agrarian fragmentation, and the level of economic devel[...]Article
CONTEXT Transition to sustainable agriculture is in many cases hindered by a web of interconnected barriers across agricultural system levels (cropping, farming and agrifood systems), involving a diverse range of stakeholders (e.g., farmers, mar[...]Article
CONTEXT To design policies for sustainable irrigation planning, public decision-makers need knowledge about the potential environmental impacts of irrigated farming systems. In a previous paper, we proposed to couple Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) [...]Article
The Mediterranean region is facing important socioeconomic, demographic, environmental and geopolitical dynamics, leading to a continuous rise in food requirements. These interlinked challenges are embodied in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Dev[...]Article
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is an approach to farming pursued globally for sustaining agricultural production and improving ecosystem services and environmental benefits. However, the lack of a standardized definition and limited bioeconomic a[...]Article
Dans les rapports du Giec, les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et lempreinte carbone de lagriculture sont surestimées en raison da priori méthodologiques et de conventions statistiques.Article
Agricultural production and food are strategically important for nutrition, which is the basic requirement of living. Adequate supply of food depends on the sustainability of agricultural activities. Despite the proportional increase in other se[...]Article
S. Rodino ; R. Pop ; C. Sterie ; A. Giuca ; E. Dumitru |This article examines how circularity can be measured and evaluated in the agricultural sector. Circularity represents a key approach for promoting sustainability in agriculture and for the efficient management of resources. Through a comprehens[...]Article
P. Benito-Verdugo ; J. Martínez-Fernández ; Á. González-Zamora ; L. Almendra-Martín ; J. Gaona ; C.M. Herrero-Jiménez |Given the growing interest in drought impacts on crops, this work studied the impact of agricultural drought on wheat and barley during the period 2001–2020. The study was carried out in the Spanish regions of Castilla y León and Castilla&[...]Article
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S. Vermeulen ; Jan Cools ; J. Staes ; S. Van Passel |Due to climate change, the frequency and intensity of droughts are expected to increase. To improve resilience to droughts, proactive drought management is essential. Economic assessments are typically included to decide on the drought risk-redu[...]Article
Planet Earth is facing numerous imminent challenges, from climate change to ecological dysfunction, which are largely attributed to anthropogenic activities [...]Article
Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the 'midstream' of these value chains, after production and prior to final s[...]Article
Understanding the environmental impacts of current agricultural practices is a starting point for transitioning towards sustainable agriculture, which is a goal to be achieved by the European Union. This study aims to provide a set of environmen[...]Article
M. Hamam ; D. Spina ; R. Selvaggi ; G. Vindigni ; G. Pappalardo ; M. D'Amico ; G. Chinnici |Historically, both governmental and private sectors have significantly underinvested in the agriculture industry. Increasing agricultural and food system investments is necessary to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt[...]Article
R. Belmin ; M. Paulin ; E. Malézieux |Climate change is increasingly affecting agriculture worldwide, causing yield losses and undermining food security. Behind the international consensus on the urgent need for ambitious policies to adapt agriculture to climate change (AACC) hides [...]Article
E.A. Dumitru ; R.L. Berevoianu ; V.C. Tudor ; F.-R. Teodorescu ; D. Stoica ; A. Giuca ; D. Ilie ; C.M. Sterie |Agriculture is a fundamental aspect of our society, providing food and resources for a growing population. However, climate change is putting this sector at risk through rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and an increase in the freq[...]Article
Recent research has embraced the idea that digitalization is becoming a significant factor in addressing sustainability challenges. Digital platforms are becoming integral to this dynamic, opening a vast spectrum of possibilities that remain ins[...]Article
Entre épisodes de sécheresse et excès de précipitations, la gestion de la ressource en eau devient stratégique et prioritaire pour nos sociétés. Essentielle au développement des plantes, leau est la ressource première de lagriculture et des fi[...]Article
This study improves the environmental water supply in a wetland using a novel framework in which the environmental impacts due to irrigation supply and the economic losses for agriculture are minimized through the proposal of an optimal cropping[...]Article
Agriculture plays a dual role in the conservation of European biodiversity, as extensive agricultural lands provide habitats for more than half of Europe's species, but intensification and abandonment of farmland threaten these species' habitats[...]Article
Sustainable agriculture strives to ensure future food and energy supply while safeguarding natural resources. The interpretation of sustainability varies by context and country, yielding distinct indicators. Researchers have studied sustainable [...]Article
The cultivation of apples is one of the principal economic activities in Trentino, which is responsible for 25% of Italian apple production and 4% of European apple production. The industry is structurally based on migrant work, especially from [...]Article
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La réponse au besoin en eau de lagriculture devient un enjeu crucial face au changement climatique et à lobjectif de souveraineté alimentaire. Avec des ressources en eau et une disponibilité de plus en restreinte en été sur les territoires en[...]Article
Soil plays an essential role as a habitat, source of nutrients and support for vegetation. Promoting food security and environmental sustainability of agricultural systems requires an integrated approach to soil fertility management. Agricultura[...]Article
K. Van Ruymbeke ; J.G. Ferreira ; V.D. Gkisakis ; J. Kantelhardt ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; P. Matthews ; A. Niedermayr ; L. Schaller ; K. Bankowska ; K. Mertens ; L. Vranken |Many farm-management practices focus on maximizing production, while others better reconcile production with the regulation of ecological processes and sociocultural identity through the provisioning of ecosystem services (ESs). Though many stud[...]Article
Quantifying the sustainability of the agriculture, livestock, and agri-food industry under a homogeneous criterion is essential to strategize the implementation of sustainable development in the agri-food sector and increase the commitment of st[...]Article
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Within the regime established by the Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUDP); the present work explores the relationship between pesticides agricultural use per hectare of cropland and the GDP per capita of the rural population for tw[...]Article
J. Rieger ; F. Freund ; F. Offermann ; I. Geibel ; A. Gocht |The implications of dietary changes for the environment and for human health are well documented, but the impacts on the agricultural sector are less well researched. We fill this gap by specifying scenarios in which European consumers' diets ap[...]Article
A. Quisumbing ; S. Cole ; M. Elias ; S. Faas ; A. Galiè ; H. Malapit ; R. Meinzen-Dick ; E. Myers ; G. Seymour ; J. Twyman |This paper addresses women's empowerment in agriculture, innovations in its measurement, and emerging evidence. We discuss the evolution of the conceptualization and measurement of women's empowerment and gender equality since 2010. Using a gend[...]Article
This introductory article to the special issue contributes to ongoing debates on pesticides in agriculture by focusing on their alternatives. Through a literature review, we explore the pluralism of those alternatives and the socio-political pro[...]Article
This article discusses the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in providing human-like intelligence from data to support intelligent decision-making and proposes a few researchable issues for addressing challenges making AI useful in agric[...]Article
The main objective of this article is to better understand the category of technical efficiency of agriculture. To achieve this goal, empirical research was carried out, the subject of which was to estimate the average technical efficiency of ag[...]Article
In the modern agricultural landscape, realizing data's full potential requires a unified infrastructure where stakeholders collaborate and share their data to gain insights and create business value. The agricultural data ecosystem (ADE) serves [...]Article
Depuis le néolithique, lagriculture na cessé de sadapter et de se transformer en fonction du contexte environnemental, social et des soubresauts de lhistoire. Lagriculture mondiale nest ni homogène ni immobile. Au fil des années, elle se[...]Article
The agricultural sector faces various challenges and barriers in transitioning from linear resource consumption to a circular economy. Based on the literature, four key areas of challenges are identified and discussed, conversion technology and [...]Article
Agricultural stakeholders disagree on how to put the general concept of sustainability into practice. But most recognize the need for assessment methods to characterize the current situation and gauge progress yet to be made. Many sustainability[...]Article
This paper looks for empirical support to the existence of a positive nexus between economic and environmental performance in farming as implied by the Sustainable Intensification hypothesis. As the ecological scale at which this nexus actually [...]Article
In recent years, the adverse effect of climate change on soil properties in the agricultural sector has become a dreadful reality worldwide. Climate change-induced abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought and temperature fluctuations are devas[...]Article
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CONTEXT With the warming trend and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, accurate crop yield estimation is becoming urgent. Crop yield estimation mainly consists of two methods: crop model simulation and remote sensing observations[...]Article
The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to latest CAP regulation.The AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System) concept is now widely applied in the EU partly due to lat[...]Article
T. Mokhnane ; S. Adjlane ; R. Khiari |Algeria's border areas are among the sensitive issues that may pose significant threats to Algeria's national security. These include smuggling, organized crime, drugs, and terrorism. As a result, Algeria has implemented a set of preventive meas[...]Article
The present study addresses, for the first time, the difference between older and younger farmers (those aged over and under 40 years) and proposes a methodology to identify factors that affect generational renewal in the Italian agricultural se[...]Article
Le secteur agricole a les moyens de réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Encore faut-il le faire-savoir de manière idoine.Article
The economic effects of global warming have gained considerable attention in the recent economic literature. While the relationship between rainfall and agriculture is well known, precipitations alone do not capture the soil water availability, [...]Article
J. Sanou ; A. Tengberg ; H.R. Bazié ; D. Mingasson ; M. Ostwald |Global population growth, especially in developing countries, will most likely require an increase in agricultural production, but the sustainability of this production cannot be achieved without the preservation of ecosystem functions. Therefor[...]Article
Climate change mitigation in the agricultural sector is essential to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C within reach. This article explores why there has been a limited adoption of carbon farming policies in the EU, despite the p[...]Article
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Lagriculture connaîtra une deuxième révolution : départs à la retraite non remplacés et haute technicité. Dans ce contexte, la communication doit être plus engageante.Article
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A. Bernis-Fonteneau ; M. Aakairi ; O. Saadani-Hassani ; G. Castangia ; R. Ait Babahmad ; P. Colangelo ; U. D'Ambrosio ; D.I. Jarvis |Local agrobiodiversity in remote areas such as the Moroccan High Atlas is poorly studied, despite being of great importance for the sustainability and resilience of mountainous populations. This includes important species such as wheat (Triticum[...]Article
We use many kinds of digital technologies in our daily life and they lead to radical changes. These technologies are recently being adopted by agriculture and food industry and their use in various applications is tested. The results of the stud[...]Article
Having long been confined to the role of family farm helper, women now make up more than a quarter of farm managers in France. Alongside that, the agricultural world needs to transition towards more sustainable practices and models. Inadequate o[...]Article
La Méditerranée na pas lattention stratégique quelle mérite. Or, les enjeux agricoles, alimentaires et environnementaux sy intensifient. Où se situent les leviers pour combattre cette dégradation continue ?Article
Dans le plan France 2030, une enveloppe de près de trois milliards deuros est prévue pour décarboner et accroître la productivité de lagriculture. Les objectifs sont ambitieux, mais il faut veiller à ce quils ne soient pas entravés par des ph[...]Article
Les enjeux de transformation des pratiques de production et de commercialisation questionnent les arrangements organisationnels dans les filières agricoles, dont les démarches contractuelles. Celles-ci sont diverses et peu de travaux étudient le[...]Article
Capitalism in the theorizations of sustainability transformation has been largely taken for granted for its misleadingly assumed stability and homogeneity, thus limiting the scope for defining alternative futures, policy options and strategi[...]Article
Climate change and agriculture are inextricably linked and influence one another. Many studies have been conducted on the topic, but none have focused on developing and developed countries. This study aims to investigate the relationship between[...]Article
Promoting pesticide reduction is a critical component of achieving sustainable agriculture. However, the challenges involved in coordinating diverse stakeholder demands pose difficulties in promoting pesticide reduction behavior. To reveal the e[...]Article
A. Ait Sidhoum ; C. Canessa ; J. Sauer |The European Union (EU) budget allocated to agri-environmental schemes (AES) has increased consistently over the past 20 years. European citizens should expect effective spending of these public funds, so investigation of the effects of th[...]Article
Organisé tous les dix ans par le ministère de l'Agriculture, le recensement agricole concerne toutes les exploitations agricoles, même les plus petites. Cette opération statistique de grande ampleur dresse un portrait instantané et détaillé de l[...]Article
Promoting rural development is essential for the general economic transformation of people, hence requiring great attention from different government systems. This study assessed the risk, vulnerability, and resilience of agriculture, as well as[...]Article
Global climate change has led to a severe loss of water and land resources and has exacerbated food crisis concerns. The water-land-food nexus in agricultural irrigation systems is receiving increasing attention. However, for sustainable food pr[...]Article
We can pursue a more resilient and sustainable future if both agriculture and the food system evolve driven by a new model based on agroecology. By applying ecological principles, agroecological farming adapts to local resources, closes biomass [...]Article
This study aims to measure the total productivity of agricultural production factors through the calculation of the Malmquist index for six Mediterranean countries during the period 2003-2018. The results indicate that the growth of agricultural[...]