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T. Iizumi ; Z. Shen ; J. Furuya ; T. Koizumi ; G. Furuhashi ; W. Kim ; M. Nishimori |Adaptation will be essential in many sectors, including agriculture, as a certain level of warming is anticipated even after substantial climate mitigation. However, global adaptation costs and adaptation limits in agriculture are understudied. [...]Article
Climate variability in agriculture and crop water requirement: spatial analysis of Italian provinces
Water saving in crop production under climate and environmental changing conditions represents a critical issue for agricultural economy and sustainability. This study develops a novel approach to measure the impact of climate variability on cro[...]Article
I.L. Birtalan ; A. Bartha ; A. Neulinger ; G. Bardos ; A. Olah ; J. Racz ; A. Rigo |Background: There is a growing amount of research interest to understand the role of food in well-being. The demand for community supported agriculture (CSA), bringing people spatially, economically, and socially closer to food, is continuously [...]Article
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La région méditerranéenne, l'un des 34 points chauds du monde (hot spots), représente une diversité biologique exceptionnelle soulignée récemment face à la crise actuelle d'extinction d'espèces due à des changements globaux et aux facteurs anthr[...]Article
Social distancing and mobility restrictions adopted in Italy to deal with the COVID-19 emergency can also alter the operating conditions of the Italian agricultural labour market. The restrictions can limit the movement of temporary labour that [...]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
Z. Zhai ; J.F. Martínez ; V. Beltran ; N.L. Martínez |Undoubtedly, high demands for food from the world-wide growing population are impacting the environment and putting many pressures on agricultural productivity. Agriculture 4.0, as the fourth evolution in the farming technology, puts forward fou[...]Article
Le statut de l'agriculteur doit être précisé afin de bénéficier de politiques publiques plus efficientes.Article
B. Zahour ; L. Rachidi |Au Maroc, avec la création dun grand nombre des coopératives ainsi quune disparition excessive de ces coopératives, et vu la contribution importante de ces coopératives dans la création de la richesse dans notre économie et la sauvegarde du b[...]Article
R. Francaviglia ; J. Álvaro-Fuentes ; C. Di Bene ; L. Gai ; K. Regina ; E. Turtola |In the European Union, various crop diversification systems such as crop rotation, intercropping and multiple cropping, as well as low-input management practices, have been promoted to sustain crop productivity while maintaining environmental qu[...]Article
I.N. Xynias ; I. Mylonas ; E.G. Korpetis ; E. Ninou ; A. Tsaballa ; I.D. Avdikos ; A.G. Mavromatis |This brief historical review focuses on durum wheat domestication and breeding in the Mediterranean region. Important milestones in durum wheat breeding programs across the countries of the Mediterranean basin before and after the Green Revoluti[...]Article
M. Fontanet ; M. Fontanet ; E. Scudiero ; T.H. Skaggs ; D. Fernàndez-Garcia ; F. Ferrer ; G. Rodrigo ; J. Bellvert |Irrigation scheduling decision-support tools can improve water use efficiency by matching irrigation recommendations to prevailing soil and crop conditions within a season. Yet, little research is available on how to support real-time precision [...]Article
Développer une politique de stockage de l'eau dans le cadre du plan de relance de l'économie est nécessaire pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique et sécuriser le revenu des agriculteurs.Article
L. Ginelli ; J. Candau ; S. Girard ; M. Houdart ; V. Deldrève ; C. Noûs |Le présent article constitue une introduction au dossier thématique « Écologisation des pratiques et territorialisation des activités ». Partant du constat dune proximité implicite entre les deux processus, nous proposons une définition de léc[...]Article
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Turkey ranks fourth among the tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum L.) producers in the world and the tomato varieties extend to 40 % of the total vegetable yield of the country. Farmers have continued to cultivate tomato due to the economic potent[...]Article
The value-added diversification strategy provides an option for guaranteeing the sustainability of small farms. This study examines how factors related to managerial strategy and socio-environmental sustainability influence the efficiency of div[...]Article
A. Aït Houssa ; S. Drissi ; A. Asfers ; L. Oubaki ; Z. Haddouche ; F. Amlal ; H. Chraibi |Létude est dédiée aux grandes entreprises agrumicoles structurées et décentralisées. Elle fournit les éléments agronomiques et financiers pour un modèle de contrôle de gestion de type bottom-up concevable à partir de lexpérience sur la nouvell[...]Article
The aim of the paper is to recognize the level of employment and gross value added (GVA) in agriculture in relation to the other sectors of the European Union economy. The following research tasks were formulated: analysis of employment levels a[...]Article
This study describes the evolution of the Spanish irrigated sector and focuses on water abstraction, water consumption, and energy use in the period 19502017. The analysis shows evidence of the basins reaching closure state and the impact on en[...]Article
Environmental impact assessment of organic vs. integrated olive-oil systems in Mediterranean context
Olive oil is a widely used consumer product, so producers and consumers are increasingly looking for sustainable productions. The olive-oil production chain requires continuous improvements to gradually replace the most environmentally impactful[...]Article
Les espaces-test agricoles (ETA) sont des dispositifs novateurs et réversibles daccès au foncier qui permettent de tester le métier dagriculteur en conditions réelles avec un minimum de risques. Ils sont encore peu étudiés. Cet article sintér[...]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
A. Bouzid ; K. Boudedja ; F. Cheriet ; M. Bouchetara ; A. Mellal |Cet article tente de répondre à la question suivante : au-delà des caractéristiques de lexploitation agricole, quels sont les autres facteurs qui influencent les différents types dinnovation dans les filières stratégiques de lagriculture algé[...]Article
Theoretically, both land fragmentation and consolidation (defragmentation) approaches are considered as tools of land management. However, although a large literature about the relationships among land fragmentation, land consolidation, agricult[...]Article
Agro-food networks are characterized by complex material exchanges among farms, processors, consumers, and waste managers involved in fertilization, food, feed and bioenergy production. Better coordination of material exchanges at the local scal[...]Article
The maintenance or even more the enhancement of stuttering networks and supply chains suffering the imperfections of globalisation have been critically stressed by the pandemic. Solutions will require technology, innovation, and political determ[...]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
J. Dwyer ; J. Dwyer ; C. Short ; M. Berriet-Solliec ; C. Déprès ; F.-G. Lataste ; K. Hart ; J. Prazan |In recent decades, various public policies have targeted agriculture and forestry's relationship with environmental protection and management. Among environmental policy communities the approach is increasingly framed through the theoretical con[...]Article
Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les périphéries désertiques égyptiennes sont devenues le lieu de projection de l'avenir de l'agriculture nationale. Une véritable frontière agro-désertique a émergé, se déplaçant à des rythmes inégaux au cours des[...]Article
Africa was the only continent not to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of 50% poverty reduction. This paper asks whether Africa will fare better in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressing poverty and hunger by 2030. To[...]Article
La politique agricole commune (PAC) date de 1962. La situation de l'Europe a beaucoup évoluée depuis, comme le montre l'essoufflement de son projet politique. Pourtant l'Europe occupe la première place des exportateurs mondiaux dans un secteur d[...]Article
D. Tria ; A. Alghorbany ; A.I.B. Muhamad ; M.M. Alam |Agriculture is considered to be a vital aspect of Algeria's national economy and rural development. Achieving sustainable agricultural production, generating employment, reducing imports and minimising post-harvest crops losses are the major obj[...]Article
E. Asadi ; M. Isazadeh ; S. Samadianfard ; M.F. Ramli ; A. Mosavi ; N. Nabipour ; S. Shamshirband ; E. Hajnal ; K.-W. Chau |Identification and management of the groundwater quality are of utmost importance for maintaining freshwater resources in arid and semi-arid areas, which is essential for sustainable development. Based on the quality of the groundwater in variou[...]Article
The response of the global food system to the Covid-19 crisis demonstrated not just its capacity to prevent a health crisis turning into a food crisis, but also highlighted deep divisions around the manner in which food security and climate acti[...]Article
In Mediterranean-climate regions, irrigated agriculture is especially vulnerable to the risk of hydrological drought, and irrigators are particularly concerned about the negative effects of water supply failures. This paper proposes a new index-[...]Article
Pour éviter la poursuite de la dégradation des revenus des agriculteurs, il faut changer de logiciel : changer les modèles productifs, économiques et politiques.Article
Notre article a pour objectif lanalyse de limpact de lagriculture contractuelle dans le secteur maraîcher au Maroc sur le gain dintensification en travail des systèmes de production des fournisseurs agricoles. Cette analyse est fondée sur un[...]Article
L. Smuleac ; C. Rujescu ; A. Smuleac ; F. Imbrea ; I. Radulov ; D. Manea ; A. Ienciu ; T. Adamov ; R. Pascalau |Global warming is an unanimously accepted phenomenon by the international scientific community, being already highlighted by the analysis of observational data over long periods of time, with an increase in temperature of over 1 °C. Climate chan[...]Article
Drought is an important natural hazard that is expected to increase in frequency and intensity as a consequence of climate change. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of future changes in the temperature and precipitation regime of Spain on [...]Article
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G. Barcaccia ; V. D'Agonisto ; A. Zotti ; B. Cozzi |The recent outbreak of a new Coronavirus has developed into a global pandemic with about 10.5 million reported cases and over 500,000 deaths worldwide. Our prospective paper reports an updated analysis of the impact that this pandemic had on the[...]Article
G. Nikolaou ; D. Neocleous ; A. Christou ; E. Kitta ; N. Katsoulas |The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme water scarcity by the year 2025. Pressurized irrigation sys[...]Article
L.A. German ; A.M. Bonanno ; L.C. Foster ; L. Cotula |Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has also raised concerns over implications for customary land ri[...]Article
L'adoption des nouvelles technologies dans le secteur agricole marocain est devenue aujourdhui une impérative nécessité. Dune part, pour suivre la tendance mondiale en matière dinnovation et rester compétitif, et dautre part pour répondre à [...]Article
The subject of the review article is the development of rural tourism based on innovative food products. The aim of this paper is to identify key forms of rural entrepreneurial tourism in Vojvodina. Gastronomy plays a significant role in present[...]Article
Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The o[...]Article
In the current polarizing political climate, what constitutes just has become increasingly questioned and debated in the public arena. Tyrants seem everywhere to shape people's understanding of who belongs in communities and nation‐states [...]Article
Succession trends in agriculture have been downward in many European regions, especially in the less favoured and mountainous areas of southern Europe. This article aims at understanding family farm succession dynamics in extensive livestock far[...]Article
La lutte contre la désertification, est également une lutte contre la pauvreté, elle ne peut que s'inscrire, dans le décloisonnement sectoriel afin de permettre aux actions de l'Etat de bénéficier de la synergie et des complémentarités intersect[...]Article
O. Brînzan ; M. Dragoi ; D. Bociort ; E. Tigan ; N. Mateoc-Sîrb ; M. Lungu |The paper presents a market-oriented system of returnable guarantees that can be combined with tradable permits to encourage farmers to use alternative sources of water instead of the regular watering network, or to steer the farming system towa[...]Article
The Mediterranean Basin is at the same time a region of stark social and ecological contrasts and a global biodiversity hotspot, where complex local evolving land use and land cover patterns compose the regions landscapes. In this context, we a[...]Article
With the growing population and climate change, increasing demands for water are intensifying competition between agricultural stakeholders. Since the mid-20th century, numerous crop models and modeling techniques have emerged for the quantitati[...]Article
The need to redesign more sustainable agricultural systems able of producing more, especially through intercropping or agroforestry, cannot be achieved without taking into account the essential aspect of production variability. Yet, although man[...]Article
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As we understand more about the challenges posed by global warming, it has become widely accepted that water is the principal medium through which society feels the climate-related stresses. But we have an opportunity to flip water from being a [...]Article
V. Alary ; S. Messad ; A. Aboul-Naga ; M.A. Osman ; T.H. Abdelsabour ; A.-A.E. Salah ; X. Juanes |On newly cultivated lands in deserts as in the majority of dryland areas, the sustainability of agricultural systems is often debated in terms of socioeconomic viability and agro-ecological longevity. In these contexts, livestock production syst[...]Article
Considering the existing world population, set of environmental impacts, and predicted changes in dietary trends, one can expect that, in the coming decades, food security will remain high on the list of sustainability concerns. In relation to t[...]Article
Shifting from a linear to a circular economy in the agrifood domain requires innovative business models, including reverse logistics, new visions on customer-supplier relationships, and new forms of organization and marketing strategies at the c[...]Article
Recent research studies and policies about innovative solutions to reduce water and energy consumption in food production are briefly reviewed. Options to increase water use efficiency and productivity include soil mulching, drip irrigation, def[...]Article
Recent decades have witnessed unprecedented development in the field of biomedical and chemical science due to an economical, precise, and sensitive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. Nevertheless, very few reports have highlighted[...]Article
C. Alcaide Zaragoza ; C. Alcaide Zaragoza ; R. Gonzalez Perea ; I. Fernández García ; E. Camacho Poyato ; J.A. Rodriguez Diaz |Olive orchard plays a key role in the economy of Andalusia (Southern Spain). It is also the most representative and extensive crop in that region. In fact, for that reason, it is the crop to which more water is allocated in the Guadalquivir Rive[...]Article
A.F. Fieldsend ; E. Cronin ; E. Varga ; S. Biro ; E. Rogge |Innovation rests not only on discovery but also on cooperation and interactive learning. In agriculture, forestry and related sectors, multi-actor partnerships for co-innovation occur in many forms, from international projects to informal act[...]Article
For most of human history, about 300,000 years, we lived as hunter gatherers in sustainable, egalitarian communities of a few dozen people. Human life on Earth, and our place within the planets biophysical systems, changed dramatically with the[...]Article
Il faut du temps pour comprendre ce que la Commission européenne a exactement proposé pour le budget de la Pac, dans le cadre de sa nouvelle proposition de perspectives financières 2021-2027Article
Le drainage est un élément incontournable de lagriculture dans les territoires hydromorphes, où drains, fossés, canaux, etc. permettent dévacuer leau en excès, améliorant ainsi les qualités du sol. Dans cet article qui fait le point sur léta[...]Article
A. Wifaya ; F. Mokrini ; R. Bouharroud ; F. Elame ; L. Bouirden ; Y. Karra |Au Maroc, lévolution de lindustrie horticole est étroitement liée à la modernisation et loptimisation des facteurs de production. Cependant, la serre horticole est un élément indispensable pour la production des primeurs en agriculture protég[...]Article
Les circuits courts seraient l'avenir de l'agriculture. Dans l'idéal, sans doute. Mais la réalité du terrain témoigne de leurs limites et de leurs contraintes.Article
Although the positive effects of irrigation on food security and poverty alleviation are well-documented, public investments in this area have been on the decline since the 1990s. Comparing irrigation schemes in Zambia and Morocco, our authors h[...]Article
The biodiversity of agricultural landscapes is strongly dependent on extensive traditional management practices and the proportion of natural and semi-natural habitats within the landscape. Within Europe, contemporary agricultural management pra[...]Article
P. Mauguin ; T. Caquet |La question de lantagonisme apparent entre biodiversité, dune part, et agriculture et systèmes alimentaires, dautre part, est posée par de nombreuses analyses récentes réalisées à léchelle mondiale. Lun des enjeux de la recherche agronomiqu[...]Article
N. Vivier, animateur ; J.P. Bordes ; C. Huyghe ; E. Collin |Aux nombreux défis anciens que devait affronter lagriculture pour produire plus et mieux, sen ajoutent maintenant de nouveaux, qui se montrent pressants : changement climatique et mondialisation des échanges qui entraînent une circulation acc[...]Article
Agriculture is a major source of environmental pressure worldwide. At the same time, most countries support the farming sector through a variety of policy instruments. This article discusses the impact of agricultural policies on environmental p[...]Article
This study proposes an assessment of the regional agricultural efficiency convergence potential across the Romanian development regions during a period of sixteen years (from 2001 to 2017). Using the Cobb-Douglas function and the cluster analysi[...]Article
Good management of water resources requires a good allocation of their availability, especially in public irrigated schemes in Tunisia. This paper contributes to a better reallocation of available water resources at the farm and regional levels.[...]Article
Cet article étudie une politique publique européenne visant à intégrer la problématique du changement climatique en agriculture, à partir d'un projet lancé en 2013 dans le cadre de l'Agenda de Lisbonne, le « Climate-Smart Agriculture Booster » ([...]Article
La relation industrie-agriculture : état des lieux et impact sur la croissance économique en Algérie
LAlgérie a adopté une stratégie dintégration industrie-agriculture dont lobjectif est la mise en place dun système national de production dans une dynamique douverture à linternational permettant une croissance économique durable. Ce trava[...]Article
The use of satellites to monitor crops and support their management is gathering increasing attention. The improved temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution of the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Sentinel-2 A + B twin platform is paving t[...]Article
M. Houdart ; P.-M. Le Bel ; S. Lardon |La question de la participation des acteurs aux dispositifs daction publique dans les projets de développement territorial est centrale. Comment en rendre compte ? Que peuvent nous dire les modalités de la participation des acteurs aux dynamiqu[...]Article
The impact of urban change in developing countries has been manifold. With increasing change in urban morphology, urban peripheries have increased in numbers and typologies. In recent decades, patterns of Algerian population change have concentr[...]Article
This study examines the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture, and the extent to which those studies have addressed the impacts of, and policies to mitigate individual types of risk as opposed to more holist[...]Article
Les changements climatiques, dont les incidences touchent tous les secteurs, y compris lagriculture, ainsi que tous les pays dont le Maroc, ne nécessitent pas seulement une réponse globale, mais aussi et tout particulièrement une adaptation loc[...]Article
J. Mendes ; T.M. Pinho ; F. Neves dos Santos ; J.J. Sousa ; E. Peres ; J. Boaventura-Cunha ; M. Cunha ; R. Morais |Traditionally farmers have used their perceptual sensorial systems to diagnose and monitor their crops health and needs. However, humans possess five basic perceptual systems with accuracy levels that can change from human to human which are lar[...]Article
M. Borychowski ; S. Stepien ; J. Polcyn ; A. Tosovic-Stevanovic ; D. Calovic ; G. Lalic ; M. Zuza |We investigated the resilience of small-scale family farms because of the contemporary importance of both the farms resilience and the role of these farms in five countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors addressed a research gap con[...]Article
G. Nguyen ; F. Purseigle ; J. Brailly ; B. Legagneux |Répondant à la difficile transmission familiale des exploitations ou aux stratégies de croissance des plus grandes d'entre elles, l'essor de la prestation de services est lune des tendances marquantes de l'évolution de l'agriculture française. [...]Article
One of the greatest 21st century challenges is meeting the need to feed a growing world population which is expected to increase by about 35% by 2050. To meet this challenge, it is necessary to make major improvements on current food production [...]Article
T. Nasser ; G. Faour ; L. Touchart |La plaine intérieure de la Beqaa est considérée comme le grenier agricole du Liban. Dans cette région, la sécheresse représente un problème majeur dont les conséquences sont aggravées par une absence de gestion efficace des ressources en eaux et[...]Article
M. Pergola ; A. Persiani ; V. Pastore ; A.M. Palese ; C. D'Adamo ; E. De Falco ; G. Celano |Horticultural farms are faced with the problem of disposing of huge amounts of agricultural by-products whose management requires sustainable solutions. Composting means to recycle organic waste to make composta high agronomic value productabl[...]Article
In this paper, we study sustainability transitions in agriculture and highlight several elements that distinguish transition dynamics in this sector from those more frequently studied in the socio-technical transitions literature. Our assumption[...]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
Crop production must increase substantially to meet the needs of a rapidly growing human population, but this is constrained by the availability of resources such as nutrients, water, and land. There is also an urgent need to reduce negative env[...]Article
Agricultural specialization has disconnected crop and livestock production in many farms and regions. As a result, crop farms are deficient in nitrogen to fertilize their crops, while livestock farms are deficient in proteins to feed their anima[...]Article
D. Andrade ; F. Pasini ; F.R. Scarano |Agriculture is one of the main examples of the interface humankind-nature-technology. However, innovation in agriculture has often been associated to only one component of this tryptic: technology - in particular its development, use and applica[...]Article
C. Gras ; D.M. Cáceres |Framed by efficiency and productivity narratives, technological innovations are conceived as the inexorable pathway to agricultural development, obscuring the associated appropriation of ecological surpluses and depletion of natural resources. I[...]Article
J. Phillipson ; M. Gorton ; R. Turner ; M. Shucksmith ; K. Aitken-McDermott ; F. Areal ; P. Cowie ; S. Maioli ; R. McAreavey ; D.M. Souza Monteiro ; R. Newbery ; L. Panzone ; F. Rowe ; S. Shortall |This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally on current evidence for the UK, as well as lessons from the 2[...]Article
Olive groves are key elements of the Mediterranean basin landscape. In southern Italy, olive polycultural systems are predominant over specialized ones. These systems occupy marginal and inner areas and are highly susceptible to abandonment. The[...]Article
The Corona virus is spreading at a very rapid rate, causing tremendous damage to all sectors without any exception, but nevertheless the extent of these damage and the losses resulting from the pandemic differ from one sector to another and from[...]Article
Since late 2019, an outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread all over the world, challenging the sustainability of global agri-food markets. Although its full impact on agricultural and food markets is not yet evide[...]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[...]