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N.N. Kourgialas ; G. Psarras ; G. Morianou ; V. Pisinaras ; G. Koubouris ; N. Digalaki ; S. Malliaraki ; K. Aggelaki ; G. Motakis ; G. Arampatzis |Despite the fact that the olive tree is one of the best-adapted species in Mediterranean hydroclimate conditions, climate extremes impose negative effects on olive fruit set and development and subsequently on crop yield. Considering that the fr[...]Article
The worlds population grows yearly, so increasing food production is necessary, to meet consumer demands. This production must be clean; thus, sustainable agriculture seems to represent a solution. However, social, economic, and environmental b[...]Article
F. Boenzi ; S. Digiesi ; F. Facchini ; B. Silvestri |The agri-food supply chain is responsible for high GHG emissions. In industrial food processing, there is potential for reducing environmental impacts. In the case of apricot jam, several practices for realizing the finished product can be adopt[...]Article
Cet article questionne la construction de la performance globale des exploitations agricoles en Circuits courts et de proximité (CCP) à partir des attentes des agriculteurs engagés dans ces circuits. L'analyse repose sur l'objectivation du disco[...]Article
Despite the increasing demand for food, agricultural systems are struggling with new challenges such as climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity and disease. This struggle requires not only ecological changes but also[...]Article
Les collectifs d'agriculteurs sont considérés comme des leviers pour les transitions agricoles. Parmi la diversité de collectifs existants, de nouvelles formes de collectifs tournés vers une agriculture alternative et agroécologique émergent et [...]Article
S. Vanino ; C. Di Bene ; C. Piccini ; G. Fila ; B. Pennelli ; R. Zornoza ; V. Sanchez-Navarro ; J. Álvaro-Fuentes ; R. Hüppi ; J. Six ; R. Farina |The intensification of agricultural systems has caused a noticeable impact on agro-ecosystem services. Thus, the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices such as crop diversification and reduction of external inputs represent an alter[...]Article
J. Helfenstein ; M. Bürgi ; N. Debonne ; T. Dimopoulos ; V. Diogo ; W. Dramstad ; A. Edlinger ; M. García-Martín ; J. Hernik ; T. Kizos ; A. Lausch ; C. Levers ; F. Mohr ; G. Moreno ; R. Pazur ; M. Siegrist ; R. Swart ; C. Thenail ; P.H. Verburg ; T.G. Williams ; A. Zarina ; F. Herzog |It has been shown that the COVID-19 pandemic affected some agricultural systems more than others, and even within geographic regions, not all farms were affected to the same extent. To build resilience of agricultural systems to future shocks, i[...]Article
X. Diaz de Otalora ; F. Dragoni ; A. Del Prado ; F. Estellés ; A. Wilfart ; D. Krol ; L. Balaine ; V. Anestis ; B. Amon |European dairy production faces significant economic, environmental, and social sustainability challenges. Given the great diversity of dairy cattle production systems in Europe, region-specific concepts to improve environmental and socioeconomi[...]Article
CONTEXT Mediterranean peri-urban regions have changed considerably in recent decades, leading to different farming system trajectories. The high level of heterogeneity and complexity of these areas are particularly challenging in terms of unders[...]Article
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V. Sharma ; A.K. Tripathi ; H. Mittal |With increasing population, the demand for agricultural productivity is rising to meet the goal of 'Zero Hunger'. Consequently, farmers have optimized the agricultural activities in a sustainable way with the modern technologies. This integratio[...]Article
Les tensions de rôles au travail des agriculteurs constituent un sujet très actuel encore peu traité. La mutation des systèmes agricoles conduit les agriculteurs à endosser de nouveaux rôles en particulier en matière de distribution de leur prod[...]Article
Lagriculture est lun des principaux secteurs émetteurs de gaz à effets de serre (GES), en étant la principale source de méthane (CH4) et de protoxyde dazote (N2O), deux importants GES autres que le CO2. Réciproquement, le climat est un facteu[...]Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused catastrophic global upheaval with the potential to alter geopolitical and socio-economic norms. This study offers potential insights for the post COVID-19 era by investigating the impact of the determinants of gr[...]Article
A. Casson ; B. Ortuani ; V. Giovenzana ; L. Brancadoro ; S. Corsi ; O. Gharsallah ; R. Guidetti ; A. Facchi |Viticulture is gradually shifting to more sustainable production systems and a fair number of studies aim at assessing the environmental impacts of different technologies and techniques adopted in the wine production through the Life Cycle Asses[...]Article
F. Maffezzoli ; M. Ardolino ; A. Bacchetti ; M. Perona ; F. Renga |Demographics will increase the demand for food and reduce the availability of labour in many countries all over the world. Moreover, scarcity of natural resources, climate change and food waste these are issues that are strongly impacting the ag[...]Article
This article analyses several possibilities to valorize prickly pear farming in Algeria, a context dominated by semi-arid ecosystems. It uses sociotechnical and evolutionary approaches in order to understand the new dynamics happening within thi[...]Article
Agriculture is a major driver of change with manifold impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. As social-ecological systems, agricultural landscapes result from the intertwined interaction between farmers and nature, and contribute to sev[...]Article
The study focuses on dairy cattle farming systems and the sources of innovation for breeders in the Setif and Souk-Ahras dairy basins recognized by cereals, dairy cattle breeding and irrigated crops. A sample of 140 family farms was selected and[...]Article
Cropping system design is being transformed through the twofold evolution of agricultural practices for an agroecological transition, and of equipment diversification for agrotechnical needs. Among the most well-known drivers there are genetic s[...]Article
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between farm size and farm performance in Algeria. Unlike most previous studies, this preliminary study uses a large dataset comprising 26 735 farmers in Biskra region. Two farming sectors[...]Article
Les Projets alimentaires territoriaux rencontrent un certain succès. Ils créent du lien entre les initiatives déjà existantes afin de pérenniser le développement territorial. Néanmoins, ils doivent cultiver leurs particularités.Article
We used Cyprus as a model to link the WaterEnergyFoodClimate (WEFC) nexus indicators (e.g., carbon and water footprints) to the ecosystem services (ES) provided by 39 mixed orchards (stone fruits and nuts) on organic (Org) and conventional (C[...]Article
Le contexte géopolitique, climatique et sanitaire oblige les agriculteurs à sadapter. Anticipation des risques et flexibilité sont les maîtres mots dans un monde instable.Article
Olive cultivation is the most important agro-ecosystem in the Mediterranean basin. Despite the remarkable intensification of this system (i.e., the use of high tree densities and large amounts of inputs), the environmental and socio-economic imp[...]Article
G. Giacchè ; V. Saint-Ges ; Y. Durrieu ; M. Collé ; C. Aubry |Lagriculture urbaine connaît un nouvel essor en France depuis une vingtaine dannées. Un large éventail de formes, des jardins familiaux urbains à l'agriculture en indoor ou sur les toits, se décline dans les territoires. Cependant les collecti[...]Article
This study aims to conduct an exploratory and comparative analysis between Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organizations (FVPOs) and fruit and vegetable producers that are not part of these organizations (Non-FVPOs) regarding the prioritization, pe[...]Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly disrupted the household behavior in all areas and also those related to eating and daily food. Research carried out shows there have been significant changes compared to pre-COVID levels in the way consumers pla[...]Article
A. Linares Quero ; U.I. Yoldi ; O. Gava ; G. Schwarz ; A. Povellato ; C. Astrain |This article is aimed at analyzing the potential that CAP 20142020-related instruments have on supporting agroecological transitions in Europe by focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of key instruments. Through a stepwise participatory rese[...]Article
In arid and semi-arid regions, agriculture is an important element of the national economy, but this sector is a large consumer of water. In a context of high pressure on water resources, appropriate management is required. In semi-arid, intensi[...]Article
CONTEXT Declining rainfall with increasing variability, increasing temperature extremes, and declining soil fertility are threatening crop production and ultimately food security in the rainfed Mediterranean environment in Morocco. Conservation[...]Article
The adverse effects of climate change on agricultural production systems threaten food security. In terms of dairy farming, it affects milk yield, quality, animal health, growth, reproduction, forage crops and rangelands. These effects are not o[...]Article
In recent decades, most Spanish Mediterranean agricultural regions have been transformed to meet global food demands and have joined global agricultural production networks: a convergence process that has granted them steady economic growth. In [...]Article
C. Bux ; M. Lombardi ; E. Varese ; V. Amicarelli |Conventional and intensive agriculture systems represent an environmental challenge. This research aims at evaluating the economic and environmental implications of conventional and organic durum wheat production in Southern Italy by applying ma[...]Article
Y. Vecchio ; J. Di Pasquale ; T. Del Giudice ; G. Pauselli ; M. Masi ; F. Adinolfi |CONTEXT Precision farming (PF) is a term that is now widespread throughout agricultural systems worldwide. It is studied in many ways, from its strictly technical connotation of a farm management strategy that uses information technology to sup[...]Article
The achievement of resilient food systems requires an integrated approach between optimal localization of productions and changes in food consumption and between local evaluations of the food system and global visions. In this regard, we develop[...]Article
E. Stephens ; J. Timsina ; G. Martin ; M. van Wijk ; L. Klerkx ; P. Reidsma ; V. Snow |CONTEXT In May 2020, approximately four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the journal's editorial team realized there was an opportunity to collect information from a diverse range of agricultural systems on how the pandemic was playing out and[...]Article
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T. Kuhn ; N. Möhring ; A. Töpel ; F. Jakob ; W. Britz ; S. Bröring ; A. Pich ; U. Schwaneberg ; M. Rennings |CONTEXT Policies and strategies at EU and national level aim at a reduced use of pesticides in agriculture, such as the Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU Commission. Technological progress can lower pesticide application and contribute to a sustai[...]Article
P. Adair ; M. Lazereg ; A. Bouzid ; S.A. Ferroukhi |Larticle retrace les différentes étapes de lévolution, notamment de létatisation à la libéralisation, que lagriculture algérienne a traversées depuis lindépendance. Il évalue limpact des réformes et des diverses politiques publiques relati[...]Article
S.A. Ferroukhi ; A. Bouzid ; S. Grimes ; R. Kaabache ; M. Lazereg ; M. Tifouri |Le covid-19 et la crise ukrainienne ont remis à lordre du jour, pour tous, la question de « lurgence alimentaire ». Si la nécessité dassurer la sécurité alimentaire fait lunanimité, en Algérie, ce nest cependant pas le cas pour lorientatio[...]Article
M. Pittarello ; F. Chiarini ; C. Menta ; L. Furlan ; P. Carletti |Conservation Agriculture includes practices focused on the conservation and the restoration of main soil features, such as organic carbon content, structure, and biological diversity and activity. Our study was conducted in three farms in North-[...]Article
Due to the increasing concern about climate change and environmental sustainability, the investigation of energy consumption represents a very intriguing and undeniable subject. This study was directed to investigate energy footprints, greenhous[...]Article
This study aims to analyze the environmental impacts of Tunisian olive oil production using a cradle to gate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in order to quantify, compare and establish the most environmentally sustainable practices. This is the fi[...]Article
Grâce à lingéniosité des sociétés humaines, lagriculture sest modernisée et est parvenue à nourrir lHumanité. Face au contexte géopolitique et climatique, une histoire de lalimentation reste encore à bâtir.Article
Les questions de compétitivité de lagriculture française et de notre souveraineté alimentaire ressurgissent dans un nouveau contexte de changement climatique que lon se propose déclairer ici, en orientant le projecteur sur quatre des dimensio[...]Article
La crise sanitaire et linsécurité alimentaire engendrée par la guerre en Ukraine soulignent lurgence de reconquérir la souveraineté alimentaire française et européenne. Le syndicalisme agricole se mobilise pour atteindre cet objectif.Article
N. Debonne ; M. Bürgi ; V. Diogo ; J. Helfenstein ; F. Herzog ; C. Levers ; F. Mohr ; R. Swart ; P.H. Verburg |A range of intensifying pressures is making the future of European agriculture dynamic and contested. Insights into these pressures are needed to inform debates about the future of the sector. In this study, we use a foresight approach to identi[...]Article
Two contrasting models of development seek to radically transform food and farming today. The first focuses on modernizing and sustaining capitalism through the promotion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in food and agriculture. The sec[...]Article
C. Besic ; M. Bakator ; D. Dordevic ; D. Cockalo ; S. Stanisavljev |The domestic agribusiness sector has an important role in economic development and in economic growth. The goal of the paper is to analyze potential influencing factors on sustainable agribusiness. The research methodology included qualitative c[...]Article
G. Coppola ; M. Costantini ; A. Fusi ; L. Ruiz-Garcia ; J. Bacenetti |Agricultural activity is responsible of considerable negative effects on the environment. In this context, in the last years, organic cultivation is increasing being perceived as more sustainable for the environmental. Nevertheless, this higher [...]Article
The purpose of this research is the ex post evaluation of the efficiency of agricultural development projects for the period 2000-2009. The analysis had been based upon a random sample of 244 agricultural perimeters spread over 15 wilayas among [...]Article
R. Chetroiu ; A.E. Cismileanu ; E. Cofas ; I.L. Petre ; S. Rodino ; V. Dragomir ; A. Marin ; P.A. Turek-Rahoveanu |The profitability of dairy farms is a broadly addressed issue in research, for different farming systems and even more so now, when it comes to the issue of sustainability in different agricultural fields. The present study presents an evaluatio[...]Article
Biodynamic farming is increasingly popular among farmers and consumers, but it is still dismissed as pseudoscience by part of the scientific community. In this article, we first present an overview of biodynamic farming, its current development,[...]Article
Organic agriculture (OA) is an ecological, economic and social system that has been in the spotlight to replace and reduce the adverse consequences of conventional agriculture (CA) and achieve sustainable agriculture. The future of OA depends he[...]Article
H. Veisi ; M. Carolan ; A. Alipour ; A.V. Besheh |In this study, a cross-cultural analysis was undertaken to compare the knowledge of organic producers and agricultural experts in Iran concerning the concepts of good farming, good farmer, and organic farming in the field of sustainable agricult[...]Article
CONTEXT Conventional cropping systems in south-western France contribute greatly to the degradation of environmental resources. Crop diversification is considered to be an effective mechanism to increase the sustainability of cropping systems a[...]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
Water is the most limiting natural resource in many Mediterranean areas of southern Europe, and this, together with the actual scenario of climate change (CC), promotes a framework of uncertainty and creates major challenges concerning the susta[...]Article
Prioriser, évaluer et détailler ses ambitions environnementales n'est pas jeu aisé dans le contexte concurrentiel international marqué par trop d'intérêts économiques divergents entre les continents.Article
Current European agriculture policies and strategies are aimed to boost the transition from the predominant conventional to a more environmentally friendly agriculture model. As part of this, it is crucial to identify the barriers that exist to [...]Article
S. Camposeo ; G.A. Vivaldi ; G. Russo ; F.M. Melucci |The relationship between agriculture and climate change is gaining prominence year by year in due to both adaptation and mitigation issues, because agriculture contributes to carbon emissions and acts as a carbon sink. Innovation on olive growin[...]Article
Digitalisation is promoted by both private and public actors as a way of contributing to the ecologisation of agriculture. However, this idea remains controversial. The debate is all the more crucial, as different ecologisation models exist, and[...]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
Due to the increase of global demand of agriculture and agro-industrial products, agriculture has undergone some changes in the stages of procurement, planning, planting, maintenance, harvesting, transport and distribution. The use of formal mat[...]Article
G.K. Abebe ; A. Traboulsi ; M. Aoun |The future of food value chains has increasingly been reliant on the wider adoption of sustainable farming practices that include organic agriculture. Organic farming in developed countries is standardized and occupies a niche in agro-food syste[...]Article
Agricultural intensification tends to maximize provisioning services at the expense of regulating, cultural and supporting ecosystem services (ES). Enhancing agroecosystem sustainability requires both individual and collective solutions, but the[...]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
This paper aims to compare the cradle-to-farm gate sustainability of two dairy buffalo systems, according to life cycle assessment guidelines (LCA). Primary data were obtained by five intensive farms with feeding plans based on non-corn silage ([...]Article
J.A. Martínez-López ; R. López-Urrea ; A. Martínez-Romero ; J.J. Pardo ; J. Montero ; A. Domínguez |Scarcity of water resources is one of the main constraints on agricultural activity in arid and semi-arid areas. Despite the great technological development over recent decades, farmers are demanding methodologies and tools adapted to their trai[...]Article
S. Le Foll, personne interviewée ; C. Peltier, personne interviewée ; J. Dubrulle, personne interviewée |Article
O. Godinot ; S. Foray ; S. Lemosquet ; L. Delaby ; N. Edouard |Lefficience et le bilan apparent de lazote sont des indicateurs couramment utilisés pour évaluer les systèmes de production et leurs conséquences sur lenvironnement. De nombreux leviers existent pour les améliorer. Mais le gain global à léch[...]Article
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R.V. Ionescu ; M.L. Zlati ; V.M. Antohi ; C. Fortea ; S.M. Petrea ; D.S. Cristea |This research is focused on identifying the potential of organic farming by testing the efficiency of productive yields and identifying pragmatic means to quantify it such as the function of the productive yield of organic farming. The results o[...]Article
F. Nocente ; E. Galassi ; F. Taddei ; C. Natale ; L. Gazza |Through the centuries, the domestication and modern breeding of wheat led to a significant loss of genetic variation in the cultivated gene pool with a consequent decrease in food diversity. Current trends towards low-input and sustainable agric[...]Article
Considering the importance of rainfed agriculture in adaptation to nature and long-term sustainability in the human food supply and livelihood of farmers, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the potential of rainfed agriculture in t[...]Article
The sustainability of farming systems has been enhanced by legislation on different scales, but at the same time these policies also promote more productive systems through farming intensification (e.g., use of irrigation or high tree densities)[...]Article
Le changement climatique et son cortège de sécheresses rapprochées renforcent le rôle de lirrigation dans lagriculture des pays tempérés. Elle est même déjà, en zone méditerranéenne, lunique solution pour maintenir des productions agricoles. [...]Article
A. Alaoui ; M. Hallama ; R. Bär ; I. Panagea ; F. Bachmann ; C. Pekrun ; L. Fleskens ; E. Kandeler ; R. Hessel |Assessing agricultural sustainability is one of the most challenging tasks related to expertise and support methodologies because it entails multidisciplinary aspects and builds on cultural and value-based elements. Thus, agricultural sustainabi[...]Article
G. Billen ; J. Garnier ; J. Le Noë |De nombreux travaux récents montrent que, à surface agricole constante, il est possible dassurer lapprovisionnement alimentaire de la France, de lEurope et du monde sans engrais industriels azotés. Au prix cependant de profonds changements st[...]Article
Pour gérer les crises agricoles et agroalimentaires quelles qu'elles soient, l'action collective s'avère un outil indispensable.Article
The mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gases emissions is a globally relevant environmental and policy issue. For efficient mitigation, it is important to appraise whether and how much these emissions are linked to the economic performance of[...]Article
Agro-management zones recently became the backbone of modern agriculture. Delineating management zones for Variable-Rate Fertilization (VRF) can provide important ecological benefits and better sustainability of the new Egyptian farming projects[...]Article
Analyzing the sustainability of grazing livestock farming systems in the drylands at the farm and household or territorial levels (in terms of food security, well-being, value chain performance, feed supply, and maintenance of common grazing res[...]Article
Farm diversification is mainly driven by risk mitigation effects and economic gains related to complementarities between production activities. By combining these two aspects, we investigate diversification economies in a sample of French mixed [...]Article
L. Schreefel ; I.J.M. De Boer ; C.J. Timler ; J.C.J. Groot ; M.J. Zwetsloot ; R.E. Creamer ; A.P. Schrijver ; H.H.E. Van Zanten ; R.P.O. Schulte |CONTEXT - Well-managed agricultural land can provide ecosystem services and contribute positively to the environment. Many of these services are mediated through the soil and are referred to as soil functions. Regenerative agriculture is a mode [...]Article
J. Potters ; K. Collins ; H. Schoorlemmer ; E.P. Straete ; E. Kilis ; A. Lane ; H. Leloup |Climate and ecosystem changes, economic and policy imperatives, food system pressures, and multiple societal expectations pose complex challenges for sustainable farming. A key problem is determining an effective and efficient approach to enable[...]Article
S. Jaziri ; H.C. M'hamed ; M. Rezgui ; S. Labidi ; A. Souissi ; M. Rezgui ; M. Barbouchi ; M. Annabi ; H. Bahri |Conservation agriculture based on no-tillage (NT) and crop rotation allows to enhance soil health. Based on data collected from long-term trials in a semi-arid region of Tunisia, results showed that NT increased significantly soil organic carbon[...]Article
Les projections du GIEC quant aux fortes tensions à venir sur laccès et le partage de leau interrogent en particulier les voies et les moyens dadaptation de lagriculture dici à 2050. Le ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire et [...]Article
H. Leloup ; E. Bulten ; B. Elzen ; J. Prazan ; E. Zarokosta |This article examines the use of the socio-technical scenarios (STSc) method to explore the future needs of farmers in the adoption of more sustainable farming practices. It also examines the changes needed for advisory services to meet those id[...]Article
A. Mohamed-Brahmi ; D. Tsiokos ; S. Ben Saïd ; S. Boudalia ; S. Smeti ; A. Bousbia ; Y. Gueroui ; A. Boudebbouz ; M. Anastasiadou ; G.K. Symeon |The indigenous cattle populations are threatened by extinction in many countries of the Mediterranean area. The objective of this study is the analysis of local cattle breeds production systems in Algeria, Greece, and Tunisia and the identifica[...]Article
The production of berry, a fruit highly appreciated by consumers, has considerably increased in the last years. Europe Union has 1.55 millions of smallholdings dedicated to blueberry farming. Actually, it is an important sector on Spain agrifood[...]Article
S. Calla ; L. Lécuyer ; E. Skrimizea ; E. Balian ; J.C. Young |Food systems are changing through various socioeconomic and policy processes. For example, in France, following concerns over the effects of pesticides on ecosystems and health, the French government launched the Ecophyto II+ plan in 2019 that[...]Article
Lobjectif de cette étude est danalyser les stratégies individuelles et les déterminants dadaptation au changement climatique (CC) des irrigants dans le sud-est Tunisien. Un questionnaire denquête a été administré à 157 chefs dexploitations [...]Article
M. Hamam ; M. D'Amico ; C. Zarbà ; G. Chinnici ; J. Toth |Eco-innovations that reduce the environmental effect of manufacturing and consumption are seen as critical components of sustainable development and a critical component of the transition to a circular economy. Food systems address the issue of [...]Article
This paper deals with the efficiency level of cereal-dairy sheep production systems in the Mediterranean Basin. It studies them in the Protected Designation of Origin Manchego Cheese, located in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Previous studies hav[...]Article
This study evaluates the impacts of reduction in chemical inputs use, as defined to the Farm to Fork strategy, on the Italian agricultural sector based on current production practices and technologies, as well as market and political framework. [...]Article
R. Duflot ; M. San-Cristobal ; E. Andrieu ; J.-P. Choisis ; D. Esquerré ; S. Ladet ; A. Ouin ; J. Rivers-Moore ; D. Sheeren ; C. Sirami ; M. Fauvel ; A. Vialatte |Farming intensity and landscape heterogeneity influence agrobiodiversity and associated ecological functions. The relative contributions of these agroecosystem components to agricultural production remain unclear because of inter-relations and w[...]Article
Taking Biodiversity Focus Areas under production or abandoning lower yielding, more extensive production systems is the wrong approach to mastering the looming global food crisis, our authors maintain.Article
T. Simoniello ; R. Coluzzi ; M. D'Emilio ; V. Imbrenda ; L. Salvati ; R. Sinisi ; V. Summa |The European "Green Deal" strategy is aimed at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 through integrated actions relying on healthier agricultural systems grounded in (environmental and economic) sustainable practices, includi[...]Article
E. Malusà ; E.M. Furmanczyk ; M. Tartanus ; G. Brouwer ; C.-E. Parveaud ; F. Warlop ; M. Kelderer ; J. Kienzle ; E. Alcazar Marin ; T. Dekker ; R. Vavra ; V. Verrastro ; H. Lindhard Pedersen ; C. Boutry ; M. Friedli ; M. Schlüter |Limited data regarding the resources and methods used by organic fruit growers to learn about production practices are available, even though this information is crucial to improving the efficacy of knowledge transfer. Therefore, a survey to gai[...]Article
CONTEXT New types of farming systems have emerged in response to societal demands to reduce environmental impacts and dependence on non-renewable resources. These agriculture models can be classified according to their relative use of anthropic [...]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
Soils form a thin layer on the Earths surface and host an immense biological diversity, most of which is invisible. Yet the organisms living in soil provide crucial ecosystem services that human societies depend on. While intensive agricultural[...]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
Groundwater serves as the most reliable source of water both for domestic use and for irrigation in arid zones, which are characterized by low rainfall and high evaporation. To overcome the water scarcity in these regions traditional water manag[...]Article
Food supply chains are key to ensuring sufficient nourishment of the population. For instance, taking a circular economy approach can help facilitate the adoption of sustainable practices, such as the use of technology to combat food waste issue[...]Article
Taking into account that in the literature on pork-production Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) there are a few studies about the Iberian pig, the present article evaluates an extensive (growing-fattening) Iberian-pig system in Spain, producing meat f[...]Article
The diversity of agricultural systems in European Union (EU) regions and countries is vast and vulnerable to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms. The CAP instruments have suffered several significant changes over the last decades to tak[...]Article
F. de Asis Ruiz ; D. Grande ; J. Nahed ; J.M. Castel ; Y. Mena |In the Mediterranean Basin, sheep meat production systems are based on grazing, and help to conserve biodiversity, mitigate the greenhouse gases emissions and maintain the population in rural areas. However, the lack of differentiation of pastor[...]Article
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Understanding and representing the transformation of agricultural production systems has attracted increasing interest due to its importance for identifying drivers of changes and coping mechanisms in response to global challenges. These challen[...]Article
A. Owida ; N.M. Galal ; A. Elrafie |This work presents a decision-making framework for integrating resilience and sustainability in managing production systems during COVID-19. An operationalization scheme manifested via a case study at a manufacturer in the food production sector[...]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
N.M. Georgiadis ; G. Dimitropoulos ; K. Avanidou ; P. Bebeli ; E. Bergmeier ; S. Dervisoglou ; T. Dimopoulos ; D. Grigoropoulou ; I. Hadjigeorgiou ; O. Kairis ; E. Kakalis ; K. Kosmas ; S. Meyer ; M. Panitsa ; D. Perdikis ; D. Sfakianou ; N. Tsiopelas ; T. Kizos |The management of agroecosystems affects biodiversity at all levels from genetic to food-web complexity. Low-input farming systems support higher levels of genetic, species and habitat diversity than high-input, industrial ones. In Greece, as in[...]Article
Les modes de productions agricoles sont de plus en plus contraints. Pour maintenir la souveraineté alimentaire, linnovation est primordiale dans un cadre juridique favorable.Article
Orchards in insular, mountainous environments provide a range of Ecosystem Services (ES). However, research on the benefits of mixed orchards to ES remains very limited. We use Cyprus as a model to study the ES provided by 52 mixed orchards in O[...]Article
The demand for food based on intensive agriculture has decreased soil quality, posing great challenges such as increasing agricultural productivity and promoting environmental sustainability. Thus, researchers have focused on developing models f[...]Article
Farming faces new and urgent pressures, with an array of mounting social, environmental and economic challenges, and growing public and political expectations for improved stewardship of natural resources [...]Article
P. Della Rossa ; C. Mottes ; P. Cattan ; M. Le Bail |CONTEXT Chronic environmental pollutions are one of the most striking examples of negative externalities of intensive agriculture. To address this issue, an agroecological transition is necessary, requiring new design methods: While most design [...]Article
C. Giagnocavo ; M. de Cara-Garcia ; M. González ; M. Juan ; J.I. Marin-Guirao ; S. Mehrabi ; E. Rodríguez ; J. van der Blom ; E. Crisol-Martinez |Sustainability transitions in agriculture are explored through an analysis of niche initiatives within a common production system, relying on sustainable transitions, multi-level perspectives, and agroecological frameworks, and involving multi-a[...]Article
O. Kherif ; M. Seghouani ; E. Justes ; D. Plaza-Bonilla ; A. Bouhenache ; B. Zemmouri ; P. Dokukin ; M. Latati |Soil-crop models are widely used as valuable tools to assess the combined effects of cropping practices, soil management and climate on the agro-environmental indicators. They provide a wide range of predictive information that are useful to des[...]Article
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) represents a substantial area of the terrestrial landmass encompassing several countries and ecosystems. This area is generally drier and warmer compared to the rest of the world, and has extreme resource [...]Article
Water governance is a major challenge in the Mediterranean context. Any action to drive water governance towards sustainability needs to be grounded in a holistic understanding of such challenges. Therefore, a first step towards the improvement [...]Article
Generational renewal is a core issue in European agriculture. Despite the continuous efforts of governments and the EU Council, the ageing of farmers seems an unstoppable process, accompanied by land concentration, the decrease in agricultural a[...]Article
Les orientations prises par la France dans Le cadre de la Politique agricoLe commune pour Les années 2023-2027 sont contraires aux objectifs du Pacte vert européen.Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
G. Hadjipavlou, ed. ; C. Ligda, ed. | Zaragoza [Espagne] : CIHEAM-IAMZ | Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens, ISSN 0253-1542 | 2022This issue of Options Méditerranéennes gathers articles from the contributions presented at the online Symposium Addressing the challenges of agro-pastoral farming systems to strengthen their resilience, organized on 3rd December 2020 by the M[...]E-Book
P. Luu ; M.-C. Bidault, collab. ; S. Le Foll, préf. ; I.A. Mayaki, préf. ; G. Bastien, préf. | Auray [France] : La Butineuse | 2022Comment nourrir demain 10 milliards dêtres humains ? Peut-on le faire autrement que par la déforestation, lusage intensif dengrais et de produits de synthèse, qui aggravent le dérèglement climatique et lérosion de la biodiversité ? Le débat [...]Série
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Face aux nombreux défis sociétaux à relever (environnement, sécurité alimentaire, santé), différentes formes dagriculture sont envisagées. Agriculture biologique, agriculture de conservation des sols et maintenant agriculture régénératrice sont[...]Ouvrage
C. Aubry, coord. ; G. Giacchè, coord. ; F. Maxime, coord. ; C.-T. Soulard, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Savoir Faire, ISSN 1952-1251 | 2022Depuis plusieurs années, de nouvelles formes dagriculture urbaine se font jour en France, questionnant la recherche et ses liens à laction. La recherche se mobilise donc pour connaître et évaluer ce phénomène, qui interroge les relations entre[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le changement climatique, la dégradation de la biodiversité, les problèmes pédoclimatiques constituent les principales problématiques actuelles auxquelles est confronté le secteur agricole. Afin de sadapter à ces enjeux, les agriculteurs sont i[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
L. El Khoury | 2022Lagriculture demeure un des secteurs stratégiques en France en termes demplois directs et indirects ainsi quen termes dindépendance et de sécurité alimentaire. Elle répond aux besoins économiques, sociaux, nutritionnels et sanitaires de la p[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Duka | 2022Climate is a key topic that is affecting the whole world and its biggest impact is on the dry areas. This study focuses on the impact of rainfall variability in the productivity of the crops in Lebanon as part of the project SupMed. Considering [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
O. Hanguir | 2022Characterizing the carbon footprint (CF) of agricultural production offers fundamental information for pursuing low carbon agriculture. The high emissions cost, especially from the overuse of agro-chemicals, has been widely debated for the last [...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
M. Devkota ; Y. Singh ; Y.A. Yigezu ; I. Bashour ; R. Mussadek ; R. Mrabet | Oxford [Royaume-Uni] : Elsevier | Advances in Agronomy, ISSN 0065-2113 | 2022Conventional tillage coupled with monocropping and limited recycling of crop residues along with increased pressure from human and livestock population has led to the degradation of the soil, water resources, and the environment in the Middle Ea[...]E-Book
S. Aubert, coord. ; A. Botta, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Nature et Société | 2022Les crises que nous traversons interrogent les modèles de société qui fondent nos priorités et nos actions. Comment retrouver une capacité à agir pour un idéal de justice sociale et écologique ? Comment remobiliser nos sens et habiter en conscie[...]Article
Lanalyse de 25 entretiens de jeunes agriculteurs dune commune montagnarde des Hautes-Alpes, LÉpine, au sein des Baronnies provençales, révèle le rôle de ces jeunes dans la constitution dun système territorial sapparentant à un modèle comple[...]Série
S. Abis, dir. ; M. Brun, dir. | Paris [France] : Club Déméter | Déméter : Economie et Stratégies Agricoles, ISSN 1166-2115 | 2022Manger est au cur de dynamiques politiques, géoéconomiques et environnementales. Cet acte du quotidien, essentiel pour certains et banal pour dautres, est de plus en plus façonné par de nouveaux acteurs, des innovations inédites et des attente[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
N. Harb | 2022Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre de mon projet de fin de master à l'Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), et a été réalisé à la Chambre Régionale d'Agriculture d'Occitanie (CRAO). Ce mémoire vise à produire un guide [...]Bulletin : Revue
Campagnes solidaires, n. 379 - Janvier 2022 - Dossier - Paysannes et paysans engagés pour le climat
N. Girod, dir. | 2022Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lagroécologie est lune des solutions portées par les pouvoirs publics pour construire une agriculture plus respectueuse des hommes et de lenvironnement, pour réduire les impacts négatifs de lagriculture sur lenvironnement, le changement cli[...]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[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lobjectif de ce travail est dévaluer leffet dun système agroforestier intra parcellaire à court terme et à long terme vis-à-vis de ladaptation et de latténuation du changement climatique dans la région des Hauts-de-France dans un site expé[...]Article
Extensive outdoor low-intensity livestock farming systems are the principal form of management of high natural value farmland in Europe. Their marginalisation and poor recognition in policies and markets, can ultimately risk the future of sustai[...]E-Book
K. Mattas ; G. Baourakis ; C. Zopounidis ; C. Staboulis | Dordrecht [Pays-Bas] : Springer | Cooperative Management | 2022In the present economic, political, societal and environmental landscape, which is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of challenges and issues that demand immediate and urgent responses is more intense than ever. Policymakers, int[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
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F. Martinelli ; A.-L. Vollheyde ; M.A. Cebrián-Piqueras ; C. von Haaren ; E. Lorenzetti ; P. Bàrberi ; F. Loreto ; A.R. Piergiovanni ; V.V. Totev ; A. Bedini ; R. Kron Morelli ; N. Yahia ; M.A. Rezki ; S. Ouslim ; F. Z. Fyad-Lameche ; A. Bekki ; S. Sikora ; D. Rodríguez-Navarro ; M. Camacho ; R. Nabbout ; R. Amil ; D. Trabelsi ; D. Yucel ; S. Yousefi |Environmental degradation and the decrease of ecosystem service provision are currently of major concern, with current agricultural systems being a major driver. To meet our future environmental and sustainability targets a transformation of the[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Nous allons voir ici comment mobiliser le foncier appartenant aux acteurs publics et à leurs partenaires pour relocaliser la production alimentaire au plus près des consommateurs, dans le cadre dune politique publique dun EPCI. La métropole de[...]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[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
E. Kertolli | 2022In this century, the hardest challenge that the world has started to experience is climate change, as a short term solution adaptation to climate change is becoming a more prominent topic of discussion everywhere around the world. The objective [...]Article
Organic farming in Italy is growing fast thanks to an increased focus on environmental sustainability and consumer demand thus challenging the farmers to create new working models and territorial systems. Organic land in Basilicata is more than [...]Article
The sustainable intensification of agriculture requires solutions for a large-scale reduction of pesticide use while sustaining agricultural yields. Pesticide-free production standards, which bring together the strengths of all the food value ch[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
S. Ellefi | 2022Farmers were always skeptical and questioned the economic profit of the adoption of site-specific fertilization technologies under uncertain climate conditions. In the light of this, the present study aims to examine the profitability of applyin[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Le changement climatique et ses effets sur lagriculture soulèvent la question de ladaptation de nos sociétés à ces enjeux. En particulier, au sein de grandes cultures comme celle du blé dur, il convient dexaminer les différentes options dada[...]Article
Z. Benedek ; L. Barath ; I. Ferto ; E. Merino-Gaibor ; A. Molnar ; E. Orban ; G. Nemes |The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused unprecedented disruption to the global food distribution network (Barrett, 2020; Hobbs, 2020; Torero, 2020). Although the major impact, with the exception of those who suffered from [...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
J. McFadden ; F. Casalini ; T. Griffin ; J. Antón | Paris [France] : OCDE | OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers | 2022Digitalisation offers the potential to help address the productivity, sustainability and resilience challenges facing agriculture. Evidence on the adoption and impacts of digital agriculture in OECD countries from national surveys and the litera[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
P. Llorens Esbri | 2022The aim of this master thesis is to do a forecast exercise through the elaboration of an adaptation strategy in the region of Korçë, the most important agricultural region in terms of apple production, due to the incorporation of Albania to the [...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Bayraktar | 2022For sustainable rural development, urban and rural development must be provided together. For rural development to succeed, disadvantaged groups must be considered, and women are the most important actors in underprivileged groups. Therefore, de[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
M. AbdelMonem ; T. Wong ; O. Elbadawy ; J. Faurès ; M. Tawfic ; F. Abouzeid | Le Caire [Égypte] : FAO | 2022This publication examines a number of interventions and practices implemented in Egypt by small-scale farmers, private sector stakeholders, and the state, and analyses the extent to which they contribute to the three-climate smart agriculture (C[...]Article
P. Romero ; J.M. Navarro ; P.B. Ordaz |In this study we review the state of the art of different physiologically-based water-saving irrigation strategies and methods used to improve productive water use efficiency (WUEyield) and berry and wine quality in vineyards. We also show how t[...]E-Book
F. Jacquet, coord. ; M.-H. Jeuffroy, coord. ; J. Jouan, coord. ; E. Le Cadre, coord. ; T. Malausa, coord. ; X. Reboud, coord. ; C. Huyghe, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Synthèses | 2022Lusage des pesticides chimiques est une préoccupation sociétale majeure en raison de leurs impacts négatifs sur lenvironnement et la santé. Le Programme prioritaire de recherche (PPR) « Cultiver et Protéger Autrement », piloté par INRAE, joue [...]Article
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The need to produce safe food products for an ever-growing world population while reducing the impact on climate change makes it necessary for the farm business to combine productivity and sustainability. As more efficient and sustainable produc[...]Article
A. Hebinck ; L. Klerkx ; B. Elzen ; K.P.W. Kok ; B. König ; K. Schiller ; J. Tschersich ; B. van Mierlo ; T. von Wirth |Dominant agricultural and food systems lead to continuous resource depletion and unacceptable environmental and social impacts. While current calls for changing agrifood systems are increasingly framed in the context of sustainability transition[...]Article
The change of scale and potential reconfiguration of decision-making powers make the French context of reterritorialization of food seem favorable to the transition of agri-food systems in certain areas. However, it also includes a movement towa[...]Article
Peri-urban agriculture (PUA) plays a fundamental role in securing sustainable cities by providing food, cultural and environmental services. The 'Huerta de Murcia' in south-eastern Spain, is one of the most singular examples of PUA. With more th[...]Article
Un programme agro-écologique pour réinventer l'énergie de la terre et optimiser les rendements grâce au carbone écologique et à des cultures associées.Article
Des mesures à léchelle internationale sont nécessaires pour anticiper des accidents climatiques de plus en plus probables dans les vastes bassins de productions.Article
M. Mazzon ; L. Cavani ; C. Ciavatta ; G. Campanelli ; G. Burgio ; C. Marzadori |Organic management aims to maintain and/or enhance the soil quality by adopting crop rotation, reduced tillage, and application of organic fertilizers. Several studies highlight the advantages of organic management in terms of soil quality and s[...]Article
L. Egli ; M. Schröter ; C. Scherber ; T. Tscharntke ; R. Seppelt |Stabilizing agricultural production is fundamental to food security. At the national level, increasing the effective diversity of cultivated crops has been found to increase temporal production stability, i.e., the year-to-year stability of tota[...]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
This article takes up the question of how food sovereignty, and accompanying agricultural models that will help combat climate change, may be institutionalized through policy processes. I draw on the theories of Antonio Gramsci and his successor[...]Article
The purpose of this paper is to consider implementation of Artificial Intelligence as a part of Precision Dairy Farming, as a way of processing, analysing and managing Big data, in order to enable sustainable dairy cattle farm. Increasing the vo[...]Article
L. Rempelos ; M. Baranski ; J. Wang ; T.N. Adams ; K. Adebusuyi ; J.J. Beckman ; C.J. Brockbank ; B.S. Douglas ; T. Feng ; J.D. Greenway ; M. Gür ; E. Iyaremye ; C.L. Kong ; R. Korkut ; S.S. Kumar ; J. Kwedibana ; J. Masselos ; B.N. Mutalemwa ; B.S. Nkambule ; O.B. Oduwole ; A.K. Oladipo ; J.O. Olumeh ; L. Petrovic ; N. Röhrig ; S.A. Wyld ; L. Xu ; Y. Pan ; E. Chatzidimitriou ; H. Davis ; A. Magistrali ; E. Sufar ; G. Hasanaliyeva ; H.H. Kalee ; A. Willson ; M. Thapa ; P. Davenport ; D. Srednicka-Tober ; N. Volakakis ; A. Watson ; C.J. Seal ; M. Goltz ; P. Kindersley ; P.O. Iversen ; C. Leifert |The environmental and biodiversity benefits of organic farming are widely recognized, but there is still controversy about the effects of organic production methods on the nutritional composition of food and human health. In the first part of th[...]Article
J.N. Landers ; P.L. de Freitas ; M.C. de Oliveira ; S.P. da Silva Neto ; R. Ralisch ; E.A. Kueneman |The origins, history, and recent advances in Conservation Agriculture (CA) are reported. CA is now practiced worldwide on some 200 million hectares, important for mitigating climate change and ensuring food security. Its bedrock is Zero Tillage [...]Article
G. Di Vita ; R. Vecchio ; M. Borrello ; R. Zanchini ; G. Maesano ; G. Gulisano ; F. Brun ; M. D'Amico |The current study assesses consumer preferences toward different production methods of clementines (Citrus clementina). Based on a survey of Italian urban individuals (N = 345), responsible for household food purchases, it investigates whether c[...]Article
D. Sadi ; L. Aziz ; A. Khattabi |Connue pour labondance des terres collectives et des ressources hydriques, la commune rurale El Faid, relevant de la province de Taroudant, est considérée comme lune des zones les plus propices pour lagriculture. La présente étude a pour obje[...]Article
Z. Ranjbar ; M. Chizari ; H. Sadighi ; H. Farhadian ; P. Lebailly ; T. Dogot ; J.A. Ortegon Rojas ; Y.K. Parra-Acosta ; H. Azadi |Agriculture is the origin of existence and survival in any society. However, this sector is always associated with risk and uncertainty, and farmers are faced with many challenges. Therefore, the main aim of this research was to explore the (pro[...]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
This paper investigates in the foreground the state of agricultural systems in interdependence with climate change, a condition synec vanon of decarbonization of agriculture. The relationship between ecologically responsible agricultural systems[...]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
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P.-M. Aubert ; B. Gardin ; E. Huber ; M. Schiavo ; C. Alliot |This paper proposes an innovative framework to describe sustainable transitions of food systems while considering simultaneously socio-economic and environmental issues, in a just transition perspective. This framework (i) describes the structur[...]Article
L. Aldieri ; M. Brahmi ; X. Cheng ; C.P. Vinci |The objective of the analysis is to investigate the production efficiency in the USA and Europe through the channel of knowledge spillovers from technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Since the empirical evidence concerning the cli[...]Article
S.S. Ali ; R. Al-Tohamy ; E. Koutra ; M.S. Moawad ; M. Kornaros ; A.M. Mustafa ; Y.A.-G. Mahmoud ; A. Badr ; M.E.H. Osman ; T. Elsamahy ; H. Jiao ; J. Sun |The high demand for sufficient and safe food, and continuous damage of environment by conventional agriculture are major challenges facing the globe. The necessity of smart alternatives and more sustainable practices in food production is crucia[...]Article
H. Azadi ; S. Movahhed Moghaddam ; S. Burkart ; H. Mahmoudi ; S. Van Passel ; A. Kurban ; D. Lopez-Carr |Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is seeking to overcome the food security problem and develop rural livelihoods while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. However, when such synergies exist, the situation of small-scale farmers is ofte[...]Article
J. Buyck ; A. Meyfroidt ; C. Brand ; G. Jourdan |Our contribution aims at pointing out how the food issue challenges metropolitan areas while at the same time identifying potential for sustainable urban planning. To that end, we investigate to what extent taking into account agricultural and f[...]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
Agricultural technologies have long been promoted by governments and development organizations as effective ways to increase farm productivity and reduce poverty. However, adoption of many seemingly beneficial technologies remains low. Empirical[...]Article
M.J. Knowling ; B. Bennett ; B. Ostendorf ; S. Westra ; R.R. Walker ; A. Pellegrino ; E.J. Edwards ; C. Collins ; V. Pagay ; D. Grigg |Context: Effective vineyard decision making at strategic and operational timescales requires consideration of many factors, including vineyard design and management options, exogenous factors that are outside of the decision maker's control such[...]Article
The urgent need to implement agricultural systems that provide greater sustainability and resilience to the challenges of the climate change process has meant that alternative paradigms for agri-food systems and agriculture have become more rele[...]Article
This study evaluated productivity dynamics and identified sources of productivity growth in Italian tomato production and processing. We used a stochastic frontier input distance function with four error componentsheterogeneity, statistical noi[...]Article
Cette étude analyse lévolution de la productivité globale des facteurs, du partage des gains de productivité et de la profitabilité des élevages professionnels français de bovins lait et viande sur les 31 dernières années (1988-2018). Laugment[...]Article
De nouvelles dynamiques dinterconnexion entre territoires urbains et ruraux sont à luvre. Elles structurent de nombreux travaux de sciences sociales sur la re-territorialisation des systèmes agri-alimentaires, les services écosystémiques rend[...]Article
The preservation of High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) is essential for meeting many of the new European Union (EU) Green Deal targets, as they correspond to production systems which respect the preservation of natural resources and support multi[...]Article
Nitrogen is an element present on Earth in different forms, such as gaseous in the air, dissolved in water, immobilized in the soil, as well as biologically bound in all living organisms. The transition from one form to another constitutes the n[...]Article
K.E. Giller ; T. Delaune ; J.V. Silva ; K. Descheemaeker ; G. van de Ven ; A.G.T. Schut ; M. van Wijk ; J. Hammond ; Z. Hochman ; G. Taulya ; R. Chikowo ; S. Narayanan ; A. Kishore ; F. Bresciani ; H.M. Teixeira ; J.A. Andersson ; M.K. van Ittersum |Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce nutritious diets, but should also provide livelihoods for farmers, while[...]