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J.-M. Meynard ; M. Cerf ; X. Coquil ; D. Durant ; M. Le Bail ; A. Lefèvre ; M. Navarrete ; J. Pernel ; A. Périnelle ; B. Perrin ; L. Prost ; R. Reau ; C. Salembier ; E. Scopel ; Q. Toffolini ; M.-H. Jeuffroy |Given the huge challenges agriculture has to face, both in Northern and Southern countries, a radical change in farming practices towards agroecology is required. Most scientific literature on the design of new farming systems describes de novo [...]Article
Context Organic farming is a fast-growing system considered a holistic approach that benefits the environment. However, previous studies have reported varying results on its productivity when compared to conventional farming systems. Moreover, t[...]Article
Production systems that do not use environmentally sustainable practices are being pressured to change their production strategies. Conventional agricultural practices are associated with negative impacts, such as extensive land use, soil contam[...]Article
While pesticides are essential to agriculture and food systems to sustain current production levels, they also lead to significant environmental impacts. The use of pesticides is constantly increasing globally, driven mainly by a further intensi[...]Article
Promoting well-functioning ecosystems that maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems in response to climate change remains a major challenge in North Africa. Agroecological practices have the potential to serve as an alternative to che[...]Article
M. Pergola ; A. Maffia ; G. Carlucci ; A. Persiani ; A.M. Palese ; M. Zaccardelli ; G. Altieri ; G. Celano |In the last two decades, Portugal suffered the effects of two global crises, the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Common Agriculture Policy reforms. These crises had a great impact on the Portuguese economy, but it is c[...]Article
Sustainable intensification aims to minimize the negative impacts of the current agricultural system while maintaining productivity and economic outputs. This study demonstrates that contract farming is a potential mechanism to support many, but[...]Article
Le marché des produits de lagriculture biologique avait le vent en poupe. Or, depuis 2021, la filière observe une croissance atone au mieux, au pire une décélération affirmée et préoccupante pour son avenir.Article
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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
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
P. Pradhan ; M. Callaghan ; Y. Hu ; K. Dahal ; C. Hunecke ; F. Reusswig ; H. Lotze-Campen ; J.P. Kropp |Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits depend on various factors and are debated. Therefore, we use[...]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
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
Small farms constitute the vast majority of agricultural holdings in the world. Therefore, there are the questions of how the small farm sector should evolve and whether economic and environmental goals can be pursued simultaneously. The main ob[...]Article
As indicated by the recent IPCC report on climate change, the growing number of extreme climatic events (e [...]Article
D. Plénet ; J. Borg ; C. Hilaire ; P. Blanc ; C. Bussi ; M. Codini ; S. Drusch ; V. Gallia ; M.-L. Greil ; E. Hostalnou ; B. Labeyrie ; V. Mercier ; M. Millan ; Y. Montrognon ; D. Monty ; C. Mouiren ; J. Ruesch ; G. Vercambre |A significant reduction in chemical pesticide use is strongly recommended in fruit production systems to reduce environmental and consumer health risks. Our objectives were to assess the consequences of pesticide reduction use on peach orchards[...]Article
K.M. Dittmer ; S. Rose ; S.S. Snapp ; Y. Kebede ; S. Brickman ; S. Shelton ; C. Egler ; M. Stier ; E. Wollenberg |A critical question is whether agroecology can promote climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes without compromising food security. We assessed the outcomes of smallholder agricultural systems and practices in low- and middle-income cou[...]Article
Over the last decades, urban agriculture (UA) and controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) have been growing in many urban areas of the world to supply fresh food locally and to provide multiple benefits for the sustainable development of urba[...]Article
D. Laurant ; F. Stark ; C. Le Page ; E. Rousselou ; D. Bazile |New models of collective agriculture have been developing in France over the past 10 years that could encourage the emergence of more diversified and sustainable systems. However, as such production systems are relatively more complex to manage,[...]Article
S. Rafflegeau ; M. Gosme ; K. Barkaoui ; L. Garcia ; C. Allinne ; O. Deheuvels ; J. Grimaldi ; P. Jagoret ; P.-E. Lauri ; A. Mérot ; A. Metay ; F. Reyes ; S. Saj ; G.N. Curry ; E. Justes |Duru et al. (Agron Sustain Dev 35:1259-1281, 2015) highlighted a missing tool for studying and improving the performance of cropping systems in the transition to highly diversified agriculture. In response, this paper proposes a concept for desi[...]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
A. Michalke ; S. Köhler ; L. Messmann ; A. Thorenz ; A. Tuma ; T. Gaugler |Agriculture is one of the world's biggest polluters. Consumers are misled towards demand of unsustainable and inadequately priced food products by an insufficient internalization of externalities. Shifting demand towards more sustainable dietary[...]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
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
In the last decades, the Rif area in Morocco has been frequently affected by soil erosion due to intense rainfall events. In order to help farmers improve their lives and avoid damages caused by this phenomenon, a management project (the MCA Pro[...]Article
M. Helena Guimarães ; T. Pinto-Correia ; M. de Belém Costa Freitas ; I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; E. Sales-Baptista ; J.F.F. da Veiga ; J. Tiago Marques ; C. Pinto-Cruz ; C. Godinho ; A.D.F. Belo |The Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar land[...]Article
The global warming fight should focus on agriculture, especially on olive crops, due to their potential role in combating it. One of the leading olive oil-producing countries is Turkey; therefore, evaluating and quantifying the environmental imp[...]Article
Small-grain farming systems in Mediterranean climatic regions are characterized by poor quality soils, high climate variability, and resulting heavy agrochemical reliance. The adoption of Conservation Agriculture, based on minimum tillage, perma[...]