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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.