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G. Nemes ; Y. Chiffoleau ; S. Zollet ; M. Collison ; Z. Benedek ; F. Colantuono ; A. Dulsrud ; M. Fiore ; C. Holtkamp ; T.-Y. Kim ; M. Korzun ; R. Mesa-Manzano ; R. Reckinger ; I. Ruiz-Martínez ; K. Smith ; N. Tamura ; M.L. Viteri ; E. Orban |The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major stress test for the agri-food system. While most research has analysed the impact of the pandemic on mainstream food systems, this article examines how alternative and local food systems (ALFS) in 13 countr[...]Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Dossiers d'Agropolis International (Les), n. 26 - September 2021 - Agroecological transformation for sustainable food systems
2021The French Commission for International Agricultural Research (CRAI) and Agropolis International, on behalf of CIRAD, INRAE and IRD and in partnership with CGIAR, has produced this new issue in the Les dossiers dAgropolis international series[...]Article
The architecture design by integrating the blockchain and IoT has gained salience in information systems and information technology research. However, there has not been significant work on the comprehensive and sequential applications of blockc[...]Article
The diffusion of community supported agriculture (CSA) in Italy is a very recent phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current status and the evolution of this reality, understanding the social, environmental, and economic [...]Article
The development of modern science and information technology has promoted social progress and created better conditions for the realization of smart agriculture. The core of smart agriculture is big data, but the current big data management mode[...]Article
J. Ben Nasr ; H. Chaar ; F. Bouchiba ; L. Zaibet |The agricultural sector plays a strategic role in the Tunisian economy, particularly in rural areas. Resilience and adaptation to climate change are the main challenges facing this sector. This paper aims to analyze climate change resilience of [...]Article
M. Moriondo ; M. Bindi ; L. Brilli ; S. Costafreda-Aumedes ; C. Dibari ; L. Leolini ; G. Padovan ; G. Trombi ; A. Karali ; K.V. Varotsos ; G. Lemesios ; C. Giannakopoulos ; C. Papadaskalopoulou ; P. Merante |The impact of climate change on the agricultural systems of three major islands in the Mediterranean basin, namely Sicily, Crete and Cyprus, was evaluated using a suite of specifically calibrated crop models and the outputs of a regional circula[...]Article
N. Guiomar ; S. Godinho ; M. Rivera ; T. Pinto-Correia ; R. Machado ; M. Czekaj ; E. Tyran ; J. Puchala |Recent findings on the contribution of smallholders to global food production and security challenge the values used in several reports of international organizations. The skewed distribution of the number of farms and the agricultural area by f[...]Article
In the Mediterranean basin, edaphic salinization, sodification and alkalinization related to anthropic pressures and climatic changes may hinder the ecosystem sustainability. It is pertinent to study the mid and long-term variability of these so[...]Article
The agricultural sector is undergoing a period of rapid transformation, driven by the powerful and interconnected impacts of climate change, demographic transitions and uneven economic growth around the world. For governments and the internation[...]Article
A.M. Abdallah ; A.M. Abdallah ; H.S. Jat ; M. Choudhary ; E.F. Abdelaty ; P.C. Sharma ; M.L. Jat |Improving soil water holding capacity (WHC) through conservation agriculture (CA)-practices, i.e., minimum mechanical soil disturbance, crop diversification, and soil mulch cover/crop residue retention, could buffer soil resilience against clima[...]Article
Le présent article relate les travaux réalisés sur laviculture traditionnelle ou fermière au Maroc, en abordant les multiples importances socio-économiques, alimentaires, culturelles, et écologiques des systèmes de production de volaille à peti[...]Article
C. Esgalhado ; M.H. Guimaraes ; S. Lardon ; M. Debolini ; M.V. Balzan ; S.C. Gennai-Schott ; M. Simon Rojo ; I. Mekki ; S. Bouchemal |The influence of human use and management of natural resources has grown to the point that it becomes difficult to separate socio-economic from environmental components in land systems (Turner, Lambin, & Reenberg, 2007). Sustainability in these [...]Article
K. Attia ; C. Darej ; N. M'Hamdi ; F. Zahm ; N. Moujahed |Demand for animal products is expected to increase due to human population growth, resulting in a need for increased production. At the same time, climate change poses a major threat to the viability and sustainability of livestock production sy[...]Article
In recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to co[...]Article
Conservation agriculture (CA) involving zero tillage, crop diversification, and residue retention is considered a panacea for several interrelated problems in agricultural production. However, in the mixed crop-livestock production systems of th[...]Article
K. Akakpo ; S. Bouarfa ; M. Benoît ; C. Leauthaud |Identifying locally adapted and adopted efficient practices can be a step towards the agroecological transition of irrigated plains of the Southern Mediterranean region. However, these types of practices - often little known - are drowned within[...]Article
C.K. Kirby ; K. Specht ; R. Fox-Kämper ; J.K. Hawes ; N. Cohen ; S. Caputo ; R.T. Ilieva ; A. Lelièvre ; L. Ponizy ; V. Schoen ; C. Blythe |Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular approach to addressing negative social and health effects of cities. Social benefits of urban agriculture include improved health and wellbeing, economic opportunities, social cohesion, and education.[...]Article
Sustainability is a widely accepted goal across many sectors of our society and, according to new concepts, it includes resilience and adaptive capacity. Resilience is important for a system to guarantee the maintenance of functions and structur[...]Article
Today, precision agriculture technologies (PATs) can be considered a tool for the management of the farm which allows the agricultural entrepreneur to optimise inputs, reduce costs, and offer the best quantitative and qualitative agricultural pr[...]Article
Economic sustainability plays an important role in shaping conditions for economic growth and social development. The importance of answering the question about the level of sustainability of family farms results from the fact that the countries[...]Article
Proposer une vision des espaces nourriciers terrestres à l'échelle mondiale, notamment de la répartition des forêts, des cultures et des systèmes pastoraux, n'est pas chose aisée. Les sources sont primordiales, et la construction du planisphère [...]Article
S. Le Féon ; T. Dubois ; C. Jaeger ; A. Wilfart ; N. Akkal-Corfini ; J. Bacenetti ; M. Costantini ; J. Aubin |Aquaculture is increasingly considered a major contributor to the growing demand for worldwide seafood production. Sustainability is becoming a key issue for aquaculture systems, with the objective to produce seafood with lower environmental imp[...]Article
Organic agriculture (OA) in Egypt is well-developed and still fast growing. Improving the relation between organic farmers and the other agents in the chain can provide a positive contribution to the whole organic chain competitiveness. One poss[...]Article
Soil erosion is a threat for the sustainability of agriculture and severely affects the Mediterranean crops. Olive groves are among the rainfed agriculture lands that exhibit soil and water losses due to the impact of unsustainable practices suc[...]Article
K. Fotia ; A. Mehmeti ; I. Tsirogiannis ; G. Nanos ; A.P. Mamolos ; N. Malamos ; P. Barouchas ; M. Todorovic |Olive cultivation is expanding rapidly in the northwestern part of Greece, under both rainfed and irrigated practices. Irrigation can result in larger yields and economic returns, but trade-offs in the waterenergypollution nexus remain a contr[...]Article
Les agriculteurs auront des profils de plus en plus diversifiés. La puissance publique aura des difficultés à répondre à leurs attentes.Article
Agroforestry as active area of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research aims to bridge several artificial divides that have respectable historical roots but hinder progress toward sustainable development goals. These include: (1) The segre[...]Article
Resilient crop-livestock production systems become crucial to face environmental challenges such as climate mitigation. Progress in the SDG 2.4.1 indicator (proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture) requires r[...]Article
Improvements in the sustainability of agricultural production depend essentially on advances in the efficient use of nitrogen. Precision farming promises solutions in this respect. Variable rate technologies allow the right quantities of fertili[...]Article
In the current context of resource scarcity, global climate change, environmental degradation, and increasing food demand, the circular economy (CE) represents a promising strategy for supporting sustainable, restorative, and regenerative agricu[...]Article
L. Viguier ; N. Cavan ; C. Bockstaller ; S. Cadoux ; G. Corre-Hellou ; S. Dubois ; R. Duval ; O. Keichinger ; C. Toque ; A.-L. Toupet de Cordoue ; F. Angevin |A major path helping agriculture achieve the dual challenges of production and environmental preservation, consists of transitioning from the current, external input-based, conventional farming systems to a biodiversity-based agricultural system[...]Article
Simulating organic agriculture is a considerable challenge. One reason is that few models are capable of simulating crop-pest interactions and the yield losses they cause. Here, a recently developed process-based crop-pest model (Pest-EPIC) was [...]Article
European rural landscapes contain high nature value farmlands that, in addition to being the main economic activity in many rural areas, host habitats and species of great conservation value. The maintenance of these farming systems largely depe[...]Article
The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization [...]Article
Whereas many studies adopting a broad perspective on sustainability have highlighted the differences and interactions between alternative and conventional models of agricultural production, very few have investigated the contradictions internal [...]Article
Les agriculteurs français utilisent de moins en moins de produits phytosanitaires. Néanmoins, une pharmacopée efficace doit toujours être à leur disposition.Article
Z. Saber ; R. van Zelm ; H. Pirdashti ; A.M. Schipper ; M. Esmaeili ; A. Motevali ; A. Nabavi-Pelesaraei ; M.A.J. Huijbregts |Eco-efficiency, defined as the economic profit per unit of environmental impact, can largely differ between farms that produce the same crop. Understanding the underlying drivers of differences in eco-efficiency can help to identify effective op[...]Article
N.M. Hashem ; E.M. Hassanein ; J.-F. Hocquette ; A. Gonzalez-Bulnes ; F.A. Ahmed ; Y.A. Attia ; K.A. Asiry |In the near future, the year 2050, agricultural production should expand to fulfill the needs of approximately 9.7 billion inhabitants. Such an objective should be harmonized with social, economic, and environmental sustainability aspects to mai[...]Article
The Mediterranean region is expected to be a hotspot for climate change, making the resilience of farming systems a major challenge. Some studies have used quantitative models at the farm scale to analyze the resilience of farming systems but wi[...]Article
Intensive agricultural farming systems have negative impacts on the ecosystem. Therefore, the use of crop rotation emerges as an opportunity to improve the environmental sustainability of agricultural systems. In the region of Galicia in north-w[...]Article
Milk production in Europe is facing major challenges to ensure its economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is essential that holistic concepts are developed to ensure the future sustainability of the sector and to assist farmers a[...]Article
M.P.M. Meuwissen ; P.H. Feindt ; T. Slijper ; A. Spiegel ; R. Finger ; Y. de Mey ; W. Paas ; K.J.A.M. Termeer ; P.M. Poortvliet ; M. Peneva ; J. Urquhart ; M. Vigani ; J.E. Black ; P. Nicholas-Davies ; D. Maye ; F. Appel ; F. Heinrich ; A. Balmann ; J. Bijttebier ; I. Coopmans ; E. Wauters ; E. Mathijs ; H. Hansson ; C.J. Lagerkvist ; J. Rommel ; G. Manevska-Tasevska ; F. Accatino ; C. Pineau ; B. Soriano ; I. Bardaji ; S. Severini ; S. Senni ; C. Zinnanti ; C. Gavrilescu ; I.S. Bruma ; K.M. Dobay ; D. Matei ; L. Tanasa ; D.M. Voicilas ; K. Zawalinska ; P. Gradziuk ; V. Krupin ; A. Martikainen ; H. Herrera ; P. Reidsma |Context Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including the unknown and previously unimaginable, such as the Covid-19 crisis. Objective This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed to the crisis, (ii) [...]Article
Nous sommes confrontés à la conjonction de divers maux : la diminution de la biodiversité favorise le développement de nouvelles pandémies qui trouvent un terrain fertile dans nos modes de vie, en particulier alimentaires. On sait de mieux en mi[...]Article
Une étude sur la filière laitière dans la wilaya de Skikda (Algérie) a permis danalyser la saisonnalité de la production laitière chez 157 exploitations bovines et les implications relatives à la collecte de lait par lindustrie. Les enquêtes o[...]Article
M. Aronica ; M.F. Cracolici ; D. Insolda ; D. Piacentino ; S. Tosi |Rural areas still suffer from a lack of sustainable development, and the diversification of farms may be a step in the right direction. The paper provides a detailed picture of the diversification of Sicilian farms into tourism services. Specifi[...]Article
There is an increasing awareness about the importance of the role that small food and beverage producers play in the socio-economic development in many countries. However, since they face many specific problems which create obstacles for their e[...]Article
The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new and periodically entering the[...]Article
Both in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, the resilience of agri-food systems depends on the human ability to balance between socio-economic and ecological trade-offs. Recent ecosystem services literature acknowledges that smallholder farme[...]Article
Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the worlds food produced by family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of farms worldwide, their distribution and that of farmland, using th[...]