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M. Lambotte ; S. De Cara ; C. Brocas ; V. Bellassen |There is a lack of clear empirical evidence towards the lower carbon footprint of organic food products, in particular in the dairy sector. Until now, small sample sizes, lack of properly defined counterfactual and the omission of land-use relat[...]
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G. Rencricca ; F. Froldi ; M. Moschini ; M. Trevisan ; S. Ghnimi ; L. Lamastra |The environmental impact of dairy production is heavily influenced by milk farm efficiency, farm characteristics, and farming activities, such as feed management. The existing research on the environmental impacts of the differently managed dair[...]
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CONTEXT Agriculture plays a central role in the European Green Deal with various policies and strategies converging to promote sustainable agriculture and food systems. The Farm to Fork strategy approaches agriculture from a sustainable food sys[...]
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In the future, a cropping system that guarantees food security by delivering high yields and, simultaneously, protects our environment is desperately needed. This can be achieved through a cropping system that waives chemical synthetic plant pro[...]
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Significant detrimental effects of agricultural intensification and specialization are becoming increasingly evident. Reliance on monocultures, few varieties, and intensive use of agrochemicals is a major factor in climate change, biodiversity d[...]
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I. El Fartassi ; A.E. Milne ; R. El Alami ; M. Rafiqi ; K.L. Hassall ; T.W. Waine ; J. Zawadzka ; A. Diarra ; R. Corstanje |Farmers face the challenge of increasing production to feed a growing population and support livelihoods, whilst also improving the sustainability and resilience of cropping systems. Understanding the key factors that influence farming managemen[...]
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G. Harik ; I. Alameddine ; R. Zurayk ; M. El-Fadel |A spatio-temporal Agent Based Modeling (ABM) framework is developed to probabilistically predict farmers' decisions concerning their future farming practices when faced with potential water scarcity induced by future climate change. The proposed[...]
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Digital transformation in farming via smart farming technologies (SFTs) is highly considered to stimulate sustainability in the food market and agriculture, as well as to promote viability in the agricultural sector and the prosperity of rural a[...]
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D. Paudel ; A. de Wit ; H. Boogaard ; D. Marcos ; S. Osinga ; I.N. Athanasiadis |Machine learning models for crop yield forecasting often rely on expert-designed features or predictors. The effectiveness and interpretability of these handcrafted features depends on the expertise of the people designing them. Neural networks [...]
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E. Abou Nader ; G. Kleftodimos ; L.S. Kyrgiakos ; C. Kleisiari ; N. Gallai ; S. Darwich ; T. Berchoux ; G. Vlontzos ; H. Belhouchette |The kiwi is a highly insect-pollinated dependent crop and is the cornerstone of the Greek agricultural sector, rendering the country as the fourth biggest kiwi producer worldwide, with an expected increase in national production the following ye[...]
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CONTEXT Mixed farming and agroforestry systems (MiFAS) are widely proposed to deal with ecological, economic, and social challenges that are associated with specialised farming systems. However, little is known about how MiFAS are integrated in [...]
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Growing nutrient fertilization has imperiled freshwater resources throughout the world. There is a conflict of interest between farmers and local environmental organizations who are concerning about nutrient pollution in waterbodies. Adoption of[...]
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There is uncertainty regarding the resilience of modern intensive agricultural systems, given that they have been developed recently in history (post-WWII). Historically, agricultural sciences have focused on scales from the molecular and plant [...]
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G. Fusco ; F. Campobasso ; L. Laureti ; M. Frittelli ; D. Valente ; I. Petrosillo |Agriculture is a key activity in guarantying food security, one of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. However, agriculture can be an environmental impacting activity when it is managed withou[...]
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S. Laribi ; J.-P. Boutonnet ; F. Brabez ; R. Adem ; H. Kheffache |Cette étude a pour objectif de mesurer le niveau d’intégration agriculture-élevage bovin lait au sein des différents systèmes de culture dans la plaine de la Mitidja. Un premier travail de terrain a été effectué en 2014 dans la wilaya de Blida ([...]
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Sustainable intensification (SI), understood as an increase in resource productivity in the agricultural sector, achieved without harming the natural environment, is getting more and more attention from researchers and policy makers in the Europ[...]
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S. Mili ; K. Arovuori |The agricultural sector in the EU Southern Neighbourhood Partners (SNP) is struggling to respond to sustainability challenges. It needs stronger policies to deliver balanced sustainability outcomes in economic, social and environmental terms. Ba[...]
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World agriculture faces the challenge of increasing its agricultural production by 50 % from 2012 to 2050, while reducing water consumption, as agriculture accounts for 69 % of all fresh water used on the planet. The use of technologies such as [...]
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Safeguarding natural resources and energy is essential to ensure food security for future generations. Given the increase of published papers in the agricultural field applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this review seeks to address the sp[...]
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B. Soriano ; A. Garrido ; D. Bertolozzi-Caredio ; F. Accatino ; F. Antonioli ; V. Krupin ; M.P.M. Meuwissen ; F. Ollendorf ; J. Rommel ; A. Spiegel ; M. Tudor ; J. Urquhart ; M. Vigani ; I. Bardaji |Finding pathways to enhance the resilience of farming systems (FSs) in Europe is key, given the increasing challenges threatening them. FSs are complex socio-ecological systems in which social and ecological components are strongly linked. Socia[...]
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Existing indicators of agricultural protection and support were developed primarily to gauge the market and welfare effects of government policies. They have shed light on a wider range of impacts through their use in economic models and empiric[...]
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Understanding the systemic approach and its potential for decision-making is important for resource management, especially in agriculture in which increasing food demands and environmental and social issues are the main challenges. Therefore, mu[...]
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A. Irhza ; L. Nassiri ; M. El Jarroudi ; F. Rachidi ; R. Lahlali ; G. Echchgadda |Agroecology is an agricultural, holistic, and innovative approach, which aims to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of agricultural systems. This approach is very rewarding for agriculture in developing countries, mainly [...]
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R. Mancinelli ; M. Allam ; V. Petroselli ; M. Atait ; M. Jasarevic ; A. Catalani ; S. Marinari ; E. Radicetti ; A. Jamal ; Z. Abideen ; G. Chilosi |Several strategies have been proposed recently to reduce the accumulated harmful circumstances of intensive conventional farming practices. The adoption of conservation soil tillage and organic fertilization techniques could contribute to achiev[...]
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Increasing the environmental sustainability of the agriculture sector is an important policy goal for many governments. This study employs Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) to identify potential necessary conditions (bottlenecks) and to assess [...]
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Adoption and implementation of business planning and control methods is essential to efficiently and effectively allocate resources for producing food within sustainable agricultural systems in the Mediterranean Basin. To investigate this issue,[...]
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The Income Stabilisation Tool (IST), which was recently added to the European Common Agricultural Policy's risk management toolkit, is a mutual fund that aims at stabilising farmers' income. We investigate the drivers of farmers' participation i[...]
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S. Selbonne ; L. Guindé ; F. Causeret ; P. Chopin ; J. Sierra ; R. Tournebize ; J.-M. Blazy |Conceptualized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2010, climate-smart agriculture aims to simultaneously tackle three main objectives. These are increasing food security, building the resilience of agricultural systems for adaptation to[...]
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W. Huang ; Q. Liu ; A. Abu Hatab |There is widespread recognition of the global environmental impact of agricultural production on greenhouse gas emissions, but evidence is sparse regarding the impact in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In this study, we treat agr[...]
