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H. Darouich ; T.B. Ramos ; L.S. Pereira ; D. Rabino ; G. Bagagiolo ; G. Capello ; L. Simionesei ; E. Cavallo ; M. Biddoccu |Vineyards represent complex Mediterranean agrosystems that deliver significant ecosystem services to society. Yet, many vine-growers still need to assimilate the importance of crop and soil management to the conservation of soil and water resour[...]Article
Agroecosystems are on both the receiving and contributing ends of increasingly demanding climatic and environmental conditions. Maintaining productive systems under resource scarcity and multiplicative stresses requires precise monitoring and sy[...]Article
Value creation is at the core of business model (BM) research, but the link between BM and value creation remains unclear. In this work, empirical data on BM transformation towards sustainable value creation in the agri-food sector, were obtaine[...]Article
M. Medici ; S.M. Pedersen ; M. Canavari ; T. Anken ; P. Stamatelopoulos ; Z. Tsiropoulos ; A. Zotos ; G. Tohidloo |To develop precision agriculture (PA) to its full potential and make agriculture progress toward sustainability and resilience, appropriate criteria for the economic assessment are recognised as being one of the most significant issues requiring[...]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[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
I. Souissi ; H. Belhouchette ; A. Mérot ; G. Flichman | Montpellier [France] : Agropolis International | 2010Organic agriculture offers an attractive framework for sustainable farming in terms of the environment, socio-economic and institutional aspects (Capitaine et al., 2009). In spite of the advantages, farmers are more often than not reluctant to c[...]Article
L.-A. Sutherland ; L. Madureira ; B. Elzen ; C. Noble ; N. Bechtet ; L. Townsend ; E. Zarokosta ; P. Triboulet |In this article we assess the diversity of sources of advice identified by 678 adopters, 295 non-adopters and 107 droppers (or dis-adopters, who have ceased or reduced the use) of agricultural innovations across 13 European countries. For most i[...]Article
S. Davidova ; N. Hostiou ; M. Alebaki ; A. Bailey ; Z. Bakucs ; J. Duval ; P. Gouta ; S. Henderson ; A.-L. Jacquot ; P. Jeanneaux ; B. Jendrzejewski ; K. Kilcline ; V. Konstantidelli ; P. Kostov ; L. Latruffe ; L. Schaller ; K. Van Ruymbeke ; L. Védrine ; J. Veslot ; L. Vranken ; P. Walder |Ecological farming, such as organic and low-input farming, is gaining popularity in the public discourse. One question is how this type of farming may impact farm labour from a socio-economic point of view. The article first discusses how low-in[...]Article
The evolution of farm size and land use are important determinants of the efficiency and profitability of agriculture and the configuration of the territory. In this paper, a conceptual framework of the evolution of the number of farms and land [...]Article
I. Koblianska ; O. Pasko ; T. Marenych ; N. Kotseruba ; V. Tkachenko |More than half of the total number of households in Ukraine are engaged in agricultural activities both for food self-sufficiency and for the production of marketable agricultural products, acting as subsistence or semi subsistence farms. The de[...]Article
Considering population projections, which are estimated to be 10 billion people in the world by 2050, agricultural demand is expected to rise by about 50% compared to 2013 levels, even under a moderate economic development scenario. The number o[...]Article
This study aims to foresee the future of organic farming in the smallholder agricultural systems of the Valencian Region (Spain), as well as to identify how different drivers of change may affect such a future. To do so, two qualitative methodol[...]Article
Soils have the capacity to store three times more carbon (C) than the atmosphere. This fact has focused scientific and governmental attention because it is one way to mitigate climate change. However, there comes a time when the capacity of soil[...]Article
Agriculture faces many challenges. In both public discourse and the scientific literature debates about the future are increasing framed in terms of "alternative" versus "conventional" agriculture. In this paper we critically examine this framin[...]Article
Agricultural land abandonment and its impacts on landscape features have been a striking characteristic of many European rural areas over the last decades. Although previous research identified drivers and environmental impacts of abandonment, f[...]Article
The different pandemics that humanity has experienced, such as the Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola and Swine Flu, have had a great impact on the economy, the environment and any human activity, such as livestock, agr[...]Article
C.-I. Papadopoulou ; E. Loizou ; F. Chatzitheodoridis ; A. Michailidis ; C. Karelakis ; Y. Fallas ; A. Paltaki |Action 2 of the European Unions Updated Bioeconomy Strategy, i.e., Deploy local bioeconomies rapidly across Europe, promotes education and training in all member states. It is a fact that Greece has not yet adopted a national bioeconomy strat[...]Article
Successful implementation of Europes agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper unde[...]Article
Over the past twenty years, the effects of agricultural policies on nutrition have received increasing attention from policymakers. A major reason is a worsening epidemic of overweight and obesity that, on top of persistent hunger and undernutri[...]E-Book
K. Schroeder ; J. Lampietti ; G. Elabed | Washington [États-Unis] : Banque Mondiale | Agriculture and Food Series | 2021The digital agriculture revolution holds a promise to build an agriculture and food system that is efficient, environmentally sustainable, and equitable, one that can help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. Unlike past technological revo[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Most of the approximately 105 million Egyptians depend on wheat in the form of baladi bread for their daily diet. Millions of smallholders along the River Nile have produced wheat for millennia; however, in more recent history, the wheat demand [...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
Cereals are considered the cornerstone of the great civilisations and constituted one of the premiere agricultural crops, providing a regular means of food around which human activity could be organised. Hence the civilisations in Europe or the [...]Article
One of the most important challenges in any society is the issue of food and water supply. Undoubtedly, agriculture has a major role in water consumption, and grains have the largest use in the food of people. Bread is also an essential commodit[...]Article
L.A.d.A. Telles ; L.A.d.A. Telles ; J.E.C. Arroyo ; D.H.B. Binoti ; A.S. Lorenzon ; A.R. dos Santos ; G.F. Domingues ; R.T. Resende ; G.E. Marcatti ; D.G.E. Gonzales ; N.L.M. de Castro ; P.H.S. Mota ; B.d.A. Oliveira ; M.L. da Silva |Sustainable production and land use planning are recurring challenges in the agricultural and forestry activities. In this context, a mathematical programming model is proposed that allows for both optimal production planning and its updating, w[...]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[...]Article
The effects of globalization have often been adverse for the agricultural sector, especially its most vulnerable elementthe small farm. The importance of the agricultural sector as a whole and small farms in the sense of ensuring food security,[...]Article
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This article presents findings from interviews that were conducted with agriculture and food system researchers to understand their views about what it means to conduct responsible or trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) research. Findin[...]Article
M.L. Giannitsopoulos ; A.R. Graves ; P.J. Burgess ; J. Crous-Duran ; G. Moreno ; F. Herzog ; J.H.N. Palma ; S. Kay ; S. Garcia de Jalon |There is an increasing demand to study the long-term effects of land use from both local farm and wider societal and environmental perspectives. This study applied an approach to evaluate both the financial profitability of arable, agroforestry,[...]