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V. Vaglia ; J. Bacenetti ; F. Orlando ; S. Alali ; E. Bosso ; S. Bocchi |Rice cultivation has a key role in food security worldwide; on the other hand, it has a high potential impact on the environment and human health, mainly due to the extensive pesticides use and greenhouse gas emissions caused by flooded cultivat[...]
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J. Gil ; E. Alter ; M.J. La Rota ; E. Tello ; V. Galletto ; R. Padró ; T. Martínez ; S. Darnay ; J. Marull |Transformations in the agri-food system since the early 19th century have led to an unprecedented increase in food production. However, the structure of this system has generated many negative environmental and social impacts that threaten the s[...]
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N. Casolani ; M. D'Eusanio ; L. Liberatore ; A. Raggi ; L. Petti |The application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the wine sector has received a particular attention in the last years. The inventory phase represents an important and sometimes critical issue for LCA analysts. This paper presents a systematic [...]
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N. Chamara ; M.D. Islam ; G. Bai ; Y. Shi ; Y. Ge |CONTEXT Automated monitoring of the soil-plant-atmospheric continuum at a high spatiotemporal resolution is a key to transform the labor-intensive, experience-based decision making to an automatic, data-driven approach in agricultural production[...]
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CONTEXT Adaptation to climate change is crucial to achieve food security and sustainable agricultural development. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on climate action urges to combat climate change impacts that are more pronounced in d[...]
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A.M.S. Kheir ; K.A. Ammar ; A. Amer ; M.G.M. Ali ; Z. Ding ; A. Elnashar |Combining machine learning (ML) with dynamic models is recommended by recent research for creating a hybrid approach for robust simulations but has received less attention thus far. Herein, we combined multi- ML algorithms with multi-crop models[...]
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N. Ostandie ; B. Giffard ; P. Tolle ; A.A. Ugaglia ; D. Thiéry ; Adrien Rusch |CONTEXT Assessing the multifunctionality of agroecosystems is crucial to design more sustainable farming systems. While it is known that organic farming benefits biodiversity and ecosystem services, how organic farming affects their multifunctio[...]
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Climate change will pose a major threat to food supply worldwide. Agroforestry has been proposed as an effective approach to minimize its effects on crops. However, to design sustainable and productive agroforestry systems, net responses of crop[...]
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In recent years, CGIAR researchers have investigated the effectiveness of using agrobiodiversity, and more particularly crop and crop varietal diversity, as an adaptive practice to mitigate climate-change impacts on agriculture and to contribute[...]
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P. David ; P. David ; C. Roemer ; R. Anibaldi ; S. Rundle-Thiele |With environmental degradation reaching emergency levels, urgent action for preventable behaviours is needed. There is limited scientific evidence available indicating key success factors that can be implemented to support lasting farming practi[...]
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The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a strategy able to fulfil the double purpose of improving the economic performance of the agricultural activity while minimising the impact generated on the environment by reducing the inflow of resources[...]
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L. Verdi ; A. Dalla Marta ; F. Falconi ; S. Orlandini ; M. Mancini |Assessing the environmental impact of agriculture is a key factor towards reducing human impacts on the food production chain. Because of the growing consumer interest in healthy foods cultivated with low-impact approach, a study assessing the i[...]
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V. Diogo ; J. Helfenstein ; F. Mohr ; V. Varghese ; N. Debonne ; C. Levers ; R. Swart ; G. Sonderegger ; T. Nemecek ; C. Schader ; A. Walter ; G. Ziv ; F. Herzog ; P.H. Verburg ; M. Bürgi |Agriculture plays a central role in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable intensification (SI) of agriculture has been proposed as a promising concept for safeguarding global food security, while simultaneously protect[...]
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T.-Y. Lin ; Y.-H. Chiu ; W.-Z. Xu |About 88 million tons of food is wasted in Europe every year, which makes it one of the most serious regions for food waste in the world. This research uses a two-stage undesirable dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to explore the env[...]
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M. Dhouib ; M. Dhouib ; R. Zitouna-Chebbi ; L. Prévot ; J. Molénat ; I. Mekki ; F. Jacob |Exploring crop spatial organizations within landscapes is a promising solution for agroecological transitions and climate change adaptation in Mediterranean rainfed hilly agrosystems. A prerequisite is to ensure that crop models can simulate a r[...]
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Despite world food production keeping pace with population growth because of the Green Revolution, the United Nations (UN) State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 Report indicates that the number of people affected by hunger has i[...]
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Reduction of pesticide use is one of the major challenges in the agricultural sector. Several methods, including efficiency analysis, have been proposed to address this issue. In general, efficiency analysis in the use of pesticides is conducted[...]
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S. Zingale ; P. Guarnaccia ; A. Matarazzo ; G. Lagioia ; C. Ingrao |It is recognised today that the global food system does not always deliver good nutrition for all human beings, and, additionally, dramatically contributes to climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. In particular, the c[...]
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B. Thompson ; A.P. Barnes ; L. Toma |Understanding what influences the adoption of multiple sustainable farming practices, a concept we call adoption intensity, is critical to the sustainable development of our food system. Drawing on a survey of European farmers, and using structu[...]
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A.M.S. Kheir ; A.M.S. Kheir ; G. Hoogenboom ; K.A. Ammar ; M. Ahmed ; T. Feike ; A. Elnashar ; B. Liu ; Z. Ding ; S. Asseng |Current wheat crop management practices in the Nile Delta of Egypt are unsustainable due to the overuse of limited water resources. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate opportunities to maximize wheat yield and resource efficiency[...]
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A. Niedermayr ; J. Landert ; F. Albanito ; J. Carolus ; Y. Desjeux ; J. Heinrichs ; A. Hrabalova ; P. Jeanneaux ; J. Kantelhardt ; L. Latruffe ; J. Sanders ; L. Schaller ; G. Schwarz |
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Most studies on climate change’s impacts on agriculture focus on modeling techniques based on large-scale meteorological data, while few have investigated how farmer’s perception of climate change’s impacts can affect crop diversity and crop man[...]
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X. Diaz de Otalora ; F. Dragoni ; A. Del Prado ; F. Estellés ; A. Wilfart ; D. Krol ; L. Balaine ; V. Anestis ; B. Amon |European dairy production faces significant economic, environmental, and social sustainability challenges. Given the great diversity of dairy cattle production systems in Europe, region-specific concepts to improve environmental and socioeconomi[...]
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N. Bamber ; R. Johnson ; E. Laage ; G. Dias ; P. Tyedmers ; N. Pelletier |The purpose of this manuscript is to review LCA studies of organic field crops to identify best practices in collecting life cycle inventory data. Previous LCA studies of organic field crops from 2010 to 2021 were identified and data were collec[...]
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CONTEXT Mediterranean peri-urban regions have changed considerably in recent decades, leading to different farming system trajectories. The high level of heterogeneity and complexity of these areas are particularly challenging in terms of unders[...]
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Regardless of public perceptions of the agricultural techniques, the fact is that the current agriculture industry is more data-driven, accurate, and intelligent than before. Therefore, novel technologies such as fog computing and the Internet o[...]
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S. Shin ; D. Aziz ; M.E.A. El-Sayed ; M. Hazman ; L. Almas ; M. McFarland ; A.S. El Din ; S.J. Burian |Agricultural land expansion is a solution to address global food security challenges in the context of climate change. However, the sustainability of expansion in arid countries is difficult because of scarce surface water resources, groundwater[...]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused catastrophic global upheaval with the potential to alter geopolitical and socio-economic norms. This study offers potential insights for the post COVID-19 era by investigating the impact of the determinants of gr[...]
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M. Carof ; O. Godinot ; E. Le Cadre |Biodiversity-based cropping systems are an interesting option to address the many challenges that agriculture faces. However, benefits of these systems should not obscure the fact that creating biodiversity-based cropping systems represents a ma[...]
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F. Maffezzoli ; M. Ardolino ; A. Bacchetti ; M. Perona ; F. Renga |Demographics will increase the demand for food and reduce the availability of labour in many countries all over the world. Moreover, scarcity of natural resources, climate change and food waste these are issues that are strongly impacting the ag[...]
