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Agricultural nonpoint source (NPS) pollution leads to water quality degradation. While agriculture is faced with the challenge of feeding a growing population in a changing climate, farmers must also strive to minimize adverse impacts of agricul[...]
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In recent years, scholars and practitioners have discussed several challenges related to the fresh-food supply chains (SCs). One of these challenges is the lack of availability of curated, clean, and processed market information for the SC parti[...]
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In recent years, the waste management field has received substantial attention from policymakers, organizations, academics, and researchers due to increased focus on sustainability and carbon footprint reduction as well as concerns around rapid [...]
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A. Domínguez ; J.A. Martínez-López ; H. Amami ; R. Nsiri ; F. Karam ; M. Oueslati |Despite the great number of models developed in research projects, only a small percentage have been successfully transferred to the productive sector. The PRIMA programme supported by Horizon 2020, the European Union Framework Programme for Res[...]
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A decision support model for cost-effective choice of temperature-controlled transport of fresh food
L.M. Maiyar ; R. Ramanathan ; I. Roy ; U. Ramanathan |The application of a plethora of wireless technologies to support real-time food quality monitoring during transportation has significantly improved the performance of fresh food delivery systems. However, deployment of these technologies increa[...]
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P.B. Hegedus ; B. Maxwell ; J. Sheppard ; S. Loewen ; H. Duff ; G. Morales-Luna ; A. Peerlinck |Few mechanisms turn field-specific ecological data into management recommendations for crop production with appropriate uncertainty. Precision agriculture is mainly deployed for machine efficiencies and soil-based zonal management, and the tradi[...]
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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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Cropping system models are deployed as valuable tools for informing agronomic decisions and advancing research. To meet this demand, early career scientists are increasingly tasked with building crop models to fit into these system modelling fra[...]
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This study assesses inputs use efficiency of durum wheat farmers, subscribed under a common Agricultural Decision Support System (ADSS), especially designed by Barilla and HORTA for this cultivation. Data Envelopment Analysis was the main analys[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
J. De Baerdemaeker, coord. ; S. Hemming ; G. Polder ; A. Chauhan ; A. Petropoulou ; F. Rovira-Más ; D. Moshou ; G. Wyseure ; T. Norton ; B. Nicolai ; F. Hennig-Possenti ; I. Hostens | Strasbourg [France] : European Parliament | 2023An increasingly digitised society involves recording human activity and monitoring products and processes. In the agri-food sector this gives rise to large quantities of data. At the same time, data is also generated for research and scientific [...]
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Nowadays, smart irrigation is becoming an essential goal in agriculture, where water and energy are increasingly limited resources. Its importance will grow in the coming years in the agricultural sector where the optimal use of resources and en[...]
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B. Cicciù ; F. Schramm ; V.B. Schramm |This paper aims to perform a literature review on the use of multi-criteria methods for assessing agricultural sustainability, focusing on the distribution of papers according to year, journal, and countries, the most productive authors, the mos[...]
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A. Di Guardo ; E. Capri ; M. Calliera ; A. Finizio |As echoed in the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy, the EU agricultural policy has clear objectives of improving the sustainability (environmental, economic and social) of farm productions. The environmental goals are supported by pr[...]
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In the past two decades, a number of researchers have sought to capture the complex interactions of the food system's outcome through frameworks. In several international discourses and expert foresight studies, food system frameworks are freque[...]
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Predicting crop yields is one of the most challenging tasks in agriculture. It plays an essential role in decision making at global, regional, and field levels. Soil, meteorological, environmental, and crop parameters are used to predict crop yi[...]
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Effective agricultural water management requires accurate and timely identification of crop water stress at the farm-scale for irrigation advisories or to allocate the optimal amount of water for irrigation. Various drought indices are being uti[...]
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In arid and semi-arid regions, agriculture is an important element of the national economy, but this sector is a large consumer of water. In a context of high pressure on water resources, appropriate management is required. In semi-arid, intensi[...]
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Agro-sylvo-pastoral systems are common around the Mediterranean Basin, where they provide a variety of goods and services to the local populations. Their sustainability relies on efficient grazing management, especially in Mediterranean rangelan[...]
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New players are entering the new and important digital data market for agriculture, increasing power asymmetries and reinforcing their competitive advantages. Although the farmer remains at the heart of agricultural data collection, to date, onl[...]
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A. Scuderi ; L. Sturiale ; G. Timpanaro ; A. Matarazzo ; S. Zingale ; P. Guarnaccia |For several decades, studies and conventions have highlighted the importance of the ecosystem services provided by natural resources and biodiversity for humanity and the need to move their management towards a sustainable model. Inthe United Na[...]
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C. Kosma ; V. Triantafyllidis ; A. Zotos ; A. Pittaras ; V. Kouneli ; S. Karydogianni ; A. Mavroeidis ; I. Kakabouki ; D. Beslemes ; E.L. Tigka ; I. Roussis ; D. Bilalis |Smallholder farming systems are typical of the European Mediterranean region. Small farms of less than 2 hectares cover approximately 15% of cropland in the southern EU and only 5% across the EU. The greater variability of cultivated species per[...]
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C. Roman ; M. Peris ; J. Esteve ; M. Tejerina ; J. Cambray ; P. Vilardell ; S. Planas |Agricultural productivity cannot be sustained without the application of plant protection measures. Within the framework of integrated pest management (IPM), the use of chemical pesticides should be limited to the last option among the available[...]
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Over the last years, the global application of machine learning (ML) models in groundwater quality studies has proved to be a robust alternative tool to produce highly accurate results at a low cost. This research aims to evaluate the ability of[...]
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C.-N. Kasimatis ; E. Psomakelis ; N. Katsenios ; G. Katsenios ; M. Papatheodorou ; D. Vlachakis ; D. Apostolou ; A. Efthimiadou |Tomato is the second most important vegetable in the world, both in terms of production and consumption. Especially for the cultivation of industrial tomato, harvest is conducted when the total soluble solids, a major quality characteristic, are[...]
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Nowadays, the sustainability of Greek dairy cattle farms is questionable due to low competitiveness and high GHG emissions. In this context, the BIOCIRCULAR project, funded by the EYDE ETAK, developed a series of alternative practices focusing o[...]
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Basic Statistics with R: Reaching Decisions with Data provides an understanding of the processes at work in using data for results. Sections cover data collection and discuss exploratory analyses, including visual graphs, numerical summaries, an[...]
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Cet article analyse la prise en charge par les coopératives de la critique environnementale au moyen d’outils numériques et la façon dont leur cadre d’usage se construit avec les technico-commerciaux (TC) et les agriculteurs. À partir du cas d’u[...]
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K. Canaj ; A. Parente ; M. D'Imperio ; F. Boari ; V. Buono ; M. Toriello ; A. Mehmeti ; F.F. Montesano |To address sustainability challenges, agricultural advances in Mediterranean horticultural systems will necessitate a paradigmatic shift toward smart technologies, the impacts of which from a life cycle perspective have to be explored. Using lif[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
T. Berchoux ; F. Iadecola | 2022This manual provides key information and instructions on the application and use of the SHERPA Characterisation Tool for rural areas. The tool was developed to examine the characteristics of rural areas in the EU. It consists of an excel file pr[...]
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
S. Saad | 2022Today, technology is an important vector of economic and environmental performance in agriculture. It provides innovative solutions to increase the efficiency of orchards and help in decision-making. Therefore, Blue whale being the leading compa[...]
