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E. Sanz Sanz ; C. Napoleone ; M. Debolini ; D. Martinetti ; O. Moreno Pérez ; C. de Benito ; M. Moulery ; T. Pinto Correia ; R. Filippini ; L. Arfa ; C. Yacamán-Ochoa |Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale in modelling food security to inform context-specific regionalised policies remains a major scientific challenge. A better understanding of the relations between global and local drivers imp[...]Article
L. Shang ; J. Wang ; D. Schäfer ; T. Heckelei ; J. Gall ; F. Appel ; H. Storm |Technological change co-determines agri-environmental performance and farm structural transformation. Meaningful impact assessment of related policies can be derived from farm-level models that are rich in technology details and environmental in[...]Article
Y. Zhang ; L. Pichon ; S. Roux ; A. Pellegrino ; T. Simonneau ; B. Tisseyre |Inverse modeling (IM) is a valuable tool in agriculture for estimating model parameters that aid in decision-making. It is particularly useful when parameters cannot be directly measured or easily estimated due to logistical constraints in agric[...]Article
P. Garofalo ; M. Parlavecchia ; L. Giglio ; I. Campobasso ; A.V. Vonella ; M. Botta ; T. Tadiello ; V. Tucci ; F. Fornaro ; R. Leogrande ; C. Vitti ; A. Perego ; M. Acutis ; D. Ventrella |In anticipation of climate changes, strategic soil management, encompassing reduced tillage and optimized crop residue utilization, emerges as a pivotal strategy for climate impact mitigation. Evaluating the transition from conventional to conse[...]Ouvrage
S. Lamine ; P.K. Srivastava ; A. Kayad ; F. Muñoz-Arriola ; P.C. Pandey | Oxford [Royaume-Uni] : Academic Press | Earth Observation Series | 2024Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: Transforming Scientific Advancement into Innovation compiles the latest applications of remote sensing in agriculture using spaceborne, airborne and drones geospatial data. The book presents case studies[...]Article
Sustainability and resilience against climate change provided by a territorial crop-livestock system
The development of territorial crop-livestock systems where exchanges between crops and livestock farms are managed in a synergistic way is seen as an opportunity to increase the sustainability and resilience of specialized agricultural systems [...]Article
D. Pasquel ; D. Cammarano ; S. Roux ; A. Castrignanò ; B. Tisseyre ; M. Rinaldi ; A. Troccoli ; J.A. Taylor |CONTEXT Most crop models are designed for point-based modeling and to simulate agronomic variables on their native spatial footprint, i.e. typically as a uniform field-scale value. Precision agriculture needs crop model simulations at sub-field [...]Article
Climate change is expected to affect the agricultural sector in ways that are often unclear to predict. If in the short- and medium-terms farmers may adapt to climate change by adjusting their agricultural practices, in the long-term, these adju[...]Article
K.U. Rehman ; S. Andleeb ; M. Ashfaq ; N. Akram ; M.W. Akram |Agriculture plays a vital role in global food security, but conventional practices have led to environmental degradation and health risks due to excessive use of agricultural nutrients and chemicals. In this era of increased consumer awareness a[...]Article
R. Belmin ; M. Paulin ; E. Malézieux |Climate change is increasingly affecting agriculture worldwide, causing yield losses and undermining food security. Behind the international consensus on the urgent need for ambitious policies to adapt agriculture to climate change (AACC) hides [...]Article
Precision agriculture technologies can help reduce nitrogen losses and the associated negative environmental impacts. As the adoption rate of such technologies in small-scale farming systems is still low, additional policy measures are required [...]Article
O. Parra Rivero ; A. Ojeda Roldan ; R. González Álvarez-Ossorio ; C. Staboulis ; D. Natos ; K. Mattas ; W. Bojar ; R. Kusmierek-Tomaszewska ; P. Baranowski ; J. Krzyszczak |During the last decade, Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has prioritised measures focused on sustainability and quality over production. The purpose of the AGRICORE project is to develop a tool based on agent-based modelling to assist policymake[...]Article
Emerging technologies associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enabled improvements in global food security situations. However, there is a limited understanding regarding the extent to which stakeholders are involved in AI modelling re[...]Article
In this study, we use a gravity model to analyze virtual water flows due to the trade of agricultural products for Turkey. We calculate virtual water flows of agricultural trade for 326 products and 192 trade partners for 2002?2019. The empirica[...]Article
P.D. Wagner ; S. Kumar ; N. Fohrer |There is a common scientific understanding that global change impact analysis, mitigation, and adaptation require interdisciplinary work. Integrated modeling could help to address the challenges associated with the impacts of global change. Part[...]Article
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 [...]Article
The objectives of this paper are to determine the factors that influence interannual movements of farms between income categories, and to forecast future income categories of farms under several different market, climate, and policy scenarios. T[...]Article
V. Vadez ; R. Pilloni ; A. Grondin ; A. Hajjarpoor ; H. Belhouchette ; Y. Brouziyne ; G. Chehbouni ; M.H. Kharrou ; R. Zitouna-Chebbi ; I. Mekki ; J. Molénat ; F. Jacob ; J. Bossuet |Water scarcity will be one of the main issues of the 21 st century, because of competing needs between civil, industrial, and agriculture use. While agriculture is the largest user of water, its share is bound to decrease as societies develop. C[...]Article
The agricultural sector faces various challenges and barriers in transitioning from linear resource consumption to a circular economy. Based on the literature, four key areas of challenges are identified and discussed, conversion technology and [...]Article
CONTEXT With the warming trend and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, accurate crop yield estimation is becoming urgent. Crop yield estimation mainly consists of two methods: crop model simulation and remote sensing observations[...]Article
National crop yields are difficult to estimate during a crop season and are usually only known after crop harvest. The goal of this study was to develop a simple methodology to estimate national wheat yields that could be easily applied to any c[...]Article
S. Rafflegeau ; M. Gosme ; K. Barkaoui ; L. Garcia ; C. Allinne ; O. Deheuvels ; J. Grimaldi ; P. Jagoret ; P.-E. Lauri ; A. Mérot ; A. Metay ; F. Reyes ; S. Saj ; G.N. Curry ; E. Justes |Duru et al. (Agron Sustain Dev 35:1259-1281, 2015) highlighted a missing tool for studying and improving the performance of cropping systems in the transition to highly diversified agriculture. In response, this paper proposes a concept for desi[...]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
J. Lecina-Diaz ; M.-L. Chas-Amil ; N. Aquilué ; A. Sil ; L. Brotons ; A. Regos ; J. Touza |In southern Europe, land abandonment and an unbalanced investment toward fire suppression instead of prevention has gradually increased wildfire risk, which calls for a paradigm change in fire management policies. Here we combined scenario analy[...]Article
M. Valencia ; N. Bocken ; C. Loaiza ; S. De Jaeger |The social value of the circular economy (CE) has only been recently explored in the literature. To understand the social implications of the implementation of the CE, a semi-systematic literature review was completed evaluating the variables of[...]Article
The food chain is intrinsically linked to agriculture and enables a transition towards a Circular Economy (CE) system and a resource efficient future. Accordingly, the development of analytical models appears particularly useful to address these[...]Article
M. Coronese ; M. Occelli ; F. Lamperti ; A. Roventini |This paper presents a dynamic agent-based model of land use and agricultural production under environmental boundaries, finite available resources and endogenous technical change. In particular, we model a spatially explicit smallholder farming [...]Article
The aim of this article is to identify the conditions for the internationalisation of olive oil producing firms in southern of Spain (province of Jaén), as this region accounts for 20 percent of total world production. To that end, we propose a [...]Article
Global climate change has led to a severe loss of water and land resources and has exacerbated food crisis concerns. The water-land-food nexus in agricultural irrigation systems is receiving increasing attention. However, for sustainable food pr[...]Article
Studies on sustainability of agribusinesses often overlook the social dimension of sustainability. The social pillar is clearly the least studied of the three traditional pillars of sustainability, and the classification and estimation of the in[...]Article
A. Esteso ; M.M.E. Alemany ; F. Ottati ; A. Ortiz |The agri-food sector is subject to various sources of uncertainty and risk that can have a negative impact on its supply chain performance if not properly managed. In order to determine what actions the supply chain (SC) should take to protect i[...]Article
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[...]Article
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[...]Article
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[...]Article
The terroir effect refers to the interactions between the grapes and their natural surroundings and has been recognized as an important factor in wine quality. The identification and mapping of viticultural terroir have long been relying on expe[...]Article
In recent years, the circular economy and the bioeconomy have increasingly been developed in France, driven by public policies. In this article, innovative circular bioeconomy business models in the French agrifood domain are studied concerning [...]Article
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 [...]Article
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[...]Article
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[...]Article
K. Mainali ; M. Evans ; D. Saavedra ; E. Mills ; B. Madsen ; S. Minnemeyer |Landscape scale wetland conservation requires accurate, up-to-date wetland maps. The most useful approaches to creating such maps are automated, spatially generalizable, temporally repeatable, and can be applied at large spatial scales. However,[...]Article
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[...]Article
L'article s'intéresse aux nouvelles formes d'agriculture, concept issu essentiellement de la presse généraliste et qui correspond à des formes innovantes ou réinventées d'agriculture comme la permaculture, l'aquaponie, la culture sur toits, dans[...]Article
E. Elsadek ; K. Zhang ; A. Mousa ; G.T. Ezaz ; T.L. Tola ; H. Shaghaleh ; A.A. Hamad ; Y. Alhaj Hamoud |Crop growth models are cost-effective and user-friendly tools for decision-makers to develop efficient in-field management strategies. These models are particularly important in countries such as Egypt, where the risk of water scarcity is inevit[...]Article
The new CAP implementation model requires each Member State to design a CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) to deliver operational actions under the two CAP pillars. Each CSP must be built from an evidence-based needs assessment that undergoes rigorous pri[...]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 [...]Article
Climate change is a challenging fact influencing diverse sectors in society including the agricultural one, which is heavily dependent on natural resources and climate. In the Mediterranean region, climate change-related increases in air tempera[...]E-Book
D. Cammarano, ed. ; F.K. Van Evert, ed. ; C. Kempenaar, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | Progress in Precision Agriculture | 2023This book describes how models are used to monitor crops and soils in precision agriculture, and how they are used to support farmers decisions. The introductory section starts with an overview of precision agriculture from the early days of yi[...]Ouvrage
Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyversea collection of R packages designed to work together[...]Article
S. Aloui ; A. Mazzoni ; A. Elomri ; J. Aouissi ; A. Boufekane ; A. Zghibi |The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a well-established eco-hydrological model that has been extensively applied to watersheds across the globe. This work reviews over two decades (2002-2022) of SWAT studies conducted on Mediterranean wa[...]Article
Cereal, oilseed, and protein (COP) production is an important sector contributing to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Tunisia. COP farms often diversify their production patterns to stabilize their income sources and spread production ris[...]Article
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is applied to assess large-scale systems supporting policymaking. However, most LCA studies focused on evaluating the impacts of policies and strategic planning on a static basis ignoring the dynamic nature of the ter[...]Article
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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[...]Article
A. Naulleau ; C. Gary ; L. Prévot ; F. Vinatier ; L. Hossard |Context Climate change threatens wine growing systems in varying ways because of their high diversity, even at a local scale. This diversity needs to be considered when designing and assessing adaptation strategies to coordinate better with thes[...]Article
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[...]Article
R.S. Makar ; S.A. Shahin ; M. El-Nazer ; A. Wheida ; M. Abd El-Hady |Climate change and its impact on agriculture and water resources have become a global concern. The implications of extreme weather events on food production and water resource availability are starting to have social and economic effects worldwi[...]Article
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[...]Article
Agent-based models (ABMs) are an increasingly popular choice for simulating large systems of interacting components, and have been applied across a wide variety of natural and environmental systems. However, ABMs can be incredibly disparate and [...]Article
Parcel-level cropland maps are an essential data source for crop yield estimation, precision agriculture, and many other agronomy applications. Here, we proposed a rice field mapping approach that combines agricultural field boundary extraction [...]Article
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[...]Article
The expanded use of water-intensive crops, such as maize, has exacerbated soil drying and water scarcity in watersheds with large irrigated surfaces. As we face climbing drought risks, water can be conserved in such areas by adopting agricultura[...]Article
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[...]Article
Traceability is among the most significant challenges in supply chains, where multiple stakeholders and activities are involved in the production and distribution of products. No supply chain can become sustainable without effectively addressing[...]Article
R. Gamal ; M. El-Shirbeny ; A. Abou-Hadid ; A. Swelam ; A.-G. El-Gindy ; Y. Arafa ; V. Nangia |Evapotranspiration (ET) is a significant consumer of irrigation water and precipitation on cropland. Global and regional interest in the sustainable management of limited freshwater supplies to meet the rapidly increasing population and food dem[...]Article
Complex agricultural problems concern many countries, as a result of competing economic and environmental objectives. In this work we model three common agricultural problems through optimization techniques: a water-scarce area with overexploite[...]Article
C.D. Pérez-Blanco ; R. Parrado ; A.H. Essenfelder ; J. Bodoque ; L. Gil-García ; C. Gutiérrez-Martín ; J. Ladera ; G. Standardi |Farmers' adaptation responses to water conservation policies involve a complex decision-making process that depends on a range of criteria, including water availability, profits, and risks, which are in turn dependent on (and might have conseque[...]Article
Comparison of selected mathematical programming models used for sustainable land and farm management
The aim of this study is to compare three mathematical programing models used for sustainable land and farm management. The sample for the comparison was 219 agricultural holdings participating as beneficiaries of the measure Modernization of a[...]Article
J. Elfarkh ; V. Simonneaux ; L. Jarlan ; J. Ezzahar ; G. Boulet ; A. Chakir ; S. Er-Raki |Quantification of actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) over large areas is a critical issue to manage water resources, particularly in semi-arid regions. In this study, four models driven by high resolution remote sensing data were intercompared[...]Article
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and envir[...]Article
Groundwater is a vital water resource for economic, agricultural, and domestic purposes in arid regions. To reduce water scarcity in arid regions, recently, remote sensing and GIS techniques have been successfully applied to predict areas with p[...]Article
The purpose of this study is twofold: firstly, to provide a literature review of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) critical factors, practices and performance; and secondly, to develop a comprehensive and testable model of SSCM in the f[...]Article
This study sought to propose a theoretical model by determining the incident factors of agro-industrial territorial development based on the existing scientific literature and the exploration of successful case studies in the sector worldwide. A[...]Article
P. Beullens ; Y. Ghiami |In this article, we examine how an Operational Research (OR) modeling approach can help in identifying how structural components in the supply process of a food product subject to a small probability of almost immediate failure affects the amoun[...]Article
In the last two decades, research on water resource monitoring and management has mainly been aimed at reducing irrigation water volume and energy consumption [...]Article
B. Alturk ; H.C. Kurc ; F. Konukcu ; I. Kocaman |Land use suitability for cattle farming is critical in sustainable land use planning and minimizing the environmental problems arising from farms. This study contributes to bridging the gap between classical application formulations that support[...]Article
Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios typically include the expansion of protected areas combined with higher agricultural productivit[...]Article
Recent econometric work suggests that there is a positive link between the development of land rental markets and the migration of workers out of agriculture in the developing world. I investigate this claim using a two-sector model of structura[...]Article
J.A. Martínez-López ; R. López-Urrea ; A. Martínez-Romero ; J.J. Pardo ; J. Montero ; A. Domínguez |Scarcity of water resources is one of the main constraints on agricultural activity in arid and semi-arid areas. Despite the great technological development over recent decades, farmers are demanding methodologies and tools adapted to their trai[...]Article
Z. Zajac ; O. Gomez ; E. Gelati ; M. van der Velde ; S. Bassu ; A. Ceglar ; O. Chukaliev ; L. Panarello ; R. Koeble ; M. van den Berg ; S. Niemeyer ; D. Fumagalli |Regional-to-global studies of hydrology, water availability and water use, and their interaction with agricultural production and food security require accurate information on the location and extent of irrigated croplands. In this study, we der[...]Article
J. Wang ; M. Bretz ; M.A.A. Dewan ; M.A. Delavar |Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) are of importance in natural resource management, environmental modelling and assessment, and agricultural production management. However, LULCC detection and modelling is a complex, data-driven process in [...]Article
M.S. Kivi ; B. Blakely ; M. Masters ; C.J. Bernacchi ; F.E. Miguez ; H. Dokoohaki |As we face today's large-scale agricultural issues, the need for robust methods of agricultural forecasting has never been clearer. Yet, the accuracy and precision of our forecasts remains limited by current tools and methods. To overcome the li[...]Article
Accurate information about the irrigated surface is essential to help assess the impact of irrigation on water consumption, the hydrological cycle and regional climate. In this study, we compare recently developed operational and spatially trans[...]Article
CONTEXT Agricultural systems are generally characterised by many dependent variables that represent their management practices and performances. Parametric approaches are usually used to explore data collected from farms and relations among vari[...]Article
The main type of consumptive water use is crop evapotranspiration. The historical evolution of crop evapotranspiration depends on climate and cropland changes. These two latter variables present complex interactions and are expected to continue [...]Article
L. Schreefel ; I.J.M. De Boer ; C.J. Timler ; J.C.J. Groot ; M.J. Zwetsloot ; R.E. Creamer ; A.P. Schrijver ; H.H.E. Van Zanten ; R.P.O. Schulte |CONTEXT - Well-managed agricultural land can provide ecosystem services and contribute positively to the environment. Many of these services are mediated through the soil and are referred to as soil functions. Regenerative agriculture is a mode [...]Article
A. Lyra ; A. Loukas ; P. Sidiropoulos ; K. Voudouris ; N. Mylopoulos |The scope of this study is to assess the effects of agronomic and water resources management scenarios on groundwater balance, seawater intrusion, and nitrate pollution and the comparison of the developed scenarios relative to the current crop p[...]Article
M. Achite ; M. Jehanzaib ; M.T. Sattari ; A.K. Toubal ; N. Elshaboury ; A. Walega ; N. Krakauer ; J.-Y. Yoo ; T.-W. Kim |Evapotranspiration (ET) is a significant aspect of the hydrologic cycle, notably in irrigated agriculture. Direct approaches for estimating reference evapotranspiration (ET0) are either difficult or need a large number of inputs that are not alw[...]Article
Participatory modeling to assess the impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean vineyard watershed
A. Naulleau ; C. Gary ; L. Prévot ; V. Berteloot ; J.-C. Fabre ; D. Crevoisier ; R. Gaudin ; L. Hossard |The diversity of both pedoclimatic and socio-economic contexts in agricultural landscapes makes evaluating the impacts of climate change a challenge. Models are pertinent tools to quantitatively explore possible futures, and participatory approa[...]Article
R. Duflot ; M. San-Cristobal ; E. Andrieu ; J.-P. Choisis ; D. Esquerré ; S. Ladet ; A. Ouin ; J. Rivers-Moore ; D. Sheeren ; C. Sirami ; M. Fauvel ; A. Vialatte |Farming intensity and landscape heterogeneity influence agrobiodiversity and associated ecological functions. The relative contributions of these agroecosystem components to agricultural production remain unclear because of inter-relations and w[...]Article
M.E.S. Amin ; E.S. Mohamed ; A.A. Belal ; M.E.M. Jalhoum ; M.A. Abdellatif ; D. Nady ; A.M. Ali ; A.G. Mahmoud |The development of Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) is a vital step in sustainable agricultural development. This study proposes a quantitative method for developing the AEZs and land suitability for Wadi El-Grawla, North-Western Coastal Region (NWC[...]Article
A rapid method to estimate the different components of the water balance in Mediterranean watersheds
The sustainable management of water resources, whether surface or underground, requires the identification of the flows involved and the possibility of achieving the water balance of the water resource. These require knowledge of the main flow c[...]Article
O. Kherif ; M. Seghouani ; E. Justes ; D. Plaza-Bonilla ; A. Bouhenache ; B. Zemmouri ; P. Dokukin ; M. Latati |Soil-crop models are widely used as valuable tools to assess the combined effects of cropping practices, soil management and climate on the agro-environmental indicators. They provide a wide range of predictive information that are useful to des[...]Ouvrage
W.L. Filho, ed. ; E. Manolas, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | Climate Change Management, ISSN 1610-2010 | 2022This book serves the purpose of showcasing some of the works in respect of applied research, field projects, and best practice to foster climate change adaptation across the region. Climate change is having a much greater impact in the Mediterr[...]Ouvrage
Nourrir le monde, sans pétrole, en régénérant la nature et le climat : telle est léquation alimentaire de notre temps. Face à la difficulté de lexercice, notre société dabondance hésite entre lutopie béate dun retour à la nature sauvage [...]Article
Desertification is a serious threat to human survival and to ecosystems, especially to inland desert oases. An assessment of desertification severity is essential to ensure national sustainable development for agricultural and land expansion pro[...]E-Book
K. Mattas ; G. Baourakis ; C. Zopounidis ; C. Staboulis | Dordrecht [Pays-Bas] : Springer | Cooperative Management | 2022In the present economic, political, societal and environmental landscape, which is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of challenges and issues that demand immediate and urgent responses is more intense than ever. Policymakers, int[...]Ouvrage
Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning is a comprehensive reference on the use of technologies to map land use, focusing on GIS and remote sensing applications and methodologies for land use monitoring. This book ad[...]Article
A. Pyka ; G. Cardellini ; H. van Meijl ; P.J. Verkerk |With its update of the Bioeconomy Strategy and the Green Deal, the European Commission committed itself to a transformation towards a sustainable and climate-neutral European Union. This process is characterised with an enormous complexity, whic[...]Ouvrage
A. Kothari, coord. ; A. Salleh, coord. ; A. Escobar, coord. ; F. DeMaria, coord. ; A. Acosta, coord. | Marseille [France] : Wildproject | Le monde qui vient | 2022Contre lidéologie du développement et ses évolutions récentes, Plurivers présente des visions du monde et des pratiques radicalement différentes qui, de tous les continents, pointent vers des futurs écologiquement sages et socialement justes. [...]E-Book
Comprendre les problèmes posés par lorganisation actuelle du système alimentaire, à travers la synthèse de nombreux travaux de recherche en sciences naturelles et en sciences humaines montrant les défaillances et les vulnérabilités du modèle ag[...]E-Book
A. Thomas, coord. ; A. Alpha, coord. ; A. Barczak, coord. ; N. Zakhia-Rozis, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Synthèses | 2022Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability. Tackling this tremendous challenge[...]E-Book
Cet ouvrage expose les fondements théoriques indispensables à lutilisation des systèmes dinformation géographique (SIG) en présentant de manière simple les modèles vecteur et raster, les standards OGC, le SQL spatial ou les modèles numériques [...]Article
Olive trees are one of the few alternative crops available for farmers in arid environments. In many of these regions, surface irrigation is increasing. The aim of this study was to estimate the pattern of water soil reserves through the season [...]Article
A. Alitane ; A. Essahlaoui ; M. El Hafyani ; A. El Hmaidi ; A. El Ouali ; A. Kassou ; Y. El Yousfi ; A. Van Griensven ; C.J. Chawanda ; A. Van Rompaey |Soil erosion is an increasingly issue worldwide, due to several factors including climate variations and humans activities, especially in Mediterranean ecosystems. Therefore, the aim of this paper is: (i) to quantify and to predict soil erosion[...]Article
S. Baccour ; J. Albiac ; T. Kahil ; E. Esteban ; D. Crespo ; A. Dinar |Water scarcity and water quality degradation are major problems in many basins across the world, especially in arid and semiarid regions. The severe pressures on basins are the consequence of the intensification of food production systems and th[...]Article
Machine learning (ML) expands traditional data analysis and presents a range of opportunities in ecosystem service (ES) research, offering rapid processing of ?big data? and enabling significant advances in data description and predictive modell[...]Article
Y.A. Sayed ; Y.A. Sayed ; M.E. Fadl |Agricultural sustainability development is essential in the modest Egyptian national income to improve land production and conservation of natural resources, which must cope with population growth with addition of new land reclamation that has l[...]Article
Agricultural systems are constantly stressed due to higher demands for products. Consequently, water resources consumed on irrigation are increased. In combination with the climatic change, those are major obstacles to maintaining sustainable de[...]Article
L.E. Dewenam ; S. Er-Raki ; J. Ezzahar ; A. Chehbouni |The main goal of this investigation was to evaluate the potential of the WOFOST model for estimating leaf area index (LAI), actual evapotranspiration (ETa), soil moisture content (SM), above-ground biomass levels (TAGP) and grain yield (TWSO) of[...]Article
C.M. Viana ; M. Santos ; D. Freire ; P. Abrantes ; J. Rocha |To effectively plan and manage the use of agricultural land, it is crucial to identify and evaluate the multiple human and environmental factors that influence it. In this study, we propose a model framework to identify the factors potentially e[...]Article
D.S. Cristea ; S. Rosenberg ; A. Pustianu Mocanu ; I.A. Simionov ; A.A. Mogodan ; S.M. Petrea ; L.M. Moga |This research provides an analytical and predictive framework, based on state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) algorithms (random forest (RF) and generalized additive models (GAM)), that can be used to assess and improve the Common Agricultural [...]Article
Modelling future change to land use and land cover is done as part of many local and global scenario environmental assessments. Nevertheless, there are still considerable challenges related to simulating land-use responses to climate change. Mos[...]Article
K. Benabderrazik ; B. Kopainsky ; L. Tazi ; J. Joerin ; J. Six |Agricultural-food production systems are facing the challenging task to provide food and socio-economic welfare while preserving natural resources in the long-term. In Morocco, the Green Moroccan Plan steered the promotion of groundwater-based d[...]Article
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I. Mouratiadou ; I. Mouratiadou ; C. Latka ; F. van der Hilst ; C. Müller ; R. Berges ; B.L. Bodirsky ; F. Ewert ; B. Faye ; T. Heckelei ; M. Hoffmann ; H. Lehtonen ; I.J. Lorite ; C. Nendel ; T. Palosuo ; A. Rodriguez ; R.P. Rötter ; M. Ruiz-Ramos ; T. Stella ; H. Webber ; B. Wicke |Sustainable intensification (SI) of agriculture is a promising strategy for boosting the capacity of the agricultural sector to meet the growing demands for food and non-food products and services in a sustainable manner. Assessing and quantifyi[...]Article
C. Laurent ; B. Oger ; J.A. Taylor ; T. Scholasch ; A. Metay ; B. Tisseyre |Grapevine yield is defined as the quantity of harvest, expressed as either grape mass or wine volumeunits, which has been collected per surface unit are and per crop cycle. The information about current and future yield, termed a yield assessmen[...]Article
Water scarcity has a significant impact on agricultural productivity, and it usually constitutes the main criterion for the continuation of agricultural activity. Cyprus agri-sector faces increasing challenges since water resources are very limi[...]Article
S. Masia ; A. Trabucco ; D. Spano ; R.L. Snyder ; J. Susnik ; S. Marras |The impact of climate change on agriculture is projected to be more severe over the coming years due to changing intensity, magnitude and distribution of precipitation, soil water content, atmospheric water vapor, higher temperatures, and thus l[...]Article
G. Cáceres ; G. Cáceres ; P. Millán ; M. Pereira ; D. Lozano |The growth of the global population, together with climate change and water scarcity, has made the shift towards efficient and sustainable agriculture increasingly important. Undoubtedly, the recent development of low-cost IoT-based sensors and [...]Article
V. Mereu ; A. Gallo ; A. Trabucco ; G. Carboni ; D. Spano |The Mediterranean basin has been identified as a prominent hotspot of climate change, with expected negative impacts on crop productivity, among others. Given the primary role that agriculture has to sustain cultural values, economic opportuniti[...]Article
T. Kourat ; D. Smadhi ; B. Mouhouche ; N. Gourari ; M.G.M. Amin ; C.R. Bryant |Maintaining sustainability in rainfed wheat production under changing climate is a grave concern for food security in Algeria. This study aims to assess the impact of future climate change on rainfed wheat yield in the semiarid Eastern High Plai[...]Article
Artificial neural networks are one of the most important elements of machine learning and artificial intelligence. They are inspired by the human brain structure and function as if they are based on interconnected nodes in which simple processin[...]Article
The ecological footprint (EF) is an important tool for assessing ecological resource occupancy. The three-dimensional (3D) EF changes the EF from a plane to a column, and the bottom (EFsize) represents the human appropriation of the annual natur[...]Article
The article describes and sets the definition of different farm models under the categories of being family, small, and large-scale commercial farms. The distinction was based on the structure of the workforce and the relationship between agricu[...]Article
I. Funes ; I. Funes ; R. Savé ; F. de Herralde ; C. Biel ; E. Pla ; D. Pascual ; J. Zabalza ; G. Cantos ; G. Borràs ; J. Vayreda ; X. Aranda |In this study, the suitability of major crops currently growing in three case study basins in Catalonia (NE Spain) was assessed for the first half of the 21st century. For this purpose, an estimation was made of net hydric needs (NHN) and a set [...]Article
N. El Assaoui ; A. Sadok ; I. Merimi |The scientific knowledge of processes related to climate change impact on groundwater resources remains insufficient both nationally and internationally. This is due particularly to: the inadequacy of databases both quantitatively and qualitativ[...]Article
As urbanization and agriculture increase worldwide, habitats and food sources for wild pollinators are often fragmented or destroyed. As wild pollinators contribute both resilience and variety to agricultural fields, it is desirable to implement[...]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
J.P. Rajakal ; D.K.S. Ng ; R.R. Tan ; V. Andiappan ; Y.K. Wan |A sustainable agro-industrial value chain is essential for sustained food security. This requires optimised planning of operations and new expansions along the value chain. In this work, a fuzzy-based multi-objective approach is developed for pl[...]Article
K. Mahroof ; A. Omar ; N.P. Rana ; U. Sivarajah ; V. Weerakkody |In order to grow the food the world needs, there is a pressing need to gain a more detailed understanding of how innovative solutions can be incorporated into the agricultural supply chains, particularly within production, for environmentally, e[...]Article
Improvement of food security is a common objective for many agricultural systems analyses, but how food security has been conceptualized and evaluated within agricultural systems has not been systematically evaluated. We reviewed the literature [...]Article
Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy
C. Zagaria ; C. Zagaria ; C.J.E. Schulp ; M. Zavalloni ; D. Viaggi ; P.H. Verburg |As the impact of climate change on the agricultural sector has begun to manifest itself in its severity, adaptation planning has come under scrutiny for favoring the preservation of status-quo conditions over more substantial changes. The uptake[...]Article
Algeria as an important North African and Mediterranean country with remarkable bioclimatic, edaphic, and political characteristics is under many sorts of negative stress affecting considerably alimentary dependence. Today, Algerian agriculture [...]Article
Undernutrition is a major contributor to the global-burden of disease, and global-level health impact models suggest that climate change-mediated reductions in food quantity and quality will negatively affect it. These models, however, capture j[...]Article
G. Bussi ; S.E. Darby ; P.G. Whitehead ; L. Jin ; S.J. Dadson ; H.E. Voepel ; G. Vasilopoulos ; C.R. Hackney ; C. Hutton ; T. Berchoux ; D.R. Parsons ; A. Nicholas |The livelihoods of millions of people living in the world's deltas are deeply interconnected with the sediment dynamics of these deltas. In particular a sustainable supply of fluvial sediments from upstream is critical for ensuring the fertility[...]Article
H. Assa ; H. Sharifi ; A. Lyons |This study examines how managing risk by introducing commodity price insurances may improve the likelihood of increased investment in agri-food supply chains. A model is introduced which shows how insurance products on index prices can reduce th[...]Article
A. Lyra ; A. Loukas ; P. Sidiropoulos ; G. Tziatzios ; N. Mylopoulos |This study presents an integrated modeling system for the evaluation of the quantity and quality of water resources of coastal agricultural watersheds. The modeling system consists of coupled and interrelated models, including (i) a surface hydr[...]Article
F. Taghikhah ; A. Voinov ; N. Shukla ; T. Filatova ; M. Anufriev |The current intense food production-consumption is one of the main sources of environmental pollution and contributes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Organic farming is a potential way to reduce environmental impacts by excluding synt[...]Article
E.A. Abioye ; M.S.Z. Abidin ; M.N. Aman ; M.S.A. Mahmud ; S. Buyamin |The increasing demand for water is depleting the natural water resources worldwide. One of the major consumers of water is the agricultural industry. Traditional means of irrigation results in a lot of water wastage due to which the notion of pr[...]Article
S. Er-Raki ; J. Ezzahar ; O. Merlin ; A. Amazirh ; B. Ait Hssaine ; M.H. Kharrou ; S. Khabba ; A. Chehbouni |The main goal of this research was to evaluate the potential of the HYDRUS-1D numerical model for estimating the soil moisture (θ) at different depths, actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) and its components (crop transpiration, Ta and soil[...]Article
M. Raimondo ; M. Raimondo ; C. Nazzaro ; G. Marotta ; F. Caracciolo |This study aims at estimating the wheat yield response to future challenges (land degradation and climate change) through a statistical emulator. Data from Global Agro-ecological Zones on the overall wheat yields of 254 provinces for nine main w[...]Ouvrage
Agricultural Water Management: Theories and Practices advances the scientific understanding, development and application of agricultural water management through an integrated approach. This book presents a collection of recent developments and [...]Article
Quantifying the economic effects of climate change is a crucial step for planning adaptation in developing countries. For Egypt, global warming has put it among the most vulnerable countries. Wherefore, this study assesses the economy-wide impac[...]Ouvrage
P. Gasselin, coord. ; S. Lardon, coord. ; C. Cerdan, coord. ; S. Loudiyi, coord. ; D. Sautier, coord. ; J.D. van der Ploeg, préf. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Nature et Société | 2021De nouveaux modèles agricoles et alimentaires se déploient dans les territoires en réponse aux critiques des formes anciennes et pour faire face à de nouveaux enjeux. Ils incarnent des archétypes de la diversité observée, des projets dacteurs o[...]Article
F. Cochand ; P. Brunner ; D. Hunkeler ; O. Rössler ; A. Holzkämper |Climate change affects both water resources and agricultural production. With rising temperatures and decreasing summer precipitation, it is expected that agricultural production will be increasingly limited by drought. Where surface- or groundw[...]Ouvrage
D. Makowski, coord. ; F. Brun ; E. Doutard ; F. Duyme ; M. El Jabri ; K. Fauvel ; M. Legris ; A. Philibert ; F. Piraux ; A. Termier | Paris [France] : Ellipses | Formations & Techniques | 2021La data science a acquis une grande renommée dans de nombreux domaines mais son utilisation en agriculture et, plus largement dans les sciences environnementales, reste encore limitée. Ce manuel dinitiation vise à démocratiser lusage de la dat[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
H. Bazzi ; N. Baghdadi ; I. Fayad ; M. Zribi ; V. Demarez ; Y. Pageot ; H. Belhouchette | 2021Better management of water consumption in irrigated agriculture is essential in order to save water resources. The objective of this study is to propose a new model capable of detecting the irrigation events using the Sentinel-1 (S1) Cband SAR ([...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Bourceret | 2021Lapprovisionnement des citoyens en eau potable de qualité est un enjeu de santé publique, auquel sajoutent des enjeux environnementaux et économiques. Lagriculture est lune des principales menaces pour la qualité de la ressource en eau potab[...]Article
Water scarcity is becoming a major challenge worldwide. The agricultural sector, as a main user of freshwater, may significantly increase its water use efficiency by promoting water saving strategies. This paper proposes a socio-psychological mo[...]Ouvrage
Le scientifique des données doit maîtriser plusieurs outils informatiques permettant de mettre en uvre une méthodologie statistique. Dans sa catégorie, le langage R est un langage de programmation qui peut tout à fait être un outil pertinent po[...]Article
The concept of virtual water was first proposed by the geographer Tony Allan in 1993, referring to the amount of water needed to produce products and services. Research on virtual water has gradually increased in recent years. This paper explore[...]Article
A. Attia ; A. Attia ; S. El-Hendawy ; N. Al-Suhaibani ; M.U. Tahir ; M. Mubushar ; M. dos Santos Vianna ; H. Ullah ; E. Mansour ; A. Datta |Crop models may potentially explore alternative ways to improve agroecosystem resilience in arid regions of Middle East and North Africa. Mapping the outputs behavior as a function of the inputs and quantifying the uncertainty contribution of in[...]Article
Models can provide a structured way to think about adoption and provide a method to investigate the impacts of different factors in the adoption process. With at least 70 years of research in the adoption of agricultural innovations, there has b[...]Article
Agricultural land expansion and intensification, driven by human consumption of agricultural goods, are among the major threats to environmental degradation and biodiversity conservation. Land degradation can ultimately hamper agricultural produ[...]Article
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L.F. Dias ; B.A. Aparício ; J.P. Nunes ; I. Morais ; A.L. Fonseca ; A.V. Pastor ; F.D. Santos |Irrigation is essential for a large part of Mediterranean agricultural systems, but scarce resources may cause conflicts between agricultural and domestic uses. These conflicts might be exacerbated by climate change, which could bring a drier cl[...]Article
Models are important tools to integrate ecological and socio-economic knowledge to better understand and manage social-ecological systems. Challenges include, among others, the adequate representation of feedback loops between the socio-economic[...]Article
A. Zezza ; F. DeMaria ; T. Laureti ; L. Secondi |The organic food certification system in Italy, based on the EU legislation, relies on private control bodies (CBs) that are supervised by national authorities. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether it is possible to test for differenc[...]Article
C. Labrousse ; W. Ludwig ; S. Pinel ; M. Sadaoui ; G. Lacquement |In the Mediterranean, climate change and human pressures are expected to significantly impact the availability of surface water resources. In order to quantify these impacts during the last 60 years (19592018), we examined the hydro-climatic an[...]Article
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The identification of agricultural adaptation strategies to offset climate change impact requires a detailed knowledge of the response of crop systems under future climatic conditions. To carry out such an analysis for Mediterranean olive orchar[...]Article
D. Cammarano ; D. Cammarano ; D. Ronga ; I. Di Mola ; M. Mori ; M. Parisi |Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a globally important vegetable recognized for its positive health benefits. As most of the vegetable production, tomato require significant amount of agronomic inputs. However, recent shifts in climate pattern[...]Article
Integrating stakeholder views and system dynamics to assess the waterenergyfood nexus in Andalusia
A nexus approach can support the transition to sustainability by addressing trade-offs and pursuing synergies to improve water, energy, and food security. In this paper, a participatory system dynamics model was developed to identify and assess [...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; A. Malik ; S. Maroufpoor |Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is one of the most basic components of the hydrologic cycle that is effective in irrigation system design and management, water resources planning and scheduling, and hydrologic water balance. Thus, precise estimati[...]Article
Water management projects have an important role in regional environmental protection and socio-economic development. Environmental policies, strategies, and special measures are designed in order to balance the use and non-use values arising fo[...]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
Decision support systems and models for aiding irrigation and nutrient management of vegetable crops
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We examine empirically the predictability of conditions associated with a higher probability of a price spike in agricultural commodity markets. We find that the forward spread is the most significant indicator of probable price jumps in maize, [...]Article
This "perspectives" article draws upon close to 50 years of experience in the development and application of crop, soil and farm systems models in pursuit of enhanced productivity and sustainability of agricultural systems. The scientific founda[...]Article
Agricultural specialization has disconnected crop and livestock production in many farms and regions. As a result, crop farms are deficient in nitrogen to fertilize their crops, while livestock farms are deficient in proteins to feed their anima[...]Article
Most crop models were developed and tested in homogeneous field conditions. However, these crop models are increasingly applied beyond the field scale for larger regions. Inadequate representation of the spatial variability at a larger scale int[...]Article
Turkey's many and varied landscapes face the challenge of degradation and ultimately desertification due to soil problems that include organic matter deficiency, salinity-alkalinity, compaction and erosion and the loss of biological productivity[...]Article
C. Dibari ; S. Costafreda-Aumedes ; G. Argenti ; M. Bindi ; F. Carotenuto ; M. Moriondo ; G. Padovan ; A. Pardini ; N. Staglianò ; C. Vagnoli ; L. Brilli |As the basis of livestock feeding and related performances, pastures evolution and dynamics need to be carefully monitored and assessed, particularly in the Alps where the effects of land abandonment are further amplified by climate change. As s[...]Article
I. Coteur ; H. Wustenberghs ; L. Debruyne ; L. Lauwers ; F. Marchand |A multitude of farm-level sustainability assessment tools (SATs) exists, reflecting a variety of agricultural practices and sustainability perceptions. Tools differ and insight is lacking about how they match with farmers' needs. This paper exam[...]Article
Social and environmental awareness of consumers force supply chains to be more sustainable. This paper studies the coordination problem for a single manufacturer-single retailer sustainable supply chain model in presence of consumers? environmen[...]Article
M.P. Papadopoulou ; D. Charchousi ; K. Spanoudaki ; A. Karali ; K.V. Varotsos ; C. Giannakopoulos ; M. Markou ; M. Loizidou |This study focuses on the quantification of climate change (CC) effects on agricultural water availability in Cyprus. Projections of climatic variables, based on Regional Climate Models (RCMs) forced by the Representative Concentration Pathways [...]Article
C. Papadaskalopoulou ; M. Moriondo ; I. Lemesios ; A. Karali ; A. Konsta ; C. Dibari ; L. Brilli ; K.V. Varotsos ; A. Stylianou ; M. Loizidou ; M. Markou ; C. Giannakopoulos |In this paper, the results of a climate change impact and vulnerability assessment conducted for the agricultural sector of Cyprus are presented. The assessment is based on the outputs of specialized climatic and crop models, while it incorporat[...]Article
Hydro-economic models (HEMs) constitute useful instruments to assess water-resource management and inform water policy. In the last decade, HEMs have achieved significant advances regarding the assessment of the impacts of water-policy instrumen[...]Article
Dealing jointly with both systemic and social complexity is a challenge that we face with sustainability issues. However, joining these two aspects of complexity is more a post-normal science call than an effective practice. Roughly speaking, [...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; L. Zhang ; J. Deng ; A. Juma ; K. Wang |Accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is essential for water resources management, planning, and scheduling. This study focuses on estimating, predicting and modeling crop coefficients kc of maize which is an important parameter f[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; Y. Hong |Modeling crop water use as a useful decision tool for agricultural policy decision-makers to improve water-use efficiency has been increasing. This study aimed to estimate, forecast, and model the green and blue water footprints (WFg and WFb, re[...]Article
C. Font ; R. Padró ; C. Cattaneo ; J. Marull ; E. Tello ; A. Alabert ; M. Farré |In this paper we propose an approach to understand how different farmers goals can contribute to structure cultural landscapes and how the information-as-structure held in energy flows within farm systems can be measured. We start from a histor[...]Article
Measurement in interdisciplinary research can be difficult due to incompatibility of measures used in the different disciplines. These difficulties arise when measurements from different disciplines need to be combined to quantify an attribute f[...]Article
H. Mairech ; A. López-Bernal ; M. Moriondo ; C. Dibari ; L. Regni ; P. Proietti ; F.J. Villalobos ; L. Testi |Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a widely spread tree species in the Mediterranean. In the last decades, olive farming has known major management changes with high economic and environmental impacts. The fast track expansion of this modern olive farm[...]Article
Q.D. Read ; S. Brown ; A.D. Cuéllar ; S.M. Finn ; J.A. Gephart ; L.T. Marston ; E. Meyer ; K.A. Weitz ; M.K. Muth |Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is widely recognized as an important lever for lowering the environmental impacts of food systems. The United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda includes a goal to reduce FLW by 50% by 2030. Given differenc[...]Article
Crop water production functions (quantifying crop yield as a function of irrigation rate) can help in the design of management systems that reduce the water footprint. We examined the role of parameter uncertainties in characterizing production [...]Article
Desertification is a serious and perilous threat to natural ecosystems. Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of this process through the evaluation and monitoring of important indicators appears to be a challenging task. This resear[...]Article
In Tunisia, the development of the irrigation within the water scarcity context, remains one of the crucial issues of agricultural activity. The phenomenon of climate change is likely to make the problematic while threatening the country's food [...]Article
Two thirds of human water use is linked to agricultural practices including crop irrigation. Furthermore, excess irrigation leads to drainage problems. For this reason, reduced irrigation strategies need to be implemented to protect water resour[...]Article
Predicting crop yield response to management and environmental variables is a crucial step towards nutrient management optimization. With the increase in the amount of data generated by agricultural machinery, more sophisticated models are neces[...]Article
Climate change, in addition to reducing rainfall and increasing temperature, has led to a decline in water quality and increased groundwater salinity in Iran. These factors have a negative effect on crop yields. Therefore, the assessment of the [...]Article
Recent research studies and policies about innovative solutions to reduce water and energy consumption in food production are briefly reviewed. Options to increase water use efficiency and productivity include soil mulching, drip irrigation, def[...]Article
M. Türkes ; T. Öztas ; E. Tercan ; G. Erpul ; A. Karagöz ; O. Dengiz ; O. Dogan ; K. Sahin ; B. Avcioglu |Producing a scientific desertification risk map has become one of the national primary tasks in order to effectively combat desertification in Turkey. In this respect, General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion in cooperation w[...]Article
One of the greatest 21st century challenges is meeting the need to feed a growing world population which is expected to increase by about 35% by 2050. To meet this challenge, it is necessary to make major improvements on current food production [...]Article
T. Iizumi ; Z. Shen ; J. Furuya ; T. Koizumi ; G. Furuhashi ; W. Kim ; M. Nishimori |Adaptation will be essential in many sectors, including agriculture, as a certain level of warming is anticipated even after substantial climate mitigation. However, global adaptation costs and adaptation limits in agriculture are understudied. [...]E-Book
D. Deryng, ed. | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing | Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science | 2020It has been suggested that agriculture may account for up to 24% of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) contributing to climate change. At the same time climate change is threatening to disrupt agricultural production. This collection reviews ke[...]E-Book
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries. COVID-19 & Global Food Security brings together a groundbreaking [...]E-Book
This collection reviews and summarises the wealth of research on key challenges in developing better data management and decision support systems (DSS) for farmers and examples of how those systems are being deployed to optimise efficiency in cr[...]Ouvrage
Depuis une vingtaine dannées, on constate un foisonnement de nouveaux projets collectifs et innovateurs qui favorisent lagriculture au Québec, ainsi quune multiplication des acteurs engagés dans le développement agricole à léchelle locale. L[...]E-Book
N. Zumel ; J. Mount ; J. Howard, préf. ; R.L. Thomas, préf. | Shelter Island (USA) : Manning Publications | 2020Practical Data Science with R, Second Edition is a task-based tutorial that leads readers through dozens of useful, data analysis practices using the R language. By concentrating on the most important tasks youll face on the job, this friendly [...]