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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[...]