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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
Understanding the soil and hydrologic processes in agricultural watersheds are vital for reliable assessments of water quantity and quality to support integrated river basin management. However, deriving hydrology-relevant information is complic[...]Article
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
Vegetable growers in Europe are continually under increasing pressure to optimize irrigation and nutrient management. This results from the widespread effects of climate change and of competition from other sectors for water, and increasing soci[...]Article
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 [...]