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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
La lutte contre la désertification, est également une lutte contre la pauvreté, elle ne peut que s'inscrire, dans le décloisonnement sectoriel afin de permettre aux actions de l'Etat de bénéficier de la synergie et des complémentarités intersect[...]Article
The agricultural landscape of Mediterranean islands has transformed radically over the last 60 years. The results differ, due to the interplay of macro, national, and local factors for each setting. In this study, some of these trajectories of c[...]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
F. Pedrero ; S.R. Grattan ; A. Ben-Gal ; G.A. Vivaldi |Olive trees are iconic to the Mediterranean landscape and in recent times, have expanded to other regions across the globe that share similar climatic conditions. Olive oil production benefits from irrigation, but with a changing climate and unc[...]Article
Les changements climatiques, dont les incidences touchent tous les secteurs, y compris lagriculture, ainsi que tous les pays dont le Maroc, ne nécessitent pas seulement une réponse globale, mais aussi et tout particulièrement une adaptation loc[...]Article
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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
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a conservation tool that are increasingly commonplace around the world. MPAs have the potential to benefit both ecosystems and human communities if well-designed and implemented. Achieving effective implementati[...]Article
U. Schirpke ; S. Tscholl ; E. Tasser |Increasing global pressure on natural resources requires that decision makers and land managers adopt sustainable solutions to ensure the long-term provision of essential ecosystem services (ES). Analysing the effects of land-use changes on ES c[...]Article
R. Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir ; D. Smiraglia ; G. Quaranta ; R. Salvia ; L. Salvati ; A. Giménez-Morera |Land degradation is more evident where conditions of environmental vulnerability already exist because of arid climate and unsustainable forms of land exploitation. Consequently, semi-arid and dry areas have been identified as vulnerable land, r[...]Article
Viticulture and winemaking have a strong socio-economic importance worldwide. Weather and climate represent key forcing factors for grapevine development, yields, and quality. Hence, climate change is expected to pose a strong impact on this cro[...]Article
M.P. Vilas ; P.J. Thorburn ; S. Fielke ; T. Webster ; M. Mooij ; J.S. Biggs ; Y.-F. Zhang ; A. Adham ; A. Davis ; B. Dungan ; R. Butler ; P. Fitch |Intensive agricultural practices represent a major threat to aquatic ecosystems because they impair water quality. However, this can be ameliorated by farmers improving crop management provided they are aware of their contribution to declining w[...]Article
A. Abaab ; M. Neffati ; M. Sghaier ; T. Khorchani ; A. Nefzaoui ; A. Frija ; S. Jalouali ; Z. El Abidine Ghoudi |Un processus national visant la capitalisation de lexpérience tunisienne en matière damélioration pastorale a été engagé par plusieurs organismes de développement et de recherche au cours de la période 2016-2020. En outre, plusieurs partenaire[...]Article
J. Dwyer ; J. Dwyer ; C. Short ; M. Berriet-Solliec ; C. Déprès ; F.-G. Lataste ; K. Hart ; J. Prazan |In recent decades, various public policies have targeted agriculture and forestry's relationship with environmental protection and management. Among environmental policy communities the approach is increasingly framed through the theoretical con[...]Article
L. Smuleac ; C. Rujescu ; A. Smuleac ; F. Imbrea ; I. Radulov ; D. Manea ; A. Ienciu ; T. Adamov ; R. Pascalau |Global warming is an unanimously accepted phenomenon by the international scientific community, being already highlighted by the analysis of observational data over long periods of time, with an increase in temperature of over 1 °C. Climate chan[...]Article
Land Cover (LC) and Land Use (LU) changes are usually considered as one change, limiting the understanding of their individual effects on Ecosystem Services (ESs). The aim of this study is to investigate the different effects of LC change and LU[...]Article
G. Quaranta ; R. Salvia ; L. Salvati ; V. De Paola ; R. Coluzzi ; V. Imbrenda ; T. Simoniello |Depopulation and economic marginalization of rural districts have induced a progressive land abandonment in agricultural and pastoral districts. In Europe, areas at higher risk of farmland abandonment are characterized by low-intensity pasture s[...]Article
Land reclamation is critically required to overcome the environmental and anthropogenic challenges in arid lands. The Western Nile Delta region, Egypt, is experiencing rapid reclamation processes for agriculture expansion. West Nubaria (781.92 k[...]Article
Fulfilling both Water and soil conservation and Integrated rural development objectives, hillside reservoirs are very popular components of water and/or rural management strategies. In Central Tunisia, more than 800 reservoirs have been buil[...]Article
Effective designation of Protected Areas (PAs) requires the careful consideration of their social impacts as these are perceived by people. These refer to a variety of issues such as the distribution of power, social equity, social relations and[...]Article
The Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) field provides a methodological framework for identifying the non-material services that ecosystems can offer to people, such as aesthetic values, educational values or tourism and recreation posibilities.[...]Article
D. Hirschfeld ; K.E. Hill ; B. Riordan |Climate changes and associated impacts are placing pressure on institutions and the professionals working within them to become proactive and to plan for more extreme impacts in distant futures. Despite a growing recognition of the need for clim[...]Article
Agricultural production is the main consumer of water. Future population growth, income growth, and dietary shifts are expected to increase demand for water. The paper presents a brief review of the water footprint of crop production and the sus[...]Article
A. La Notte ; J. Maes ; S. Vallecillo |Ecosystems deliver value to people and the economy through ecosystem services. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has quantified the use of ecosystem services by the main economic sectors and households at EU level. In this pap[...]Article
J. Rocha ; C. Carvalho-Santos ; P. Diogo ; P. Beça ; J.J. Keizer ; J.P. Nunes |Future climate for the Mediterranean climatic region is expected to bring an increase in temperatures, decrease in the precipitation quantity and shifts in the seasonal precipitation pattern. Although the impacts of climate change on water resou[...]Article
J. Schuler ; R. Adelhart Toorop ; M. Willaume ; A. Vermue ; N. Schläfke ; S. Uthes ; P. Zander ; W.A.H. Rossing |Regional impact studies are needed to explore possible adaptation options to climate change. We estimated impacts and adaptation options for future scenarios that feature different assumptions regarding climate, cropping pattern and access to ir[...]Article
Lessor du vote écologiste lors du second tour des élections municipales en France (même sil convient dêtre relativisé en raison du faible taux de participation) est sans doute révélateur des préoccupations croissantes de nos contemporains vis[...]Article
S.K. Abd-Elmabod ; M. Muñoz-Rojas ; A. Jordán ; M. Anaya-Romero ; J.D. Phillips ; L. Jones ; Z. Zhang ; P. Pereira ; L. Fleskens ; M. van der Ploeg ; D. de la Rosa |Climate change impacts are a serious threat to food provisioning, security and the economy. Thus, assessing agricultural suitability and yield reduction under climate change is crucial for sustainable agricultural production. In this study, we u[...]Article
The rainfall simulation tests on homogeneous hydrological units soil samples of a Medjerda middle valley watershed show that the characteristics of the upper surface soil layer and types of management practices as well as the rain characteristic[...]Article
L. Parra ; L. Parra ; M. Botella-Campos ; H. Puerto ; B. Roig-Merino ; J. Lloret |Improving water efficiency in farming systems is one of the major challenges of these decades. Water scarcity due to climate change, together with the increasing demand of food, is leading experts from around the world find appropriate indicator[...]Article
Regulating water use in agriculture in water stressed basins is a challenging task. Recent scholarship emphasises the need to combine strong State oversight for achieving the collective extraction caps with considerable leeway to users to alloca[...]Article
Land use change at the local stage affects the flow of ecosystem services at all levels. Analyzing the causes of land use change such as anthropogenic activities in the case of the Ourika watershed will facilitate sustainable policies. A decisio[...]Article
Good management of water resources requires a good allocation of their availability, especially in public irrigated schemes in Tunisia. This paper contributes to a better reallocation of available water resources at the farm and regional levels.[...]Article
This work attempts to understand and analyze the concept of virtual water, a newly introduced device used by developed countries to better refine the evolution of the water situation subject to these inter-country water transfers. However, the t[...]Article
Desalination for sustaining agricultural production is conceived as an alternative water source in some Mediterranean countries faced with climatological and hydrological constraints. Although high costs are often cited as limiting factors, how [...]Bulletin : Revue
Courrier international, h.s. Septembre-Octobre 2020 - Septembre-Octobre 2020 - Atlas de l'eau
A. Aubron, dir. | 2020A Courrier international, lidée de cet atlas de leau nous trottait dans la tête depuis plusieurs années : le sujet est omniprésent dans nos pages comme sur notre site et dans nos précédents atlas. Leau, voie navigable ; laccès à leau,[...]Article
Sustainable food systems are high on the political and research agendas. One of the three pillars of sustainability is environmental sustainability. We argue that, when defining related policies, such as policies under the European Green Deal, b[...]Article
M. Bijani ; D. Hayati ; H. Azadi ; V. Tanaskovik ; F. Witlox |This study aimed to analyze the causes and consequences of agricultural water conflicts among agricultural water beneficiaries in the irrigation network of Doroodzan dam, Iran. This research applied mixed-method and descriptive analysis, which w[...]Article
In recent years, the landscape has become another environmental resource, so it is important to incorporate it into planning actions. However, its broad sense of study has made it difficult to develop methodologies that precisely diagnose the st[...]Article
C. González-Pavón ; J. Arviza-Valverde ; I. Balbastre-Peralta ; J.M. Carot Sierra ; G. Palau-Salvador |This work focuses on the situation of the technological transition to new technologies in drip irrigation in the Valencian Community (Spain). The study covers the last decade with data from interviews to managers of Irrigation Communities in 201[...]Article
Assessing ecosystem services supplied by agroecosystems in Mediterranean Europe: a literature review
Agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean region may be considered as social-ecological systems that are important for biodiversity conservation whilst contributing to a wide range of ecosystem services. This literature review aims to identif[...]Article
Y. Chanyour ; K. Obda ; O. El Achari |Le bassin versant de loued Daoura est situé dans un contexte climatique aride et présaharien. La quantité de leau disponible est faible et variable dans lespace et dans le temps. En plus de la rareté de leau et de son inégale répartition, du[...]Article
G. Nikolaou ; D. Neocleous ; A. Christou ; E. Kitta ; N. Katsoulas |The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme water scarcity by the year 2025. Pressurized irrigation sys[...]Article
G. Balacco ; V. Torato ; V. Iacobellis ; A. Manni ; M. Spagnoletta ; A.F. Piccinni |The COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of millions of people, radically changing their habits in just a few days. In many countries, containment measures prescribed by national governments restricted the movements of entire communities, with t[...]Article
Irrigation water accounting (IWA) plays a key role in irrigation management in arid or semi-arid environments. Currently, water managers perform IWA through indirect or direct measurements such as statistical methods or flow meters. However, the[...]Article
Irrigated agriculture is essential to satisfying the globally increasing demand for food and bio-based products. Yet, in water scarce regions, water-use for irrigation aggravates the competition for the use of water for other purposes, such as e[...]Article
Water pricing policy for irrigated agriculture is considered as a key issue in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation. The main obstacle is that a large part of the water used in agriculture is unmetered. The objective of this study [...]Article
This paper provides a critical assessment of the literature estimating the consequences of climate impacts in agriculture and the food system. This literature focuses overwhelmingly on the impact of elevated CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere,[...]