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To achieve food security goals, water accounting seems to be one of the most powerful tools to deal with water scarcity management. Thus, indicators, such as virtual water and water productivity, can be considered complementary rather than compe[...]Article
This paper analyses the impacts and water policy implications of an increase of perennial crops on irrigation water requirements and on the vulnerability of the agricultural system to climatic events in the case of the Guadalquivir River basin. [...]Article
J. McGinley ; M.G. Healy ; P.C. Ryan ; H. O'Driscoll ; P.-E. Mellander ; L. Morrison ; A. Siggins |Pesticides are widely used in agriculture to optimise food production. However, the movement of pesticides into water bodies negatively impacts aquatic environments. The European Union (EU) aims to make food systems fair, healthy and environment[...]Article
E.G. de la Riva ; W. Ulrich ; P. Batáry ; J. Baudry ; L. Beaumelle ; R. Bucher ; A. Cerevková ; M.R. Felipe-Lucia ; R. Gallé ; E. Kesse-Guyot ; E. Rembialkowska ; A. Rusch ; V. Seufert ; D. Stanley ; K. Birkhofer |CONTEXT Agricultural intensification contributes to global food security and well-being by supplying the food demand of a growing human population. However, ongoing land-use change and intensification seriously affect the abundance, diversity an[...]Article
Water is an issue in Spain, where it is generally scarce, and its availability is highly variable in different areas and times, particularly in agriculture, the main water consumer. Water pricing is one of the policy instruments used to control [...]Article
D. Pulido-Velazquez ; L. Baena-Ruiz ; B. Mayor ; P. Zorrilla-Miras ; E. López-Gunn ; J. de Dios Gómez-Gómez ; Á. de la Hera-Portillo ; A.-J. Collados-Lara ; M.M. Moreno ; J.L.G. Aróstegui ; F.J. Alcalá |Designing sustainable management strategies in groundwater-dependent socio-economic systems in areas with scarce water resources and protected wetlands is a challenging issue. The high vulnerability of these systems to droughts will be exacerbat[...]Article
Mediterranean wetlands provide many ecosystem services to humans and other organisms. However, these services are being increasingly damaged. The prioritization of ecosystem services is essential to start a decision-making process focused on env[...]Article
D. Pereira ; J.C. Leitao ; P.D. Gaspar ; C. Fael ; I. Falorca ; W. Khairy ; N. Wahid ; H. El Yousfi ; B. Bouazzama ; J. Siering ; H. Hansmann ; J. Zascerinska ; S. Camilleri ; F. Busuttil ; M. Borg ; J. Mizzi ; R. Micallef ; J. Cutajar |Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspec[...]Article
A. Guemouria ; A. Chehbouni ; S. Belaqziz ; T. Epule Epule ; Y. Ait Brahim ; E.M. El Khalki ; D. Dhiba ; L. Bouchaou |In several areas, many social, economic, and physical subsystems interact around water resources. Integrated water management is applied to maximize economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vi[...]Article
Diverse public policies encourage farmers to adopt eco-friendly practices to address the issue of diffuse pollution from agriculture, including measures based on the provision of information on the environment. Indeed, farmers perception of the[...]Article
A. Saltelli ; M. Kuc-Czarnecka ; S.L. Piano ; M.J. Lorincz ; M. Olczyk ; A. Puy ; E. Reinert ; S.T. Smith ; J.P. van der Sluijs |Current approaches and cultures for the economic evaluations of environmental and health policies may suffer from excessive reliance on a standard neoclassic economic toolbox that neglects alternative perspectives. This may prematurely limit the[...]Article
Les changements climatiques actuels mettent la gestion de leau agricole au coeur de nombreux débats. Les sécheresses observées pendant plusieurs années de suite ont entraîné une réduction des ressources hydrique et ont conduit à un nouveau rega[...]Article
F. Mohammadi Kashka ; Z. Tahmasebi Sarvestani ; H. Pirdashti ; A. Motevali ; M. Nadi ; M. Valipour |The increase in population has increased the need for agricultural and food products, and thus agricultural production should be increased. This goal may cause increases in emissions and environmental impacts by increasing the consumption of agr[...]Article
Agriculture is facing several very important challenges. Population growth means that more food must be produced to meet nutritional needs. However, this is putting excessive pressure on natural resources, such as water and land, which are heavi[...]Article
Ecosystems in rural areas play a crucial role in promoting human well-being and economic development by providing essential resources such as food, water, raw materials, and energy. Furthermore, rural ecosystems offer various services, such as r[...]Article
D.L. Hoover ; L.J. Abendroth ; D.M. Browning ; A. Saha ; K. Snyder ; P. Wagle ; L. Witthaus ; C. Baffaut ; J.A. Biederman ; D.D. Bosch ; R. Bracho ; D. Busch ; P. Clark ; P. Ellsworth ; P.A. Fay ; G. Flerchinger ; S. Kearney ; L. Levers ; N. Saliendra ; M. Schmer ; H. Schomberg ; R.L. Scott |Understanding the relationship between water and production within and across agroecosystems is essential for addressing several agricultural challenges of the 21st century: providing food, fuel, and fiber to a growing human population, reducing[...]Article
C. Bernard-Mongin ; X. Poux ; I. Herzon ; J. Moran ; T. Pinto-Correia ; D.E. Dumitras ; M. I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; F. Gouriveau ; D. Goussios ; M. Jitea ; Y. Kazakova ; R. Koivuranta ; F. Lerin ; M. Ljung ; A. Lomba ; V. Mihai ; M. Puig de Morales ; G. Vlahos |High Nature Value (HNV) farmlands currently retain most of the biodiversity associated with agricultural landscapes in Europe. In a time of globalized food systems, the social-ecological conditions to maintain these low-intensity and thus less p[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; A. Srivastava ; A.H. Al-Saeedi ; A. Raza ; I. Abd-Elaty ; M. El-Rawy |The estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo), a crucial step in the hydrologic cycle, is essential for system design and management, including the balancing, planning, and scheduling of agricultural water supply and water resources. When[...]Article
The progressive climate change has an impact on the quantity and quality of grapes. Among meteorological parameters, air temperature is believed to have a direct influence on grape yield and composition, as well as on the organoleptic characteri[...]Article
N. Jdaidi ; H. Selmi ; F. Aloui ; S. Jedidi ; A. Chaabane |Les espèces végétales médicinales au nord ouest tunisien sont soumises aux pressions anthropiques et aux contraintes des conditions naturelles. Ces dernières saccentueront dans le contexte des changements climatiques. Lobjectif de ce travail c[...]Article
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Concerns about sustainability, climate change and increasing inter-sectoral competition for water and land are pressing societies to set a new course in economic development, agriculture, water distribution and the environment. Although changes [...]Article
Offsetting environmental impacts beyond climate change: the Circular Ecosystem Compensation approach
D. Moore ; V. Bach ; M. Finkbeiner ; T. Honkomp ; H. Ahn ; M. Sprenger ; L. Froese ; D. Gratzel |Since the Paris Agreement entered into force, climate neutrality and associated compensation schemes are even more on the agenda of politics and companies. Challenges of existing offsetting schemes include the rather theoretical saving scenario [...]Article
In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this ar[...]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
L'oasis Ghout est un système agricole oasien traditionnel typique à la région du Souf. Les oasis Ghout on subi une forte dégradation durant les 5 dernières décennies. Lobjectif de cette recherche est lévaluation et cartographie spatio-temporel[...]Article
A. Mendoza Beltran ; R. Padró ; M.J. La Rota-Aguilera ; J. Marull ; M.J. Eckelman ; J. Cirera ; A. Giocoli ; G. Villalba |Peri urban agriculture (peri-UA) can supply food locally and potentially more sustainably than far-away conventional agricultural systems. It can also introduce significant environmental impacts depending on the local biophysical conditions and [...]Article
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C. Zagaria ; C.J.E. Schulp ; Z. Malek ; P.H. Verburg |CONTEXT The Mediterranean Basin has been identified as a climate change 'hotspot', a region where increased warming and drying are expected to occur at rates faster than the global average. Increasing scientific attention has therefore been draw[...]