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Water storage requirements in the Mediterranean region vary in time and are strongly affected by the local geography and climate conditions. The objective of this study is to assess the implications of climate change on the water balance of an a[...]Article
One of the biggest challenges of our time is climate change. Every day, at different places of the world, the planet sends alarming messages about the enormous transformations it is experiencing due to human-based activities. The latter are resp[...]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
Les zones arides présentent un avenir certain et pour mobiliser une ressource en eau supplémentaire, lutilisation des eaux épurées est une des solutions adéquate et ces dernières peuvent servir à irriguer les cultures. Mais dans ce cas, il peut[...]Article
C. Calzolari ; P. Tarocco ; N. Lombardo ; N. Marchi ; F. Ungaro |The current practice of urban planning does not pay proper attention to the quality of urban soils, to their multiple functions and to the supply of ecosystem services to the urban population. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to raisin[...]Article
M. Berriet-Solliec ; C. Déprès ; C. Chervier ; F. Lataste ; D. Lepicier ; H.V. Pham ; V. Piguet |La notion de système socio-écologique dOstrom est utilisée ici pour caractériser les pratiques agricoles générant des bénéfices sociaux et environnementaux et identifier les facteurs facilitant ou limitant leur mise en uvre. Trois études de te[...]Article
J. Blanco ; C. Moreau ; C. Guerbois ; C. Barnaud ; P.-C. Renaud ; M. Deconchat ; E. Andrieu |Les processus de dégradation et de préservation des ressources naturelles saccompagnent souvent de tensions et conflits entre les acteurs des territoires. Le cadre des services écosystémiques (SE) est désormais communément utilisé pour analyser[...]Article
A. Capriolo ; R.G. Boschetto ; R.A. Mascolo ; S. Balbi ; F. Villa |We present methods and results of country-based natural capital assessments for four ecosystem services (ES) in Italy. The spatial mapping and the assessment have been carried out in both physical and monetary terms for (i) crop pollination, (ii[...]Article
In the context of ecological crisis, agricultural issues become increasingly present in public debates and there is a call for to better understand the relations between farmers and nonhumans. Based on care theory and through an ethnographic stu[...]Article
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of climatic change on potato yield and yield variability in Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) of Iran during 20412070 (2050s). The Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM) was performed in thi[...]Article
Ce travail tente danalyser et de comprendre le concept deau virtuelle, un artifice utilisé par les pays riches et développés afin de soutenir et promouvoir leurs économies productives agricoles. Largument clé mis en avant dans ce nouveau conc[...]Article
C. Tir ; K. Tantone ; D. Madani ; A.E. Cherief ; R. Benniou ; F. Hiouani |La désertification est un problème mondial qui touche 40% de la planète et au moins deux millions de personnes. Ce phénomène est le résultat de combinaisons de facteurs directs et indirects ; certains liés au climat et dautres liés aux activité[...]Article
F. Aljane ; M. Elbekkay ; M.H. Neily ; H. Hamza ; A. Benoun ; Y. Yahia |Les oasis tunisiennes se caractérisent par une diversité des espèces fruitières locales et de leurs cultivars. Cependant, cette diversité est sujette à une érosion génétique qui ne cesse de saccélérer. Afin de préserver ce patrimoine génétique [...]Article
A. Kettani ; A. Hammani ; A. Taky ; M. Kuper |Au début des années 1970, le Maroc a introduit lirrigation par aspersion pour accélérer le rythme de lextension de lirrigation, améliorer son efficience et rendre sa pratique plus facile. Installée sur 151 700 ha, principalement en grande hyd[...]Article
The response of the global food system to the Covid-19 crisis demonstrated not just its capacity to prevent a health crisis turning into a food crisis, but also highlighted deep divisions around the manner in which food security and climate acti[...]Article
Les impacts des changements climatiques auront inévitablement des conséquences importantes, en particulier dans les régions arides et semi-arides où leur vulnérabilité sera exacerbée par les problèmes de sécheresse et le déficit en eau qui vont [...]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
High water availability enhances agricultural performance and food security. However, many countries where water is abundant according to hydrological indicators face difficulties in the utilization of water in agriculture, being in a situation [...]Article
La région de Enfidha au centre de la Tunisie marquée par sa diversité paysagère est sujette aux facteurs de changements détats des milieux. A partir d'une interprétation des images Landsat de 2007 et 2017, la dynamique de l'occupation du sol a [...]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
This is a brief review about irrigation scheduling tools and water management models for efficient on-farm watering of vegetable crops under open field conditions. This is the first step required for reducing water losses due to drainage and for[...]Article
En France, la politique Trame verte et bleue (TVB) vise à enrayer la perte de biodiversité en participant à la préservation, à la gestion et à la remise en bon état des continuités écologiques. En nous appuyant sur une revue de la littérature sc[...]Article
S. Tsani ; S. Tsani ; P. Koundouri ; E. Akinsete |Recent policy developments in Europe consider the importance of water ecosystems to human wellbeing and the detrimental effects that multiple pressures may have on them. Several directives and measures which culminated with the design and the im[...]Article
Cet article aborde la problématique des ressources en eau à la lumière des changements climatiques dans le moyen Sebou. Où se situe la relation entre ces ressources et les précipitations à lumière du changement climatique ? Cette étude est basée[...]Article
Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: opportunities and challenges
Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of shrublands and forests, and the homogenization of the old cultural land[...]Article
A. Tomaz ; P. Palma ; S. Fialho ; A. Lima ; P. Alvarenga ; M. Potes ; M.J. Costa ; R. Salgado |Salinization and sodification are important processes of soil degradation affecting irrigated lands. A large proportion of the global irrigated area is affected by some degree of soil salinity or sodicity caused by the intensification of irrigat[...]Article
Les sols ont été soumis à des pressions sans précédent au cours des dernières décennies, sous leffet conjugué de la croissance de la population et de la demande alimentaire et énergétique. Selon le concept de Rockström et al. (2009), le changem[...]Article
It is now widely recognised that components of the environment play the role of economic assets, termed natural capital, that are a foundation of social and economic development. National governments monitor the state and trends of natural capit[...]Article
A. Pardo ; V. Rolo ; E.D. Concepción ; M. Díaz ; Y. Kazakova ; V. Stefanova ; K. Marsden ; K. Brandt ; M. Jay ; S. Piskol ; R. Oppermann ; A. Schraml ; G. Moreno |Agricultural intensification continues to threaten habitat and biological diversity in farmland. In Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has established several measures to support biodiversity-fostering elements such as landscape featur[...]Article
Coastal areas are worldwide characterized by multiple pressures generated by high levels of urbanization and by conflictual and inappropriate uses. The establishment of protected areas represents a tool to contrast such pressures. The integratio[...]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
M.M. Salman ; S. Kharroubi ; M. Itani ; S.N. Talhouk |Important Plant Areas (IPAs) designated for their biodiversity value are not always officially protected and often fall within mixed private-public land ownership schemes. The objective of this study was to develop a quantitative tool based on t[...]Article
E. Iwasaki ; S. Elbeih ; A. Shalaby ; H. Khedr ; E.S. Zaghloul |The number of deep groundwater wells in the arid lands of Egypt has increased greatly since the mid-twentieth century. Modern well drilling technology using rotary drilling rigs and pumping tests came to Egypt with the beginning of the New Valle[...]Article
Dans un contexte de déficits hydriques récurrents, lirrigation raisonnée des vignes a été mise en avant comme une solution adaptée pour régulariser la production (en volume et en qualité) et préserver de façon durable loutil de production. Dan[...]Article
J.M. Gonçalves ; S. Ferreira ; R. Eugénio ; M. Nunes ; H. Damásio ; I. Ferreira |Le périmètre irrigué de la Vale do Lis situé dans le centre côtier du Portugal est administré par une association dusagers qui gère lexploitation et lentretien des principales infrastructures de pompage et dadduction de leau vers les parcel[...]Article
Quel est le potentiel réel déconomie deau à la parcelle résultant du changement de matériel dirrigation ou de l'adoption doutils de pilotage dans un contexte donné ? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs de cet article ont compil[...]Article
K. Abannar ; C. Mazaleyrat ; J.-J. Weber ; E. Audouin ; C. Bonillo ; C. Dejean ; G. Froment ; J.-M. Lopez |Sur le territoire des Coteaux de Gascogne, agriculteurs, chercheurs et gestionnaires de leau sengagent pour une transition agro-écologique des systèmes de culture irrigués. Cest dans ce contexte quen 2019, un projet pilote a permis de réalis[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; M.R. Aslam ; A. Malik ; B. Mehdinejadiani ; A. Srivastava ; A.S. Bhatia ; J. Deng |Spatial-temporal information of different water resources is essential to rationally manage, sustainably develop, and optimally utilize water. This study focused on simulating future water footprint (WF) of two agronomically important crops (i.e[...]Article
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Increasing dryland degradation and expansion shows that attempts to strengthen dryland resilience in the face of land degradation and climate change have not been successful. If current development pathways do not change, future prospects for th[...]Article
Y. Tramblay ; A. Koutroulis ; L. Samaniego ; S.M. Vicente-Serrano ; F. Volaire ; A. Boone ; M. Le Page ; M.C. Llasat ; C. Albergel ; S. Burak ; M. Cailleret ; K.C. Kalin ; H. Davi ; J.-L. Dupuy ; P. Greve ; M. Grillakis ; L. Hanich ; L. Jarlan ; N. Martin-StPaul ; J. Martínez-Vilalta ; F. Mouillot ; D. Pulido-Velazquez ; P. Quintana-Seguí ; D. Renard ; M. Turco ; M. Türkes ; R. Trigo ; J.-P. Vidal ; A. Vilagrosa ; M. Zribi ; J. Polcher |Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas in which irrigation plays an important role and in which na[...]Article
La région méditerranéenne, l'un des 34 points chauds du monde (hot spots), représente une diversité biologique exceptionnelle soulignée récemment face à la crise actuelle d'extinction d'espèces due à des changements globaux et aux facteurs anthr[...]Article
Développer une politique de stockage de l'eau dans le cadre du plan de relance de l'économie est nécessaire pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique et sécuriser le revenu des agriculteurs.Article
« Leau, cest la vie » disait Saint-Exupéry. Aucun être vivant sur la planète ne peut survivre sans cette ressource. Mais plus de deux milliards de personnes nont pas accès à une eau potable, plus de quatre milliards ne disposent pas de servic[...]Article
B. Czúcz ; R. Haines-Young ; M. Kiss ; K. Bereczki ; M. Kertész ; Á. Vári ; M. Potschin-Young ; I. Arany |As the mapping and assessment of ecosystem services (MAES) becomes a widely used tool in environmental governance, there is an increasing need for structure and standardization. In this study we present a systematic review of European MAES studi[...]Article
Olive groves form characteristic Mediterranean socio-ecological landscapes, occupying more than 5 M ha; 2.5 M ha in Spain. In recent decades, traditional extensive management of olive groves has shifted to an intensive regime, with some cases of[...]Article
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
Drought is an important natural hazard that is expected to increase in frequency and intensity as a consequence of climate change. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of future changes in the temperature and precipitation regime of Spain on [...]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
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,[...]Article
Climate variability in agriculture and crop water requirement: spatial analysis of Italian provinces
Water saving in crop production under climate and environmental changing conditions represents a critical issue for agricultural economy and sustainability. This study develops a novel approach to measure the impact of climate variability on cro[...]Article
Pesticides play a crucial role in regulating crop production by reducing crop losses and increasing crop yield and quality. However, they may threaten surface and groundwater, a phenomenon occurring at global scale, potentially causing environme[...]