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Agricultural production systems are sensitive to weather and climate anomalies and extremes as well as to other environmental and socio-economic adverse events. An adequate evaluation of the resilience of such systems helps to assess food securi[...]Article
K. Primc ; B. Kalar ; R. Slabe-Erker ; M. Dominko ; M. Ogorevc |Circular economy is a rapidly evolving economic system designed to benefit society, business and environment. However, the current circular economy policies and resulting business models are more or less universal, meaning they largely neglect t[...]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
O. Mghirbi ; J. Caubel ; P. Le Grusse ; E. Mandart ; J. Fabre ; I. Nembrot ; S.J. Arredondo ; S. Louvet ; J.-P. Boulanger |Pour faire face à laugmentation de la demande alimentaire, les modes de production de lagriculture se sont tournés vers la mécanisation et lutilisation intensive dintrants. Lagriculture française est très dépendante de ces intrants, notamme[...]Article
Le taux dauto-approvisionnement est un indicateur suivi par le CTIFL, permettant de mesurer dans le temps lévolution de la part de la consommation française en fruits et légumes frais couverte par la production nationale. Résultant de la confr[...]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
L. El Ansari ; R. Chenoune ; Y.A. Yigezu ; C. Gary ; H. Belhouchette |A lot of national and international effort has been made to promote sustainable agricultural production systems in drylands. However, success has been seriously limited due to lack of thorough characterization of the impact of the diversity of f[...]Article
C. Frasconi Wendt ; A. Nunes ; R. Verble ; G. Santini ; M. Boieiro ; C. Branquinho |Mediterranean drylands are particularly vulnerable to predicted increases in aridity which are expected to have negative consequences for biodiversity. To understand the effects of climate change on ecosystems, a framework for the selection of i[...]Article
Sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept, which emphasizes integration and striking a dynamic balance between economic, social and environmental aspects in a region, to ensure inter-generational and intra-generational equity. One o[...]Article
F. Maselli ; M. Chiesi ; L. Angeli ; L. Fibbi ; B. Rapi ; M. Romani ; F. Sabatini |Recent investigations have shown the potential of a water balance method based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data to estimate actual evapotranspiration (ETa) of Mediterranean grasslands and croplands. The method uses the Fract[...]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
Circular economy approach is receiving an increasing attention as an alternative to the current linear economic model with the ambition of positive impact on the environment while contributing to economic growth. In this paper, an Economic Order[...]Article
Efficient management of natural resources and environmental assets requires adequate assessment of natural capital on farms. Conceptual frameworks and practical measurement techniques to assess the state of natural capital assets and ecosystem s[...]Article
R. Santagata ; A. Zucaro ; S. Viglia ; M. Ripa ; X. Tian ; S. Ulgiati |Circular Economy (CE) concepts and tools are getting increasing attention with regard to their implementation in agricultural, urban and industrial sectors towards innovative business models to optimize resource use, process performances and dev[...]Article
T. Nasser ; G. Faour ; L. Touchart |La plaine intérieure de la Beqaa est considérée comme le grenier agricole du Liban. Dans cette région, la sécheresse représente un problème majeur dont les conséquences sont aggravées par une absence de gestion efficace des ressources en eaux et[...]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[...]Chapitre d'ouvrage
A. Moragues-Faus | Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Routledge | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment | 2020Indicators have become ubiquitous tools to measure and facilitate the process towards sustainable development in food systems. The number of exercises to develop these indicators include academic and practitioner-led processes, bottom-up and top[...]Article
Le rôle du capital social dans le développement est mis en avant par les tenants du développement local. Une certaine structure /qualité de capital social conduit à une appropriation communautaire des initiatives de développement. Toutefois, il [...]Ouvrage
M. Dron, dir. ; P. Kim-Bonbled, dir. ; C. Lecoeur, préf. ; N. Vivier, préf. | Paris [France] : Presses des Mines | Académie d'Agriculture de France | 2020Bousculant nos connaissances scientifiques en matière de virologie et d'épidémiologie, la pandémie de la Covid-19 a provoqué un confinement mondial qui a eu immédiatement de graves conséquences socio-économiques. Paradoxalement, elle semble être[...]Ouvrage
Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of e[...]Article
A. Nasrallah ; N. Baghdadi ; M. El Hajj ; T. Darwish ; H. Belhouchette ; G. Faour ; S. Darwich ; M. Mhawej |The ability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sentinel-1 data to detect the main wheat phenological phases was investigated in the Bekaa plain of Lebanon. Accordingly, the temporal variation of Sentinel-1 (S1) signal was analyzed as a function o[...]Article
The food and agriculture sectors contribute significantly to climate change, but are also particularly vulnerable to its effects. Industrial ecology has robustly addressed these sectors contributions to climate change, but not their vulnerabili[...]Article
Resilience-based approaches to climate change have yet to be widely applied in agriculture. In this sector, indicators have been centered on the impacts of climate on production systems, crops, yields, infrastructure, financial performance, farm[...]Article
T. Allen ; P. Prosperi ; B. Cogill ; M. Padilla ; I. Peri |Recurrent food crises and global environmental change are critical issues that pushed food security and sustainability to the top of the policy agenda. Policy-makers need assessment tools that help them decide what actions they should take to ac[...]Article
Regional development seeks to better understand the issues and problems facing the regions because of the contemporary economic and social changes, including the formulation of territorial policies accordingly. In Turkey, in order to coordinate [...]