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Agriculture is a key contributor to environmental degradation and to global change. Consequently, the design of sustainable agricultural systems and the assessment of their relevance is a major priority for European agriculture. Different croppi[...]![]()
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Barley has been and continues to be a crucial field crop in Spain, with approximately 2.4 million hectares planted annually and a production ranging 710 million tons. It is a crop well adapted to shallow soils and the harsh winters of the high [...]![]()
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P. Benito-Verdugo ; J. Martínez-Fernández ; Á. González-Zamora ; L. Almendra-Martín ; J. Gaona ; C.M. Herrero-Jiménez |Given the growing interest in drought impacts on crops, this work studied the impact of agricultural drought on wheat and barley during the period 2001–2020. The study was carried out in the Spanish regions of Castilla y León and Castilla&[...]![]()
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Machine learning (ML) and its branch, deep learning (DL), is rapidly evolving and gaining popularity as it outperforms other, more traditional methods in different areas of agriculture. However, ML and DL techniques must be correctly applied to [...]![]()
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Rainfall in the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula arrived too late to bring a beneficial effect on crops. Crop failures occurred in several important grain-producing regions of Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In other areas, crop growing co[...]![]()
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The Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula are facing one of the worst seasonal droughts in recent decades. In comparison with the previous outlook, this resulted in a downward revision to well-below average expectations for the final production part[...]![]()
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E. Lemaitre-Curri ; D. Gasc ; G. Manfron | Montpellier [France] : CIHEAM-IAMM | MED-Amin Bulletin | 2023The start into the 2023 cereal campaign was mainly influenced by dry conditions with uneven impacts across the Mediterranean region. In Northern and Eastern Mediterranean, despite relatively dry conditions in January and February 2023, crops are[...]![]()
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Z. Unnisa ; A. Govind ; M. Marchetti ; B. Lasserre |The ever-increasing water demands in the agricultural sector of the Mediterranean basin region (MBR) under climate change warrants that crop water productivity (WP) is a pertinent topic for discussion. Considering this need, this study aims to s[...]![]()
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The objective of this paper is to combine cross-commodity and spatial price transmission analysis to study the dynamics of the global cereal feed market during the COVID-19 pandemic. After reviewing the nascent literature on the impact of COVID-[...]![]()
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Agriculture, especially cereal production, is one of the few sectors in which Serbia has a significant comparative advantage. Due to the policy of approaching the EU, almost all grain exports are placed in a few EU countries, which are not end-u[...]![]()
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J.A. Martínez-López ; R. López-Urrea ; A. Martínez-Romero ; J.J. Pardo ; J. Montero ; A. Domínguez |Scarcity of water resources is one of the main constraints on agricultural activity in arid and semi-arid areas. Despite the great technological development over recent decades, farmers are demanding methodologies and tools adapted to their trai[...]![]()
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Winter crops in most of the northern and eastern Mediterranean growing regions are faring well in this first half of 2021-2022 campaign. However, an intense and long-lasting drought is hampering winter crops future harvest in Portugal, Morocco,[...]![]()
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Winter crops in several Mediterranean growing regions are under scrutiny. An intense and long-lasting drought hampered winter crops future harvest in Morocco, Portugal and parts of Italy and Algeria, and can potentially impact other producing r[...]![]()
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O. Del Hierro ; P. Gallejones ; G. Besga ; A. Artetxe ; C. Garbisu |This study aimed to estimate the environmental impact of barley production in the Basque Country, Northern Spain, using cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, as well as to assess how methodological choices (i.e., the use of IPC[...]![]()
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Volatile prices and income uncertainties are major issues for farmers, leading to a demand for policies that mitigate such risks. However, the budgetary consequences of risk management schemes are uncertain due to their dependence on market pric[...]![]()
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The impact of climate change on wheat and barley yields in two regions of the Iberian Peninsula is here examined. Regression models are developed by using EURO-CORDEX regional climate model (RCM) simulations, forced by ERA-Interim, with monthly [...]![]()
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Winter crops in most of the northern Mediterranean growing regions are faring well during the final stages of the 2020-2021 campaign. Exceptions occurred for those regions where cereals were hampered by cold spells, high temperature fluctuations[...]![]()
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Winter crops in fair condition in account of occurred unusual weather events throughout the first half of the cereal campaign. Moderate level of concern for the final outlook in central Maghreb regions.![]()
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The carbon footprint for organic and conventional crop farming systems was assessed in Kaunas district (Central Lithuania) using the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Data from field experiments were applied to define the effects of the organic and con[...]![]()
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B. Dhehibi ; U. Rudiger ; H.P. Moyo ; M.Z. Dhraief |The objective of this research study was to assess the sources of information on two improved agricultural and livestock technologies (barley variety and feed blocks) as well as the efficacy of numerous agricultural technology diffusion means in[...]![]()
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This document presents the progress of harvests and planting in the MED-Amin countries based on data collected from the networks focal points and from various sources as appropriate (press releases from the Ministries of Agriculture or their Gr[...]![]()
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The present bulletin is a general outlook on the cereal harvest in the Mediterranean region . It provides early qualitative forecasting of the 2020 cereal campaign, with a particular focus on soft wheat, durum wheat and barley. The second bullet[...]![]()
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The present bulletin is a general outlook on the cereal harvest in the Mediterranean region . It provides early qualitative forecasting of the 2020 harvest on three cereals crops: Soft wheat, durum wheat and barley. The first bulletin provides a[...]![]()
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The present bulletin is a general outlook on the cereal harvest in the Mediterranean region. It provides early qualitative forecasting of the 2020 cereal campaign, with a particular focus on soft wheat, durum wheat and barley. This is the final [...]![]()
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Climate change exacerbates the effects of water scarcity on livelihoods. Governments can intervene by structuring incentives for agricultural adaptations so that farmers can choose the ones that create more benefits for the society as a whole. T[...]![]()
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D. Cammarano ; S. Ceccarelli ; S. Grando ; I. Romagosa ; A. Benbelkacem ; T. Akar ; A. Al-Yassin ; N. Pecchioni ; E. Francia ; D. Ronga |Barley is an important cereal crop for the arid and semi-arid Mediterranean environments. Future climate projections show that Mediterranean countries will get drier and hotter. The objectives of the study are to: i) simulate the impacts of diff[...]![]()
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Les pays du réseau MED-Amin ont participé pour la troisième année consécutive à un exercice de prévision de récolte pour les cultures céréalières (blé tendre, blé dur et orge) qui a consisté à confronter des indicateurs agro-météorologiques dob[...]![]()
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This bulletin reflects the progress of harvests and planting in the MED-Amin countries based on data collected from the networks focal points and from various sources as appropriate (press releases from the Ministries of Agriculture or their Gr[...]![]()
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The MED-Amin network countries participated for the third consecutive year in a crop forecasting exercise for cereal crops (soft wheat, durum wheat and barley) which consisted in comparing agrometeorological indicators of terrestrial observation[...]![]()
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Ce document présente les avancées des récoltes et semis pour les pays MED-Amin issues d'une collecte de données réalisée auprès des points focaux du réseau et de commentaires enboyés par les points focaux. Pour chaque céréale, ces avancée sont p[...]