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I. El Fartassi ; H. Metcalfe ; R. El Alami ; A. Diarra ; V. Alonso-Chavez ; T.W. Waine ; J. Zawadzka ; A.E. Milne ; R. Corstanje |Climate change has disrupted weather patterns and heightened drought risks in arid and semi-arid regions, requiring adaptations to crop and irrigation strategies to sustain food production. This study integrates qualitative and quantitative appr[...]
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Resource-intensive crop production could negatively affect changing climate and food demand. This study evaluates the sustainability of agricultural practices by examining energy use, carbon footprint, and water footprint in maize, cotton, and w[...]
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W.Z. Shi ; K. Zhang ; Z.F. Chen ; Y.B. Xie ; G. Forzieri |Compound agricultural drought and hot events (CADHEs, co-occurring soil moisture depletion and high temperature) have intensified over the last decades and are expected to further rise in view of climate change. Such increasing climate hazards h[...]
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S. Stork ; W. Lorleberg ; B. Pölling ; X. Yu ; J.-H. Feil |New entrants, including both family successors and newcomers, are essential to addressing challenges in European agriculture and contributing to rural development. However, the differences between these two groups have not been thoroughly explor[...]
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I.A. Adigun ; S. Bastola ; I. Choo ; Y. Jung |Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to food security in Africa, where agricultural systems are already strained by environmental degradation and limited adaptive capacity. The continent's vulnerability is heightened by its heavy depende[...]
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N. Loodts ; C. Frison ; N. Dendoncker ; J. Hermesse |The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of supply chains, bringing the possibility of disruptions to the forefront as a major concern (UN in The impact of COVID-19 on food security and nutrition. https://in.one.un.org/wp-content/up[...]
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The numerous inhabited small islands of the Mediterranean basin are marginal geographic territories of high natural value. Historically, island communities have developed complex, poly-cultural agricultural systems, based on the use of native ge[...]
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M. Recepoglu ; P. Hayaloglu ; S.C. Cakir ; S. Artan ; M.A. Cakir |The surge in the global population over the past century has highlighted the importance of agricultural production, leading to many studies to boost productivity. Unlike previous studies that primarily explore agricultural productivity growth, t[...]
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Agriculture is an integral part of human development and sustainability. The agricultural sector has seen critical and severe challenges in recent decades due to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture faces significant challenges, especially[...]
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M. Fakhraddine ; N. Zerrad ; H. Berhili ; M. Morchid |Integration of digital knowledge in the agricultural field presents a prospect to enhance the ascendancy of agricultural strategy and stimulate economic progress in Morocco through the dissemination of information, decision-making tools, and tra[...]
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N. Amdar ; A. Anwar ; A. Elmahdi ; J. Al-Bakri ; G. Jewitt ; M. Mul |Jordan's Amman-Zarqa (AZ) basin faces increasing water scarcity due to increasing demands and persistent groundwater over-abstractions for irrigation. To address this issue, water conservation has been set as a national strategy, and several ini[...]
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H. Mazhoud ; A. Boucif ; A. Ouhibi ; L. Hajji-Hedfi ; F. Chemak |Tunisia faces significant challenges related to climate change, which deeply affect its natural and agricultural resources. This reality threatens not only food security but also the economic stability of rural communities and mainly rural women[...]
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The commercialization of Km 0 agricultural and livestock products represents a strategic opportunity to enhance rural economic resilience and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the food sector. This paper presents an original, policy-oriented fr[...]
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This study explores the important financial challenges faced by Spanish agricultural and livestock companies to meet stringent environmental regulations without compromising their competitiveness. Using a Delphi method integrated with a systemat[...]
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B. Carlini ; J. Velázquez ; D. Gülçin ; V. Rincón ; C. Lucini ; K. Çiçek |Legume crops are sensitive to shifting environmental conditions, as they depend on a narrow range of climatic stability for growth and nitrogen fixation. This research sought to assess the sustainability of Faba Asturiana (FA) cultivation under [...]
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Agroecology is still a marginal approach to agricultural development in Africa when compared to industrial approaches, despite growing evidence of its potential to address core challenges of food insecurity, poverty, and soil degradation. This p[...]
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B.M. Bernard ; Y. Song ; Sumiati, ; X. Wang |This study examines the effects of temperature and precipitation variability on total factor productivity (TFP) growth in African agriculture using a comprehensive two-stage analytical approach that incorporates both non-parametric and parametri[...]
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Agricultural water resource management is increasingly challenged by climate variability, land degradation, and socio-economic pressures, particularly in the Mediterranean region. This study, conducted in 2023-2024 within the REACT4MED project ([...]
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This paper evaluates the economic and environmental implications of adopting eco-efficient irrigation methods in agriculture by delving into the nuanced interplay between technological efficiency, market dynamics, and government interventions. I[...]
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Agriculture is one of the major drivers of land degradation and climate change. It is known that it can have positive impacts on provisioning ecosystem services (ES) (e.g., food production); however, it has as well detrimental effects on regulat[...]
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C. Coman ; E. Coman ; V. Gherhes ; A. Bucs ; D. Rad |The growing demand for sustainable food production has driven significant advancements in modern agriculture, including increasing interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), a high-tech solution designed to provide fresh, local, and o[...]
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S.M. Sundstrom ; T. Awada ; E.M. Bennett ; B. Bestelmeyer ; J. Hodbod ; A. Pacheco ; S. Spiegal ; C.R. Allen |Context - Industrialized approaches to agriculture have prioritized stability, efficiency and productivity, which has masked underlying vulnerabilities in our capacity to produce and access food, fiber and fuel, and to maintain farming livelihoo[...]
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S. Yvoz ; M. Lechenet ; P. Amiotte-Suchet ; T. Castel ; E. Betting ; M. Ubertosi |The increase in crop water stress is one of the most critical effects of climate change and threatens farm production and food security both locally and globally. The adaptation process of the entire food system must be grounded in a local quant[...]
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Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global challenges in recent decades. Agricultural activities significantly influence climate dynamics, necessitating thorough investigation of their emission patterns. Using the FAO datasets[...]
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The ongoing climate crisis and growing water scarcity are exerting increasing pressure on agriculture in Southern and Western Europe, leading to reduced crop yields, greater risk of land abandonment, and deterioration of soil quality. Despite th[...]
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Agricultural and food security cooperation has emerged as a cornerstone of the current Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, most BRI countries are facing the twin challenges of ecological degradation and food insecurity. Here, we developed a[...]
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Rainfed agriculture, sustaining billions globally, faces escalating threats from climate change, yet the role of green water (soil moisture) in quantifying these risks remains critically understudied. We quantify green water scarcity (GWS)—insuf[...]
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Agriculture and food production can cause a variety of adverse environmental impacts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the only standardised method so far that provides a comprehensive assessment of the environmental burden of products. LCA result[...]
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Digital traceability systems (DTS) are essential for improving food safety, quality control and transparency in agricultural supply chains, thereby enhancing consumer health and confidence. Despite its potential, the adoption of DTS in tradition[...]
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F. Chatzitheodoridis ; K. Spinthiropoulos ; E. Loizou ; D. Kalfas ; S. Kalogiannidis ; E. Gortsilas |In recent years, the European Union has placed a strong emphasis on the development of government policies that promote agricultural productivity and sustainability. As global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, and environment[...]
