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This paper presents a systematic review on smart environments in digital agriculture and highlights the increasing interest in integrating advanced technologies throughout the agricultural life cycle. The study emphasizes the importance of these[...]
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CONTEXT The yield gap-the difference between potential and actual yield-represents a fundamental challenge in agriculture. Closing this gap is crucial for increasing the productivity of arable land, thereby ensuring sustainable food security wit[...]
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M.A. Dipu ; J. Checco ; L. Williams ; Y. Sultanbawa ; N.A. Jones ; A. Abdul Aziz |CONTEXT While there are thousands of native food plants worldwide, only four major crops account for 50 % of global primary crop production. This trend underscores a troubling erosion of agricultural diversity and the systematic sidelining of na[...]
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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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Common pitfalls in evaluating model performance and strategies for avoidance in agricultural studies
C.P.J. Chen ; R.R. White ; R. Wright |Predictive modeling is a cornerstone of data-driven research and decision-making in precision agriculture, yet achieving robust, interpretable, and reproducible model evaluations remains challenging. This study addresses two central issues in mo[...]
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Collectively owned and controlled by farm producers, co-operatives have been prominent and successful in many countries. The empirical literature on co-operatives is extensive, part of which considers the various determinants of co-operative mem[...]
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M. den Herder ; S. Westaway ; L. Arguile ; R. Dumper-Pollard ; R. Borek ; T. Zylowski ; A. Syp ; A. Pisanelli ; C. Consalvo ; M. Ciolfi ; D. Lorenzoni ; M. Sandor ; A. Gliga ; H. Wustenberghs ; A. Alonso-Adame ; R. Michel-Villarreal ; T. Orfanidou ; N. Noble ; V. Holzner ; N. Riekötter ; L.G. Smith |Modern agriculture has advanced food security but at an environmental cost. Organic farming and agroforestry have been proposed as alternatives, however, evaluating their sustainability is challenging due to heterogeneity of the sector, a relati[...]
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Taxes on agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides are often discussed, but there are large knowledge gaps as existing evidence on the functioning, experiences and limitations is outdated and scattered. We fill this gap by synthesiz[...]
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Machine learning (ML), especially deep learning (DL), is gaining popularity in the agroecosystem modelling community due to its ability to improve the efficiency of computationally intensive tasks. By reviewing previous modelling studies using t[...]
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Livestock farming is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, leading to calls for reduced meat consumption and production. However, existing research often overlooks the specificities of pastoralism, an extensive form of livestock farmi[...]
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K.T. Erekalo ; M. Gemtou ; M. Kornelis ; S.M. Pedersen ; T. Christensen ; S. Denver |The transition to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is essential for sustainable food production, yet adoption varies widely due to differences in farmers' experiences, motivations, and constraints. Following an extended Theory of Planned Behavior[...]
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L.S. Kyrgiakos ; D.D. Tosiliani ; A. Angelopoulos ; V. Bonomelli ; G. Kleftodimos ; M. Vasileiou ; C. Kleisiari ; A. Oikonomou ; P. Prosperi ; H. Belhouchette ; G. Vlontzos |The agricultural sector in the Mediterranean Basin is the largest consumer of water, using 70% of freshwater resources for crop irrigation, which accounts for 85% of the region’s agricultural output. With climate change and population growth exp[...]
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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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The integration of smart sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has emerged as a key strategy for enhancing productivity and sustainability in agriculture and aquaculture under increasing climate and resource pressures. This r[...]
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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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Y. Li ; J. Helfenstein ; R. Swart ; C. Levers ; F. Mohr ; V. Diogo ; M. Bürgi ; T.G. Williams ; R. Zafeiriou ; A. Zarina ; J. Ammann ; V. Rolo ; P.H. Verburg ; M. Beckmann ; J. Hernik ; T. Kizos ; F. Herzog |Agroecological and technological innovations are two important approaches in the transition towards agricultural sustainability. We lack knowledge about how current agricultural contexts may influence future development pathways and the relative[...]
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The benefits and positive effects of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) on different urban dimensions have already been extensively recognized by scholars and practitioners so far. Even possible risks of these professional and non-profession[...]
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The study investigates the environmental impact of the EU agri-food sector, focusing on emissions per capita and their relationship with economic growth through a Bayesian Vector Autoregression (BVAR) framework. It reveals that greening efforts [...]
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In the context of the most recent reform of the European Common Agricultural Policy (2023-2027), new voluntary environment-friendly measures have been introduced. These measures, termed eco-schemes, represent one-year arrangements with limited r[...]
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Smallholder farmers are key to achieving a more resilient and inclusive process of rural transformation in the developing world. This article reflects on trends in farm size and the implications for the viability of small-scale producers across [...]
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Spain is the world's leading producer of organic fresh lemons, with production concentrated in the southeast. Given the relevance of this region in lemon production and the role of organic agriculture in sustainable development, this study estab[...]
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This study evaluates the profitability and competitiveness of wheat and sunflower, strategic crops vital for food security, in Tekirdag, Türkiye. Utilizing the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), we analyze their[...]
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S. Wunder ; C. Fraccaroli ; E. Varela ; S. Bruzzese ; M. Termansen |Agri-environmental schemes (AES), a subtype of payments for ecosystem services (PES), aim to address Europe's environmental and climate objectives by incentivising farmers to maintain or shift to farming practices that deliver additional ecosyst[...]
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L. Regni ; P. Sdringola ; B. Torquati ; N. Evangelisti ; M. Chiorri ; L. Arcioni ; P. Proietti |The productive sectors related to agriculture have the potential to contribute significantly to the energy transition. The paper describes an in-depth investigation on the extra virgin olive oil production towards the decarbonization of the sect[...]
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M.K. van Ittersum ; J.V. Silva ; R. Bommarco ; R. Hijbeek ; O. Lundin ; R. Nandillon ; G. Bergkvist ; A. Menegat ; I. Öborn ; A. Söderholm-Emas ; F.L. Stoddard ; G. Vico ; W.J. Vonk ; C.A. Watson ; C. MacLaren |Sustainable production of sufficient and healthy food requires efficient use of agricultural inputs. In many regions of the world with intensive agriculture and relatively small yield gaps, this calls for a reduction of external inputs (fertiliz[...]
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H. Su ; T. Foster ; R.J. Hogeboom ; D.V. Luna-Gonzalez ; O. Mialyk ; B. Willaarts ; Y. Wang ; M.S. Krol |Agricultural water consumption is the main contributor to water scarcity worldwide, while small-scale and large-scale agriculture have distinguishing characteristics. Significant gaps remain in the process-based agricultural production and water[...]
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D. Garcia ; N. Silva ; J. Rolim ; A. Ferreira ; J.A. Santos ; M.D. Cameira ; P. Paredes |Climate variability, intensified by climate change, poses significant challenges to agriculture, affecting crop development and productivity. Integrating seasonal weather forecasts (SWF) into crop growth modelling tools is therefore essential fo[...]
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Regenerative Organic Agriculture (ROAg) can have several beneficial effects on soil health and the delivery of important soil ecosystem services. Yet, the net effect of multiple ROAg practices (i.e. minimum soil disturbance, crop rotation, cover[...]
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CONTEXT In Europe, the ever-increasing disconnection between crop and livestock production generates major environmental externalities. Opposing this trend, a few pioneering farmers have reintegrated (i.e. intentionally organized the return of) [...]
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B.T. Baris ; S.M. Marselis ; G.H. Ros ; A. van Doorn ; J.W. Erisman |Key Performance Indicator (KPI) methodologies have emerged as potent tools for estimating sustainability performance in agriculture. With the proliferation of data availability, there is a growing opportunity to conduct sustainability assessment[...]
