Mars 2024
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E. Ricciolini ; L. Rocchi ; L. Paolotti ; N. Gennari ; A. Ottaviani ; F.R. de la Rúa ; A. Boggia |The need for a more sustainable agri-food system is a topic that has attracted growing interest in recent years. Several international and European policies such as Agenda 2030 and the European Green Deal have been defined with the aim of making[...]Article
C. Zarbà ; G. Pappalardo ; R. Selvaggi ; B. Pecorino |The European Union agri-food system has faced major challenges in the last years due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war. In a scenario where millions of people all over the world suffer from hunger, the uncertainty of food av[...]Article
The role of living labs in cultivating inclusive and responsible innovation in precision agriculture
M. Gardezi ; H. Abuayyash ; P.R. Adler ; J.P. Alvez ; R. Anjum ; A.R. Badireddy ; S. Brugler ; P. Carcamo ; D. Clay ; A. Dadkhah ; M. Emery ; J.W. Faulkner ; B. Joshi ; D.R. Joshi ; A.H. Khan ; C. Koliba ; S. Kumari ; J. McMaine ; S. Merrill ; S. Mitra ; S. Musayev ; P.D. Oikonomou ; G. Pinder ; E. Prutzer ; J. Rathore ; T. Ricketts ; D.M. Rizzo ; B.E.K. Ryan ; M. Sahraei ; A.W. Schroth ; S. Turnbull ; A. Zia |Context The emergence of precision agriculture technologies has brought forward new opportunities and challenges in the agricultural sector. Objective We delve into the role of living labs as dynamic platforms for fostering responsible innovatio[...]Article
A. Mancini ; F. Solfanelli ; L. Coviello ; F.M. Martini ; S. Mandolesi ; R. Zanoli |Yield prediction is a crucial activity in scheduling agronomic operations and in informing the management and financial decisions of a wide range of stakeholders of the organic durum wheat supply chain. This research aims to develop a yield fore[...]Article
Agriculture is the backbone of many economies across the globe [...]Article
Historiquement, dans la vallée du Todgha, au sud de la chaîne de lAtlas, la reproduction matérielle des habitants dépendait de la mise en valeur des vallées irrigables et des parcours désertiques sur lesquels les troupeaux broutaient. Ce modèl[...]Article
C. Schulze ; K. Zagórska ; K. Häfner ; O. Markiewicz ; M. Czajkowski ; B. Matzdorf |Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial for the design of effective agri-environmental contracts. We present a systematic review of 127 discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies of farmers' preferences with respect[...]Article
Successful implementation of Europes agri-environmental policies faces various obstacles, several of which are closely linked to participation. Effectively increasing adoption of agri-environmental-climate measures (AECM) requires a deeper unde[...]Article
R. Belmin ; M. Paulin ; E. Malézieux |Climate change is increasingly affecting agriculture worldwide, causing yield losses and undermining food security. Behind the international consensus on the urgent need for ambitious policies to adapt agriculture to climate change (AACC) hides [...]Article
In the last decades, the Rif area in Morocco has been frequently affected by soil erosion due to intense rainfall events. In order to help farmers improve their lives and avoid damages caused by this phenomenon, a management project (the MCA Pro[...]Article
D. Scordia ; S.A. Corinzia ; J. Coello ; R. Vilaplana Ventura ; D.E. Jiménez-De-Santiago ; B. Singla Just ; O. Castaño-Sánchez ; C. Casas Arcarons ; M. Tchamitchian ; L. Garreau ; M. Emran ; S.Z. Mohamed ; M. Khedr ; M. Rashad ; R.S. Lorilla ; A. Parizel ; G. Mancini ; A. Iurato ; S. Ponsa ; C. Dimauro ; F. Gresta ; S.L. Cosentino ; G. Testa |Agroforestry is gaining interest due to its potential in enhancing climate resilience and sustainability of farming systems. In this meta-analysis, the crop yield in agroforestry system compared to the control (sole crop) from thirty-six experim[...]Article
D. Caro ; F. Sporchia ; M. Antonelli ; A. Galli |Food systems are responsible for a large share of anthropogenic impacts. In recent debates, the need to strengthen the link between science and policy has emerged with the proposal to establish a new global sciencepolicy interface for a sustain[...]Article
Recent research has embraced the idea that digitalization is becoming a significant factor in addressing sustainability challenges. Digital platforms are becoming integral to this dynamic, opening a vast spectrum of possibilities that remain ins[...]Article
H. Cicek ; E. Topp ; T. Plieninger ; J.M. Blanco-Moreno ; I. Gultekin ; H.C. Mohamed ; O. El Gharras |Conservation agriculture (CA) is the key agricultural soil management approach for Mediterranean rainfed systems facing extreme droughts and soil degradation. Yet, CA uptake and applicability is still marginal and disputed in the Mediterranean r[...]Article
The Mediterranean diet (MD) concept has evolved in recent decades, moving from the perception of a healthy diet model to the awareness that it is also a sustainable food model. This dietary model, in fact, brings benefits in terms of nutrition, [...]Article
Do geographical indication products help facilitate the development of the agricultural economy? This problem is a point of controversy in the field of global agricultural intellectual property. For a long time, there have been different viewpoi[...]Article
Drawing on systems theory, the extended resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this research develops an integrated framework to offer a more nuanced understanding of the mediating role of dynamic capabilities between supply chain cl[...]Article
Agriculture is a vulnerable sector to climate change due to its sensitivity to weather conditions. Changes in climatic parameters such as temperature and precipitation significantly affect productivity as well as the consumption of natural resou[...]Article
Contract farming (CF) as a sustainable practice has expanded rapidly, bringing numerous benefits to both the agribusiness industry and farmers, as well as the broader economy; CF is also considered a vehicle to tackle the challenges in sustainab[...]Article
This editorial paper takes the form of a concise report and delves into a critical and intricate issue essential for the sustainability of agriculture. It centers on the intricate relationship between agri-cultural water resource management and [...]Article
Impact of agricultural policies on the sustainable greenhouse development in Biskra region (Algeria)
T. Aidat ; S.E. Benziouche ; L. Cei ; E. Giampietri ; A. Berti |Since its appearance in Algerian agriculture, the greenhouse production system has turned the agricultural sector upside down, bringing great advantages for production in terms of quality and quantity, creating a very important socio-economic dy[...]Article
Climate change poses a major sustainability challenge, with potential far-reaching economic and social impacts, including fluctuations in agricultural yields and subsequent volatility in the availability and prices of essential food resources. I[...]Article
D. Laurant ; F. Stark ; C. Le Page ; E. Rousselou ; D. Bazile |New models of collective agriculture have been developing in France over the past 10 years that could encourage the emergence of more diversified and sustainable systems. However, as such production systems are relatively more complex to manage,[...]Article
To ensure regular and high yields, current agriculture is based on intensive use of pesticides and fertilizers, which are detrimental to the environment and human health. Moreover, as pest resistance to pesticides increases, and more and more pe[...]Article
In 2009, the ETC Group estimated that some 70% of the food that people globally consume originates in the peasant food web. This figure has been both embraced and critiqued, and more recent critiques have focussed on analysing farm productivit[...]Article
Sustainable agriculture strives to ensure future food and energy supply while safeguarding natural resources. The interpretation of sustainability varies by context and country, yielding distinct indicators. Researchers have studied sustainable [...]Article
K. Drastig ; R. Singh ; F.-M. Telesca ; S.Z. Carra ; J. Jordan |Assessment of nutritional water productivity (NWP) combines a metric of crop or livestock production per unit water consumed and human nutritional value of the food produced. As such, it can rationalize the use of scarce water for a portfolio of[...]Article
Smallholder farmers play an important role in ensuring world food security. In addition to food security, small-scale farming also provides numerous other direct and indirect environmental, social, cultural, and economic benefits by improving cr[...]Article
The main objective of this article is to better understand the category of technical efficiency of agriculture. To achieve this goal, empirical research was carried out, the subject of which was to estimate the average technical efficiency of ag[...]Article
The production of olive oil in Portugal and other countries of the Mediterranean region has greatly increased in recent years. Intensification efforts have focused on the growth of the planted area, but also on the increase of the orchards densi[...]