Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2026

Current editor(s): J.W. Hansen, P.K. Thornton and P.B.M. Berentsen

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Volume 235, issue C, 2026

Optimizing biochar application for greenhouse gas mitigation and yield improvement: Integrating meta-analysis with machine learning

Yinhao Zhu, Sheng Li, Juan Yin, Yingpan Yang and Bin Du

Impact of high-techs on firm-level economic performance and engineering resilience of fruit and vegetable food systems: A systematic review

Oscar Kwame Sottie, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Ana Cristina Zepeda, Anand K. Gavai and Maximilian Koppenberg

Combining meta-analysis and machine learning to assess global greenhouse CO2 enrichment for crop yields: Suitability and future climate resilience

Jiejie Sun, Tongli Wang, Thomas Andrew Black, Jiaen Zhang, Jing Qian, Dawei Luo, Zhengyang Ye, Guiyun Wang, Zhaoji Shi, Wenhuan Xu, Xiaodong Hu and Ming Xu

Closing maize yield gaps in North China plain: Based on plot-scale farmer survey and simulation

Yimin Hu, Yuejun Chen, Bowei Duan, Tianzhan Dong, Xin Qian, Zongxin Li, Yuchuan Fan, Anqi Wang, Shuqi Yang, Wangsheng Gao and Yuanquan Chen

Territorial insights into agri-food system circularity: energy and nitrogen flows of two livestock production regions in Brittany (France)

Léopold Iachkine, Olivier Godinot, Julie Ryschawy and Souhil Harchaoui

Constraints on the expansion of organic farming in highly productive regions

Henrik G. Smith, Göran Bergkvist, Mark V. Brady, Romain Carrié, Sigrun Dahlin, Johan Ekroos, Christian Jörgensen, Ingrid Öborn, William Sidemo-Holm and Christine A. Watson

Fences that farm: How boundary planting makes agroforestry work for smallholders in hilly farming systems

G. Gnanasanjevi, S. Gopi Shankar and P. Gokul

Agroeconomic performance and labor dynamics associated with coffee and black pepper diversified cropping systems

Benoit Duong, Bon Van Le, Cuong Vo, Long Thi Minh Chau, Trung Quoc Hoang, Da Tien Nguyen, Bruno Rapidel and Clément Rigal

Future food demand and agricultural land degradation in emerging economies: A spatial systems diagnosis from BRICS-plus

Youchao Shi, Xiaobin Jin, Xinyuan Liang, Bo Han and Yinkang Zhou

Soil health forecasting: Exploring pathways toward integration in digital agronomic advisory for sustainable soil management

Frank Rasche, Siyabusa Mkuhlani and Bernard Vanlauwe

Generational renewal and sustainability pathways: Exploring diversification and resilience in agricultural systems

Konstadinos Mattas, Dimitrios Natos and Christos Staboulis

Optimization of maize–soybean intercropping in the North China plain: XGBoost-driven integrated agronomic practices pathways

Shuqi Yang, Hao Li, Qing Liu, Bowei Duan, Yimin Hu, Yingxing Zhao, Peng Sui, Wangsheng Gao, Zongxin Li and Yuanquan Chen

Spatially optimized forage cultivation reconciles livestock production and wildlife conservation in Alpine grasslands

Jiawei Xu, Han Guo, Jiahao Huang, Jie Wang, Shikui Dong and Yanjun Guo

Spatially explicit assessment of wheat yield improvement potential in saline–alkali soils

Bingwan Mao, Yunhe Yang, Yongcun Zhao, Chaopu Ti, Rongfei Ma, Minglei Wang and Wenjiao Shi

Integrating grassland typification, species identity-based agroecological and environmental indicators to improve livestock production system assessment

Arantza Aldezabal, Iker Pardo, Eneko Garmendia, Agustín del Prado and Guillermo Pardo

Coordinating food security and ecological pressures in the North China Plain: A Doughnut framework approach

Yating Dai, Le Yu and Bowen Cao

Disease regulation in intercropping systems depends on spatial arrangement – A modelling study

Audrey Irene Deheinzelin, Tiphaine Vidal, Patrice Lecharpentier, Marie Launay and Marie-Odile Bancal

Data-driven evaluation of constraints and adaptation priorities in Asian and African rice systems: Outcomes from the PAiCE toolkit

Brendan Brown, Mackenzie Coopman, Isaac Boatey Akpatsu, An Nguyen, Wuletawu Abera, Ali Ibrahim, Rica Joy Flor, Hung Van Nguyen, Rathmuny Then, Kazuki Saito, Austin Redden, Job Kihara, Virender Kumar, Andrew McDonald and Bernard Vanlauwe

Cover crops and intercropping help reduce nitrate and pesticide leaching in low-input systems

Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda, Eric Justes, Benoit Gleizes, Eric Lecloux, Eric Bazerthe and Lionel Alletto

Innovation heterogeneity and resilience pathways in South African Agri-businesses

Saul Ngarava

On the interpretation of biogenic carbon flows in livestock LCAs: A comment on Blignaut et al. (2026)

Andre M. Mazzetto, Aaron T. Simmons, Beverley Henry, Christophe d'Abbadie, David Styles, Göran Berndes, Maartje Sevenster, Matthew T. Harrison, Richard Eckard, Warwick B. Badgery and Annette Cowie

Climate change and agricultural heritage: Adapting ancient systems for a sustainable future

Chen Xie and Chao Chen

Economic viability of grass-fed beef production in the northeastern U.S.: A life-cycle cost analysis

Houtian Ge, Miguel I. Gómez and Christian J. Peters

Optimizing agricultural intensification and cropping structures in China to reduce nitrogen surplus

Jiayi Jiang, Changqing Song, Leina Zhang, Peichao Gao, Sijing Ye and Yakov Kuzyakov

How livelihood capital synergies and trade-offs shape farmer's resilience in underdeveloped mountainous areas, China

Xueyan Zhao, Huizhen Su, Na Zhang, Jing Ding and Helin Wang

Assessment of carbon emission and sink in Chinese farming systems: An accounting system based on management practice classification

Xiaocui Dong, Hongguang Liu and Jie Guo

Towards a sustainable agri-food value chain under best agricultural practices: Integrating consumer and supply-side economic analysis

José A. Albaladejo-García, José M. Martínez-Paz, José A. Zabala, Víctor Martínez-García and Francisco Alcon

How to reduce agricultural pesticide risks? An evaluation of policy mixes considering stakeholder preferences and uncertain consequences

M. Wiget and J. Lienert

Elite capture matters: Insights from interventions in seed systems with women self-help groups in India

Subash Surendran-Padmaja, Pooja Trivedi, Aditya Korekallu Srinivasa and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

Combining a crop growth model and a machine learning algorithm to estimate regional water-saving potential for field crops

Yuqi Liu, Chenghao Li, Yuzhen Wu, Hangzhi Wei, Yifan Chen, Changxi Wang, Yang Wang, Jirka Šimůnek and Renkuan Liao

Achieving yield-environmental-economic benefits for China's apple production systems by adopting farmer's best orchard management

Zhenxing Zhang, Yvyue Liu, Haoxin Zhang, Dongyue Wang, Zhanjun Liu, Yuanjun Zhu and Xinpeng Xu

Volume 234, issue C, 2026

Agronomic and systemic challenges in organic agriculture exhibit asymmetric economies of scale

Shriya,, Houston Wilson and Mark Lubell

Impacts of sustainable cattle farming on the 2030 agenda: A global review

Stefan Burkart, Manuel Francisco Díaz Baca, Leonardo Moreno Lerma and Natalia Triana Ángel

Strengthening banana seed systems among smallholder farmers in Bugiri District, Uganda

Lucy Mulugo, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Emmanuel Ngolobe and Aman Bonaventure Omondi

Self-cover cropping systems and the plusquam-annual: New tools for cropping system sustainability

Virginia Nichols, Prabin Bajgain, Laura Dixon, Kim Henrik Hebelstrup, Claus Krogh Madsen, Robin Morgan and Valentin Picasso

Beyond agroecological delineation: A functional understanding of productivity drivers across row crop agroecosystems in the United States

Rasu Eeswaran, Sujithkumar Surendran Nair, Anthony Wayne King, Anup Menon Nandialath and Sindhu Jagadamma

Implications of agroecological transition on performance and soil carbon inputs in farms from highly productive cashew zones of Benin

Bernus Z. Djigbe, Pierrot Lionel Yemadje, Verónica El Mujtar and Rodrigue V. Cao Diogo

No systems transformation without systems literacy: Insights from CGIAR

Hanna Ewell, Eva Valencia Lenero, Arwen Bailey, Lennart Woltering, Katharina Schiller and Jon Hellin

Growth and impending decline in groundwater dependent agriculture: exploration of sustainability policies through participatory modeling

İzel Uygur, Ali Kerem Saysel and İrem Daloğlu Çetinkaya

Assessment of energy, environmental, and economic performance in okra cultivation systems in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Ashkan Jalilian, Mohammad Reza Jahansuz, Hassan Ghasemi Mobtaker, Mostafa Oveisi, Hosain Moghadam, Shiva Ghaznavi and Ali Kaab

The other red meat: Environmental and nutritional advantages of horsemeat over beef and other meats

Brett R. Hankerson and Daniel Müller

How does peanut yield fluctuate under irrigation practices and precipitation anomalies? Modelling insights from the North China plain

Shah Jahan Leghari, Wenting Han, Ghulam Raza Sargani, Yaseen Laghari, Yichang Wei, Lihua Cui, Abdul Hafeez Laghari, Mukesh Kumar Soothar, Uzair Ahmad and Wajahat Waseem

Large-scale estimation of carrying capacities in agricultural Crown lands of Manitoba, Canada using land cover datasets

Jan Bryan M. Encabo, Marcos R.C. Cordeiro, Emma J. McGeough, David Walker, Kim H. Ominski and Tim A. McAllister

A blueprint of initial LCA in Agri-food production systems: Practical recommendations for crop and livestock production systems

Indika Thushari, Asma Jebari, Alison Carswell, Thomas C. Ponsioen, Stephen Morse, Richard Murphy and Conor Walsh

From smart farming to wise agricultural systems: A conceptual framework for systems-oriented sustainable digital transformation in agriculture

Carlos Parra-López, Carmen Carmona-Torres, Robert Finger, Kelly Bronson, Sarah-Louise Ruder and Laurens Klerkx

Agroforestry and smallholder farmers' welfare in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sileshi Abebe Jemaneh, Mesfin Tilahun, Jessica P.R. Thorn, Zenebe Girmay Siyum and Martin Dallimer

Diversification and policy options for risk management in arable farming

Hannah Jona V. Czettritz, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Jing Yu, Moritz Reckling and Peter Zander

Food trade-offs in targeting environmental efficiency: Comparative analysis of different agricultural systems under natural constraints

Bazyli Czyżewski, Anna Matuszczak, Konrad Prandecki and Wioletta Wrzaszcz

Assessment of water-cropland-grassland-livestock balance in the agro-pastoral ecotone in northern China under the grazing exclusion policy

Cong Zhang, Junhao Li, Fangyi Wang and Lihua Zhou

Farming systems in the Peruvian amazon: A fuzzy cognitive mapping study on the impact of interventions

Elisabeth G. Lagneaux, Katrien Descheemaeker, Erika N. Speelman and Daniel Callo-Concha

How resistant cultivars reshape disease management: An application to citrus greening disease

Xiurui Cui, Kelly A. Grogan and Zhengfei Guan

Spaced out: An economic framework to explore the impacts of PV panel spacing on large-scale farming in Colorado

Brian Mirletz, James McCall, Samantha Bryan, Dala Al Mukhaini, Claire Nguyen, Sam Anderson, Stephan Weiler and Jordan Macknick

Temporal and spatial crop diversity are related and affected by farm and landscape configurations

Josepha Schiller, Clemens Jänicke, Moritz Reckling and Masahiro Ryo

Dietary transitions and manure recycling could halve nitrogen pollution from grain crops in China

Yanliang Li, Huihang Sun, Yuelei Li, Weijia Li, Zhilei Xie, Yanan Zou, Xiang Li, Wei Zuo, Yu Tian and Lipin Li

Who adopts what? A systematic global review of gender dynamics in climate-smart agriculture

Riya Gupta, Kaushik Bora, Prasun K. Gangopadhyay and Pramod K. Aggarwal

Determinants of yield variation of organic cereals in productive agricultural areas

Rafaelle Reumaux, Melanie Karlsson, Romain Carrié, Ingrid Öborn, Christine A. Watson, Göran Bergkvist, A. Sigrun Dahlin, Johan Ekroos, Johanna Wetterlind and Henrik G. Smith

Agroecological performances of low pesticide used grapevine systems adapted to six diverse regional contexts in France

R. Métral, L. Delière, C. Gary, X. Burgun, C. Chevrier, D. Lafond, L. Ley, E. Serrano, J. Wery, A. Metay and M. Thiollet-Scholtus

Managing trade-offs between economic, environmental, and animal welfare performance in French suckler cattle farms through feeding practices

Larissa Mysko, Claire Mosnier, Patrick Veysset, Isabelle Veissier and Jean-Joseph Minviel

Guava production in the Brazilian Semiarid: carbon and water scarcity footprints, current challenges, and projections to 2055

Antonio Fabio da Silva Lima, Alexsandro Oliveira da Silva, Jonnathan Richeds da Silva Sales, Rubens Sonsol Gondim, Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo, Raimundo Nonato Távora Costa, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda, Ênio Farias de França e Silva, Mario Monteiro Rolim, Thieres George Freire da Silva and Viviane da Silva Barros

Mapping post-crop biomass for grazing in Alessandria Province, north West Italy: Moving towards sustainable agriculture through the support of remote sensing

Filippo Sarvia, Samuele De Petris, Alessandro Farbo, Enrico Chiesa, Tommaso Orusa, Francesco Parizia and Enrico Borgogno-Mondino

The potential for attaining agricultural production targets within nutrient boundaries: A case study for Hainan Island, China

Pengbo Dong, Yunze Ruan, Gerard H. Ros, Wim de Vries, Oene Oenema, Fusuo Zhang and Ying Zhang

Soils, woody plants and farm-household wealth: Context-specific links in Southern Africa

A. Sandhage-Hofmann, M. Foerster, R. Reuß, L. Kindermann, A. Linstädter, J. Börner, B.H.V. Gebrekidan, L. Chabala and W. Amelung