Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2026

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Volume 237, issue C, 2026

Harvest timing as a key lever for improvement of alfalfa-based feeding systems: A bio-economic analysis for a Brandenburg dairy farm

Anatol Thös, Johannes Schuler, Lennart Kokemohr, Peter Zander, Klaus Gutser, Sandra Uthes, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani and Joachim Aurbacher

Bridging biodiversity and food systems: A nationwide synthesis of non-conventional food plants (PANCs) in Brazil

Gustavo Barreto Costa, Luiz Henrique Silva Lopes, Karina Pinheiro Martins, Nathália Letícia Hernandez Brito, Jhony Silva Ramos, Ana Caroline Silvestre Barbosa Alessi, Ana Elisa Melo da Silva, Thais Aparecida Santos, Ornella Monique Pereira Ferri, Maria João de Almeida Coelho de Sousa, Sandrina Alves Heleno, Douglas Neil Rutledge and Flávia Aparecida Reitz Cardoso

The impact of scale operations on optimizing crop distribution in fragmented lands

Huicong Chen, Yingbin He, Xiangyi Wang, Yixuan Duan, Yifan Jiao, Sijie Fan and Anran Feng

Linking agroecological performance and water-energy-food-ecosystems Nexus indicators: A multi-scale assessment of farming systems in Tunisia

Ali Rhouma, Hayet Midouni, Youssef Trifa, Tarek Trabelsi, Ahmed Rebai, Hanen Ben Ismail, Hanene Boussi Rahmouni, Saoussen Turki, Shiraz Beji, Latifa Beltaifa, Nabil Attia, Marwa Khammassi, Rim Bouchoucha, Magid Chaabane, Gil José Maria and Jalila El Ati

Farm level natural capital accounting to connect on-ground agroforestry decision making with local and global imperatives: A case study in Tasmania, Australia

Daniel S. Mendham, Anthony O'Grady, Stephen Stewart, Jacqueline R. England, Suzanne M. Prober, Thomas Baker, Shaun Brooks, Martin Moroni, Chris Ware, Aysha Fleming, Stephen Roxburgh, Sue Ogilvy and Molly Marshall

Spatial cropping structure optimization in the Yellow River Basin based on dynamic water supply and crop suitability under future SSP-RCP scenarios

Yingying Cui, Chuanbao Wu, Geng Niu and Jiliang Zhen

A scenario-based framework linking biophysical soil carbon modeling to illustrative economic signals

Ayomikun David Ajayi, Wiyao Banakinaou, Tadao Aoda and Hideo Hasegawa

Inoculum dose, diversity, dispersal, and damage: Simulating optimal economic control of hop powdery mildew at the landscape level

Joshua F. Pedro, Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Shirshendu Chatterjee, Thomas L. Marsh, Jae Young Hwang and David H. Gent

Accounting for temporal and agroecological variability in greenhouse gas emissions from Australian livestock grazing systems

Maria Beatriz Lopez Peralta, Richard Eckard, Rachelle Meyer, Rodney Keenan and Brendan Cullen

Can cropland systems maintain resilience under intensifying urbanization? The evidence from China's Yangtze River Economic Belt

Liting Chen, Guangyin Shang and Anlu Zhang

Variations in soil nutrients and functional microbe abundances govern GHGs emissions under different rice rotation regimes

Zheng Zhao, Xiangyang Gui, Jinxi He, Zhimin Sha, Qingfeng Wang, Deping Zhou, Changbin Chu and Shuhang Wu

Evolving perspectives on agricultural systems research: Contemporary trends and editorial directions

Jagadish Timsina, Mark van Wijk, Krishna Devkota, Antonius G.T. Schut, Carlos Parra-López, Guillaume Martin, James A. Turner, Emma Stephens, Adam M. Komarek, Simon Fielke, Leonard Rusinamhodzi, Nadine Andrieu, Zhao Zhang and Paul Crosson

Assessment of readiness for conservation agriculture in Morocco: implications for targeting smallholder support

Emirjona Kertolli, Adam Komarek, Paolo Prosperi, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Xiaoli Fan, Ajit Govind, Rachid Harbouze and Hatem Belhouchette

A system dynamics approach to quantifying the cost-effectiveness of endemic livestock disease control: An application to foot-and-mouth disease in Rwanda

Ralph P. Jean-Pierre, Karl M. Rich, Sirak T. Bahta, Amy D. Hagerman, Dolapo K. Enahoro and Ashley F. Railey

Multi-scale drivers of wild bee communities in vineyard agroecosystems

Briann Dorin and Sheila Colla

Assessment of the level of compliance with good agricultural practices for cotton production in the different cotton-growing zones of Benin

Takpa, O'’Neil G.M.M., Pierre G. Tovihoudji, Romain Loison, Isidore Amonmidé, Benjamin Heuclin, Emmanuel Sèkloka, Pablo Tittonell and Rodrigue V. Cao Diogo

Sustainability trade-offs in diversified cropping systems: Productivity, profitability, energy efficiency, ecosystem service value and environmental impacts

Jian Wang, Xin Li, Zhenggui Zhang, Xiaofei Li, Lu Feng, Guilan Sun, Pengcheng Li, Zhanlei Pan, Shiwu Xiong, Beifang Yang, Minghua Xin, Yabing Li and Zhanbiao Wang

Spatio-temporal divergent trends of cropland exposure to multi-precipitation extremes across China under future climate scenarios

Ying Gao, Linyue Wang, Yuwei Wang, Yanlei Ye and Na Zhao

Sustainable vegetation management methods in commercial photovoltaic plants

D.A. Rodriguez-Pastor, A. Ruiz-Diez, J.J. Gonzalez-Lopez, V.M. Soltero and R. Chacartegui

Explaining the decline of Mediterranean meat sheep farming through system dynamics modelling

Alicia Prat-Benhamou, Birgit Kopainsky, Alberto Bernués, Daniel Martín-Collado and Alicia Tenza-Peral

Linking environmental impact and on-farm animal welfare in the Parmigiano Reggiano dairy system

Marco Berton, Marco Nocetti, Gaetano Cappelli, Alessio Cecchinato, Luigi Gallo and Enrico Sturaro

Winter canola integration improves carbon balance, biomass, and profitability in illinois corn–soybean systems

Muhammad Umer Arshad, Soonho Hwang, Chunhwa Jang, Heesu Jeon and DoKyoung Lee

Reassessing the economic returns of diverse traditional agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: a case study of the milpa in Mexico

Julio Díaz-José, Rogelio Limón-Rivera, Otto R. Leyva-Ovalle, Leticia Myriam Sagarnaga-Villegas, Gregorio Briones-Ruiz, A. Carolina Elizondo-Salas, Hilario García-Martínez, Susana I. Castillo-Martínez, Pablo Andrés-Meza, Oscar Díaz-José, Francisco Guevara-Hernández and Mauricio R. Bellon

Emissions accounting for agriculture: Next frontiers

Saule Burkitbayeva, Emma Aisbett, Jill E. Hobbs and William A. Kerr

Grassland conversion and social identity: Evidence from Western Canadian cattle producers

Rebecca Zanello and Eric Micheels

Promoting sustainable pest management through digital decision support tools: Insights from India

Justice A. Tambo, Malvika Chaudhary, Idah Mugambi, Madhu Manjari, Mahesh H. Munireddappa, Kritika Khanna, J.V. Mohan Rao, M. Bheemanna, Prabhuraj Aralimarad and Rajkumar Ramasamy

Estimating carbon footprints and economic trade-offs in Mongolia's cashmere value chain: An integrated system dynamics approach

Joshua Aboah, Derek Chan, Sirak Bahta, Vandandorj Sumya, Fiona Flintan and Isabelle Baltenweck

Developing a farmer-centered framework for assessing adoption readiness of digital agricultural technologies: Validation with German farmers

Marius Michels and Lena Isenberg

Impact of including non-carcass edible output on bioeconomic, food-feed and greenhouse gas emissions performance of dairy-beef systems

A. McNamee, M. McGee, E.G. O'Riordan, D. McCrudden and P. Crosson

Organic inputs, sustainable agricultural practices, and smallholder resilience to climate shocks: Evidence from Ethiopia

Aklok Getnet, Xianli Xia, Taye Melese Mekie and Agerie Nega Wassihun

From calibration to objective-function governance: Operationalizing wise agricultural systems

Michael Carolan

Reinterpreting scaling as synchronising and sequencing: A case study of food system innovation in eastern India

Costanza Conti, Prashant Parida, Andy Hall, Nitya Rao, Girigan Gopi, E.D.I. Oliver King and Soumya Swaminathan

Consumer preferences and business model innovation in women-led agri-food systems: Evidence from Morocco

Eleonora Sofia Rossi, Dina Najjar, Dorsaf Oueslati, Andrea Visioni and Emanuele Blasi

Nonlinear response patterns of grain yield to drought gradients and the underlying driving mechanisms

Xinyu Guo, Zilong Wang, Youzhu Zhao and Qiuxiang Jiang

Economic and ecological outcomes of in-house and third-party coffee certifications in Rwanda

Bruno Paz, Meike Wollni, Miet Maertens, Carolina Ocampo-Ariza and Arne Wenzel

Stage-specific drivers and bottlenecks in agricultural innovation ecosystems: Evidence from agricultural science and technology professionals' three-stage innovation behavior

Xiafang Shi, Ziyu Zhou, Zheng Wang, Jie Zhang and Yifeng Wu

A crop-growth-coupled simulation-optimization approach for canal system scheduling within water-energy-food nexus

Hui Wu, Chenglong Zhang, Qiong Yue, Rui Chen and Hong Li

Agroecology as a systemic orientation of farming systems: Evidence from an environmentally protected area

Giuseppe Timpanaro and Vera Teresa Foti

How do irrigation modes affect the water-land-energy‑carbon-food nexus for potatoes in the Yellow River Basin?

Wenjing Duan, Changbin Yin, Jing Ren, Yanshu Yin, Yingnan Zhang, Zhizhen Yao, Ke Xu, Zihong Yang and Aurore Degre

Strategies for integrating grain legumes into cereal-based rotations: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Sweden

Hui Tao, Helena Hansson, Jing Lu, Per-Anders Hansson and Vivian Wei Huang

Grazing herbivores as keystone regulators of soil aggregation: A comprehensive review of multi-pathway mechanisms and sustainable grassland management implications

Bin Wei, Ruihuan Zhang, Yuqi Wei, Yupeng Lu, Xiaorong Xie, Xinghai Hao and Jinrong Liu

Greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen flows of multispecies pastured livestock farms in Québec, Canada

Pascal Genest-Richard, Sarah J. Pogue, Isabelle Breune, Caroline Halde, Patrick Mundler, Roland Kröbel and Nicolas Devillers

Optimization of field water and nitrogen management in summer maize systems in Northwest China based on an APSIM–HYDRUS coupled modeling framework

Yao Li, Xuegui Zhang, Yujuan Fu, Jiatun Xu, Xiaobo Gu and Huanjie Cai

Volume 236, issue C, 2026

Modelling Faba bean production in northern Europe: Model calibration and evaluation

Hendrik P.J. Smit and Iris Vogeler

Smallholder participation in premium rice markets in Bangladesh: A structural equation model for understanding production and marketing decisions

Md. Tanvir Ahmed, Mohammad Saidur Rahman, Matty Demont, Islam Abu Hayat Md Saiful Islam, Md. Salauddin Palash, Ishika Gupta and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

A scoping review of UK evidence for the impacts of regenerative agriculture practices on net greenhouse gas balances

Isobel Tomlinson, Ruth Wade, Jennifer Hodbod and David R. Williams

Economic trade-offs of farmland conversion to Eucalyptus plantations in southern Ethiopia

Gemedo Furo, Zhiwen Gong and Ran Huo

Agronomic levers to increase maize and soybean productivity across the Chinyanja Triangle, southern Africa

Mazvita Sheila Chiduwa, Isaiah Nyagumbo, John Okoth Omondi, Siyabusa Mkuhlani, Patricia Masikati, Innocent Malunga, Mulundu Mwila, Pacsu Simwaka, Mateus Mapaure, Andson Banda, Deo-Gratias Hougni, Adama Ndour, Kindie Fantaye, Sieglinde Snapp and João Vasco Silva

Uncovering bottlenecks and innovative solutions for scaling small-scale irrigation through a system approach and design thinking: Evidence from Nigeria

Augustine Iraoya and Bedru Balana

Artificial intelligence unleashes the wisdom of ancient ranches: Returning grasslands to the grasslands

Jing Zhang, Muhammad Usman, Fujiang Hou and Zhibiao Nan

What drives the potato yield gap in China?

Qiuhong Huang, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Herman N.C. Berghuijs, Antonius G.T. Schut, Johan G.B. Leenaars, Allard J.W. de Wit and Ping He

Exploring agricultural strategies among Maasai pastoralists undergoing rangeland subdivision in Amboseli (Kenya): insights from a role-playing board game

Arthur Bostvironnois, Christophe Le Page, Yanni Gunnell and François Mialhe

Assessing nitrogen balance and use efficiency across multiple scales on pasture based dairy farms and implications for nitrogen management and policy

Philip M. Murphy, Paul N.C. Murphy and David P. Wall

Early prediction of litchi downy blight via spatiotemporal graph-based multimodal data fusion

Jianqiang Lu, Haiyang Tong, Zhengyang Zhou, Yubin Lan, Ting Wang and Weixing Wang

Organic carbon sequestration under straw return: Region-specific modelling framework

Bin Du, Changqing Song, Guocheng Wang, Shuyi Ren, Jiayi Jiang, Peichao Gao, Sijing Ye and Yakov Kuzyakov

From under-barn to outdoor swine manure storage: Modelling the effect of frequent under-barn pit emptying on methane emissions in a cold climate

Birk Li, Zhiming Qi, Andrew C. VanderZaag, Brian B. Grant, Aaron J. Glenn, Jia Deng, Ziwei Li and Ward N. Smith

Estimating the risk of pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination in Peanut with the CROPGRO-Peanut model

Thiago Berton Ferreira, Kenneth J. Boote, Vakhtang Shelia, Willingthon Pavan, P.V. Vara Prasad, Shannon K.A. McAmis and Gerrit Hoogenboom

Strategies to reduce N waste through crop and livestock reconnection

L. Lassaletta, C. Pinsard, L. Ma, S. Spiegal, P. Reidsma, Z. Bai, A. Rodríguez, V. Snow, B. Soriano and A. Sanz-Cobeña

Reply to On the interpretation of biogenic carbon flows in livestock LCA's: a comment on Blignaut et al. (2026), by Mazzetto et al. (2026)

James Blignaut and Paul Swan

Does plastic film mulching increase temporal yield stability in northern China?

Kaiping Zhang, Yufei Li, Li Zhang and Rui Xiao

A threat to food security in Mexico: Climate-driven expansion of maize devastating pest and its economic impact

Jesús A. Cruz-López, Bernardo A. Bastien-Olvera, Luis A. Gálvez-Marroquín and Carolina Ureta

Multi-objective two-stage optimization of canal system scheduling in irrigation districts incorporating groundwater dynamic variations

Huiying Zhou, Tianxiao Li, Qiang Fu, Mo Li, Tienan Li and Yan Liu

Key drivers and relationships between spring maize water use efficiency and soil fertility in northern China under future climate scenarios

Jiao Shi, Minggang Xu, Nan Sun, Dandan Li and Lianhai Wu

Temporal and spatial decomposition analysis of nitrogen load and regional disparity of nitrogen load productivity in the Kumamoto area in Japan: An administrative-division-based approach using the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index and the weighted Theil index

Zhuolin Li, Kei Nakagawa, Hidemichi Fujii, Takahiro Hosono and Ronny Berndtsson

Holistic and systems thinking modelling for strategic agriculture production planning in sub-Saharan Africa

Bonoukpoè Mawuko Sokame, Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Henri E.Z. Tonnang, Sabra Lewis, Christopher Suh, Rachel Zozo, Jeannette K. Winsou, Alpha Kamara, Joel Cornelius Runyu, Elfatih Abdel-Rhaman, Laura Schmitt Olabisi and Tahirou Abdoulaye

Improving maize yield prediction performance via a hybrid framework coupling an optimized crop model and deep learning

Di Hao, Liping Chen, Guangfeng Chen, Cheng Chen, Qingzhen Zhu and Lili Zhangzhong

Organic and conventional farming systems: Effects on fruit quality and nutritional attributes of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) - A review

Gelebo Rocho Garmo, Zhong Zhang, Gemechis Chemiru Ofgea, Ding Ruojun, Kumsa Delessa Kuffi and Jian Zhang

Field-scale and landscape-scale drivers of insecticide use in oilseed rape crops across France

Emeric Courson, Sandrine Petit and Benoit Ricci

Smart sensors, fragile trust: Governance of digital soil-testing tools in smallholder agriculture in Kenya

Evelyne Njuguna, Regina Birner, Thomas Daum and John Mburu

Corrigendum to ‘Gender Transformative Innovation: Women's Inclusion in Livestock Vaccine Systems in Northern Ghana’ [Agricultural Systems; 219 (August 2024) 104023]

Nelly Njiru, Alessandra Galiè, Immaculate Omondi, Dalmas Omia, Agnes Loriba and Peter Awin

Pesticide residues in organic vs. conventional rice systems: Management recommendations for Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Linda Klamann, Björn Thiele, Giang Cao Dinh An, Nick Kupfer, Arne Kappenberg, Nguyen Thi Thu Nga, Tuan Quoc Vo, Khoi Chau Minh and Lutz Weihermüller

Integrated design of climate-resilient cotton cultivars and sowing strategies in arid Xinjiang using a crop model

Hongqin Wang, Silang Wu, Lei Li, Jiaxue Li, Yanmin Yang, Xianglin Wu and Yong He

Adaptation strategies for climate-resilient rice production in the eastern Himalayan India: Insights from field experiments and long-term APSIM assessments

Sneha Bharadwaj, C.M. Parihar, Ayan Sarkar, H.S. Nayak, D.R. Sena, Kiranmoy Patra, K. Srikanth Reddy, Alok Sinha, Madhumita Patra, Badapmain Makdoh, Sonam R. Sherpa and Burhan U. Choudhury

Optimizing water use and biodiversity outcomes in soybean–maize strip intercropping systems

Zhendong Liu, Xiudi Shangguan, Huaiyu Mu, Jiahao Zhou, Linyao Li, Shishuo Li, Rui Zong, Xianghao Hou, Yanli Fan, Mingming Zhang and Quanqi Li

Simplifying nitrogen management decisions: An in-silico analysis of strategic nitrogen banking in cropping systems

Ismail I. Garba, Heidi Horan, James R. Hunt and Lindsay W. Bell

Comparison of the environment, energy, and economic impacts of rice production with different mechanized straw management methods

Qingyue Cheng, Chuanhai Shu, Yuanqing Shi, Zhengbo Peng, Binbin Liu, Qiqi Chen, Ning Liu, Hongkun Xie, Xiana Tie, Song Chen, Zhonglin Wang, Yongjian Sun, Jun Ma and Zhiyuan Yang

A systems approach to closing yield gaps in wheat, maize, and rice in China: Meta-analysis, machine learning, and spatial optimization

Yimin Hu, Bowei Duan, Ji Liu, Yuejun Chen, Tianzhan Dong, Xin Qian, Zongxin Li, Wangsheng Gao and Yuanquan Chen

Optimizing regional nitrogen management for intensive rice systems: A machine learning-based framework for reconciling agronomic nitrogen demands with environmental constraints

Zenghui Liang, Zhongwei Li, Haochen Li, Qiang Cao, Yongchao Tian, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao, Zhaopeng Fu and Xiaojun Liu

Mitigating CO2 and N2O emissions in salt-affected agroecosystems through fertilization and irrigation optimization: A meta-analysis

Djifa Fidele Kpalari, Yang Gao, Abdoul Kader Mounkaila Hamani, Yuanyuan Fu, Jean Mianikpo Sogbedji, Timothy S. George, Sen Li and Shoutian Ma

Exploring the synergies between food security and agrobiodiversity conservation for Milpa farming in Mexico: A systems approach

Jeffrey P. Walters, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, Lawrence Gottschamer, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, Sofía Lail Lugo-Castilla, Carlos Cultid-Medina and Laura Pamela Ruiz-Ponce

Analysis of environmental costs for protected carrot production systems

Yanchen Gong, Haibing Wang, Yun Li, Qingyu Hong, Peng Yan and Yanling Chen

Productivity trade-offs and the intensification paradox in multi-cropping systems of the Jianghan plain, China

Kangle Cao, Zhijing Liu, Xuemei Zhao, Xinghua Wu and Tian Xia