Agricultural Systems

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Volume 153, issue C, 2017

Could EU dairy quota removal favour some dairy production systems over others? The case of French dairy production systems pp. 1-10

Thibault Salou, Hayo M.G. van der Werf, Fabrice Levert, Agneta Forslund, Jonathan Hercule and Chantal Le Mouël

Stepwise frameworks for understanding the utilisation of conservation agriculture in Africa pp. 11-22

Brendan Brown, Ian Nuberg and Rick Llewellyn

Influence of post-weaning management system during the finishing phase on grasslands or feedlot on aiming to improvement of the beef cattle production pp. 23-31

Rondineli P. Barbero, Euclides B. Malheiros, Renata L.G. Nave, John T. Mulliniks, Lutti M. Delevatti, Jefferson F.W. Koscheck, Elieder P. Romanzini, Adriana C. Ferrari, Diego M. Renesto, Telma T. Berchielli, Ana C. Ruggieri and Ricardo A. Reis

To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data pp. 32-42

D Rodriguez, P de Voil, Mc Rufino, M Odendo and Mt van Wijk

Capturing systemic interrelationships by an impact analysis to help reduce production diseases in dairy farms pp. 43-52

Margret Krieger, Susanne Hoischen-Taubner, Ulf Emanuelson, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Manon de Joybert, Julie E. Duval, Karin Sjöström, Philip J. Jones and Albert Sundrum

Modelling farm-level adaptation of temperate, pasture-based dairy farms to climate change pp. 53-68

Electra Kalaugher, Pierre Beukes, Janet F. Bornman, Anthony Clark and David I. Campbell

Big Data in Smart Farming – A review pp. 69-80

Sjaak Wolfert, Lan Ge, Cor Verdouw and Marc-Jeroen Bogaardt

Life cycle assessment (LCA) for apple orchard production systems including low and high productive years in conventional, integrated and organic farms pp. 81-93

Y. Goossens, B. Annaert, J. De Tavernier, E. Mathijs, W. Keulemans and A. Geeraerd

Phosphorus dynamics modeling and mass balance in an aquaponics system pp. 94-100

B.S. Cerozi and K. Fitzsimmons

Yield comparison of simulated rainfed wheat and barley across Middle-East pp. 101-108

Rémy Schoppach, Afshin Soltani, Thomas R. Sinclair and Walid Sadok

Impact of alternative cropping systems on groundwater use and grain yields in the North China Plain Region pp. 109-117

Dengpan Xiao, Yanjun Shen, Yongqing Qi, Juana P. Moiwo, Leilei Min, Yucui Zhang, Ying Guo and Hongwei Pei

Combined effects of climate change and policy uncertainty on the agricultural sector in Norway pp. 118-126

Klaus Mittenzwei, Tomas Persson, Mats Höglind and Sigrun Kværnø

Towards scientifically based management of extensive livestock farming in terms of ecological predator-prey modeling pp. 127-137

Francisco Dieguez Cameroni and Hugo Fort

Plant factories; crop transpiration and energy balance pp. 138-147

Luuk Graamans, Andy van den Dobbelsteen, Esther Meinen and Cecilia Stanghellini

Analyzing the economies of crop diversification in rural Vietnam using an input distance function pp. 148-156

Huy Quynh Nguyen

Resource use and economic impacts in the transition from small confinement to pasture-based dairies pp. 157-171

M. Melissa Rojas-Downing, Timothy Harrigan and A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi

A framework coupling farm typology and biophysical modelling to assess the impact of vegetable crop-based systems on soil carbon stocks. Application in the Caribbean pp. 172-180

Jorge Sierra, François Causeret and Pierre Chopin

Preliminary analysis on economic and environmental consequences of grain production on different farm sizes in North China Plain pp. 181-189

Xiaolong Wang, Yuanquan Chen, Peng Sui, Peng Yan, Xiaolei Yang and Wangsheng Gao

Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system pp. 190-200

Peter Alexander, Calum Brown, Almut Arneth, John Finnigan, Dominic Moran and Mark D.A. Rounsevell

Sustainable intensification of Brazilian livestock production through optimized pasture restoration pp. 201-211

Rafael de Oliveira Silva, Luis Gustavo Barioni, J. A. Julian Hall, Antonio Carlos Moretti, Rui Fonseca Veloso, Peter Alexander, Mariane Crespolini and Dominic Moran

Assessing the harvested area gap in China pp. 212-220

Qiangyi Yu, Wenbin Wu, Liangzhi You, Tingju Zhu, Jasper van Vliet, Peter H. Verburg, Zhenhuan Liu, Zhengguo Li, Peng Yang, Qingbo Zhou and Huajun Tang

Understanding the role of social capital in adoption decisions: An application to irrigation technology pp. 221-231

Claudia Hunecke, Alejandra Engler, Roberto Jara-Rojas and P. Marijn Poortvliet

Volume 152, issue C, 2017

Mapping of beef, sheep and goat food systems in Nairobi — A framework for policy making and the identification of structural vulnerabilities and deficiencies pp. 1-17

Pablo Alarcon, Eric M. Fèvre, Maurice K. Murungi, Patrick Muinde, James Akoko, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Stella Kiambi, Sohel Ahmed, Barbara Häsler and Jonathan Rushton

The role and value of diverse sward mixtures in dairy farm systems of New Zealand: An exploratory assessment pp. 18-26

Alvaro J. Romera, Graeme J. Doole, Pierre C. Beukes, Norman Mason and Paul L. Mudge

An efficiency-based concept to assess potential cost and greenhouse gas savings on German dairy farms pp. 27-37

Patrick Johannes Christopher Wettemann and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann

Comparison of greenhouse gas emissions from corn- and barley-based dairy production systems in Eastern Canada pp. 38-46

Jessie Guyader, Shannan Little, Roland Kröbel, Chaouki Benchaar and Karen A. Beauchemin

Detecting spatial variability of paddy rice yield by combining the DNDC model with high resolution satellite images pp. 47-57

Quanying Zhao, Sebastian Brocks, Victoria I.S. Lenz-Wiedemann, Yuxin Miao, Fusuo Zhang and Georg Bareth

Impact of climate change on farms in smallholder farming systems: Yield impacts, economic implications and distributional effects pp. 58-66

Lemlem Teklegiorgis Habtemariam, Getachew Abate Kassa and Markus Gandorfer

The MiLA tool: Modeling greenhouse gas emissions and cumulative energy demand of energy crop cultivation in rotation pp. 67-79

Christiane Peter, Xenia Specka, Joachim Aurbacher, Peter Kornatz, Christiane Herrmann, Monika Heiermann, Janine Müller and Claas Nendel

Rainfall variability adaptation strategies: An ex-ante assessment of supplemental irrigation from farm ponds in southern Burkina Faso pp. 80-89

Safiétou Sanfo, Bruno Barbier, Isabelle W.P. Dabiré, Paul L.G. Vlek, William Fonta, Boubacar Ibrahim and Boubacar Barry

Projecting corn and soybeans yields under climate change in a Corn Belt watershed pp. 90-99

Mukesh Dev Bhattarai, Silvia Secchi and Justin Schoof

Evaluation of the effects of future climate change on grape quality through a physically based model application: a case study for the Aglianico grapevine in Campania region, Italy pp. 100-109

A. Bonfante, S.M. Alfieri, R. Albrizio, A. Basile, R. De Mascellis, A. Gambuti, P. Giorio, G. Langella, P. Manna, E. Monaco, L. Moio and F. Terribile

Selecting for multiple traits in complex production systems: A case study of sugarcane in China pp. 110-120

Kun Yang, Phil Jackson, Xianming Wei, Xuekuan Chen, Jiayong Liu, Jun Zhao, Caiwen Wu and Yuanhong Fan

Bio-diesel production using mobile processing units: A case in Indonesia pp. 121-130

Joeri ten Kate, Ruud Teunter, Ratih Dyah Kusumastuti and Dirk Pieter van Donk

How effective can environmental taxes be in reducing the environmental impact of pig farming systems? pp. 131-144

S.G. Mackenzie, M. Wallace and I. Kyriazakis

Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based pp. 145-153

Pk Thornton, T Schuetz, W Förch, L Cramer, D Abreu, S Vermeulen and Bm Campbell

Crop and farm level adaptation under future climate challenges: An exploratory study considering multiple objectives for Flevoland, the Netherlands pp. 154-164

Maryia Mandryk, Pytrik Reidsma and Martin K. van Ittersum

Volume 151, issue C, 2017

Lamb production responses to grass grazing in a companion crop system with corn silage and oversowing of yellow oat in a tropical region pp. 1-11

Cristiano M. Pariz, Ciniro Costa, Carlos A.C. Crusciol, André M. Castilhos, Paulo R.L. Meirelles, Roberto O. Roça, Rafael S.B. Pinheiro, Frank A. Kuwahara, Jorge M. Martello, Francielli A. Cavasano, Júnior I. Yasuoka, Jaqueline R.W. Sarto, Verônica F.P. Melo and Alan J. Franzluebbers

Yield gap analysis in oil palm: Framework development and application in commercial operations in Southeast Asia pp. 12-19

M.P. Hoffmann, C.R. Donough, S.E. Cook, M.J. Fisher, C.H. Lim, Y.L. Lim, J. Cock, S.P. Kam, S.N. Mohanaraj, K. Indrasuara, P. Tittinutchanon and T. Oberthür

Performance of AquaCrop and SIMDualKc models in evapotranspiration partitioning on full and deficit irrigated maize for seed production under plastic film-mulch in an arid region of China pp. 20-32

Hui Ran, Shaozhong Kang, Fusheng Li, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Taisheng Du, Sien Li and Xiaotao Zhang

A farm level approach to explore farm gross margin effects of soil organic carbon management pp. 33-46

Klaus Glenk, Shailesh Shrestha, Cairstiona F.E. Topp, Berta Sánchez, Ana Iglesias, Camilla Dibari and Paolo Merante

Farm-level bio-economic modeling of water and nitrogen use: Calibrating yield response functions with limited data pp. 47-60

Pierre Humblot, Pierre-Alain Jayet and Athanasios Petsakos

Smallholder farmers managing climate risk in India: 2. Is it climate-smart? pp. 61-72

Zvi Hochman, Heidi Horan, D. Raji Reddy, G. Sreenivas, Chiranjeevi Tallapragada, Ravindra Adusumilli, Donald S. Gaydon, Alison Laing, Philip Kokic, Kamalesh K. Singh and Christian H. Roth

Greenhouse gas emission of Canadian cow-calf operations: A whole-farm assessment of 295 farms pp. 73-83

Aklilu W. Alemu, Brian D. Amiro, Shabtai Bittman, Douglas MacDonald and Kim H. Ominski

Farmer perceptions and use of organic waste products as fertilisers – A survey study of potential benefits and barriers pp. 84-95

S.D.C. Case, M. Oelofse, Y. Hou, O. Oenema and L.S. Jensen

On yield gaps and yield gains in intercropping: Opportunities for increasing grain production in northwest China pp. 96-105

Fang Gou, Wen Yin, Yu Hong, Wopke van der Werf, Qiang Chai, Nico Heerink and Martin K. van Ittersum

The application of Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (RAAIS) to agricultural adaptation to climate change in Kazakhstan: A critical evaluation pp. 106-113

T. Barrett, G. Feola, V. Krylova and M. Khusnitdinova

Assessing eco-efficiency of arable farms in rural areas pp. 114-125

Andrea Bonfiglio, Andrea Arzeni and Antonella Bodini

Can we be certain about future land use change in Europe? A multi-scenario, integrated-assessment analysis pp. 126-135

I.P. Holman, C Brown, V Janes and D Sandars

A multi model evaluation of long-term effects of crop management and cropping systems on nitrogen dynamics in the Canadian semi-arid prairie pp. 136-147

B. Dutta, B.B. Grant, C.A. Campbell, R.L. Lemke, R.L. Desjardins and W.N. Smith

Targeting, out-scaling and prioritising climate-smart interventions in agricultural systems: Lessons from applying a generic framework to the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 153-162

An Notenbaert, Catherine Pfeifer, Silvia Silvestri and Mario Herrero

Costs and benefits of climate-smart agriculture: The case of the Dry Corridor in Guatemala pp. 163-173

Gustavo Sain, Ana María Loboguerrero, Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Miguel Lizarazo, Andreea Nowak, Deissy Martínez-Barón and Nadine Andrieu

Prioritizing climate-smart agricultural land use options at a regional scale pp. 174-183

Paresh B. Shirsath, P.K. Aggarwal, P.K. Thornton and A. Dunnett

Farmers' prioritization of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies pp. 184-191

Arun Khatri-Chhetri, P.K. Aggarwal, P.K. Joshi and S. Vyas

Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies pp. 192-203

Caroline Mwongera, Kelvin M. Shikuku, Jennifer Twyman, Peter Läderach, Edidah Ampaire, Piet Van Asten, Steve Twomlow and Leigh A. Winowiecki

Prioritizing climate-smart livestock technologies in rural Tanzania: A minimum data approach pp. 204-216

Kelvin M. Shikuku, Roberto O. Valdivia, Birthe K. Paul, Caroline Mwongera, Leigh Winowiecki, Peter Läderach, Mario Herrero and Silvia Silvestri

Interactions between intervention packages, climatic risk, climate change and food security in mixed crop–livestock systems in Burkina Faso pp. 217-224

C. Rigolot, P. de Voil, S. Douxchamps, D. Prestwidge, M. Van Wijk, P.K. Thornton, D. Rodriguez, B. Henderson, D. Medina and M. Herrero

The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) for rapid characterisation of households to inform climate smart agriculture interventions: Description and applications in East Africa and Central America pp. 225-233

James Hammond, Simon Fraval, Jacob van Etten, Jose Gabriel Suchini, Leida Mercado, Tim Pagella, Romain Frelat, Mats Lannerstad, Sabine Douxchamps, Nils Teufel, Diego Valbuena and Mark T. van Wijk

How to target climate-smart agriculture? Concept and application of the consensus-driven decision support framework “targetCSA” pp. 234-245

Patric Brandt, Marko Kvakić, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Mariana C. Rufino