Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 228, issue C, 2025

A comparative study of the legal and regulatory dimension of seed sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa using regulatory systems maps: The case of Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda

Katrin Kuhlmann, Adron Naggayi Nalinya, Tara Francis and David J. Spielman

Economic and climate effects of farm-level biogas adoption: A stochastic partial budget analysis and life cycle assessment for Swedish dairy farming

Nasir Adam, Ashkan Tayebi, Vivian Wei Huang, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Åke Nordberg, Per-Anders Hansson and Helena Hansson

Frost shocks negatively impact the supply of high-stem juicing apples in Switzerland

Guy Low, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Robert Finger and Tobias Dalhaus

Challenges and opportunities in using biowaste for sustainable hydroponic netted melon (Cucumis melo L.) cultivation

Yen-Tzu Fan, Zih-Ee Lin, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Pin Lin, Lien-Chieh Cheng, Yu-Shen Cheng, Shu-I Lin and Chihhao Fan

Integrating crop models and machine learning for projecting climate change impacts on crops in data-limited environments

Seyyedmajid Alimagham, Marloes P. van Loon, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Herman N.C. Berghuijs, Todd S. Rosenstock and Martin K. van Ittersum

Integrated seed sector development in Africa: Adaptation of the approach in national seed programs

Walter Simon de Boef, Marja Helen Thijssen, Gareth Denis Borman, Cecile Kusters, Mirjam Schaap, Abishkar Subedi, Mohammed Hassena, Dandena Gelmesa, Nugus Kassa, Tadesse Teshome, Dawit Tsegaye Sisay, Abdo Woyema, Astrid Mastenbroek, Geoffrey Otim, Patrick Oyee, Christine Menya, Chinedu Agbara, Ibidun Adetiloye, Stephen Adigun, Bankole Osho-Lagunju and Folarin Okelola

Effects of irrigation and biochar management strategies on the multifunctionality of maize field ecosystem in the arid region of Northwest China

Yang Chen, Xuyu Feng, Yuanzhi Shi, Zunqiu Xu, Xinmei Hao, Ling Tong, Sufen Wang and Risheng Ding

Analyzing the factors driving the adaptability and robustness of mixed ruminant herds in grassland systems

T. Puech, F. Stark and R. Sabatier

Comprehensive assessment of the agronomic, environmental and economic benefits of localized fertilizer placement in China's intensive cereal production systems

Solomon Yokamo, Bin Wang, Muhammad Ishfaq, Weiwei Huan, Muhammad Irfan, Yiliu Wang, Jackson Nkoh Nkoh, Dianjun Lu, Xiaoqin Chen and Huoyan Wang

Navigating challenges in native plant-based food value chains within the global food system: A systematic literature review

Mokaddes Ahmed Dipu, Julia Checco, Luke Williams, Yasmina Sultanbawa, Natalie A. Jones and Ammar Abdul Aziz

Effect of abiotic stresses on Brassica rapa production in Korea: Learning from history to better prepare for the future impacts of climate change

Noh-Hyun Lee, Wonjae Jeong, Jin-Yong Jung, Juhyeong Han, Minju Baek, Min Son, Jeong-Hyeon Byeon, Eun-Taek Hwang and Kwang-Hyung Kim

Web-based multicriteria spatial decision support system (MC-SDSS) for land suitability evaluation in olive groves. A case study in Calabria region, southern Italy

Giuseppe Modica, Maurizio Pollino, Gaetano Messina, Simone Lanucara and Salvatore Praticò

From pond to lowland scale, a systemic approach to better understanding small-scale rice-fish farming dynamics: Case study in Guinea

Lucas Fertin, Anne Perinelle and Teatske Bakker

Changes in cropping systems associated with biogas plants in French cereal-growing areas

Léa Boros, Marco Carozzi, Sophie Carton, Sabine Houot, Philippe Martin and Florent Levavasseur

Adaptability of environmental costs in agricultural systems: Evaluation of costs associated with nutrient management and comprehensive performance of different agricultural practices

Yunjie Shi, Hengpeng Li, Askar Akida, Jianwei Geng and Yuyang Shao

Situated analysis of food supply, land-use dynamics, and feed-food competition at organic farms with dairy cattle

K.B. Eriksson, N. Brichet and L.R. Nielsen

Assessment of climate resilience index: Insight from Murrah buffalo-based livestock production system of Western India

Ruchi Singh, Sanjit Maiti, Sanchita Garai, Mukesh Bhakat, Sujeet Kumar Jha, Anil Kumar Dixit and Anjali Aggarwal

Assessing Saskatchewan forage production with regard to carbon and nitrogen emissions

Judson Christopherson and Stuart J. Smyth

Comprehensive insights into modeling yield gap in agroecosystems: Definitions, theoretical framework, and multidimensional perspectives (a review)

Behnam Kamkar, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Parisa Alizadeh-Dehkordi, Pooya Aalaee Bazkiaee and Alireza Nehbandani

Is one year enough? A commentary on field experiment duration in agricultural research

Davey L. Jones, Emily C. Cooledge and David R. Chadwick

Spatio-temporal stability of intelligent modeling for weed detection in tomato fields

Adrià Gómez, Hugo Moreno, Constantino Valero and Dionisio Andújar

Contrasting narratives of change? Recent approaches in seed system development

Fleur Kilwinger, Conny Almekinders and Ynte van Dam

Peri-urban ammonia emissions in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei decrease with restructuring of China's livestock industry

Xiangwen Fan, Haodan Wang, Wilfried Winiwarter, Zhanqing Zhao, Zhaohai Bai and Lin Ma

Learning from positive deviants' practices to improve the performance of mixed crop-livestock systems in Zimbabwe

Eleanor Florence Mutsamba-Magwaza, Frédéric Baudron, Angelinus C. Franke, Elmarie Van Der Watt and Isaiah Nyagumbo

Traditional rice-fish system benefits sustainable production of small farms and conservation of local resources

Qiyue Luo, Ranxin Dai, Lufeng Zhao, Taojie Zhang, Junlong Ye, Jianjun Tang, Liangliang Hu and Xin Chen

Agency and behavior change in agricultural research for development: New directions for guiding agri-food system transformations

Sarah Freed, Rachel C. Voss, Thomas Falk, Anne M. Rietveld, Véronique Alary, Vimbayi G.P. Chimonyo, Aymen Frija, Nadia Guettou-Djurfeldt, Guillaume Lestrelin, Sonali Singh, Aurillia Manjella Ndiwa and Taurai Zingwena

Towards an improved representation of the relationship between root traits and nitrogen losses in process-based models

Huan Liu, Brian B. Grant, Ward N. Smith, Cheryl H. Porter, Davide Cammarano, Iris Vogeler, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Johannes W.M. Pullens, Jørgen E. Olesen, Marco Bindi, Mikhail A. Semenov, Per Abrahamsen, Reimund P. Rötter, Uttam Kumar and Diego Abalos

Volume 227, issue C, 2025

Can using food waste as feed reduce the environmental footprint of Canadian beef production? A case study of cull potatoes

Genet Mengistu, Tim McAllister, Deanne Fulawka, Isaac Aboagye, Getahun Legesse, Kim Stanford, Marcos Cordeiro, Kebebe Gunte, Faith Omonijo, Karin Wittenberg and Kim Ominski

Multivariate assessment of digital agriculture and irrigation potential: Application to India

Satyajit Dwivedi and Mazhuvanchery Avarachen Sherly

Impact of climate change on the nitrogen budget of a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Sarah J. Pogue, Marcos R.C. Cordeiro, Alan Rotz, Carson Li, Roland Kröbel, Karen A. Beauchemin, Derek Hunt and Shabtai Bittman

Addressing key issues and knowledge gaps in resilience science for agriculture

Shana M. Sundstrom, Tala Awada, Elena M. Bennett, Brandon Bestelmeyer, Jennifer Hodbod, Anna Pacheco, Sheri Spiegal and Craig R. Allen

Managing herbicide resistance in Southern Great Plains cropping systems

Chellie H. Maples, Dayton M. Lambert and Misha R. Manuchehri

Towards automation of national scale cropping pattern mapping by coupling Sentinel-1/2 data: A 10-m map of crop rotation systems for wheat in China

Bingwen Qiu, Zhengrong Li, Peng Yang, Wenbin Wu, Xuehong Chen, Bingfang Wu, Miao Zhang, Yuanlin Duan, Syahrul Kurniawan, Piotr Tryjanowski and Viktoria Takacs

Patterns of livelihood diversification in farming systems of the Eastern Gangetic Plains

Tamara M. Jackson, Ravi Nandi, Arifa Jannat, Arunava Ghosh, Dilip Kumar Hajra, Biplab Mitra, Md Mamunur Rashid, Sagar Bista, Anjana Chaudhary, Pragya Timsina, Emma Karki, Kali Rattan Chakma, Gunjan Rana and Avinash Kishore

Abatement costs of climate-friendly peatland management – Case study results for two German peatland regions under agricultural use

Christoph Buschmann, Bernhard Osterburg, Tjark Martens and Joachim Schrautzer

Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework

Md Hamidul Haque, Abolfazl Hojjat Ansari, Tamie L. Veith, Michael J. White, Christine Costello, Sheri Spiegal, Peter J.A. Kleinman, Jeffrey G. Arnold and Raj Cibin

Development of ReturN, a manure redistribution optimisation tool: Description and application context

Mara Gabbrielli, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Pullens, Marco Botta, Nicholas John Hutchings, Jordi Doltra, Francesc Domingo-Olivé, Marco Acutis, Andrea Fiorini, Paola Pasta, Giorgio Ragaglini and Alessia Perego

Dire need for quantification of environmental impacts associated with breeding climate-resilient crops

Chunhu Wang, Matthew Tom Harrison, De Li Liu, Rui Yang, Meixue Zhou, Yunbo Zhang and Ke Liu

Projecting trends of arabica coffee yield under climate change: A process-based modelling study at continental scale

Raniero Della Peruta, Valentina Mereu, Donatella Spano, Serena Marras, Rémi Vezy and Antonio Trabucco

Farmers' pest management strategies in oil palm production in Lake Victoria Islands, Uganda

Esther Lugwana Nampeera, Hassan Wasswa Kayondo, Twaha Musoke Sebikeje, Gerald Ddumba, Sarah Mubiru and Ddamulira Gabriel

Challenges and strategies of resource poor farmers in adoption of innovative farming technologies: A comprehensive review

S. Vasavi, N. Anandaraja, P.P. Murugan, M.R. Latha and R. Pangayar Selvi

Reintegrating livestock onto crop farms: A step towards agroenvironmental sustainability?

Clémentine Meunier, Julie Ryschawy and Guillaume Martin

Improving crop modeling by simultaneously incorporating dynamic specific leaf area and leaf area index: A two-year experiment

Yufan Zhang, Koki Homma, Liangsheng Shi, Yu Wang, Han Qiao and Yuanyuan Zha

“The end point is a… more appropriate innovation ecosystem” Mission-oriented and responsible innovation in Australian agricultural systems

Simon Fielke, Aysha Fleming, Emma Jakku, Cara Stitzlein, Katie Ricketts, Gillian Cornish, Stephen Snow and Graham Bonnett

A crop-specific and time-variant spatial framework for characterizing rainfed wheat production environments in Ethiopia

Habtamu S. Gelagay, Louise Leroux, Lulseged Tamene, Meklit Chernet, Gerald Blasch, Degefie Tibebe, Wuletawu Abera, Tesfaye Sida, Kindie Tesfaye, Marc Corbeels and João Vasco Silva

Harmonizing soil carbon simulation models, emission factors and direct measurements used in LCA of agricultural systems

Simone Pelaracci, Pietro Goglio, Simon Moakes, Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Klara Van Mierlo, Nina Adams, Fossey Maxime, Alberto Maresca, Manuel Romero-Huelva, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Laurence G. Smith, Frank Willem Oudshoorn, Thomas Nemecek, Camillo de Camillis, Giampiero Grossi and Ward Smith

Cropland displacement results in changes in cropland site conditions and quality in China during 1990–2020

Haoyang Wang, Chaoqing Chai, Wenhao Niu, Yuan Qi, Weiwei Zheng, Xiangbin Kong and Bangbang Zhang

Exploring opportunities to improve crop-livestock integration and production in mixed farms with a serious game: The case of semi-arid Burkina Faso

Gildas G.C. Assogba, Erika N. Speelman, David Berre, Myriam Adam and Katrien Descheemaeker

Resilience of Swiss summer farms: An interdisciplinary analysis of key challenges and adaptations

Maximilian Meyer, Sandra Contzen, Michael Feller, Caren M. Pauler, Massimiliano Probo, Alexander Röösli, Remo S. Schmidt and Manuel K. Schneider

Determinants of farm household resilience and its impact on climate-smart agriculture performance: Insights from coastal and non-coastal ecosystems in Odisha, India

Usha Das, M.A. Ansari, Souvik Ghosh, Neela Madhav Patnaik and Saikat Maji