Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2026

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Volume 233, issue C, 2026

Explaining global variation in life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soybeans and soybean meal: a systematic review

Nathaniel P. Springer, Pedro E. Urriola, Rylie E.O. Pelton, Aurup Ratan Dhar, Jennifer Schmitt and Gerald C. Shurson

Land tenure, autonomy and crop choice: Institutional drivers of agricultural diversification in Uzbekistan

Muhammad Bilal, Pishenbay Umirbekov, Nodir Djanibekov, Abdusame Tadjiev and Bakhrom Mirkasimov

Responses of African food systems to climate change: A systematic review of concepts, methods, and evidence

Mark Appiah-Twumasi, Cornelis Gardebroek, Rico Ihle and Isaac G.K. Ansah

Regenerative practices reduce global warming impact and intensity of maize systems in north-central Italy

Tommaso Tadiello, Diego Armando Arellano Vazquez, Neville Millar, Mariarita Cammarata, Giampaolo Oliviero, Prateek Sharma, Michela Gallo, Adriana Del Borghi and Bruno Basso

Greenhouse gas abatement costs of Norwegian dairy farms

Lennart Kokemohr, Klaus Mittenzwei and Till Kuhn

From technological fixes to systemic change: Vision-led innovation for Europe's crop farming systems

David Wuepper, Niklas Möhring, Anna F. Cord, Ana Meijide, Hugo Storm, Matin Qaim, Thomas Heckelei, Jan Börner, Hadi Hadi, Heiner Kuhlmann, Cyrill Stachniss and Frank Ewert

Segmenting PGS smallholders for assessing the digital adoption: Scaling climate-smart agricultural waste management in Eastern Thailand

Eain Dray Aung, Nophea Sasaki and Takuji W. Tsusaka

Collective action and seed production in Uttar Pradesh, India: A pathway for women's empowerment and community seed security

Krista Isaacs, Arena Shelley and Walter Simon de Boef

Emergence of cross-level poverty traps in agricultural innovations systems: Environmental impacts and sustainable interventions

Udita Sanga, Sonja Radosavljevic and Maja Schlüter

Rehabilitating fragile ecosystems through agroforestry in red and lateritic soils: A multi-criteria systems perspective

Benukar Biswas, Debashis Chakraborty, Jagadish Timsina, Anandkumar Naorem, Mousumi Mondal, Sahely Kanthal, Saju Adhikary, Udayan Rudra Bhowmick, Pushpendu Sardar, Mallika Koley, Sk Moinuddin, Ashutosh Kumar, Kiranmay Patra, Trisha Manna, Arindam Sarkar, Kalyan Jana, Sanjib Kumar Das and Bikash Ranjan Ray

Modeling nitrogen dynamics across contrasting yield zones to close yield gaps in a commercial maize system

Arpita Sharma, Rishi Prasad, Anh T. Nguyen, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Brenda V. Ortiz, Audrey V. Gamble, Michelle R. Worosz and Leah Duzy

Pioneering sustainability in cattle ranching: Colombia’s silvo-pastoral systems as a model for scaling across the tropics

Stefan Burkart, Sandoval Yate and Danny Fernando

Synergistic management enhances ecosystem services through optimized specialty agro-pastoralism in the context of food security

Jiahui Jiang, Jian Hou, Chen Zeng, Haobo Feng and Zhenxing Xiong

Soil health investment and financial performance of crop farms

Delide Joseph, Cesar Guareschi, Jennifer Ifft, Mathew Sanderson, Megan Hughes and Charles Rice

The relationship between herbicide resistance and the use of integrated weed management: Is it simply reactive?

Md. Monirul Islam, Rick Llewellyn and Marta Monjardino

Farmer's own decisions outweigh management strategies in reducing pesticide use in apple orchards

Isis Poinas, Bertrand Gauffre, Julien Papaïx, Manon Denis, Xavier Said and Claire Lavigne

Incorporating multifunctional value chain actors' varietal trait preferences in sweetpotato breeding programs: A pathway towards inclusive innovation

Julius Juma Okello, Sylvester Okoth Ojwang, David Jakinda Otieno, Robert O.M. Mwanga, Benard Yada, Hugo Campos and Simon Heck

Willing or unable? The cognitive–resource mismatch behind farmers' adaptive behavior under agricultural disasters

Zhiyuan Zhu, Yongzhong Feng, Binkun Wu, Shuo Zhang, Xu Ma, Guangxin Ren and Gaihe Yang

Co-design of crop monitoring-modeling systems via identifiability analysis

Pratishtha Poudel, Stephen M. Welch, Phillip D. Alderman and Xiaomao Lin

The yield-biomass-water-environment nexus model unravels the plastic mulching film dilemma: Yield gains vs. environmental cascades in China’s cotton systems

Yifan Gu, Zixin Bian, Qianqian Shi, Ziyi Zhao, Haixia Li, Rui Li, He Peng, Ming Yang, Qingbin Yuan and Yufeng Wu

Assessing climate risk and adaptive strategies for forage production in Brazilian pasture-based livestock under future climate scenarios

H.B. Brunetti, I.M. Fattori Junior, T.S.S. Dias, M.L.A. de Melo, P.M. Santos, J.R.M. Pezzopane, K.J. Boote and F.R. Marin

Integrated crop-ruminant livestock systems as a strategy to increase energy, carbon and nutrient circularity: Exploring scenarios in dairy production systems across the southern hemisphere

Jean Hercher-Pasteur, Ronaldo Vibart, Andre Mazzetto, Maria Paz Tieri, Claudia Faverin, Sofia Stirling, Dirk Wallace, Verónica Ciganda, Santiago Fariña and Alvaro Romera

Operationalising agroecological diagnosis of vegetable farms to support co-innovation: The MEDITAE framework

M. Scarlato, M. Rieppi, I. Ferreira, S. Irurueta, D. Fernández, F.J.J.A. Bianchi, W.A.H. Rossing and S. Dogliotti

Assessing the global potential for transition from single to multiple cropping

Qiankun Niu, Mika Jalava, Vilma Sandström, Kpade O.L. Hounkpatin, Sina Masoumzadeh Sayyar, Dandan Zhao, Matias Heino and Matti Kummu

Pathogen and pest communities in agroecosystems across climate gradients: Anticipating future challenges in the highland tropics

Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda, Aaron I. Plex Sulá, Berea A. Etherton, Joshua S. Okonya, Gloria Valentine Nakato, Yanru Xing, Jacobo Robledo, Ashish Adhikari, Guy Blomme, Déo Kantungeko, Anastase Nduwayezu, Jan F. Kreuze, Jürgen Kroschel, James P. Legg and Karen A. Garrett

Integrated assessment of carbon footprint and net ecosystem economic benefits of black rice under coupled water‑nitrogen conditions

Zhaoqiang Jin, Qianqian Chen, Meilin Chen, Matthew Tom Harrison, Shijie Shi, Ke Liu, Liying Huang, Xiaohai Tian, Yunbo Zhang and Lixiao Nie

Pilots, proponents and policy windows: How Results-Based Payment Schemes (RBPS) became mainstream in Irish agri-environmental policy

Boru Douthwaite, Gary Goggins, Andy Bleasdale, Pamela Boyle, Ciara Carberry, Patrick Crushell, Brian Delaney, Brendan Dunford, Catherine Keena, Victoria McArthur, James Moran, John Muldowney, Barry O'Donoghue, Caroline Sullivan and Derek McLoughlin

Soil health and agricultural land suitability assessment of highlands of the Eastern Ghats using geospatial index

Rakesh Paul, Rangabhatla Saishree, Monalisa Ghadei and B. Anjan Kumar Prusty

Revealing the diversity of collective experimentation in agriculture: Constructing idealtypes from French case studies

Maïté de Sainte Agathe, Chantal Loyce, Lorène Prost and Quentin Toffolini

Developing scalable farm typologies to guide sustainable intensification in the fragile agroecosystems of the Indian Sundarbans

Kalyan Roy, Marta Monjardino, Mohammed Mainuddin, Sukamal Sarkar, Krishnendu Ray, Poulami Sen, Srijan Samanta, Akash Panda, Sanchayeeta Misra, Argha Ghosh, Esmat Ara Begum and Rupak Goswami

Exploring entry points to circularity in food production from a farming system perspective

Jana Firse, Veera Naukkarinen, Marjaana Toivonen, Carl Timler, Jeroen Groot, Rogier Schulte and Kari Koppelmäki

Optimising crop calendars with management practices promotes climate-smart agriculture in wheat-maize rotations of the North China Plain

Deyao Liu, Baobao Pan, Huarui Gong, Jing Li, Enli Wang, Jinxi Zhao, Yan Xu, Shu Kee Lam and Deli Chen

Climate change impacts on rainfed maize production of small-scale cropping systems in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Luleka Dlamini, Olivier Crespo, Jos van Dam, Deborah V. Gaso and Allard de Wit

Greenhouse gas emission characteristics of farmland in the Guanzhong region under varied water-nitrogen management measures based on the DNDC model

Siya Wang, Jiaxin Lu, Shikun Sun, Ruoqing Hu, Jiabei Li, Jie Pang and Yuxin Yang

Research frameworks in agricultural living labs: A systematic review and comparative analysis

Maryam Yousefi, Bettina Matzdorf and Frank Ewert

Algorithm aversion in agricultural decision-making: Trust dynamics, barriers, and fertiliser-related decision support

Jack H. Grant, Dorothee Scharpenberg and Louise Manning

A biogenic life cycle approach towards estimating the carbon intensity of wool production: Evidence from six Australian case studies

James Blignaut, Paul Swan and Lemuel Blignaut

Export-attributed carbon footprint of cotton production in arid China: A life cycle and driver analysis

Jian Liu, Yu Zhang, Cun Chang, Shuai Wu, Wei Yan, Yonglong Han, Yonghui Wang and Xiaofei Ma

Quantifying the opportunity costs of nature-inclusive agriculture in the Netherlands

Jaap Sok, Tom Kisters and Argyris Kanellopoulos

Participatory modelling for agroecological transitions: Engaging stakeholders in transformative pathways

A. Bourceret, A. Barbe and C. Robert

Develop a modelling framework to identify and optimize the dominant factors that limit cropland productivity

Xiaoyang Han, Changqing Song, Leina Zhang, Peichao Gao, Sijing Ye and Yakov Kuzyakov

Analyzing the disruption of agricultural systems by conflict: A case study of sunflower production in eastern Ukraine

Junjie Qiu, Yuekai Hu, Dailiang Peng, Haijian Liu, Weichun Tao, Bin Xie, Tangao Hu, Jiake Wang, Xiao Liang, Tao Chen and Junfeng Xu

Integrating agroecological suitability of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) with biodiversity and land-use constraints in Peru

Alexander Cotrina-Sanchez, Betty K. Guzman, Elgar Barboza, Manuel Oliva, Angel Fernando Huaman-Pilco and Nilton B. Rojas-Briceño

Trajectories of change for farmers to integrate agri-environmental practices: A longitudinal study of adoption dynamics

Aurélie Dumont, Julie Ruiz and Stéphane Campeau

Adaptive Crop Management Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on Rice and Maize Production in the Philippines

Lanie A. Alejo, Orlando F. Balderama, Elmer A. Rosete and Juan M. Pulhin

Quantifying crop-livestock integration for the green transition of herbivorous livestock farmers: Development of a novel index and its application in Northwest China

Dan Liu, Jianjun Jin, Zanlu Zou, Jie Yang and Chenyang Zhang

Is the potential stability of forage resources under climate variability linked to transhumance patterns? An approach for sheep farming systems based on vegetation agroecological properties

Anne-Lyse Murro, Renaud Jaunatre, Emilie Crouzat and Grégory Loucougaray

Nitrogen dilemma in Chinese crop-livestock systems: Assessing mitigation potential and exploring optimization pathways from the perspectives of utilization efficiency and pollution hotspots

Zhijian Wu, Han Liang, Zhong Liu, Haijiao Du, Liujie He, Zeyang Xie, Jinqi Zhu, Bofu Zheng and Wei Wan

Dynamic trajectories and maturity of farmer collaboration for biodiversity sensitive farming – Insights from the FRAMEwork Farmer Clusters

Iris C. Bohnet, Gerid Hager, Thomas Rellensmann, Claire Hardy, Niamh M. McHugh, Daniela Ablinger, Virginia Bagnoni, Gillian Banks, Marco Beyer, Lennard Duijvestijn, Pierre Franck, Kristina Janeckova, Riina Kaasik, Youri Martin, Anna-Camilla Moonen, Aliyeh Salehi, Carlos Sánchez-García, Martine Schoone, Clare Scott, Jan Travnicek, Paul van Rijn, Gonzalo Varas, Eve Veromann, François Warlop, Marie-Luise Wohlmuth and Graham S. Begg

Quantifying the mitigation potential of greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields under optimal irrigation and carbon management in the Lake Tai region

Zewei Jiang, Shihong Yang, Qingqing Pang, Mohamed Abdalla, Junyi Wang, Grant A. Campbell and Pete Smith

The influence of market access on grain legume adoption and intensity in African small-holder households

Andrew P. Barnes, James Hammond, Tarirai Muoni and Alan Duncan

Time is money: Spatially explicit system analysis for rice-wheat cropping systems of Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains, India

Maxwell Mkondiwa, Avinash Kishore, Sonam Sherpa, Anton Urfels, Bhavani Pinjarla, Virender Kumar, Panneerselvam Peramaiyan and Andrew McDonald

Synergistic optimization of field management measures for yield increase and emission reduction of Panax notoginseng based on DNDC model and NSGA-III

Qiliang Yang, Liuhui Mo, Wentao Zhang, Ling Yang, Chunhao Cao and Na Li

Modelling the production impacts of scaling up agroforestry systems in England and Wales

Tom Staton, Paul J. Burgess, Anil R. Graves and Laurence G. Smith

Cropland use intensity, stability, and crop transition dynamics in the Songhua River Basin (2000–2024): Implications for sustainable land use and food security

Lai Gan, Xiao Xiao, Yishan Li, Qiyuan Hu, Yang Lan, Yang Xie and Fei Lun

Long-term balanced organic and synthetic nitrogen fertilization can realize sustainable crop production

Chong Zhang, Xin Zhang, Robert M. Rees, Wim de Vries, Luis Lassaletta, Jagdish K. Ladha and Xiaotang Ju

Multi-objective optimization of windbreak systems for sustainable agriculture in arid regions

Aishajiang Aili, Fabiola Bakayisire, Xu Hailiang and Abdul Waheed

The economic irrationality of closing the yield gap in rainfed maize production – An extensification v intensification assessment in Dodoma, Tanzania

Gerardo E. van Halsema and Maria Christoforidou

Does balanced fertilization reduce combine harvesting loss of maize: Evidence from 24 provinces in China

Dakuan Qiao, Yitian Jin, Yi Luo and Junfeng Zhu

How misinformation and information asymmetry distort climate adaptation among smallholder farmers

Ayat Ullah