Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2026

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Volume 239, issue C, 2026

Investing in agroecology for resilience and sustainability: Evidence from smallholders in Rwanda

Dario Lucantoni, Francesco M. Ajena, Rose Hogan, Rémi Cluset, Valeria Casavola and Anne Mottet

Adoption of digital technologies to promote animal welfare data exchange in agri-food value chains

Natascha Schlereth, Fabian Frick, Getachew Abate-Kassa and Johannes Sauer

Responsible scaling for agri-food system transformation: A phased R4D framework

Mywish K. Maredia, Duncan Boughton and Ian Fisher

Too late for responsibility? Dialogic prompts for responsible decision-making in agricultural research for development

Hanna Ewell, Mareike Smolka, Cees Leeuwis, Erin McGuire and Ebenezer Ngissah

Gender responsive technology assessment index: Scaling inclusive climate smart interventions in data-limited settings

Kaushik Bora, Riya Gupta, Prasun Gangopadhyay, C.A. Rama Rao, B.M.K. Raju, Bibek Sapkota and Pramod K. Aggarwal

Optimizing the sowing date partially mitigates climate risks for ratoon rice in China under future warming

Qian Ding, Yuechen Li, Jin Chen, Ruyin Cao, Xiaolin Zhu, Xiong Yao, Shiqi Yang, Wujun Zhang and Zizi Luo

Managing the water-food-energy-ecology nexus in a crop-livestock system under uncertainty: A stochastic fuzzy multi-objective approach

Peixi Tang, Fan Zhang, Yue Li, Dongyang Ren, Yufei Han and Guanhua Huang

Livestock roles in agroecological transitions in mixed crop-livestock systems of Tunisia

Véronique Alary, Aymen Frija, Sarah K. Jones, Hassen Ouerghemmi, Zahra Shiri, Zied Idoudi and Hatem Cheikh M'hamed

From coping to transformational CSA: Understanding systemic barriers using the iceberg model of systems thinking

Jigyasa Sandilya and Kishor Goswami

Not just yield: Ecosystem services and energy efficiency across an agricultural intensification gradient

Gonzalo Camba Sans, Pablo Baldassini, Josefina L. De Paepe, Sara M. Aradvari Horvat, Leonardo Silva, Andrés Quincke and José María Paruelo

Artificial intelligence in agricultural production systems: Decision roles, deployment constraints, and evidence for system-level outcomes

Xiaojin Chen, Shaojia Liao, Dongliang Chu, Jing Chen and Xinxing Li

Biodiversity-focused nature-based solutions for climate-resilient Agri-food systems: A systematic review

Thi Tinh Chi Le, Daniel Cruz, Carol Richards, Lin Dai and Ayesha Tulloch

From detection to decision: AI-driven remote sensing for abiotic stress management

Zheng Yang, Wan Wang, Usman Aziz, Chang Du and Tong Tang

Unraveling social-ecological vulnerability in small-scale farming through causal loop modeling

Bárbara Chávez, Marcelo D. Miranda, Camilo Oyarzo, Paulina Rodriguez-Díaz, Santiago Kaulen, Julián Caviedes, José Tomás Ibarra and Carla Marchant

Effects of climate-smart agricultural practices on productivity, adaptation, and mitigation indicators: evidence from a global meta-analysis

Ernest Owusu-Ansah, Emmanuel Yiridoe and Aitazaz A. Farooque

From practices to portfolios: Impacts of sustainable intensification training on crop diversity and mixed crop–livestock systems in northern Ghana

Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Bekele Hundie Kotu, Selorm Ayeduvor, Vladimír Verner, Abdulai Adams and Miroslava Bavorová

Quantifying the water–energy–food–carbon nexus and carbon-emission transmission pathways in grain production: Evidence from 340 Chinese cities

Yuling Wen, Zhenjie Chen, Manchun Li and Jiale Liang

Diversifying tropical agroforestry: High-value understory crops in rubber and coconut systems

Muhammad Zeeshan Ul Haq, Yaqi Zhao, Muhammad Adnan Ul Haq, Hafiza Amina Iqbal, Waqar Ahmed, Jianfeng Yang, Zhigang Li, Chao Zu, Jie Kang, Weiquan Zheng, Gangqiang Dong and Can Wang

A review of agricultural peat soil models and the implications for sustainable peatland use

Hilde M. van Dijk, Corina E. van Middelaar, Simon J. Oosting and Raimon Ripoll-Bosch

A review of digital decision support systems in European cereal crop production: Applications, opportunities, challenges, and critical success factors

Conor J. Kehoe, Gary D. Gillespie and Kevin P. McDonnell

Do precision land management technologies improve farm efficiency? Evidence from laser land levelling in India

Shreya Kapoor and Anjani Kumar

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Using Farming Typologies to Navigate the NUE-Yield-GHG Nexus in Indian Cereal Systems

Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Sofina Maharjan and Tek B. Sapkota

The environmental impacts of the scale of circularity in food systems

Durk W. Tamsma, Imke J.M. de Boer, Corina E. van Middelaar, Benjamin van Selm, Johannes Kros, Antonius G.T. Schut and Martin K. van Ittersum

Land-use intensification reshapes plant diversity and soil nutrient dynamics across mountainous rural landscapes

Xue Rao, Xiaowei Xu, Xin Zhang, Ying Shao, Martina Roß-Nickoll, Mou Leong Tan and Zhongli Chen

Ratoon rice rotation: balancing economic gains and environmental sustainability in Central China's rice agroecosystems

Yong Zhou, Guoxin Yao, Changchun Li, Jieyu Luo, Zhiyong Liu, Jiangwen Nie and Chengwei Li

When the advisor is an algorithm: governing agri-food knowledge in the age of AI and misinformation

Khondokar H. Kabir

Biological limits to AI scaling in plant breeding: The governance challenge of genetically constrained data commons

Meng Zhou, Jiaqi Peng, Ying Zhang and Jun Yan

Optimal landscape to sustainable cocoa culture in the context of epidemiological control of cocoa swollen shoot virus: A theoretical approach

A. Dumont, J. Papaïx, L. Rimbaud, R. Babin, J. Kouadio, F. Ribeyre and L. Guéry

Intercropping increases crop diversity - but do the effects persist after intercropping abandonment? Insights from a national farmer network

Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda, Maé Guinet and Lionel Alletto

Stakeholder evaluation of livestock scenarios in Switzerland using value-based multi-criteria analysis

Isabel Jaisli and Alice H. Aubert

Balancing food security and ecological protection through the spatial reconfiguration of cropland and forestland under a regional area balance constraint

Junjun Zhu, Xiaobin Jin and Houbao Fan

Machine learning-enhanced 4DVar assimilation for winter wheat yield estimation

Jinhui Zheng and Shuai Zhang

Nitrogenius 2: A web-based decision support system for nitrogen governance and learning

B.T. Barış, A. Hensen, G. Breeman and J.W. Erisman

Regenerative fortification: A soil-centric approach for enhancing food nutritional quality, soil health, and climate resilience

Lukas Pawera, Rika Augustin, Lokeshwar Kesamreddy, Ee Von Goh, John de la Parra, Nick Pasiecznik and Samuel Mathu Ndungu

Climate-smart optimization of sowing dates for double-cropping rice by combining crop model and machine learning

Jinhan Zhang, Ming Huang, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Leilei Liu, Bing Liu, Liujun Xiao, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao and Liang Tang

Beyond the trees: Exploring the determinants of intercrop management intensity in smallholder immature rubber systems in Thailand

Charlotte Simon, Alexis Thoumazeau, Aurélie Metay, Patjima Kongplub, Kannika Sajjaphan and Bénédicte Chambon

Building climate resilience in small ruminant systems: Risk insights and adaptation strategies for South Asia

Duraisamy Thirunavukkarasu, Anasuya Barik, Mani Jothilakshmi, Rupa Bastola, Ali Akbar Bhuiyan, K.M.H.G. Sarath Priyantha, Uttam Puri Goswami, Paresh B. Shirsath, Philip K. Thornton, Pramod K. Aggarwal and Veerasamy Sejian

Linking multidimensional cropland ecosystem health assessment, spatialized dominant-driver diagnosis and mechanism-informed zoning in the middle and lower Yellow River, China

Shanshan Guo, Peter M. Atkinson, Junchang Huang, Hejie Wei, Tingyuan Zhou and Ling Li

Predicting hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) biomass across climatic gradients: A tool for sustainable cover crop management

Juan P. Renzi, Petr Smýkal, Ignacio Ducos, Aldana Alonso, Clara Llorens, Guillermo García, Jone Irazusta and Jan Brus

Projected climate change impacts on crop yields in China's drylands by statistical models and emulators

Shuangshuang Zi, Yiqing Liu, Yan Li, Shuai Wang, Shan Sang, Huiqing Lin, Chengcheng Hou, Fengyu Fu and Bojie Fu

No-tillage straw mulching alters fallow rainfall use and improves long-term water balance and yield stability of winter wheat: A 38-year simulation on the Loess Plateau

Xinrui Shi, Chao Li, Chen Cui, Ping Li, Yuzheng Zong, Dongsheng Zhang, Zhiqiang Gao and Xingyu Hao

From climate constraints to data-driven saffron production: A systematic review of agronomic mitigation and smart technologies

Parviz Rezvani Moghaddam, Ali Reza Sepaskhah, Moein Tosan and Vahid Nourani

Volume 238, issue C, 2026

Three case studies of policy interventions in grassland-based production systems in Europe – An ex-ante analysis using econometric mathematical programming

Henning Schaak, Verena Scherfranz, Jochen Kantelhardt, Flaviu V. Bodea, Cristina Costache, Razvan Popa, J.P. Reinier de Vries, David Kleijn, Aki Kadulin, Indrek Melts and Lena Schaller

A framework for conceptualizing agricultural diversification with a focus on the U.S. Corn Belt

L. Asprooth, R. Traldi, J. Arbuckle, S. Church, K. Floress, B. Gramig, S. Harden, A.J. Margenot, A. Thompson, A. Torres, E. DeaKyne and L.S. Prokopy

Conservation agriculture in Argentina and Germany: a comparative review of adoption pathways and environmental outcomes

Gabriela Fernandez-Gnecco, Doreen Babin, Lena Ulber, Roberto Javier Crespo, Paula Fernandez, Lorenz Kottmann, Linda Tendler, Josefina Vera Candioti, Christoph von Redwitz, Ana Beatriz Wingeyer, Eduardo Trumper, María Carolina Sasal and Gustavo S. Cambareri

Climate change impacts on crop yields across Madagascar and household-informed adaptation strategies

Anna Hampf, Chiara Sophia Weituschat, Lisa Murken, Laingo Irintsoa Rasolofo and Christoph Gornott

Shifting prospects for wheat production: Long-term simulation-based insights under best management in Australia

M. Fernanda Dreccer, Bangyou Zheng, Pengcheng Hu, Loretta Clancy, William Short and Karen Tanino

Synchronising plant nectar supply with bee nectar collection maximises honey production in a farm revegetation scenario

Joanne L. Picknoll, Pieter Poot and Michael Renton

Grazing re-engineers the plant-animal-soil carbon pump across topographic gradients

Xinzhou Zhao, Yi Zhou, Lan Li, Fujiang Hou and Zhibiao Nan

The Daisy model: A tool for simulating agricultural systems – Recent (2012–2025) developments, calibrations and validations

Maja Holbak, Per Abrahamsen, Celine R. Grønning, Tobias Klöffel, Magdalena V. Schwartzkopff, Merete E. Styczen, Simon F. Svane and Efstathios Diamantopoulos

Causal inference reveals the dominant role of climate-adaptation coupling in future potato production

Zhihao He, Tengcong Jiang, Lin Zhu, Ning Yao, Yi Li, Hao Feng, De Li Liu, Liang He, Jianqiang He and Qiang Yu

Multi-objective calibration of APSIM Next Generation using NSGA-II for simulating spring wheat yield and soil N₂O emissions under nitrogen gradients: A site-specific case study on the Loess Plateau

Yao Yao, Mengyin Du, Guorong Xu, Yanhua Lu, Shuainan Liu, Yanyan Li, Jun Du, Jie Li, Jun Wang, Lijuan Yan, Guang Li and Jianyu Yuan

Contested transition pathways in pastoral landscapes: Stakeholder perspectives on agroecology

Tolera Senbeto Jiren

Achieving self-sufficiency in China's future maize production through data-driven interpretable machine learning strategies

Yueying Wang, Peng Wang, Jin Wang, Qingguan Wu, Zhiming Qi, Yong He and Qianjing Jiang

Development of the DNDC-SubS 1.0 model for simulating long-term dynamics of crop yield and soil organic carbon under subsoiling

Wenzhou Guo, Jianjun Yang, Shuaibo Shao, Xiao Huang, Yu Yan, Conrad Zorn, Beibei Wang, Jiarui Wu, Shenchao Qiao, Chaoqing Yu and Ligang Wang

Multi-dimensional coupling framework for soil salinity assessment: Revealing spatiotemporal interactions among soil, environment, and cotton growth

Bowei Xu, Jiajie Yang, Rumeng Zhao, Jilian Li, Xinzhu Ning, Fuguang Li, Hai Lin, Zuoren Yang and Liqiang Fan

Integrated soil-water-fertilizer synergetic strategy for sustainable vegetable production: Advancing food-energy-water‑carbon nexus in Southern China

Fabo Liu, Yunfei Yang, Xiaopeng Gao, Fen Zhang, Wenkang Yang, Yousheng He, Tao Liang, Xiaozhong Wang and Xinping Chen

Village-level multi-objective optimization of wheat and maize area constraints: Balancing irrigation water use, carbon intensity, and farm income

Jianhu Lei, Dan Bai, Zhangning Xu, Li Li, Xueli Bai and Wen Zhou

Coupling agroclimatic indices and species distribution models to project future plum-growing zones in Morocco

Kamal El fallah, Zahra El kettabi, Hicham Ouhakki, Driss Belghyti and Jamal Charafi

From adoption to adaptation: Smallholder decision logics behind the irrigation adoption paradox

Zhiyuan Zhu and Yongzhong Feng

Scale-dependent effects of area and spatial heterogeneity on crop diversity and nutrient productivity in Latin America

Anahí R. Fernandez, Hannah Wittman, Khanh Dao Duc, Riddhi Battu, Ilyas Siddique, Zia Mehrabi, Martina Propedo and Lucas A. Garibaldi

Assessing the relationship between structural characteristics, profitability, and extra-financial performance in a French pig farming network

Edouard Marcault and Arnaud Buchet

Public land grazing simplifies grassland multifunctionality: A systemic decoupling of plant-soil interactions in a temperate pastoral system

Yuanjun Zhu, Baizhu Wang, Danyu Wang, Fanbin Hu, Ya Tu, Xiaohui Yang, Zhongjie Shi and Tuvshintogtokh Indree

Livestock farming intensification: Mitigating or exacerbating feed-food competition? Contrasting results in broiler, dairy, and beef production

E. Caumette, M. Berton, M. Coppa, R. Eppenstein, L. Rey-Cadilhac, S. De Smet, A. Cartoni Mancinelli, B. Deroche, M. Gelé, M. Estévez, E. Sturaro, C. Berri, I. Veissier, B. Martin and F. Leiber

Mixed-cropping enhances profitability and reduces greenhouse gas emissions in semi-arid dryland cropping regions

Sadeeka L. Jayasinghe, Dean T. Thomas and Michael Young

Trust, support, and knowledge sharing: The role of social capital in responsible scaling of climate-smart agriculture

Deissy Martinez-Baron, Anne Gravsholt Busck and Steven D. Prager

Evaluating the yield gap of cropping systems: A comparison of alternative approaches across regions

Ilankovan Brintha, Ando M. Radanielson and Keith G. Pembleton

Multi-objective optimization of wheat-maize management for climate-smart agriculture in China

Lichang Yin, Fulu Tao, Yibo Li, Yi Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Gerrit Hoogenboom and Zhao Zhang

Spatio-temporal analysis for identifying hotspots and trends of nitrogen and potential energy valorisation from livestock manure in Italy

Raffaele Grieco, Marco Bovo, Elena Cervelli, Stefania Pindozzi, Ester Scotto di Perta, Daniele Torreggiani and Patrizia Tassinari

Scaling through friction: Learning, trust, and institutional alignment in global AgTech

Jorge Fernandez-Vidal

Impact of 10 years of adaptive multi-paddock grazing on soil carbon and beef's greenhouse gas footprint in the US Upper Midwest

Lautaro Garcia, Paige L. Stanley, Joao P. Sacramento, Jasmine A. Dillon, Mariko Thorbecke, Logan R. Thompson, Vrinda Ambike, Prateek Sharma, Sutie Xu, Marilia B. Chiavegato, Matt R. Raven, Bruno Basso and Jason E. Rowntree

Global synthesis reveals divergent effects of grassland management on ecosystem services

Yifan Wu and Yan Xiao

Cost-effective urban farming with alternative water sources treated by nature-based solutions: A critical review of global practices

Niloofar Shoja Razavi, Kefeng Zhang and Veljko Prodanovic

Towards a resilience framework for Australian extensive cattle systems facing increasing climate extremes: A review

F.M. Hasan, A. Chlingaryan, C.E.F. Clark, P.C. Thomson, M.R. Islam and S. Lomax

Are agroecological practices pro-poor? Evidence from smallholder farms in Zimbabwe

Frédéric Baudron, Gatien Falconnier, Telma Sibanda and Vimbayi G.P. Chimonyo

Irrigation-induced economic value for global major crops: A biophysical perspective on yield benefits versus greenhouse gas emission costs of croplands

Yajie Zhang, Yu Shi, Puyu Feng, Yuxing Yan and Linchao Li

Optimising county-level farmland allocation among crops in Northeast China under climate change and adaptive practices

Yufan Sun, Yanzhuo Chen, Yufeng Yao and Jeroen Buysse

Optimizing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable intensification: A household-level analysis of mixed farming systems in sub-saharan Africa

Meron Awoke Eshetae, Wuletawu Abera, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Getachew Tesfaye Ayehu, Mohammed Ebrahim, Jalaludeen Masoud and Lulseged Tamene

New approach to calculate agri-environmental indicators using greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland as an example

Anina Gilgen, Jérôme Schneuwly, Cyrill Zosso, Lutz Merbold and Daniel Bretscher

Quantifying ecosystem services under future climate and conservation agriculture scenarios in an agricultural landscape

Yiyi Zhang, Jeff Liebert, Lael Parrott and Brian E Robinson

Explainable machine learning decrypts the impact of compound drought and heat events on the agricultural net carbon sink: Evidences from Middle Yangtze Region, China

Tiangui Lv, Menghan Yuan, Xianzhe Huang, Gui Jin, Li Wang and Qiao Zhao

From organic wastes to feed, fertilizer, fuels and materials: A systems review of insect farming and biorefinery pathways in urban and agroecosystems

Phei Er Kee, Diana Jose, Dillirani Nagarajan, Malinee Sriariyanun and Yu-Shen Cheng

Diversifying cropping with vetch enhances agroecosystem services under reduced nitrogen supply: Insights from field measurements and modeling evidence

Jingui Wei, Heyu Chen, Yi Xu, Qiang Chai, Wen Yin, Gary Gan, Pingxing Wan, Falong Hu, Zhilong Fan, Lianhao Zhao, Yali Sun, Saeed Karbin, Pete Smith and Mohamed Abdalla

Agentic Agriculture 5.0: A conceptual framework for human-artificial intelligence co-governance in wise agricultural systems

Carlos Parra-López and Carmen Carmona-Torres

Impacts of optimized irrigation and diversified crop rotations on groundwater sustainability and productivity in the North China Plain

Bo Wang, Peng Zhu, Jos van Dam, Coen Ritsema, Wenbin Wu and Wenjuan Li

Sustainable oil palm cultivation through a One Health perspective: Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and public health

Alain Rival, Marc Ancrenaz, Philippe Guizol, Isabelle Lackman, Sempe Burhan, Denis Fabre, Muhammad Firdaus Sulaiman, Marcel Djama and François Roger

Economic impacts and farming system responses to the first detection of coffee leaf rust in Hawaii

Mywish K. Maredia, David L. Ortega, Caitlin Herrington and Jose Maria Martinez