Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

Current editor(s): J.W. Hansen, P.K. Thornton and P.B.M. Berentsen

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 226, issue C, 2025

Patterns, processes and scales shaping invasive pest species dynamics within agricultural landscapes: Modelling the spread of the African citrus psyllid in European lemon orchards

Pedro Nunes, Manuela Branco, José Carlos Franco and Mário Santos

How opportunity and cognition improve family farms' low-carbon production behavior: Evidence from China

Lei Zhu, Shaocong Yan, Lili Geng, Xiaomeng Liang and Yongji Xue

ProbApple – A probabilistic model to forecast apple yield and quality

Christine Schmitz, Lars Zimmermann, Katja Schiffers, Martin Balmer and Eike Luedeling

Impacts of reduced livestock density on European agriculture and the environment

Maria Bielza, Franz Weiss, Jordan Hristov and Thomas Fellmann

Selecting suitable sites for livestock manure composting via the integration of machine learning, median center and geographic information system

Jingjie Yan, Bojie Yan, Wenjiao Shi and Yulin Feng

Intensifying neotropical beef cattle grazing systems: Navigating complexity through modelling

Raul R. Vera-Infanzón, Carlos A. Ramírez-Restrepo and Idupulapati M. Rao

Hard-seeded annual pasture legume phases are a profitable and low risk option in mixed farming regions with low to medium rainfall

Dean T. Thomas, Sadeeka L. Jayasinghe, Chris Herrmann, Robert J. Harrison, Bonnie M. Flohr and Roger A. Lawes

Analysis of mathematical modelling approaches to capture human behaviour dynamics in agricultural pest and disease systems

Nadine Aschauer and Stephen Parnell

Agronomic measures improve crop yield and water and nitrogen use efficiency under brackish water irrigation: A global meta-analysis

Ruopu Wang, Heli Cao, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Ling Tong, Jian Kang, Jia Gao and Risheng Ding

Unlocking agricultural mechanisation potential in Indonesia: Barriers, drivers, and pathways for sustainable agri-food systems

Kodrad Winarno, Joko Sustiyo, Ammar Abdul Aziz and Risti Permani

Strategic use of index-based frost insurance to reduce financial risk and improve income stability for wheat producers in Australia

Jonathan Barratt, Jarrod Kath, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Brian Collins, Karine Chenu, Jack Christopher and Duc-Anh An-Vo

Unveiling the influence of agricultural mechanization on greenhouse gas emission intensity: Insights from China using causal machine learning model

Lulu Wang, Jie Lyu, Shanshan Wang and Junyan Zhang

Unlocking China's grain yield potential: Harnessing technological and spatial synergies in diverse cropping systems

Zhen-Zhong Dai, Sen Chang, Guo-Rong Zhao, Jia-Jia Duan, Hao-Yuan Liang, Zhi-Yuan Zhu, Sheng-Li Liu, Yong-Zhong Feng and Xing Wang

Characterizing implementers of on-going large-scale diversification of land use in Finland – One of the northernmost agricultural regions in Europe

Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio and Lauri Jauhiainen

Climate change impacts on the suitability of lowland and upland crop systems in Lao PDR

Jonas L. Appelt, Thatheva Saphangthong, Peter H. Verburg and Jasper van Vliet

Inclusive and gender-transformative seed systems: Concepts and applications

Alessandra Galiè, Berber Kramer, David J. Spielman, Nozomi Kawarazuka, Anne M. Rietveld and Stellamaris Aju

Optimization of manure recycling and fertilizer use to meet crop nutrient demands and reduce nutrient losses, a case study in Quzhou, China

Weikang Sun, Gerard H. Ros, Qichao Zhu, Donghao Xu, Yong Hou and Wim de Vries

A multi-dimensional approach to assess crop mapping and farmer strategies in drylands of Bamyan, Afghanistan

Arnaud Caiserman, Sayed Muhammad Baqer Hussaini, Aslam Qadamov, Roy C. Sidle and Aziz Ali Khan

Assessment and analysis of yield gaps in pasture-based livestock systems: A review of methods

Patricia Menezes Santos, Aart van der Linden, Geraldo Bueno Martha, Leonardo Amaral Monteiro, Fábio R. Marin, Dianne Mayberry, Sandra Furlan Nogueira, Gustavo Bayma, Nicolas Caram, Gerrie W.J. van de Ven and Lynn Sollenberger

Environmental impact assessment of piston technology in mitigating emissions from pig farming: Insights for sustainable agriculture

Zhen Wang, Hui Liu, Hao Li, Zhengxiang Shi and Shihua Pu

Adding pasture and grazing management to the Agro-IBIS agroecosystem simulation model

Hunter C. Mackin, Randall D. Jackson and Christopher J. Kucharik

Vulnerability of agroecosystems to climate change in the Sahel

Michael Jordan Twumasi-Ankrah, Jinyan Zhan, Frederick Kwame Yeboah, Linyu Xu, Michael Asiedu Kumi, Sichale Abdissa Bayissa, Ali Raza Otho, Jharna Sharma and Rana Shaker Mohammad Aqel

Use of atypical plant resources for cattle farming in Western Europe to drive agroecological transition

T. Puech, A. Farruggia, D. Durant, J.F. Glinec, S. Novak, F. Signoret, F. Stark and D. Sterling

Planting date adjustment and varietal replacement can effectively adapt to climate warming in China southern rice area

Yixuan Wang, Shuo Li, Jiongchao Zhao, Chong Wang, Yupeng Feng, Mingyu Zhao, Xiaoyu Shi, Fu Chen and Qingquan Chu

Benefits and trade-offs from the diversification of rangeland farms in Northern Queensland, Australia

Lipy Adhikari, Peter de Voil, M. Fernanda Dreccer and Daniel Rodriguez

A machine learning approach to simulate cattle growth at pasture using remotely collected walk-over weights

Tek Raj Awasthi, Ahsan Morshed and Dave L. Swain

Assessment of total factor productivity and methane efficiency of beef cattle producers worldwide

Rebecca H. Chung and Sholih Nugroho Hadi

Strategies to reduce CH4 and N2O emissions whilst maintaining crop yield in rice–wheat system under climate change using SPACSYS model

Shuhui Wang, Nan Sun, Zhijian Mu, Fa Wang, Xiaojun Shi, Chuang Liu, Shuxiang Zhang, Joost Wellens, Bernard Longdoz, Jeroen Meersmans, Gilles Colinet, Minggang Xu and Lianhai Wu

Volume 225, issue C, 2025

Enhancing farmers' agency is a more effective extension paradigm: The case of soil health management in Africa

Chima Rickards, Paswel Marenya, Mazvita Chiduwa, Anton Eitzinger, Monica Fisher and Sieglinde Snapp

Which types of quantitative foresight scenarios to frame the future of food systems? A review

Anton Riera, Océane Duluins, Clémentine Antier and Philippe V. Baret

Spatial and temporal optimization of potato planting based on on-farm collected data and field experiments

Puck J.A.M. Mulders, Menno J.T.C. van Zutphen, Arie P.P. Ravensbergen, A.T.J.R. Cobbenhagen, Edwin R. van den Heuvel, M.J.G. van de Molengraft, Pytrik Reidsma, Duarte Guerreiro Tomé Antunes and W.P.M.H. Heemels

Quantifying water use in New Zealand's dairy food system: A baseline for future sustainability

Nicole A. Cameron and Rebecca A.M. Peer

Strengthening livestock systems through Sorghum-based fodder value chain innovations in southern India

Harishankar Kanthaswamy, Abhishek Das, Saravanakumar Venkatachalam, Ajaykumar Ramasamy, Ashok Krishna Radha and Shalander Kumar

A mass balance model to predict the fate of copper and zinc in pig farming systems to reduce environmental impacts: Application to French context

Emma Gourlez, Christine Baratte, Francine de Quelen, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Alessandra Rigo Monteiro, Florence Garcia-Launay, Ludovic Brossard and Fabrice Beline

On-farm water quality: Co-design of result-based indicators

Perrine Branchet, Olivier Godinot, Nouraya Akkal-Corfini, Matthieu Carof, Christophe Jaeger, Bénédicte Roche, Françoise Vertès and Virginie Parnaudeau

Multivariate analysis of economic performance and environmental impacts of multispecies pastured livestock farms using direct marketing

Pascal Genest-Richard, Caroline Halde, Isabelle Breune, Patrick Mundler and Nicolas Devillers

Silvopastoral system as a climate-smart alternative for beef production: Enteric methane emission neutralization and animal thermal comfort increase

Henrique B. Brunetti, Patrícia P.A. Oliveira, José R.M. Pezzopane, Alberto C. de C. Bernardi, Alexandre R. Garcia, Alexandre Berndt, André de F. Pedroso, Ana L.J. Lelis and Sérgio R. Medeiros

The subsidy-mosaic for agricultural weather insurance in Germany

Jonas Schmitt, Frank Offermann and Robert Finger

Combining system thinking and scenario building to visualize strategic futures for agricultural systems: The case of La Araucanía, Chile

Jaime Sanhueza-Aros, Fernando Peña-Cortés, Amor Ariza-Álvarez and Julio A. Soria-Lara

Data-Driven Agronomic Solutions to Close Wheat Yield Gaps and Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Uzbekistan

Krishna Prasad Devkota, Mina Devkota, Hasan Boboev, Diyor Juraev, Sherzod Dilmurodov and Ram C. Sharma

Can trees and their associated organisms still benefit arable crops in the presence of pesticide use?

Colin R. Tosh and Jo Smith

Characterization of greenhouse gas emissions and water requirement of farmland in China's main grain-producing areas under future climate scenarios

Yuxin Yang, Yihe Tang, Shikun Sun, Zemin Yang, Siya Wang, Peng Zhang and Yubao Wang

Exploring intentions to convert into organic farming in small-scale agriculture: Social embeddedness in extended theory of planned behaviour framework

Bazyli Czyżewski, Agnieszka Poczta-Wajda, Anna Matuszczak, Katarzyna Smędzik-Ambroży and Marta Guth

From rural to urban: Exploring livestock farming practices in urbanizing landscapes

Dagmar J.M. Braamhaar, Jan van der Lee, Bockline O. Bebe and Simon J. Oosting

Volume 224, issue C, 2025

Transition from chemical fertilizers to sustainable swards: What determines farmers' adoption decisions for clover and multi-species swards?

Felipe Aguiar-Noury, Cathal Buckley and Stephen Hynes

SErious Game for AgroEcology (SEGAE): How much can be delivered with a 4-hour lesson?

Mireille De Graeuwe, Benjamin Dumont and Kevin Maréchal

Review of APSIM's soil nitrogen modelling capability for agricultural systems analyses

Kirsten Verburg, Heather R. Pasley, Jody S. Biggs, Iris Vogeler, Enli Wang, Henrike Mielenz, Val O. Snow, Chris J. Smith, Chiara Pasut, Andrea D. Basche, Di He, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Donald S. Gaydon, Neil I. Huth, Dean P. Holzworth, Joanna M. Sharp, Rogerio Cichota, Edith N. Khaembah, Edmar I. Teixeira, Hamish E. Brown, Mark Farrell, Chelsea K. Janke, Vadakattu V.S.R. Gupta and Peter J. Thorburn

Decomposing the total uncertainty in wheat modeling: an analysis of model structure, parameters, weather data inputs, and squared bias contributions

Jinhui Zheng and Shuai Zhang

Climatic constraints behind spatial and temporal variability of wheat yields in the Pampa region of Argentina

María Elena Fernández-Long, Santiago Alvarez Prado and Daniel J. Miralles

Legumes and livestock in no-till crop rotations: Effects on nitrous oxide emissions, carbon sequestration, yield, and wheat protein content

Lisa Matthews, Johann A. Strauss, Thorsten Reinsch, Hendrik P.J. Smit, Friedhelm Taube, Christof Kluss and Pieter A. Swanepoel

Factors to scale out innovative organic farming systems: A case study in Flanders region, Belgium

Alba Alonso-Adame, Siavash Farahbakhsh, Jef Van Meensel, Fleur Marchand and Steven Van Passel

Experimentation and model-based re-design for sustainable intensification of mixed crop-livestock smallholder farms in the Mixteca-Oaxaqueña region, Mexico

Cristian Alejandro Reyna-Ramírez, Mariela Fuentes-Ponce, Walter A.H. Rossing, Jeroen C.J. Groot and Santiago López-Ridaura

Work in agriculture: A blind spot in reducing pesticide use on dairy farms?

Julia Denantes, Anne-Lise Jacquot, Matthieu Carof, Carole Ropars-Collet and Aude Ridier

A participatory impact assessment of digital agriculture: A Bayesian network-based case study in Germany

Joseph MacPherson, Anna Rosman, Katharina Helming and Benjamin Burkhard

Assessing farm-level agricultural sustainability in India: A comparative study using a mixed-method approach

Niloofar Abed, Masoud Barati Kakolaki, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh, Sabarinath Sankarannair, Ramu Murugan, Bankaru Swamy Soundharajan and Raji Pushpalatha

Money doesn't grow on trees – Or does it? How agroforestry system design makes agroforestry more attractive to smallholders in Senegal

Luisa Müting and Oliver Musshoff

Assessing the adaptability of agronomic landscape to climate change at watershed scale

Renjian Qiu and Haifeng Zheng

Nitrogen uptake and leaching from urine and fertilizer applications during simulated grazing rotations of a perennial grass pasture

Cameron J.P. Gourley, Sharon R. Aarons and Michael W. Heaven

Exploring optimised crop-livestock changes that promote higher efficiency and reduced N imports in three French farming systems

Corentin Pinsard

The future of agricultural lands under the combined influence of shared socioeconomic pathways and urban expansion by 2050

Ali Sadian and Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam

The bittersweet economics of different cacao production systems in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Andrés Charry, Carolay Perea, Karen Ramírez, Guillermo Zambrano, Fredy Yovera, Adriana Santos, Tito Jiménez, Miguel Romero, Mark Lundy, Marcela Quintero and Mirjam Pulleman

Optimization of water and nitrogen measures for maize-soybean intercropping under climate change conditions based on the APSIM model in the Guanzhong plain, China

Zhengxin Zhao, Zongyang Li, Yao Li, Lianyu Yu, Xiaobo Gu and Huanjie Cai

Characterization of common bean production regions in Brazil using machine learning techniques

Ludmilla Ferreira Justino, Alexandre Bryan Heinemann, David Henriques da Matta, Luís Fernando Stone, Paulo Augusto de Oliveira Gonçalves and Silvando Carlos da Silva

Enhancing off-season maize production through tailored nitrogen management and advanced cultivar selection techniques

Bruno Rodrigues de Oliveira, Rafael Felippe Ratke, Fábio Steiner, Abdulaziz A. Al-Askar, Jorge González Aguilera, Amr H. Hashem, Mohamed S. Sheteiwy, Renato Lustosa Sobrinho, Mohamed A. El-Tayeb, Hamada AbdElgawad, Luis Morales-Aranibar, Luciano Façanha Marques and Alan Mario Zuffo

Effect of silvopasture, paddock trees and linear agroforestry systems on agricultural productivity: A global quantitative analysis

Thomas P. Baker, Jacqueline R. England, Shaun T. Brooks, Stephen B. Stewart and Daniel Mendham

Stories, simulations and narratives: Collaboratively exploring food security and agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa

Udita Sanga and Maja Schlüter

Climate change and agronomic management: Addressing wheat yield gaps and sustainability challenges in the Mediterranean and MENA regions

Davide Tita, Karrar Mahdi, Krishna Prasad Devkota and Mina Devkota

Enhancing simulations of biomass and nitrous oxide emissions in vineyard, orchard, and vegetable cropping systems

Mu Hong, Yao Zhang, Lidong Li and Keith Paustian

Environmental effects of improved regional nitrogen cycling in crop-livestock systems – A generic modelling approach

W.J. Vonk, A.G.T. Schut, M.K. van Ittersum, M. Grillot, C.F.E. Topp, R. Hendriks and R. Hijbeek

Ecological indicators for monitoring coffee agroforestry systems in protected areas: A case study in São Paulo State, Brazil

Vitoria Duarte Derisso, Ricardo Gomes César, Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani, Haroldo Borges Gomes and Edson Vidal

Field estimates of current and predicted cotton yield loss due to pink bollworm and boll rot in India

Babasaheb B. Fand, Vivek Shah, D.T. Nagrale, D.J. Mahule, S.P. Gawande, S.H. Thube, K. Pandiyan, Indal Ramteke, Rishi Kumar, K. Rameash, T. Prabhulinga, V.S. Nagrare, G.T. Behere and Y.G. Prasad

Organic farming enhances the synergy of the water-energy-food-ecology nexus

Meixi Pan, Zishu Tang and Guishen Zhao

Optimizing rice management to reduce methane emissions and maintain yield with the CSM-CERES-rice model

Dorsa Darikandeh, Ali Shahnazari, Mojtaba Khoshravesh, Mostafa Yousefian, Cheryl H. Porter and Gerrit Hoogenboom

Regional modelling of rice yields and nitrogen loss in Hubei Province using the WHCNS model

Chao Li, Xinrui Shi, William D. Batcholer, Puyu Feng and Kelin Hu

A farm typology development cycle: From empirical development through validation, to large-scale organisational deployment

Rhys Manners, Jim Hammond, David Renaud Umugabe, Milindi Sibomana and Marc Schut

How can digitalisation support transformation towards sustainable agri-food systems? Scenario development in Lower Austria

Beatrix Wepner, Sabine Neuberger, Marianne Hörlesberger, Eva Maria Molin, Jasmin Lampert and Hanna Koch

Contribution of large-scale irrigation systems to food security and economic security: Evidence from the Bagré irrigation scheme in Burkina Faso

Abdoulaye Tapsoba and Françoise Gérard

Risk monitoring of pine wilt disease based on semi-dynamic spatial prediction in South Korea

Sunhee Yoon, Jae-Min Jung, Donghyeon Kim, Jinhyeong Hwang, Yuri Park and Wang-Hee Lee

Assessing the impacts of chemicals reduction on arable farms through an integrated agro-economic model

Rebecca Buttinelli, Gabriele Dono and Raffaele Cortignani

Model-based decision support for the choice of active spring frost protection measures in apple production

Christine Schmitz, Lars Zimmermann, Katja Schiffers, Cory Whitney, Martin Balmer and Eike Luedeling

Synergies between rice production security and soil-related ecosystem services: From field observations to policy implementations

Kuan-Ting Lin, Shu-Yuan Pan, Mei-Hua Yuan, Yi-Ting Zhang and Horng-Yuh Guo

The moderating effect of training, subsidies and propaganda on the relationship between psychological factors and farmers' willingness to reduce chemical fertilizer application: Evidence from dryland farming areas of China

Xinxing Wang and Xueyan Zhao

Evaluating the economic and environmental benefits of rice-soybean diversification in South Korea

Seojin Cho and Heeyeun Yoon

The impact of spatiotemporal change in cropland use on local urban cereal supply in China

Xin Ye, Ai Xiang, Runyi Gao and Xiaowei Chuai

Cultivar shifts have offset climate warming impacts on soybean phenology in China since 1981

Qinghang Mei, Zhao Zhang, Jichong Han, Jie Song, Fei Cheng, Huimin Zhuang, Huaqing Wu and Jialu Xu

Understanding the drivers of smallholder dairy cooperative participation in developing countries: Evidence from rural Zambia

Haotian Cheng, John N. Ng'ombe, Yejun Choi, Thomson H. Kalinda and Shi Zheng

Unveiling the potential of organic farming in mitigating beef losses in Sweden

Ingrid Strid, Maria Jacobsen, Jesper Rydén and Karin Alvåsen

How do diet shifts affect the greenhouse gas balance of agricultural soils? Denmark as a case study

Vasilis Michailidis, Emanuele Lugato, Panos Panagos, Diego Grados, Florian Freund, Arwyn Jones and Diego Abalos

The uptake of European soy production: Insights from a participatory agent-based model

Siavash Farahbakhsh, Kaat Peeters, Joke Pannecoucque, Greet Tavernier, Birgit Vanden Berghen and Jef Van Meensel

Simulation study of the production efficiency of family-type agricultural management entities under regulation measures on farmland: Three-stage super-SBM model considering greenhouse gas emissions

Shuqi Dong, Renjie Hou, Tianxiao Li, Qiang Fu, Ping Xue, Yu Gao, Zhaoqiang Zhou and Qinglin Li

Room for renewables: A GIS-based agrivoltaics site suitability analysis in urbanized landscapes

Thomas Reher, Cas Lavaert, Sam Ottoy, Johan A. Martens, Jos Van Orshoven, Jan Cappelle, Jan Diels and Bram Van de Poel

Seed certification, certified seeds use and yield outcomes in Nigeria: Insights from nationally-representative farm panel data and seed company location data

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Catherine Ragasa, Temilolu Bamiwuye, Kwaw S. Andam, David Spielman, Hyacinth O. Edeh, Adetunji Fasoranti, Beliyou Haile, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Lucky O. Omoigui, Tahirou Abdoulaye, P. Lava Kumar and Tesfamicheal Wossen

Improving yield and profit in smallholder oil palm fields through better agronomy

Hendra Sugianto, Christopher R. Donough, Juan P. Monzon, Sunawan,, Iput Pradiko, Ya Li Lim, Fatima A. Tenorio, Gonzalo Rizzo, Suroso Rahutomo, Fahmuddin Agus, Setiari Marwanto, Maja Slingerland, James Cock and Patricio Grassini