Agricultural Systems

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Volume 198, issue C, 2022

Perceived effects of COVID-19 restrictions on smallholder farmers: Evidence from seven lower- and middle-income countries

James Hammond, Kim Siegal, Daniel Milner, Emmanuel Elimu, Taylor Vail, Paul Cathala, Arsene Gatera, Azfar Karim, Ja-Eun Lee, Sabine Douxchamps, Mai Thanh Tu, Emily Ouma, Ben Lukuyu, Pius Lutakome, Sonja Leitner, Ibrahim Wanyama, Trang Pham Thi, Phan Thi Hong Phuc, Mario Herrero and Mark van Wijk

Accelerating the transition towards sustainable agriculture: The case of organic dairy farming in the Netherlands

René W. Verburg, Emma Verberne and Simona O. Negro

Tailoring management practices to the structure of smallholder households in Sudano-Sahelian Burkina Faso: Evidence from current practices

David Berre, Myriam Adam, Christophe K. Koffi, Mathieu Vigne and Denis Gautier

What drives management decisions and grain yield variability in Mesoamerican maize cropping systems? Evidence from small-scale farmers in southern Mexico

Germán Wies, Armando Navarrete-Segueda, Eliane Ceccon, John Larsen and Miguel Martinez-Ramos

How to make regenerative practices work on the farm: A modelling framework

L. Schreefel, I.J.M. de Boer, C.J. Timler, J.C.J. Groot, M.J. Zwetsloot, R.E. Creamer, A. Pas Schrijver, H.H.E. van Zanten and R.P.O. Schulte

Woodchips or potato chips? How enhancing soil carbon and reducing chemical inputs influence the allocation of cropland

Sebastian Rössert, Elizabeth Gosling, Markus Gandorfer and Thomas Knoke

Performance, meat quality, profitability, and greenhouse gas emissions of suckler bulls from pasture-based compared to an indoor high-concentrate weanling-to-beef finishing system

M. McGee, C. Lenehan, P. Crosson, E.G. O'Riordan, A.K. Kelly, L. Moran and A.P. Moloney

Revisiting yield gaps and the scope for sustainable intensification for irrigated lowland rice in Southeast Asia

João Vasco Silva, Valerien O. Pede, Ando M. Radanielson, Wataru Kodama, Ary Duarte, Annalyn H. de Guia, Arelene Julia B. Malabayabas, Arlyna Budi Pustika, Nuning Argosubekti, Duangporn Vithoonjit, Pham Thi Minh Hieu, Anny Ruth P. Pame, Grant R. Singleton and Alexander M. Stuart

Prospective crop yield and income return based on a retrospective analysis of a long-term rainfed agriculture experiment in Nebraska

Ankit Shekhar and Charles A. Shapiro

Exploring how social capital and learning are related to the resilience of Dutch arable farmers

Thomas Slijper, Julie Urquhart, P. Marijn Poortvliet, Bárbara Soriano and Miranda P.M. Meuwissen

Innovation in the pineapple value chain in Mexico: Explaining the global adoption process of the MD-2 hybrid

Angelica Torres-Avila, Jorge Aguilar-Ávila, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, Enrique Genaro Martínez-González and Norman Aguilar-Gallegos

Variety and on-farm seed management practices affect potato seed degeneration in the tropical highlands of Ecuador

Israel Navarrete, Victoria López, Ross Borja, Pedro Oyarzún, Karen A. Garrett, Conny J.M. Almekinders, Yanru Xing, Paul C. Struik and Jorge L. Andrade-Piedra

Process-based greenhouse climate models: Genealogy, current status, and future directions

David Katzin, Eldert J. van Henten and Simon van Mourik

Assessing the sustainability of livestock socio-ecosystems in the drylands through a set of indicators

Véronique Alary, Jacques Lasseur, Aymen Frija and Denis Gautier

Managing salinity for sustainable agricultural production in salt-affected soils of irrigated drylands

Krishna Prasad Devkota, Mina Devkota, Meisam Rezaei and Roland Oosterbaan

Bioeconomic evaluation of extended season and year-round tomato production in Norway using supplemental light

Muhammad Naseer, Tomas Persson, Isabela Righini, Cecilia Stanghellini, Henk Maessen, Peter Ruoff and Michel J. Verheul

Volume 197, issue C, 2022

Diffusion of organic farming among Dutch pig farmers: An agent-based model

Floor H.W. Ambrosius, Mark R. Kramer, Alisa Spiegel, Eddie A.M. Bokkers, Bettina B. Bock and Gert Jan Hofstede

Improved forecasting of coffee leaf rust by qualitative modeling: Design and expert validation of the ExpeRoya model

Natacha Motisi, Pierre Bommel, Grégoire Leclerc, Marie-Hélène Robin, Jean-Noël Aubertot, Andrea Arias Butron, Isabelle Merle, Edwin Treminio and Jacques Avelino

Simulating no-tillage effects on crop yield and greenhouse gas emissions in Kentucky corn and soybean cropping systems: 1980–2018

Yawen Huang, Bo Tao, Yanjun Yang, Xiaochen Zhu, Xiaojuan Yang, John H. Grove and Wei Ren

The role of learning in farmer-led innovation

Jonathan Ensor and Annemarieke de Bruin

Assessing the multidimensional elements of sustainability in European agroforestry systems

Laurence G. Smith, Sally Westaway, Samantha Mullender, Bhim Bahadur Ghaley, Ying Xu, Lisa Mølgaard Lehmann, Andrea Pisanelli, Giuseppe Russo, Robert Borek, Rafał Wawer, Magdalena Borzęcka, Mignon Sandor, Adrian Gliga and Jo Smith

Resilience of agricultural systems: biodiversity-based systems are stable, while intensified ones are resistant and high-yielding

Manon Dardonville, Christian Bockstaller, Jean Villerd and Olivier Therond

Strategies to double milk production per farm in Argentina: Investment, economics and risk analysis

Javier Baudracco, Belén Lazzarini, Noelia Rossler, Laura Gastaldi, José Jauregui and Santiago Fariña

Volume 196, issue C, 2022

Exploring the agricultural landscape diversity-food security nexus: an analysis in two contrasted parklands of Central Senegal

L. Leroux, N.F. Faye, C. Jahel, G.N. Falconnier, A.A. Diouf, B. Ndao, I. Tiaw, Y. Senghor, G. Kanfany, A. Balde, M. Dieye, N. Sirdey, S. Alobo Loison, M. Corbeels, F. Baudron and E. Bouquet

Understanding the arrangement of Eucalyptus-Marandu palisade grass silvopastoral systems in Brazil

Nilson Aparecido Vieira Junior, Jochem Evers, Murilo dos Santos Vianna, Bruno Carneiro e Pedreira, José Ricardo Macedo Pezzopane and Fábio Ricardo Marin

Farmers' information needs, access and its impact: Evidence from different cotton producing regions in the Maharashtra state of India

Vinayak Nikam, Arathy Ashok and Suresh Pal

Scenarios for European agricultural policymaking in the era of digitalisation

Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Robert Finger, Nadja El Benni, Alexander Gocht, Claus Aage Grøn Sørensen, Markus Gusset, Catherine Pfeifer, Krijn Poppe, Áine Regan, David Christian Rose, Sjaak Wolfert and Robert Huber

Double cropping and manure management mitigate the environmental impact of a dairy farm under present and future climate

José P. Castaño-Sánchez, Heather D. Karsten and C. Alan Rotz

Multilevel environmental assessment of regional farming activities with Life Cycle Assessment: Tackling data scarcity and farm diversity with Life Cycle Inventories based on Agrarian System Diagnosis

L. Pradeleix, P. Roux, S. Bouarfa and V. Bellon-Maurel

Farm diversity and fine scales matter in the assessment of ecosystem services and land use scenarios

Alan Heinze, Frans Bongers, Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, Luis E. García Barrios and Thomas W. Kuyper

The spatial-temporal coupling pattern of grain yield and fertilization in the North China plain

Wenjia Yu, Yaojie Yue and Fangxiong Wang

Season-specific management strategies for rainfed soybean in the South American Pampas based on a seasonal precipitation forecast

Gonzalo Rizzo, Sebastian R. Mazzilli, Oswaldo Ernst, Walter E. Baethgen and Andres G. Berger

How to increase the joint provision of ecosystem services by agricultural systems. Evidence from coffee-based agroforestry systems

Martin Notaro, Christian Gary, Jean-François Le Coq, Aurélie Metay and Bruno Rapidel

Functional crop types are more important than diversity for the productivity, profit and risk of crop sequences in the inner Argentinean Pampas

H. Videla-Mensegue, O.P. Caviglia and V.O. Sadras

Cognitive resources to promote exploration in agroecological systems design

Maude Quinio, Laurence Guichard, Paola Salazar, Françoise Détienne and Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy

Changing perspectives on chicken-pastured orchards for action: A review based on a heuristic model

Sara Bosshardt, Rodolphe Sabatier, Arnaud Dufils and Mireille Navarrete

A new method to co-design agricultural systems at the territorial scale - Application to reduce herbicide pollution in Martinique

Pauline Della Rossa, Charles Mottes, Philippe Cattan and Marianne Le Bail

Exploring teff yield variability related with farm management and soil property in contrasting agro-ecologies in Ethiopia

Fekremariam Asargew Mihretie, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Enyew Adgo, Mitsuru Tsubo, Tsugiyuki Masunaga, Derege Tsegaye Meshesha, Kindiye Ebabu, Zerihun Nigussie, Shinjiro Sato, Mulatu Liyew Berihun, Yuta Hashimoto, Ayaka Kawbota and Muluken Bayable

The farm coaching experience to support the transition to integrated crop–livestock systems: From gaming to action

Fernanda Gomes Moojen, Julie Ryschawy, Davi Teixeira dos Santos, Armindo Barth Neto, Paulo Cardozo Vieira, Elisa Portella and Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

Assessing climate vulnerability of historical wheat yield in south-eastern Australia's wheat belt

Siyi Li, Bin Wang, Puyu Feng, De Li Liu, Linchao Li, Lijie Shi and Qiang Yu

Climate data induced uncertainties in simulated carbon fluxes under corn and soybean systems

Varaprasad Bandaru

Linking food production and environmental outcomes: An application of a modified relative risk model to prioritize land-management practices

Dawei Hou, Fanhao Meng, Chao Ji, Li Xie, Wenjuan Zhu, Shizhong Wang and Hua Sun

Coupling geographic information system integrated fuzzy logic-analytical hierarchy process with global and machine learning based sensitivity analysis for agricultural suitability mapping

Swapan Talukdar, Mohd Waseem Naikoo, Javed Mallick, Bushra Praveen, Shahfahad,, Pritee Sharma, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Swades Pal and Atiqur Rahman

Brassica carinata as an off-season crop in the southeastern USA: Determining optimum sowing dates based on climate risks and potential effects on summer crop yield

Rogério de Souza Nóia Júnior, Clyde W. Fraisse, Mahesh Bashyal, Michael J. Mulvaney, Ramdeo Seepaul, Mauricio A. Zientarski Karrei, Joseph Enye Iboyi, Daniel Perondi, Vinicius Andrei Cerbaro and Kenneth J. Boote

Exploring the weather-yield nexus with artificial neural networks

Lorenz Schmidt, Martin Odening, Johann Schlanstein and Matthias Ritter

Transforming livestock productivity through watershed interventions: A case study of Parasai-Sindh watershed in Bundelkhand region of Central India

Inder Dev, Ramesh Singh, Kaushal K. Garg, Asha Ram, Deepak Singh, Naresh Kumar, S.K. Dhyani, Anand Singh, K.H. Anantha, VenkataRadha Akuraju, Sreenath Dixit, R.K. Tewari, R.P. Dwivedi and A. Arunachalam

Towards sustainable circular agriculture: An integrated optimization framework for crop-livestock-biogas-crop recycling system management under uncertainty

Qiong Yue, Ping Guo, Hui Wu, Youzhi Wang and Chenglong Zhang

Assessing feed security for beef production within livestock-intensive regions

M.R.C. Cordeiro, G.F. Mengistu, S.J. Pogue, G. Legesse, K.E. Gunte, A.M. Taylor, K.H. Ominski, K.A. Beauchemin, E.J. McGeough, M. Faramarzi and T.A. McAllister

Multi-actor Horizon 2020 projects in agriculture, forestry and related sectors: A Multi-level Innovation System framework (MINOS) for identifying multi-level system failures

Evelien Cronin, Andrew Fieldsend, Elke Rogge and Thomas Block

Smallholder cocoa agroforestry systems; is increased yield worth the labour and capital inputs?

Micah Scudder, Nathan Wampe, Zephaniah Waviki, Grahame Applegate and John Herbohn

Exploring strategies to control the cost of food security: Evidence from Bangladesh

Shokhrukh-Mirzo Jalilov, Wakilur Rahman, Salauddin Palash, Hasneen Jahan, Mohammed Mainuddin and Frank A. Ward

Connected cows and cyber chickens? Stocktaking and case studies of digital livestock tools in Kenya and India

Thomas Daum, Thanammal Ravichandran, Juliet Kariuki, Mizeck Chagunda and Regina Birner

Tracking down coupled innovations supporting agroecological vegetable crop protection to foster sustainability transition of agrifood systems

Yann Boulestreau, Claire-Lise Peyras, Marion Casagrande and Mireille Navarrete