Agricultural Systems

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Volume 192, issue C, 2021

Using locally available fertilisers to enhance the yields of swidden farmers in Papua New Guinea

Mirjam Hazenbosch, Shen Sui, Brus Isua, Emilie Beauchamp, Jan Frouz, Kiole Imale, Mavis Jimbudo, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Vojtěch Novotný, Hana Veselá and Rebecca J. Morris

A simulation of variable rate nitrogen application in winter wheat with soil and sensor information - An economic feasibility study

Michael Friis Pedersen, Jacob Glerup Gyldengren, Søren Marcus Pedersen, Efstathios Diamantopoulos, René Gislum and Merete Elisabeth Styczen

Assessing and reducing the environmental impact of dairy production systems in the northern US in a changing climate

Karin Veltman, C. Alan Rotz, Larry Chase, Joyce Cooper, Chris E. Forest, Peter A. Ingraham, R. César Izaurralde, Curtis D. Jones, Robert E. Nicholas, Matthew D. Ruark, William Salas, Greg Thoma and Olivier Jolliet

Immediate effects of COVID-19 on the global dairy sector

Alejandro Acosta, Steve McCorriston, Francesco Nicolli, Ester Venturelli, Upali Wickramasinghe, Eduardo ArceDiaz, Lavinia Scudiero, Alejandro Sammartino, Fritz Schneider and Henning Steinfeld

Immediate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on farming systems in Central America and Mexico

Santiago Lopez-Ridaura, Arie Sanders, Luis Barba-Escoto, Jennifer Wiegel, Maria Mayorga-Cortes, Carlos Gonzalez-Esquivel, Martin A. Lopez-Ramirez, Rene M. Escoto-Masis, Edmundo Morales-Galindo and Tomas S. García-Barcena

Analysing price volatility in agricultural value chains using systems thinking: A case study of the Indonesian chilli value chain

Y.N. Muflikh, C. Smith, C. Brown and A.A. Aziz

The complexity of measuring cropland use intensity: An empirical study

Qiangyi Yu, Mingtao Xiang, Zhanli Sun and Wenbin Wu

Improved nutrient management in cereals using Nutrient Expert and machine learning tools: Productivity, profitability and nutrient use efficiency

Jagadish Timsina, Sudarshan Dutta, Krishna Prasad Devkota, Somsubhra Chakraborty, Ram Krishna Neupane, Sudarshan Bishta, Lal Prasad Amgain, Vinod K. Singh, Saiful Islam and Kaushik Majumdar

Coupling landscape-scale diagnostics surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation to identify entry points for sustainably closing rice yield gaps in Nepal

Krishna Prasad Devkota, Mina Devkota, Gokul Prasad Paudel and Andrew James McDonald

Limitations to adjusting growing periods in different agroecological zones of Pakistan

Hassnain Shah, Christian Siderius and Petra Hellegers

Farmer research networks enable community-based mycotoxin management in rural Indian villages

Anthony J. Wenndt, Hari Kishan Sudini, Prabhu Pingali and Rebecca Nelson

An analytical framework to estimate the economics and adoption potential of dual land-use systems: The case of agrivoltaics

Arndt Feuerbacher, Moritz Laub, Petra Högy, Christian Lippert, Lisa Pataczek, Stephan Schindele, Christine Wieck and Sabine Zikeli

Revisiting linear regression to test agreement in continuous predicted-observed datasets

Adrian A. Correndo, Trevor J. Hefley, Dean P. Holzworth and Ignacio A. Ciampitti

The agronomic and economic viability of innovative cropping systems to reduce Fusarium head blight and related mycotoxins in wheat

Dimitrios Drakopoulos, Andreas Kägi, Johan Six, Alexander Zorn, Felix E. Wettstein, Thomas D. Bucheli, Hans-Rudolf Forrer and Susanne Vogelgsang

Identifying profitable activities on the frontier: The Altillanura of Colombia

Carlos A. Fontanilla-Díaz, Paul V. Preckel, James Lowenberg-DeBoer, John Sanders and Luis Peña-Lévano

Visualising adoption processes through a stepwise framework: A case study of mechanisation on the Nepal Terai

Brendan Brown, Gokul P. Paudel and Timothy J. Krupnik

Approach for optimizing the water-land-food-energy nexus in agroforestry systems under climate change

Mo Li, Haiyan Li, Qiang Fu, Dong Liu, Lei Yu and Tianxiao Li

Driving mechanism for farmers to adopt improved agricultural systems in China: The case of rice-green manure crops rotation system

Fuduo Li, Kangjie Zhang, Jing Ren, Changbin Yin, Yang Zhang and Jun Nie

A framework for assessing the effects of shock events on livestock and environment in sub-Saharan Africa: The COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Kenya

Michael W. Graham, Philemon Chelanga, Nathaniel Jensen, Sonja M. Leitner, Francesco Fava and Lutz Merbold

Long-term profitability of crop-livestock systems, with and without trees

Laíse da Silveira Pontes, Vanderley Porfírio-da-Silva, José Luiz Moletta and Tiago Santos Telles

Modeling climatically suitable areas for soybean and their shifts across China

Jiongchao Zhao, Chong Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Xiaozhi Bo, Shuo Li, Mengfei Shang, Fu Chen and Qingquan Chu

Volume 191, issue C, 2021

A design for a generic and modular bio-economic farm model

Wolfgang Britz, Pavel Ciaian, Alexander Gocht, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Dimitrios Kremmydas, Marc Müller, Athanasios Petsakos and Pytrik Reidsma

The two-way relationship between food systems and the COVID19 pandemic: causes and consequences

Marta G. Rivera-Ferre, Feliu López-i-Gelats, Federica Ravera, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Marina di Masso, Rosa Binimelis and Hamid El Bilali

COVID-19 and food systems in Pacific Island Countries, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste: Opportunities for actions towards the sustainable development goals

Federico Davila, R.M. Bourke, Andrew McWilliam, Steven Crimp, Lisa Robins, Monica van Wensveen, Robyn G. Alders and James R.A. Butler

Evaluation of APEX modifications to simulate forage production for grazing management decision-support in the Western US Great Plains

G. Cheng, R.D. Harmel, L. Ma, J.D. Derner, D.J. Augustine, P.N.S. Bartling, Q.X. Fang, J.R. Williams, C.J. Zilverberg, R.B. Boone, D. Hoover and Q. Yu

Explaining farming systems spatial patterns: A farm-level choice model based on socioeconomic and biophysical drivers

Paulo Pacheco de Castro Flores Ribeiro, José Manuel Osório de Barros de Lima e Santos, Maria João Prudêncio Rafael Canadas, Ana Maria Contente de Vinha Novais, Francisco Manuel Ribeiro Ferraria Moreira and Ângela Cristina de Araújo Rodrigues Lomba

Improving regional wheat drought risk assessment for insurance application by integrating scenario-driven crop model, machine learning, and satellite data

Ziyue Li, Zhao Zhang and Lingyan Zhang

Farmer-centered ecological intensification: Using innovation characteristics to identify barriers and opportunities for a transition of agroecosystems towards sustainability

Maria Kernecker, Verena Seufert and Mollie Chapman

Designing a research agenda for coupled innovation towards sustainable agrifood systems

Juliette Brun, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Caroline Pénicaud, Marianne Cerf and Jean-Marc Meynard

An integrated seed health strategy and phytosanitary risk assessment: Potato in the Republic of Georgia

Kelsey F. Andersen Onofre, Gregory A. Forbes, Jorge L. Andrade-Piedra, Chris E. Buddenhagen, James C. Fulton, Marcel Gatto, Zurab Khidesheli, Rusudan Mdivani, Yanru Xing and Karen A. Garrett

SEGAE: An online serious game to learn agroecology

Julia Jouan, Matthieu Carof, Rim Baccar, Nathalie Bareille, Suzanne Bastian, Delphine Brogna, Giovanni Burgio, Sébastien Couvreur, Michał Cupiał, Marc Dufrêne, Benjamin Dumont, Philippe Gontier, Anne-Lise Jacquot, Jarosław Kański, Serena Magagnoli, Joanna Makulska, Guénola Pérès, Aude Ridier, Thibault Salou, Fabio Sgolastra, Anna Szeląg-Sikora, Sylwester Tabor, Barbara Tombarkiewicz, Andrzej Węglarz and Olivier Godinot

Economic and environmental analyses of incorporating guar into the American southwest

Hailey M. Summers, Evan Sproul, Clark Seavert, Sangu Angadi, Joram Robbs, Sita Khanal, Paul Gutierrez, Trent Teegerstrom, Daniel A. Zuniga Vazquez, Neng Fan and Jason C. Quinn

The application of ecologically intensive principles to the systemic redesign of livestock farms on native grasslands: A case of co-innovation in Rocha, Uruguay

A. Ruggia, S. Dogliotti, V. Aguerre, M.M. Albicette, A. Albin, O. Blumetto, G. Cardozo, C. Leoni, G. Quintans, S. Scarlato, P. Tittonell and W.A.H. Rossing

Exploring climate-resilient and risk-efficient cropping strategies using a new pond irrigation system: An experimental study in northern Ghana

Junji Koide, Shigeki Yokoyama, Shinji Hirouchi, Chikako Hirose, Naoko Oka, Masato Oda and Seiji Yanagihara

Quantification of sustainable animal manure utilization strategies in Hangzhou, China

Jiangong Li, Neslihan Akdeniz, Harrison Hyung Min Kim, Richard S. Gates, Xinlei Wang and Kaiying Wang

Modeling cover crop biomass production and related emissions to improve farm-scale decision-support tools

Shelby C. McClelland, Keith Paustian, Stephen Williams and Meagan E. Schipanski

Impact of Covid-19 on farming systems in Europe through the lens of resilience thinking

M.P.M. Meuwissen, P.H. Feindt, T. Slijper, A. Spiegel, Robert Finger, Yann de Mey, W. Paas, K.J.A.M. Termeer, P.M. Poortvliet, Mariya Peneva, J. Urquhart, M. Vigani, J.E. Black, P. Nicholas-Davies, D. Maye, F. Appel, F. Heinrich, A. Balmann, J. Bijttebier, I. Coopmans, E. Wauters, Erik Mathijs, H. Hansson, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, Jens Rommel, G. Manevska-Tasevska, F. Accatino, C. Pineau, B. Soriano, I. Bardaji, S. Severini, S. Senni, C. Zinnanti, Camelia Gavrilescu, Ioan Bruma, K.M. Dobay, D. Matei, L. Tanasa, Dan Voicilas, K. Zawalińska, Piotr Gradziuk, Vitaliy Krupin, Anna Martikainen, H. Herrera and P. Reidsma

Collective design of innovative agroecological cropping systems for the industrial vegetable sector

Camille Puech, Arnaud Brulaire, Jérôme Paraiso and Vincent Faloya

Good animal welfare by design: An approach to incorporate animal capacities in engineering design

H.J.E. van Weeghel, A.P. Bos, M.H. Jansen, W.W. Ursinus and P.W.G. Groot Koerkamp

A comparison of farm labour, profitability, and carbon footprint of different management strategies in Northern European grassland sheep systems

C. Morgan-Davies, J. Kyle, I.A. Boman, H. Wishart, A. McLaren, S. Fair and P. Creighton

Simulating alfalfa and pasture yields at regional and national scales in Canada from 1981 to 2019

Zhaozhi Wang, J.Y. Yang, C.F. Drury and Rong Jiang

Understanding the dynamics of integrated rice–crawfish farming in Qianjiang county, China using Landsat time series images

Yanbing Wei, Miao Lu, Qiangyi Yu, Ankun Xie, Qiong Hu and Wenbin Wu

Economic risk assessment of the quality labels and productive efficiency strategies in Spanish extensive sheep farms

Bertolozzi-Caredio Daniele, Soriano Barbara, Bardají Isabel and Garrido Alberto

Mapping farmer perceptions, Conservation Agriculture practices and on-farm measurements: The role of systems thinking in the process of adoption

Baqir Lalani, Payam Aminpour, Steven Gray, Meredith Williams, Lucie Büchi, Jeremy Haggar, Philip Grabowski and José Dambiro

Climate change, soil water conservation, and productivity: Evidence from cocoa farmers in Ghana

Bismark Amfo, Ernest Ali and David Atinga

Adoption pathway analysis: Representing the dynamics and diversity of adoption for agricultural practices

Oscar Montes de Oca Munguia, David Pannell, Rick Llewellyn and Philip Stahlmann-Brown

Impact assessment of common bean availability in Brazil under climate change scenarios

Luís A.S. Antolin, Alexandre B. Heinemann and Fábio R. Marin

Motivations, goals, and benefits associated with organic grain farming by producers in Iowa, U.S

Guang Han, J. Gordon Arbuckle and Nancy Grudens-Schuck

Volume 190, issue C, 2021

Farmers' resource endowment and risk management affect agricultural practices and innovation capacity in the Northwestern uplands of Cambodia

Rada Kong and Jean-Christophe Castella

Analysing intensification, autonomy and efficiencies of livestock production through nitrogen flows: A case study of an emblematic Amazonian territory

Thierry Bonaudo, Marc Piraux and Augusto Hauber Gameiro

Pathways toward inclusive low-emission dairy development in Tanzania: Producer heterogeneity and implications for intervention design

E.m Kihoro, G.C. Schoneveld and T.A. Crane

Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction

Linmei Shang, Thomas Heckelei, Maria K. Gerullis, Jan Börner and Sebastian Rasch

Resilience of French organic dairy cattle farms and supply chains to the Covid-19 pandemic

Augustine Perrin and Guillaume Martin

Combining qualitative and quantitative methodology to assess prospects for novel crops in a warming climate

A.S. Gardner, K.J. Gaston and I.M.D. Maclean

Forecasting future crop suitability with microclimate data

A.S. Gardner, I.M.D. Maclean, K.J. Gaston and L. Bütikofer

Soil-dependent responses of US crop yields to climate variability and depth to groundwater

Jingyi Huang, Alfred E. Hartemink and Christopher J. Kucharik

Design of a Soil-based Climate-Smartness Index (SCSI) using the trend and variability of yields and soil organic carbon

Laura N. Arenas-Calle, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Stephen Whitfield and Andrew J. Challinor

Quantitative contributions of climate change, new cultivars adoption, and management practices to yield and global warming potential in rice-winter wheat rotation ecosystems

Yifan Shi, Yunsheng Lou, Yiwei Zhang and Zufei Xu

Evaluation of the contribution of 16 European beef production systems to food security

Claire Mosnier, Anne Jarousse, Pauline Madrange, Jimmy Balouzat, Maëva Guillier, Giacomo Pirlo, Alexandre Mertens, Edward ORiordan, Christoph Pahmeyer, Sylvain Hennart, Louise Legein, Paul Crosson, Mark Kearney, Philippe Dimon, Carlo Bertozzi, Edouard Reding, Miriam Iacurto, James Breen, Sara Carè and Patrick Veysset

Incremental and transformative adaptation preferences of rice farmers against increasing soil salinity - Evidence from choice experiments in north central Vietnam

Thi Huyen Trang Dam, Juan Tur-Cardona, Stijn Speelman, T.S. Amjath-Babu, Anu Susan Sam and Peter Zander

Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation modeling

J. Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña, Stéphane Couturier, Daniela Figueroa and Aldo Daniel Jiménez

Covid-19 management by farmers and policymakers in Burkina Faso, Colombia and France: Lessons for climate action

N. Andrieu, L. Hossard, N. Graveline, P. Dugue, P. Guerra and N. Chirinda

Can China's overuse of fertilizer be reduced without threatening food security and farm incomes?

Cornelia van Wesenbeeck, M.A. Keyzer, W.C.M. van Veen and Huanguang Qiu

Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's chicken and egg sector, with implications for the sustainable development goals

Peixun Fang, Ben Belton, Xiaobo Zhang and Hnin Ei Win

Liming agricultural soils in Western Kenya: Can long-term economic and environmental benefits pay off short term investments?

R. Hijbeek, M.P. van Loon, W. Ouaret, B. Boekelo and M.K. van Ittersum

Identifying ‘win-win-win’ futures from inequitable value chain trade-offs: A system dynamics approach

Gregory S. Cooper, Karl M. Rich, Bhavani Shankar, Vinay Rana, Nazmun N. Ratna, Suneetha Kadiyala, Mohammad J. Alam and Sharan B. Nadagouda

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on apple orchards in Europe

Kévin Tougeron and Thierry Hance

Emerging responses to the COVID-19 crisis from family farming and the agroecology movement in Latin America – A rediscovery of food, farmers and collective action

P. Tittonell, M. Fernandez, V.E. El Mujtar, P.V. Preiss, S. Sarapura, L. Laborda, M.A. Mendonça, V.E. Alvarez, G.B. Fernandes, P. Petersen and I.M. Cardoso

Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture and food systems in Pacific Island countries (PICs): Evidence from communities in Fiji and Solomon Islands

Viliamu Iese, Morgan Wairiu, Gordon M. Hickey, David Ugalde, Diana Hinge Salili, John Walenenea, Tammy Tabe, Milton Keremama, Chris Teva, Otto Navunicagi, Jioje Fesaitu, Robson Tigona, Deeksha Krishna, Hirdesh Sachan, Nigel Unwin, Cornelia Guell, Emily Haynes, Filipe Veisa, Linda Vaike, Zina Bird, Michael Ha'apio, Nasoni Roko, Soane Patolo, Annika Rose Dean, Sashi Kiran, Pitakia Tikai, Jowalesi Tuiloma, Siosiua Halavatau, Judith Francis and Alastair Christopher Ward

Sustainable N fertilizer production based on a loop: Straw - biogas – ‘Haber-Bosch’ process

Göte O.B. Bertilsson and Holger Kirchmann

Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic

Amy Marusak, Narjes Sadeghiamirshahidi, Caroline C. Krejci, Anuj Mittal, Sue Beckwith, Jaime Cantu, Mike Morris and Jason Grimm

Building resilient food system amidst COVID-19: Responses and lessons from China

Yue Zhan and Kevin Z. Chen

Crafting actionable knowledge on ecological intensification: Lessons from co-innovation approaches in Uruguay and Europe

Walter A.H. Rossing, Maria Marta Albicette, Veronica Aguerre, Carolina Leoni, Andrea Ruggia and Santiago Dogliotti

No more double cropping in Mato Grosso, Brazil? Evaluating the potential impact of climate change on the profitability of farm systems

Marcelo Carauta, Julia Parussis, Anna Hampf, Affonso Libera and Thomas Berger

Redefining the link between rainfall and crop establishment in dryland cropping systems

B.M. Flohr, J. Ouzman, T.M. McBeath, G.J. Rebetzke, J.A. Kirkegaard and R.S. Llewellyn

Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean

Jean-Marc Blazy, F. Causeret and S. Guyader

Projecting potential impact of COVID-19 on major cereal crops in Senegal and Burkina Faso using crop simulation models

P.K. Jha, A. Araya, Z.P. Stewart, A. Faye, H. Traore, B.J. Middendorf and P.V.V. Prasad

Smallholder farmer perceptions about the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and livelihoods in Senegal

B. Jan Middendorf, Aliou Faye, Gerad Middendorf, Zachary P. Stewart, Prakash K. Jha and P.V. Vara Prasad

Environmental and economic performance of paddy field-based crop-livestock systems in Southern Brazil

Everton Vogel, Gabrielli Martinelli and Felipe Dalzotto Artuzo

Modeling impacts of climate change on crop yield and phosphorus loss in a subsurface drained field of Lake Erie region, Canada

Zhaozhi Wang, T.Q. Zhang, C.S. Tan, Lulin Xue, Melissa Bukovsky and Z.M. Qi

Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi

Adam M. Komarek, Christian Thierfelder and Peter R. Steward

Silvopastoral systems and multi-criteria optimization for compatible economic and environmental outcomes

Adriana Bussoni, Frederick Cubbage and Jorge Alvarez Giambruno

Ammonia volatilisation from grazed, pasture based dairy farming systems

Andrew P. Smith, Karen M. Christie, Matthew T. Harrison and Richard J. Eckard

Foresighting Australian digital agricultural futures: Applying responsible innovation thinking to anticipate research and development impact under different scenarios

Aysha Fleming, Emma Jakku, Simon Fielke, Bruce M. Taylor, Justine Lacey, Andrew Terhorst and Cara Stitzlein

Social media platforms, open communication and problem solving in the back-office of Ghanaian extension: A substantive, structural and relational analysis

Nyamwaya Munthali, Annemarie van Paassen, Cees Leeuwis, Rico Lie, Ron van Lammeren, Norman Aguilar-Gallegos and Birgitta Oppong-Mensah

Exploring decision-making in campaign-based watershed management by using a role-playing game in Boset District, Ethiopia

Samuel Assefa, Aad Kessler and Luuk Fleskens

Agent-based modelling of the social-ecological nature of poverty traps in southwestern Madagascar

Katja Brinkmann, Daniel Kübler, Stefan Liehr and Andreas Buerkert

The effect of climate variability on Colombian coffee productivity: A dynamic panel model approach

Federico Ceballos-Sierra and Sandy Dall'erba

Conventionalised vs. agroecological practices on organic vegetable farms: Investigating the influence of farm structure in a bifurcation perspective

Antonin Pépin, Kevin Morel and Hayo M.G. van der Werf

Modeling oil palm crop for Brazilian climate conditions

Victor Hugo Benezoli, Hewlley Maria Acioli Imbuzeiro, Santiago Vianna Cuadra, Michel Anderson Almeida Colmanetti, Alessandro Carioca de Araújo, Christian Stiegler and Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike

Better before worse trajectories in food systems? An investigation of synergies and trade-offs through climate-smart agriculture and system dynamics

Renata Jagustović, George Papachristos, Robert B. Zougmoré, Julius H. Kotir, Aad Kessler, Mathieu Ouédraogo, Coen J. Ritsema and Kyle M. Dittmer

Assessment of COVID-19 impacts on U.S. counties using the immediate impact model of local agricultural production (IMLAP)

Iman Haqiqi and Marziyeh Bahalou Horeh

Sustainable intensification of crop production under alternative future changes in climate and technology: The case of the North Savo region

Taru Palosuo, Munir P. Hoffmann, Reimund P. Rötter and Heikki Lehtonen

COVID-19 impacts on Flemish food supply chains and lessons for agri-food system resilience

Isabeau Coopmans, Jo Bijttebier, Fleur Marchand, Erik Mathijs, Lies Messely, Elke Rogge, Arthur Sanders and Erwin Wauters

Agent-based modeling and simulation of edible fungi growers' adoption behavior towards fungal chaff recycling technology

Dong Tian, Min Zhang, Anping Zhao, Bo Wang, Jia Shi and Jianying Feng