Agricultural Systems

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Volume 189, issue C, 2021

Estimating biological capacity for grass-finished ruminant meat production in New England and New York

Alexandra M. Thorn, Michael J. Baker and Christian J. Peters

Assessing the vulnerability and risk of maize to drought in China based on the AquaCrop model

Xiufang Zhu, Kun Xu, Ying Liu, Rui Guo and Lingyi Chen

Ex-ante impact of on-farm diversification and forward integration on agricultural value chain resilience: A system dynamics approach

Joshua Aboah, Mark M.J. Wilson, Kathryn Bicknell and Karl M. Rich

A systematic review of the contribution of system dynamics to value chain analysis in agricultural development

Yanti Nuraeni Muflikh, Carl Smith and Ammar Abdul Aziz

Is food security an illusion for cities? A system dynamics approach to assess disturbance in the urban food supply chain during pandemics

Shuang Song, Jenson C.L. Goh and Hugh T.W. Tan

Digital twins in smart farming

Cor Verdouw, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Adrie Beulens and Sjaak Wolfert

Multilevel innovation platforms for development of smallholder livestock systems: How effective are they?

Zelalem Lema, Lisa A. Lobry de Bruyn, Graham Marshall, Romana Roschinsky and Alan J. Duncan

Optimal forage and supplement balance for organic dairy farms in the Southeastern United States

John Allison, Kenneth Burdine, Carl Dillon, S. Ray Smith, David M. Butler, Gary E. Bates and Gina M. Pighetti

India's COVID-19 social assistance package and its impact on the agriculture sector

Deepak Varshney, Anjani Kumar, Ashok K. Mishra, Shahidur Rashid and Pramod K. Joshi

Diversified crop-livestock farms are risk-efficient in the face of price and production variability

L.W. Bell, A.D. Moore and D.T. Thomas

Multi-faceted impact and outcome of COVID-19 on smallholder agricultural systems: Integrating qualitative research and fuzzy cognitive mapping to explore resilient strategies

Rupak Goswami, Kalyan Roy, Sudarshan Dutta, Krishnendu Ray, Sukamal Sarkar, Koushik Brahmachari, Manoj Kr. Nanda, Mohammed Mainuddin, Hirak Banerjee, Jagadish Timsina and Kaushik Majumdar

A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture

Sabine Egerer, Rodrigo Valencia Cotera, Louis Celliers and María Máñez Costa

Exploring transitions towards sustainable farming practices through participatory research – The case of Danish farmers' use of species mixtures

Ane Kirstine Aare, Søren Lund and Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen

Scaling up from crop to farm level: Co-innovation framework to improve vegetable farm systems sustainability

Cecilia Berrueta, Gustavo Giménez and Santiago Dogliotti

Environmental trade-offs of relay-cropping winter cover crops with soybean in a maize-soybean cropping system

Andrea Cecchin, Ghasideh Pourhashem, Russ W. Gesch, Andrew W. Lenssen, Yesuf A. Mohammed, Swetabh Patel and Marisol T. Berti

Changes in the environmental impacts of pig production systems in Great Britain over the last 18 years

Mathias Ottosen, Stephen G. Mackenzie, Joao A.N. Filipe, Maciek M. Misiura and Ilias Kyriazakis

Fostering local crop-livestock integration via legume exchanges using an innovative integrated assessment and modelling approach based on the MAELIA platform

Rui Catarino, Olivier Therond, Jérémy Berthomier, Maurice Miara, Emmanuel Mérot, Renaud Misslin, Paul Vanhove, Jean Villerd and Frédérique Angevin

Restrictive irrigation improves yield and reduces risk for faba bean across the Middle East and North Africa: A modeling study

Hélène Marrou, Michel Edmond Ghanem, Moez Amri, Fouad Maalouf, Sarah Ben Sadoun, Fatimaezzhara Kibbou and Thomas R. Sinclair

Quantifying farmers' preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh's risk prone farming systems

Sreejith Aravindakshan, Timothy J. Krupnik, T.S. Amjath-Babu, Stijn Speelman, Juan Tur-Cardona, Pablo Tittonell and Jeroen C.J. Groot

Analysis of synergies and trade-offs between animal welfare, ammonia emission, particulate matter emission and antibiotic use in Dutch broiler production systems

Luuk S.M. Vissers, Helmut W. Saatkamp and Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink

Effects of farm type on food production, landscape openness, grassland biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions in mixed agricultural-forestry regions

Niklas Boke Olén, Fabian Roger, Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson, Georg K.S. Andersson, Johan Ekroos, Paul Caplat, Henrik G. Smith, Juliana Dänhardt and Yann Clough

Volume 188, issue C, 2021

Closing sustainability gaps on family farms: Combining on-farm co-innovation and model-based explorations

P. Colnago, W.A.H. Rossing and S. Dogliotti

Economic and environmental consequences of nitrogen application rates, timing and methods on corn in Ontario

Aaron De Laporte, Kamaljit Banger, Alfons Weersink, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Brian Grant and Ward Smith

Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy

Cecilia Zagaria, Catharina J.E. Schulp, Matteo Zavalloni, Davide Viaggi and Peter H. Verburg

Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural production and food systems in late transforming Southeast Asia: The case of Myanmar

Duncan Boughton, Joseph Goeb, Isabel Lambrecht, Derek Headey, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Kristi Mahrt, Ian Masias, Sophie Goudet, Catherine Ragasa, Mywish Maredia, Bart Minten and Xinshen Diao

Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements

Charles F. Nicholson, Emma C. Stephens, Birgit Kopainsky, Andrew D. Jones, David Parsons and James Garrett

Best management practices scenario analysis to reduce agricultural nitrogen loads and sediment yield to the semiarid Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain)

Cristina Puertes, Inmaculada Bautista, Antonio Lidón and Félix Francés

Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Case examples and priority information needs

Charles F. Nicholson, Emma C. Stephens, Birgit Kopainsky, Philip K. Thornton, Andrew D. Jones, David Parsons and James Garrett

Immediate impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on bean value chain in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Cosmas Kweyu Lutomia, Rowland Chirwa, Noel Templer, Jean Claude Rubyogo and Patricia Onyango

Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal

Muzna Alvi, Prapti Barooah, Shweta Gupta and Smriti Saini

Assessing yield and economic impact of introducing soybean to the lowland rice system in southern Brazil

Giovana Ghisleni Ribas, Alencar Junior Zanon, Nereu Augusto Streck, Isabela Bulegon Pilecco, Pablo Mazzuco de Souza, Alexandre Bryan Heinemann and Patricio Grassini

Rapid assessments of the impact of COVID-19 on the availability of quality seed to farmers: Advocating immediate practical, remedial and preventative action

Walter S. de Boef, Gareth D. Borman, Arnab Gupta, Abishkar Subedi, Marja H. Thijssen, Amsalu Ayana Aga, Mohammed Hassena Beko, Swe Zin Myint Thein, Win Thein, Folarin Okelola, Osundiya Olusegun, Olusegun Philip Ojo, Chinedu Agbara, Geoffrey Otim, Charles Ssemwogerere, Bonny Ntare and Patrick Oyee

Collaboration for innovative routes to market: COVID-19 and the food system

Luke Prosser, Eifiona Thomas Lane and Rebecca Jones

COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada

Alfons Weersink, Mike von Massow, Nicholas Bannon, Jennifer Ifft, Josh Maples, Ken McEwan, Melissa G.S. McKendree, Charles Nicholson, Andrew Novakovic, Anusuya Rangarajan, Timothy Richards, Bradley Rickard, James Rude, Meagan Schipanski, Gary Schnitkey, Lee Schulz, Daniel Schuurman, Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, Mark Stephenson, Jada Thompson and Katie Wood

“That is my farm” – An integrated co-learning approach for whole-farm sustainable intensification in smallholder farming

Wytze Marinus, Katrien K.E. Descheemaeker, Gerrie W.J. van de Ven, Wycliffe Waswa, John Mukalama, Bernard Vanlauwe and Ken E. Giller

Lock-ins to the dissemination of genetically improved fish seeds

Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Nhuong Tran, Olivier M. Joffre, Abu Hayat Md Saiful Islam, Benoy Kumar Barman, Shawquat Ali and Cristiano M. Rossignoli

Volume 187, issue C, 2021

Combining on-farm innovation tracking and participatory prototyping trials to develop legume-based cropping systems in West Africa

Anne Périnelle, Jean-Marc Meynard and Eric Scopel

Biomass flows in an agro-pastoral village in West-Africa: Who benefits from crop residue mulching?

D. Berre, T. Diarisso, N. Andrieu, C. Le Page and M. Corbeels

Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk

Yared Assefa, Sudhir Yadav, Manoranjan K. Mondal, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Rokhsana Parvin, Shilpi R. Sarker, Mahabubur Rahman, Asish Sutradhar, P.V. Vara Prasad, Humnath Bhandari, Aaron Shew and S.V. Krishna Jagadish

A system analysis to assess the effect of low-cost agricultural technologies on productivity, income and GHG emissions in mixed farming systems in southern Ethiopia

Yonas Berhanu, Ayana Angassa and Jens B. Aune

Holistic agricultural diversity index as a measure of agricultural diversity: A cross-sectional study of smallholder farmers in Lilongwe district of Malawi

Paul Fatch, Charles Masangano, Thomas Hilger, Irmgard Jordan, Isaac Mambo, Judith Francesca Mangani Kamoto, Alexander Kalimbira and Ernst-August Nuppenau

Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany

J. Heinrichs, T. Kuhn, C. Pahmeyer and Wolfgang Britz

Fodder beet to support early and late lactation milk production from pasture, is it worth the risk?

Anita Fleming, Dawn Dalley, Racheal H. Bryant, Grant Edwards and Pablo Gregorini

Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from beef cattle excreta deposited on feedlot pen surface in tropical conditions

Isabella C.F. Maciel, Fabiano A. Barbosa, Bruno J.R. Alves, Ramon C. Alvarenga, Thierry R. Tomich, Mônica M. Campanha, Jason E. Rowntree, Filipe C. Alves and Ângela M.Q. Lana

Optimal manure utilization chain for distributed animal farms: Model development and a case study from Hangzhou, China

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

Resilience or how do we enable agricultural systems to ride the waves of unexpected change?

Ika Darnhofer

Farm scale assessment of the impacts of biodiversity enhancement on the financial and environmental performance of mixed livestock farms in New Zealand

Estelle J. Dominati, Alec D. Mackay, John M. Rendel, Andrew Wall, David A. Norton, Jennifer Pannell and Brian Devantier

Modeling smallholder agricultural systems to manage Striga in the semi-arid tropics

Timothy R. Silberg, Karen Renner, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Robert B. Richardson, Vimbayi Grace Patrova Chimonyo, Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado, Bruno B. Basso and Cyprian Mwale

Stability of farm income: The role of agricultural diversity and agri-environment scheme payments

Caroline Harkness, Francisco Areal, Mikhail A. Semenov, Nimai Senapati, Ian F. Shield and Jacob Bishop

Estimation of the inter-annual marginal value of additional feed and its replacement cost for beef cattle systems in the Flooding Pampas of Argentina

Franco Bilotto, Ronaldo Vibart, Andrew Wall and Claudio F. Machado

How to reconcile short-term and long-term objectives in mixed farms? A dynamic model application to mixed fruit tree - vegetable systems

Raphaël Paut, Rodolphe Sabatier, Arnaud Dufils and Marc Tchamitchian

Economic assessment of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) uptake in the New Zealand dairy sector

Graeme J. Doole, Alvaro J. Romera, Jennifer E. Leslie, David F. Chapman, Pinxterhuis, Ina (J.B.). and Peter D. Kemp

Identifying the farming models underlying Flemish beef farmers' practices from an agroecological perspective with archetypal analysis

Louis Tessier, Jo Bijttebier, Fleur Marchand and Philippe V. Baret

Crop modelling in data-poor environments – A knowledge-informed probabilistic approach to appreciate risks and uncertainties in flood-based farming systems

Issoufou Liman Harou, Cory Whitney, James Kung'u and Eike Luedeling

Reallocating crop rotation patterns improves water quality and maintains crop yield

Fei Jiang, Patrick J. Drohan, Raj Cibin, Heather E. Preisendanz, Charles M. White and Tamie L. Veith

Machine learning for large-scale crop yield forecasting

Dilli Paudel, Hendrik Boogaard, Allard de Wit, Sander Janssen, Sjoukje Osinga, Christos Pylianidis and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

Decision support system for Western Flower Thrips management in roses production

Ahmad Tay, Frédéric Lafont, Jean-François Balmat, Nathalie Pessel and Ange Lhoste-Drouineau

Beta diversity and fallow length regulate soil fertility in cocoa agroforestry in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

Roy Vera-Vélez, J. Hugo Cota-Sánchez and Jorge Grijalva-Olmedo

Assessing the sensitivity of a Mediterranean commercial rangeland to droughts under climate change scenarios by means of a multidisciplinary integrated model

J. Martínez-Valderrama, J. Ibáñez, M.A. Ibáñez, F.J. Alcalá, M.E. Sanjuán, A. Ruiz and G. del Barrio

Pathways for building resilience to COVID-19 pandemic and revitalizing the Nepalese agriculture sector

Dinesh Babu Thapa Magar, Sirish Pun, Ram Pandit and Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen

Enhancing the ability of agriculture to cope with major crises or disasters: What the experience of COVID-19 teaches us

Evagelos D. Lioutas and Chrysanthi Charatsari

Resilience achieved via multiple compensating subsystems: The immediate impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the agri-food systems of Australia and New Zealand

Val Snow, Daniel Rodriguez, Robyn Dynes, William Kaye-Blake, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Sue Zydenbos, Lei Cong, Irena Obadovic, Rob Agnew, Nicole Amery, Lindsay Bell, Cristy Benson, Peter Clinton, M. Fernanda Dreccer, Andrew Dunningham, Madeleine Gleeson, Matthew Harrison, Alice Hayward, Dean Holzworth, Paul Johnstone, Holger Meinke, Neena Mitter, Amin Mugera, David Pannell, Luis F.P. Silva, Eugeni Roura, Prince Siddharth, Kadambot H.M. Siddique and David Stevens

Multi-level impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on agricultural systems in India: The case of Uttar Pradesh

Pavan Kumar, S.S. Singh, A.K. Pandey, Ram Kumar Singh, Prashant Kumar Srivastava, Manoj Kumar, Shantanu Kumar Dubey, Uma Sah, Rajiv Nandan, Susheel Kumar Singh, Priyanshi Agrawal, Akanksha Kushwaha, Meenu Rani, Jayanta Kumar Biswas and Martin Drews

Adapting sweet cherry orchards to extreme weather events – Decision Analysis in support of farmers' investments in Central Chile

Gonzalo Rojas, Eduardo Fernandez, Cory Whitney, Eike Luedeling and Italo F. Cuneo

Windbreaks in the United States: A systematic review of producer-reported benefits, challenges, management activities and drivers of adoption

Matthew M. Smith, Gary Bentrup, Todd Kellerman, Katherine MacFarland, Richard Straight and Lord Ameyaw

Health crisis and quarantine measures in Peru: Effects on livelihoods of coffee and potato farmers

Ricardo Vargas Romero, Cristina Fonseca, Guy Hareau, Miguel Ordinola, Willy Pradel, Valentina Robiglio and Victor Suarez