Agricultural Systems

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Volume 186, issue C, 2021

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand beef through better integration of dairy and beef production

Benjamin van Selm, Imke J.M. de Boer, Stewart F. Ledgard and Corina E. van Middelaar

Farm scale as a driver of agricultural development in the Kenyan Rift Valley

Niels Debonne, Jasper van Vliet, Rose Ramkat, Denyse Snelder and Peter Verburg

The fruits of knowledge co-creation in agriculture and food-related multi-stakeholder platforms in sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic literature review

Edith van Ewijk and Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen

An economic analysis software for evaluating best management practices to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from cropland

Ziwei Li, Zhiming Qi, Qianjing Jiang and Nathan Sima

Exploring actors, their constellations, and roles in digital agricultural innovations

Kernecker Maria, Busse Maria and Knierim Andrea

Carbon footprint and water footprint of rice and wheat production in Punjab, India

Durba Kashyap and Tripti Agarwal

The potential effectiveness of four different options to reduce environmental impacts of grazed pastures. A model-based assessment

Donna L. Giltrap, Miko U.F. Kirschbaum and Lìyǐn L. Liáng

Viability of temperate fruit tree varieties in Spain under climate change according to chilling accumulation

Alfredo Rodríguez, David Pérez-López, Ana Centeno and Margarita Ruiz-Ramos

Precision variable rate nitrogen for dryland farming on waterlogging Riverine Plains of Southeast Australia?

Thomas L. Nordblom, Timothy R. Hutchings, Sosheel S. Godfrey and Cassandra R. Schefe

Are the planning targets of liquid biofuel development achievable in China under climate change?

Dan Yan, Litao Liu, Jinkai Li, Jiaqian Wu, Wei Qin and Saskia E. Werners

Integrated watershed management on soil quality, crop productivity and climate change adaptation, dry highland of Northeast Ethiopia

Mulatie Mekonnen, Tadissual Abeje and Solomon Addisu

Carbon footprint and economic performance of dairy farms: The case of protected designation of origin farms in France

Mathieu Lambotte, Stéphane De Cara, Catherine Brocas and Valentin Bellassen

Soil organic carbon stocks in hill country pastures under contrasting phosphorus fertiliser and sheep stocking regimes, and topographical features

Alec D. Mackay, Ronaldo Vibart, Catherine McKenzie, Des Costall, Franco Bilotto and Francis M. Kelliher

Climate change impacts on phenology and yield of hazelnut in Australia

Prakash K. Jha, Stefano Materia, Giovanni Zizzi, Jose Maria Costa-Saura, Antonio Trabucco, Jason Evans and Simone Bregaglio

Drivers of change in mountain agriculture: A thirty-year analysis of trajectories of evolution of cattle farming systems in the Spanish Pyrenees

E. Muñoz-Ulecia, A. Bernués, I. Casasús, A.M. Olaizola, S. Lobón and D. Martín-Collado

Measuring postharvest loss inequality: Method and applications

Dragan Miljkovic and Alex Winter-Nelson

Crop production, water pollution, or climate change mitigation—Which drives socially optimal fertilization management most?

Matti Sihvonen, Sampo Pihlainen, Tin-Yu Lai, Tapio Salo and Kari Hyytiäinen

Mapping development potential of dry-season small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan African countries under joint biophysical and economic constraints - An agent-based modeling approach with an application to Ethiopia

Hua Xie, Liangzhi You, Yihun T. Dile, Abeyou W. Worqlul, Jean-Claude Bizimana, Raghavan Srinivasan, James W. Richardson, Thomas Gerik and Neville Clark

Carbon footprints and social carbon cost assessments in a perennial energy crop system: A comparison of fertilizer management practices in a Mediterranean area

Stefania Solinas, Maria Teresa Tiloca, Paola A. Deligios, Marco Cossu and Luigi Ledda

COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and food systems in Nepal: Implications for SDGs

Jagannath Adhikari, Jagadish Timsina, Sarba Raj Khadka, Yamuna Ghale and Hemant Ojha

Volume 185, issue C, 2020

Organic farm waste management in degraded banana-coffee-based farming systems in NW Tanzania

Anika Reetsch, Karl-Heinz Feger, Kai Schwärzel, Christina Dornack and Gerald Kapp

Which is more important to sorghum production systems in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa: Climate change or improved management practices?

Myriam Adam, Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy, Pierre C. Sibiry Traoré, Andree Nenkam, Bright Salah Freduah, Mouhamed Ly and Samuel G.K. Adiku

Productivity or stability? Exploring maize-legume intercropping strategies for smallholder Conservation Agriculture farmers in Zimbabwe

Connie Madembo, Blessing Mhlanga and Christian Thierfelder

Assessing long-term spatial movement of wheat area across China

Lingling Fan, Shi Chen, Shefang Liang, Xiao Sun, Hao Chen, Liangzhi You, Wenbin Wu, Jing Sun and Peng Yang

Waste to Land (W2L): A novel tool to show and predict the spatial effect of applying biosolids on the environment

Alejandro Gonzalez-Ollauri, Craig S. Thomson and Slobodan B. Mickovski

Plant diseases in afforested crop-livestock systems in Brazil

Alexandre Dinnys Roese, Erica Camila Zielinski and Louise Larissa May De Mio

Identifying adaptation strategies to climate change for Mediterranean olive orchards using impact response surfaces

J.M. Cabezas, M. Ruiz-Ramos, M.A. Soriano, C. Gabaldón-Leal, C. Santos and I.J. Lorite

Alley cropping as an alternative under changing climate and risk scenarios: A Monte-Carlo simulation approach

Michael Cary and Gregory E. Frey

Design as a source of renewal in the production of scientific knowledge in crop science

Quentin Toffolini, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Jean-Marc Meynard, Julie Borg, Jérôme Enjalbert, Arnaud Gauffreteau, Isabelle Goldringer, Amélie Lefèvre, Chantal Loyce, Philippe Martin, Chloé Salembier, Véronique Souchère, Muriel Valantin-Morison, Gaëlle van Frank and Lorène Prost

Quantifying the soil erosion legacy of the Soviet Union

David Wuepper, Pasquale Borrelli, Daniel Mueller and Robert Finger

Using a positive deviance approach to inform farming systems redesign: A case study from Bihar, India

Roos Adelhart Toorop, Viviana Ceccarelli, Deepak Bijarniya, Mangi Lal Jat, Raj Kumar Jat, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura and Jeroen C.J. Groot

Biomass consumption and environmental footprints of beef cattle production in Argentina

Ezequiel M. Arrieta, Diego A. Cabrol, Anibal Cuchietti and Alejandro D. González

Patchy landscapes support more plant diversity and ecosystem services than wood grasslands in Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems

Simonetta Bagella, Maria Carmela Caria, Giovanna Seddaiu, Laura Leites and Pier Paolo Roggero

Explaining yield and gross margin gaps for sustainable intensification of the wheat-based systems in a Mediterranean climate

Mina Devkota and Yigezu Atnafe Yigezu

Are farmers willing to pay for climate related traits of wheat? Evidence from rural parts of Ethiopia

Ermias Tesfaye Teferi, Girma Kassie, Mario Enrico Pe and Carlo Fadda

The effect of nitrogen-fertilizer and optimal plant population on the profitability of maize plots in the Wami River sub-basin, Tanzania: A bio-economic simulation approach

Ibrahim L. Kadigi, James W. Richardson, Khamaldin D. Mutabazi, Damas Philip, Sixbert K. Mourice, Winfred Mbungu, Jean-Claude Bizimana and Stefan Sieber

Modeling the effects of long-term reduced N application on soil N losses and yield in a greenhouse tomato production system

Hao Liang, Qing Chen, Bin Liang and Kelin Hu

Challenges of complying with both food value chain specifications and agroecology principles in vegetable crop protection

Amélie Lefèvre, Benjamin Perrin, Claire Lesur-Dumoulin, Chloé Salembier and Mireille Navarrete

Agricultural labor, COVID-19, and potential implications for food security and air quality in the breadbasket of India

Balwinder-Singh,, Paresh B. Shirsath, M.L. Jat, A.J. McDonald, Amit K. Srivastava, Peter Craufurd, D.S. Rana, A.K. Singh, S.K. Chaudhari, P.C. Sharma, Rajbir Singh, H.S. Jat, H.S. Sidhu, B. Gerard and Hans Braun

Impacts of multi-timescale SPEI and SMDI variations on winter wheat yields

Xinguo Chen, Yi Li, Ning Yao, De Li Liu, Tehseen Javed, Chuncheng Liu and Fenggui Liu

Damping and lag effects of precipitation variability across trophic levels in Uruguayan rangelands

Francisco Gutiérrez, Federico Gallego, José M. Paruelo and Claudia Rodríguez

Where do all the aphids go? A series of thought experiments within the context of area-wide pest management

Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, William E. Grant, Tomasz E. Koralewski, Norman C. Elliott, Michael J. Brewer and John K. Westbrook

Volume 184, issue C, 2020

Reconciliation of cattle ranching with biodiversity and social inclusion objectives in large private properties in Paraguay and collective indigenous lands in Bolivia

Lilian Painter, Rodolfo Nallar, Maria del Carmen Fleytas, Oscar Loayza, Ariel Reinaga and Laura Villalba

Assessing resilience and adaptability in agroecological transitions

Pablo Tittonell

Limits to grain-legume technology integration by smallholder farmers: The case of time-sensitive labor demands and food security primacy in Malawi

Erin J. Anders, Leo C. Zulu and Emmanuel R. Jambo

Quantifying the uncertainty in nitrogen application and groundwater nitrate leaching in manure based cropping systems

Christine M.F. Miller, Hannah Waterhouse, Thomas Harter, James G. Fadel and Deanne Meyer

Parameterization of the APSIM model for simulating palisadegrass growth under continuous stocking in monoculture and in a silvopastoral system

Fagner Junior Gomes, Cristiam Bosi, Bruno Carneiro Pedreira, Patrícia Menezes Santos and Carlos Guilherme Silveira Pedreira

An environmental assessment of grass-based dairy production in the northeastern United States

C. Alan Rotz, Michael Holly, Aaron de Long, Franklin Egan and Peter J.A. Kleinman

Quantifying sheep enterprise profitability with varying flock replacement rates, lambing rates, and breeding strategies in New Zealand

L.J. Farrell, P.R. Kenyon, Peter Tozer, T. Ramilan and L.M. Cranston

Analysis of the effect of alternative agri-environmental policy instruments on production performance and nitrogen surplus of representative dairy farms

Adewale Henry Adenuga, John Davis, George Hutchinson, Myles Patton and Trevor Donnellan

Wildlife impact on cultivated lands: A multi-temporal spatial analysis

Luca Mauri, Roberta Masin and Paolo Tarolli

Effects of proximity to markets on dairy farming intensity and market participation in Kenya and Ethiopia

Jan van der Lee, Simon Oosting, Laurens Klerkx, Felix Opinya and Bockline Omedo Bebe

Predicting methane emissions, animal-environmental metrics and carbon footprint from Brahman (Bos indicus) breeding herd systems based on long-term research on grazing of neotropical savanna and Brachiaria decumbens pastures

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

Participatory design of agronomic scenarios for the reintroduction of legumes into a French territory

Elise Pelzer, Mathilde Bonifazi, Marion Soulié, Laurence Guichard, Maude Quinio, Remy Ballot and Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy

Mid-season empirical cotton yield forecasts at fine resolutions using large yield mapping datasets and diverse spatial covariates

Patrick Filippi, Brett M. Whelan, R. Willem Vervoort and Thomas F.A. Bishop

A systems model describing the impact of organic resource use on farming households in low to middle income countries

Jo Smith, Dali Nayak, Ashim Datta, Wasudeo Nivrutti Narkhede, Fabrizio Albanito, Bedru Balana, Sanjoy K. Bandyopadhyay, Helaina Black, Shiferaw Boke, Alison Brand, Anja Byg, Mengistu Dinato, Mulugeta Habte, Paul D. Hallett, Thomas Lemma, Wolde Mekuria, Awdenegest Moges, Alemayehu Muluneh, Paula Novo, Mike Rivington, Tewodros Tefera, Eguolo May Vanni, Getahun Yakob and Euan Phimister

Cropping system yield gaps can be narrowed with more optimal rotations in dryland subtropical Australia

Zvi Hochman, Heidi Horan, Javier Navarro Garcia, Garry Hopwood, Jeremy Whish, Lindsay Bell, Xiying Zhang and Haichun Jing

Is there a joint lever? Identifying and ranking factors that determine GHG emissions and profitability on dairy farms in Bavaria, Germany

M. Zehetmeier, Doris Läpple, H. Hoffmann, B. Zerhusen, Martin Strobl, A. Meyer-Aurich and M. Kapfer

Economic optimization of feeding and shipping strategies in pig-fattening using an individual-based model

M. Davoudkhani, F. Mahé, J.Y. Dourmad, A. Gohin, E. Darrigrand and F. Garcia-Launay

Optimization of sustainable bioenergy production considering energy-food-water-land nexus and livestock manure under uncertainty

Mo Li, Qiang Fu, Vijay P. Singh, Dong Liu and Jiang Li

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Laurens Klerkx and Stephanie Begemann

Crop insurance and pesticide use in European agriculture

Niklas Möhring, Tobias Dalhaus, Geoffroy Enjolras and Robert Finger

Crop, soil and farm systems models – science, engineering or snake oil revisited

Brian A. Keating

System diversification and grazing management as resilience-enhancing agricultural practices: The case of crop-livestock integration

Leonardo Silvestri Szymczak, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho, Amandine Lurette, Anibal de Moraes, Pedro Arthur de Albuquerque Nunes, Amanda Posselt Martins and Charles-Henri Moulin

Diversity in perception and management of farming risks in southern Mali

E.K. Huet, M. Adam, K.E. Giller and K. Descheemaeker

Soil carbon sequestration potential in a Vertisol in central India- results from a 43-year long-term experiment and APSIM modeling

Madhusudan Mohanty, Nishant K. Sinha, J. Somasundaram, Sonali S. McDermid, Ashok K. Patra, Muneshwar Singh, A.K. Dwivedi, K. Sammi Reddy, Ch. Srinivas Rao, M. Prabhakar, K.M. Hati, P. Jha, R.K. Singh, R.S. Chaudhary, Soora Naresh Kumar, Prabhat Tripathi, Ram C. Dalal, Donald S. Gaydon and S.K. Chaudhari

A model-data fusion approach to analyse carbon dynamics in managed grasslands

Vasileios Myrgiotis, Emanuel Blei, Rob Clement, Stephanie K. Jones, Ben Keane, Mark A. Lee, Peter E. Levy, Robert M. Rees, Ute M. Skiba, Thomas Luke Smallman, Sylvia Toet and Mathew Williams

Science of Scaling: Understanding and guiding the scaling of innovation for societal outcomes

Marc Schut, Cees Leeuwis and Graham Thiele

From fast-track implementation to livelihood deterioration: The dam-based Ribb Irrigation and Drainage Project in Northwest Ethiopia

Sofie Annys, Steven Van Passel, Joost Dessein, Enyew Adgo and Jan Nyssen

Managing agricultural vulnerability to phosphorus scarcity through bottom-up assessment of regional-scale opportunities

Madhuri Nanda, Arun Kansal and Dana Cordell

Morphology, growth and yield of black oats cultivated in agroforestry systems in southern Brazil

Jaqueline Sgarbossa, Elvis Felipe Elli, Felipe Schwerz, Claiton Nardini, Edinéia de Cristo, Davi de Oliveira and Braulio Otomar Caron

Influence of diversity and intensification level on vulnerability, resilience and robustness of agricultural systems

Manon Dardonville, Nicolas Urruty, Christian Bockstaller and Olivier Therond

Smallholder mechanization induced by yield-enhancing biological technologies: Evidence from Nepal and Ghana

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Yanyan Liu

Factors influencing the optimum mob size of ewes at lambing and the economic benefit of lambing ewes in smaller mobs to increase lamb survival across southern Australia

Amy Lockwood, Jason Trompf, Serina Hancock, Lyndon Kubeil, Andrew Thompson and John Young

APSIM-Tropical Pasture: A model for simulating perennial tropical grass growth and its parameterisation for palisade grass (Brachiaria brizantha)

Cristiam Bosi, Paulo Cesar Sentelhas, Neil Ian Huth, José Ricardo Macedo Pezzopane, Mariana Pares Andreucci and Patricia Menezes Santos

Using remote sensing to assess the effect of trees on millet yield in complex parklands of Central Senegal

L. Leroux, G.N. Falconnier, A.A. Diouf, B. Ndao, J.E. Gbodjo, L. Tall, A.A. Balde, C. Clermont-Dauphin, A. Bégué, F. Affholder and O. Roupsard

Inhibition of methane emissions from Chinese rice fields by nitrogen deposition based on the DNDC model

Zhen Wang, Xiuying Zhang, Lei Liu, Shanqian Wang, Limin Zhao, Xiaodi Wu, Wuting Zhang and Xianjin Huang