Agricultural Systems

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Volume 177, issue C, 2020

Whole farm implications of lucerne transitions in temperate crop-livestock systems

Andrew P. Smith and Andrew D. Moore

Crop-diversification and organic management increase the energy efficiency of cacao plantations

David Pérez-Neira, Monika Schneider and Laura Armengot

Cropping poorly-drained lowland soils: Alternatives to rice monoculture, their challenges and management strategies

Rafael Ziani Goulart, José Miguel Reichert and Miriam Fernanda Rodrigues

Effects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeria

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Patrick Hatzenbuehler and Hyacinth O. Edeh

Identifying the drivers and predicting the outcome of conservation agriculture globally

John P. Laborde, Charles S. Wortmann, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Guillermo A. Baigorria and John L. Lindquist

Future yields of double-cropping systems in the Southern Amazon, Brazil, under climate change and technological development

Anna C. Hampf, Tommaso Stella, Michael Berg-Mohnicke, Tobias Kawohl, Markus Kilian and Claas Nendel

Coffee production during the transition period from monoculture to agroforestry systems in near optimal growing conditions, in Yunnan Province

Clément Rigal, Jianchu Xu, Guilin Hu, Minghua Qiu and Philippe Vaast

Maize yield in Mexico under climate change

Carolina Ureta, Edgar J. González, Alejandro Espinosa, Alejandro Trueba, Alma Piñeyro-Nelson and Elena R. Álvarez-Buylla

Introducing labour productivity analysis in a co-innovation process to improve sustainability in mixed family farming

P. Colnago and S. Dogliotti

Global synthesis of the impact of droughts on crops’ water-use efficiency (WUE): Towards both high WUE and productivity

Liuyang Yu, Xiaodong Gao and Xining Zhao

Vegetation management intensity and landscape diversity alter plant species richness, functional traits and community composition across European vineyards

Rea M. Hall, Nicole Penke, Monika Kriechbaum, Sophie Kratschmer, Vincent Jung, Simon Chollet, Muriel Guernion, Annegret Nicolai, Francoise Burel, Albin Fertil, Ángel Lora, Rafael Sánchez-Cuesta, Gema Guzmán, Jose Gómez, Daniela Popescu, Adela Hoble, Claudiu-Ioan Bunea, Johann G. Zaller and Silvia Winter

Amending conservation programs through expanding choice architecture: A case study of forestry and livestock producers

James Davis and Gordon Rausser

Critical livestock densities and manure management for the typical paddy rice and corn cropping systems in an intensive livestock watershed, Japan

Meihua Deng, Mudan Hou, Qi Zhang and Sonoko D. Bellingrath-Kimura

Nutrient flows and intensification options for smallholder farmers of the Lao uplands

C.A. Epper, B. Paul, D. Burra, P. Phengsavanh, R. Ritzema, C. Syfongxay, J.C.J. Groot, J. Six, E. Frossard, A. Oberson and S. Douxchamps

Creating a synthetic landscape: Spatial allocation of non-spatial single farm data

Sandra Uthes and Joachim Kiesel

Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany

T. Kuhn, A. Enders, T. Gaiser, D. Schäfer, A.K. Srivastava and Wolfgang Britz

Economic evaluation of genetic markers for cow-calf operations differentiated by forage type and breed

Michael Popp, Josh C. Crystal, Colson A. Tester, Edward E. Gbur and Charles F. Rosenkrans

Geospatial modeling of conservation tillage and nitrogen timing effects on yield and soil properties

F.M. Liben, C.S. Wortmann and A. Tirfessa

Quantifying the value of adopting a post-rice legume crop to intensify mixed smallholder farms in Southeast Asia

M. Monjardino, J.N.M. Philp, G. Kuehne, V. Phimphachanhvongsod, V. Sihathep and M.D. Denton

Sward height determines pasture production and animal performance in a long-term soybean-beef cattle integrated system

Taise Robinson Kunrath, Pedro Arthur de Albuquerque Nunes, William de Souza Filho, Mónica Cadenazzi, Carolina Bremm, Amanda Posselt Martins and Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho

Agronomic and economic performance of organic forage, quinoa, and grain crop rotations in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest, USA

Rachel A. Wieme, Lynne A. Carpenter-Boggs, David W. Crowder, Kevin M. Murphy and John P. Reganold

Exploring nitrogen indicators of farm performance among farm types across several European case studies

M. Quemada, L. Lassaletta, L.S. Jensen, O. Godinot, F. Brentrup, C. Buckley, S. Foray, S.K. Hvid, J. Oenema, K.G. Richards and O. Oenema

CROPGRO-Perennial Forage model parameterization for simulating Piatã palisade grass growth in monoculture and in a silvopastoral system

Cristiam Bosi, Paulo Cesar Sentelhas, José Ricardo Macedo Pezzopane and Patricia Menezes Santos

Legacy effects of contrasting organic grain cropping systems on soil health indicators, soil invertebrates, weeds, and crop yield

Ashley B. Jernigan, Kyle Wickings, Charles L. Mohler, Brian A. Caldwell, Christopher J. Pelzer, Sandra Wayman and Matthew R. Ryan

Multi-level socioecological drivers of agrarian change: Longitudinal evidence from mixed rice-livestock-aquaculture farming systems of Bangladesh

Sreejith Aravindakshan, Timothy J. Krupnik, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Erika N. Speelman, T.S. Amjath- Babu and Pablo Tittonell

Environmental performance of animal feed production from Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Influence of crop management practices under Mediterranean conditions

Sara Martinez, Sergio Alvarez, Anibal Capuano and Maria del Mar Delgado

Volume 176, issue C, 2019

A model for estimating phosphorus requirements of world food production

Janne Helin and Hans-Peter Weikard

Abatement of ammonia emissions from livestock housing fine-tuned according to impact on protected habitats

David De Pue, Andreas Bral and Jeroen Buysse

The future of intercropping under growing resource scarcity and declining grain prices - A model analysis based on a case study in Northwest China

Yu Hong, Paul Berentsen, Nico Heerink, Minjun Shi and Wopke van der Werf

Greenhouse-gas emissions of beef finishing systems in the Southern High Plains

K.R. Heflin, D.B. Parker, G.W. Marek, B.W. Auvermann and T.H. Marek

Canonical correlation of technological innovation and performance in sheep's dairy farms: Selection of a set of indicators

José Rivas, José Manuel Perea, Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero, Elena Angon, Cecilio Barba and Antón García

Applied spatial approach of modelling field size changes based on a consideration of farm and landscape interrelations

Amanda E. Eigner and Ernst-August Nuppenau

A framework to assess the economic vulnerability of farming systems: Application to mixed crop-livestock systems

Inès Sneessens, Loïc Sauvée, Hanitra Randrianasolo-Rakotobe and Stéphane Ingrand

Farm scale modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from semi-intensive suckler cow beef production

Stine Samsonstuen, Bente A. Åby, Paul Crosson, Karen A. Beauchemin, Helge Bonesmo and Laila Aass

Biosecurity institutions and the choice of contracts in international fruit supply chains

Iciar Pavez, Jean-Marie Codron, Pasquale Lubello and Maria Cecilia Florêncio

Farmer harvest decisions and vegetable loss in primary production

Lisa K. Johnson, J. Dara Bloom, Rebecca D. Dunning, Chris C. Gunter, Michael D. Boyette and Nancy G. Creamer

Maize system impacts of cover crop management decisions: A simulation analysis of rye biomass response to planting populations in Iowa, U.S.A

Guillermo S. Marcillo, Sarah Carlson, Meghan Filbert, Thomas Kaspar, Alejandro Plastina and Fernando E. Miguez

Simulated alternative breeding schemes for optimizing Begait goat improvement programs in Western Tigray, northern Ethiopia

Hagos Abraham, Solomon Gizaw and Mengistu Urge

Evaluating productivity gaps in maize production across different agroecological zones in Ghana

Bright Asante, Omphile Temoso, Kwabena N. Addai and Renato A. Villano

The Integrated Analysis Tool (IAT) – A model for the evaluation of crop-livestock and socio-economic interventions in smallholder farming systems

C.K. McDonald, N.D. MacLeod, S. Lisson and J.P. Corfield

Contrasting policy shifts influence the pattern of vegetation production and C sequestration over pasture systems: A regional-scale comparison in Temperate Eurasian Steppe

Yizhao Chen, Xinran Fei, Pavel Groisman, Zhengguo Sun, Jianan Zhang and Zhihao Qin

Greenhouse gas emissions from Uganda's cattle corridor farming systems

Nicholas Kiggundu, Stanley Peter Ddungu, Joshua Wanyama, Sam Cherotich, Denis Mpairwe, Emmanuel Zziwa, Faizal Mutebi and Alessandra Falcucci

Emergy accounting as a support for a strategic planning towards a regional sustainable milk production

F. Agostinho, M.W. Oliveira, F.M. Pulselli, C.M.V.B. Almeida and B.F. Giannetti

Bee farming system sustainability: An assessment framework in metropolitan France

Coline Kouchner, Cécile Ferrus, Samuel Blanchard, Axel Decourtye, Benjamin Basso, Yves Le Conte and Marc Tchamitchian

Managing the nitrogen status of subtropical dairy pastures for production, efficiency and profit

Andrew P. Smith, Peter Beale, Bill J. Fulkerson and Richard J. Eckard

Household-level drivers of dietary diversity in transitioning agricultural systems: Evidence from the Greater Mekong Subregion

R.S. Ritzema, S. Douxchamps, S. Fraval, A. Bolliger, L. Hok, P. Phengsavanh, C.T.M. Long, J. Hammond and M.T. van Wijk

Opportunities and challenges for the growth of milk production from pasture: The case of farm systems in Uruguay

S.R. Fariña and P. Chilibroste

Economic viability of newly introduced chicken strains at village level in Tanzania: FARMSIM model simulation approach

Rogers Andrew, Jeremia Makindara, Said H. Mbaga and Roselyne Alphonce

Modeling growing season and annual cumulative nitrous oxide emissions and emission factors from organically fertilized soils planted with barley in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Jiacheng Shen, Roland Treu, Junye Wang, Xiying Hao and Ben W. Thomas

Prediction and measurement update of fungal toxin geospatial uncertainty using a Stacked Gaussian process

Kareem Abdelfatah, Jonathan Senn, Noemi Glaeser and Gabriel Terejanu

Unpacking the drivers behind the use of the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) approach: The case of rice research and extension professionals in Sierra Leone

Lamin Ibrahim Kamara, Peter Dorward, Baqir Lalani and Erwin Wauters

Scaling – from “reaching many” to sustainable systems change at scale: A critical shift in mindset

L. Woltering, K. Fehlenberg, B. Gerard, J. Ubels and L. Cooley

A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems

Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Peter H. Feindt, Alisa Spiegel, Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Erik Mathijs, Yann de Mey, Robert Finger, Alfons Balmann, Erwin Wauters, Julie Urquhart, Mauro Vigani, Katarzyna Zawalińska, Hugo Herrera, Phillipa Nicholas-Davies, Helena Hansson, Wim Paas, Thomas Slijper, Isabeau Coopmans, Willemijn Vroege, Anna Ciechomska, Francesco Accatino, Birgit Kopainsky, P. Marijn Poortvliet, Jeroen J.L. Candel, Damian Maye, Simone Severini, Saverio Senni, Bárbara Soriano, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, Mariya Peneva, Camelia Gavrilescu and Pytrik Reidsma

Analysis of beneficial management practices to mitigate environmental impacts in dairy production systems around the Great Lakes

Daesoo Kim, Nick Stoddart, C. Alan Rotz, Karin Veltman, Larry Chase, Joyce Cooper, Pete Ingraham, R. César Izaurralde, Curtis D. Jones, Richard Gaillard, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Rebecca A. Larson, Matt Ruark, William Salas, Olivier Jolliet and Gregory J. Thoma

Hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision making to solve the irrigation water allocation problem in the Tunisian case

Mohamed Ali Elleuch, Makram Anane, Jalel Euchi and Ahmed Frikha

Economic performance and risk of farming systems specialized in perennial crops: An analysis of Italian hazelnut production

Cinzia Zinnanti, Emanuele Schimmenti, Valeria Borsellino, Giulio Paolini and Simone Severini

Innovation in the UK fresh produce sector: Identifying systemic problems and the move towards systemic facilitation

Jonathan Menary, Rosemary Collier and Kate Seers

LCIS DSS—An irrigation supporting system for water use efficiency improvement in precision agriculture: A maize case study

A. Bonfante, E. Monaco, P. Manna, R. De Mascellis, A. Basile, M. Buonanno, G. Cantilena, A. Esposito, A. Tedeschi, C. De Michele, O. Belfiore, I. Catapano, G. Ludeno, K. Salinas and A. Brook

Landscape-scale simulations as a tool in multi-criteria decision making to support agri-environment schemes

Christopher J. Topping, Lars Dalby and Jose W. Valdez

Evaluating the effects of integrating trees into temperate arable systems on pest control and pollination

Tom Staton, Richard J. Walters, Jo Smith and Robbie D. Girling

Stricter cross-compliance standards in Switzerland: Economic and environmental impacts at farm- and sector-level

Alena Schmidt, Gabriele Mack, Anke Möhring, Stefan Mann and Nadja El Benni

Vulnerability and adaptation options to climate change for rural livelihoods – A country-wide analysis for Uganda

Jannike Wichern, Katrien Descheemaeker, Ken E. Giller, Peter Ebanyat, Godfrey Taulya and Mark T. van Wijk

A comparative study of the land required for food and cooking fuel in rural India

Karabee Das and Sanderine Nonhebel

Soil acidity, lime application, nitrogen fertility, and greenhouse gas emissions: Optimizing their joint economic management

Sanaz Shoghi Kalkhoran, David Pannell, Tas Thamo, Benedict White and Maksym Polyakov

Indigenous knowledge and climate change adaptation of ethnic minorities in the mountainous regions of Vietnam: A case study of the Yao people in Bac Kan Province

Ho Ngoc Son, Dong Thi Linh Chi and Aaron Kingsbury

Backgrounding strategy effects on farm productivity, profitability and greenhouse gas emissions of cow-calf systems in the Flooding Pampas of Argentina

Franco Bilotto, Paulo Recavarren, Ronaldo Vibart and Claudio F. Machado

Explaining the global spatial distribution of organic crop producers

Žiga Malek, Koen F. Tieskens and Peter H. Verburg