Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 175, issue C, 2019

Co-design of improved climbing bean production practices for smallholder farmers in the highlands of Uganda pp. 1-12

E. Ronner, K. Descheemaeker, C. Almekinders, P. Ebanyat and K.E. Giller

Pathways to carbon-neutrality for the Australian red meat sector pp. 13-21

Dianne Mayberry, Harriet Bartlett, Jonathan Moss, Thomas Davison and Mario Herrero

Spatially explicit economic effects of non-susceptible pests' invasion on Bt maize pp. 22-33

Rui Catarino, Francisco Areal, Julian Park and Nicolas Parisey

Increasing risks of multiple breadbasket failure under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming pp. 34-45

Franziska Gaupp, Jim Hall, Dann Mitchell and Simon Dadson

Comparative Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of past and present agroecosystems in North America and Europe from the 1830s to the 2010s pp. 46-57

Joan Marull, Claudio Cattaneo, Simone Gingrich, Manuel González de Molina, Gloria I. Guzmán, Andrew Watson, Joshua MacFadyen, Manel Pons and Enric Tello

Scaling up innovations in smallholder agriculture: Lessons from the Canadian international food security research fund pp. 58-65

Helena Shilomboleni, Marwan Owaygen, Renaud De Plaen, Wendy Manchur and Laura Husak

Whole farm modelling the effect of grass silage harvest date and nitrogen fertiliser rate on nitrous oxide emissions from grass-based suckler to beef farming systems pp. 66-78

Jonathan Herron, Thomas P. Curran, Aidan P. Moloney and Donal O'Brien

Assessing nitrous oxide and nitrate leaching mitigation potential in US corn crop systems using the DNDC model pp. 79-87

Peter A. Ingraham and William A. Salas

Volume 174, issue C, 2019

The value of seasonal climate forecasts for Australian agriculture pp. 1-10

Kevin A. Parton, Jason Crean and Peter Hayman

Participatory innovation analysis along livestock value chains: Case of swine value chain in Benin pp. 11-22

Benoît Govoeyi, Serge G. Ahounou, Aristide M. Agbokounou, Chakirath F.A. Salifou, Ignace O. Dotche, Pascal S. Kiki, Issaka Youssao Abdou Karim and Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux

Stakeholders prioritization of climate-smart agriculture interventions: Evaluation of a framework pp. 23-31

Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Anjali Pant, Pramod K. Aggarwal, Vijya Vardhan Vasireddy and Akhilesh Yadav

Evaluation of good agricultural practices and sustaintability indicators in livestock systems under tropical conditions pp. 32-38

Raphael Amazonas Mandarino, Fabiano Alvim Barbosa, Luciano Bastos Lopes, Vando Telles, Eduardo de Azevedo Sondré Florence and Filipe Lage Bicalho

Is labour a major determinant of yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa? A study of cereal-based production systems in Southern Ethiopia pp. 39-51

João Vasco Silva, Frédéric Baudron, Pytrik Reidsma and Ken E. Giller

Scaling modern technology or scaling exclusion? The socio-political dynamics of accessing in malt barley innovation in two highland communities in Southern Ethiopia pp. 52-62

Nina de Roo, Conny Almekinders, Cees Leeuwis and Tewodros Tefera

Farm-household financial interactions: A case-study from Flanders, Belgium pp. 63-72

Erwin Wauters and Yann de Mey

Unexploited potential to diversify monotonous crop sequencing at high latitudes pp. 73-82

Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio and Lauri Jauhiainen

Legume diversification and weed management in African cereal-based systems pp. 83-94

Timothy R. Silberg, Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo, Robert B. Richardson, Sieglinde S. Snapp and Karen Renner

Performance of pasture-based dairy systems subject to economic, climatic and regulatory uncertainty pp. 95-104

Pierre C. Beukes, Alvaro J. Romera, Mark Neal and Kim Mashlan

A zero-inflated Poisson mixture model to analyse spread and abundance of the Western Corn Rootworm in Austria pp. 105-116

Katharina Falkner, Hermine Mitter, Elena Moltchanova and Erwin Schmid

An analysis of geographic and product diversification in crop planning strategy pp. 117-124

G. Villa, B. Adenso-Díaz and S. Lozano

The effect of ewe wastage in New Zealand sheep and beef farms on flock productivity and farm profitability pp. 125-132

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

Strategies to improve the productivity, product diversity and profitability of urban agriculture pp. 133-144

C.A. O'Sullivan, G.D. Bonnett, C.L. McIntyre, Z. Hochman and A.P. Wasson

A systems-level yield gap assessment of maize-soybean rotation under high- and low-management inputs in the Western US Corn Belt using APSIM pp. 145-154

G.R. Balboa, S.V. Archontoulis, F. Salvagiotti, F.O. Garcia, W.M. Stewart, E. Francisco, P.V. Vara Prasad and I.A. Ciampitti

Volume 173, issue C, 2019

Climate change induced impact and uncertainty of rice yield of agro-ecological zones of India pp. 1-11

Rishabh Gupta and Ashok Mishra

Farmers' preferences for high-input agriculture supported by site-specific extension services: Evidence from a choice experiment in Nigeria pp. 12-26

Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Jordan Chamberlin, Bernard Vanlauwe, Liesbet Vranken, Yaya Alpha Kamara, Peter Craufurd and Miet Maertens

Optimizing management of dairy goat farms through individual animal data interpretation: A case study of smart farming in Spain pp. 27-38

Alejandro Belanche, A. Ignacio Martín-García, Javier Fernández-Álvarez, Javier Pleguezuelos, Ángel R. Mantecón and David R. Yáñez-Ruiz

The role and potential of blueberry in increasing deforestation in southern Georgia, United States pp. 39-48

Suraj Upadhaya and Puneet Dwivedi

A model to examine farm household trade-offs and synergies with an application to smallholders in Vietnam pp. 49-63

Lenora Ditzler, Adam M. Komarek, Tsai-Wei Chiang, Stéphanie Alvarez, Shantonu Abe Chatterjee, Carl Timler, Jessica E. Raneri, Natalia Estrada Carmona, Gina Kennedy and Jeroen C.J. Groot

Trade-offs between food security and forest exploitation by mestizo households in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon pp. 64-77

N. Andrieu, G. Blundo-Canto and G.S. Cruz-Garcia

Managing cow herd dynamics in environments of limited forage productivity and livestock marketing channels: An application to semi-arid Pacific island beef production using system dynamics pp. 78-93

Ty L. Tinsley, Steven Chumbley, Clay Mathis, Richard Machen and Benjamin L. Turner

Optimizing regional cropping systems with a dynamic adaptation strategy for water sustainable agriculture in the Hebei Plain pp. 94-106

Honglin Zhong, Laixiang Sun, Günther Fischer, Zhan Tian and Zhuoran Liang

Multi-objective simulation and optimisation of dairy sheep farms: Exploring trade-offs between economic and environmental outcomes pp. 107-118

D. Villalba, B. Díez-Unquera, A. Carrascal, A. Bernués and R. Ruiz

Regional variations in the link between drought indices and reported agricultural impacts of drought pp. 119-129

David J. Parsons, Dolores Rey, Maliko Tanguy and Ian P. Holman

Effects of uncertainty and farmers' risk aversion on optimal N fertilizer supply in wheat production in Germany pp. 130-139

Andreas Meyer-Aurich and Yusuf Nadi Karatay

A simple and parsimonious generalised additive model for predicting wheat yield in a decision support tool pp. 140-150

Kefei Chen, Rebecca A. O'Leary and Fiona H. Evans

To cluster or not to cluster farmers? Influences on network interactions, risk perceptions, and adoption of aquaculture practices pp. 151-160

Olivier M. Joffre, P. Marijn Poortvliet and Laurens Klerkx

A methodology for redesigning agroecological radical production systems at the farm level pp. 161-171

Solène Pissonnier, Arnaud Dufils and Pierre-Yves Le Gal

Agricultural land suitability analysis: State-of-the-art and outlooks for integration of climate change analysis pp. 172-208

Komlavi Akpoti, Amos T. Kabo-bah and Sander J. Zwart

Comparing soil respiration and carbon pools of a maize-wheat rotation and switchgrass for predicting land-use change-driven SOC variations pp. 209-217

Andrea Nocentini and Andrea Monti

Mathematical programming model (MMP) for optimization of regional cropping patterns decisions: A case study pp. 218-232

Mostafa Mardani Najafabadi, Saman Ziaee, Alireza Nikouei and Mahmoud Ahmadpour Borazjani

On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany pp. 233-243

Till Kuhn, David Schäfer, Karin Holm-Müller and Wolfgang Britz

Structural characteristics of organic dairy farms in four European countries and their association with the implementation of animal health plans pp. 244-253

Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Karin Sjöström, Philip Jones, Margret Krieger, Julie Duval, Felix van Soest, Albert Sundrum and Ulf Emanuelson

Soybean-maize off-season double crop system in Brazil as affected by El Niño Southern Oscillation phases pp. 254-267

Rogério de Souza Nóia Júnior and Paulo Cesar Sentelhas

Unpacking the systemic problems and blocking mechanisms of a regional agricultural innovation system: An integrated regional-functional-structural analysis pp. 268-280

Thai Thi Minh

Associations between global indices of risk management and agricultural development pp. 281-288

Elesandro Bornhofen, Thiago Gentil Ramires, Tábata Bergonci, Luiz Ricardo Nakamura and Ana Julia Righetto

A multi-objective approach to water and nutrient efficiency for sustainable agricultural intensification pp. 289-302

Ian Kropp, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Kalyanmoy Deb, Mohammad Abouali, Proteek C. Roy, Umesh Adhikari and Gerrit Hoogenboom

Machine learning-based integration of remotely-sensed drought factors can improve the estimation of agricultural drought in South-Eastern Australia pp. 303-316

Puyu Feng, Bin Wang, De Li Liu and Qiang Yu

Intercropping contributes to a higher technical efficiency in smallholder farming: Evidence from a case study in Gaotai County, China pp. 317-324

Yu Hong, Nico Heerink, Minjuan Zhao and Wopke van der Werf

CO2 – Emission, costs and capacity of different manure management practices- results from an advisory project pp. 325-334

Bjørn Gunnar Hansen

Point pattern simulation modelling of extensive and intensive chicken farming in Thailand: Accounting for clustering and landscape characteristics pp. 335-344

Celia Chaiban, Christophe Biscio, Weerapong Thanapongtharm, Michael Tildesley, Xiangming Xiao, Timothy P. Robinson, Sophie O. Vanwambeke and Marius Gilbert

Crop diversification and resilience of agriculture to climatic shocks: Evidence from India pp. 345-354

Pratap Birthal and Jaweriah Hazrana

Ecological infrastructures across Mediterranean agroecosystems: Towards an effective tool for evaluating their ecological quality pp. 355-363

Natalia Rosas-Ramos, Laura Baños-Picón, Valeria Trivellone, Marco Moretti, José Tormos and Josep D. Asís

The role of soil hydraulic properties in crop water use efficiency: A process-based analysis for some Brazilian scenarios pp. 364-377

Everton Alves Rodrigues Pinheiro, Quirijn de Jong van Lier and Jirka Šimůnek

Herbicide free agriculture? A bio-economic modelling application to Swiss wheat production pp. 378-392

Thomas Böcker, Niklas Möhring and Robert Finger

Modelling long-term risk profiles of wheat grain yield with limited climate data pp. 393-402

Gennady Bracho-Mujica, Peter T. Hayman and Bertram Ostendorf

Perspectives on the concept of rangeland carrying capacity, and their exploration by means of Noy-Meir's two-function model pp. 403-413

Eugene David Ungar

Increasing profitability, yields and yield stability through sustainable crop establishment practices in the rice-wheat systems of Nepal pp. 414-423

M. Devkota, K.P. Devkota, S. Acharya and A.J. McDonald

Ecological-economic modelling to compare the impact of organic and conventional farming on endangered grassland bird and butterfly species pp. 424-434

Charlotte Gerling, Astrid Sturm and Frank Wätzold

Long-term maintenance of grasslands on dairy farms is associated with redesign and hybridisation of practices, motivated by farmers' perceptions pp. 435-448

T. Petit, G. Martel, F. Vertès and S. Couvreur

Analysis of enteric methane emissions due to extreme variations in management practices of dairy-production systems pp. 449-457

Tristan Senga Kiessé, Michael S. Corson, Maguy Eugène, Joël Aubin and Aurélie Wilfart

Quantification of environmental-economic trade-offs in nutrient management policies pp. 458-468

William Kaye-Blake, Chris Schilling, Ross Monaghan, Ronaldo Vibart, Samuel Dennis and Elizabeth Post

Multi-criteria evolutionary algorithm optimization for horticulture crop management pp. 469-481

Jason West

The role of agriculture as a development tool for a regional economy pp. 482-490

Efstratios Loizou, Christos Karelakis, Konstantinos Galanopoulos and Konstadinos Mattas

A rapid, spatially explicit approach to describe cropping systems dynamics at the regional scale pp. 491-503

Davide Rizzo, Olivier Therond, Romain Lardy, Clément Murgue and Delphine Leenhardt

From plot to scale: ex-ante assessment of conservation agriculture in Zambia pp. 504-518

Adam M. Komarek, Hoyoung Kwon, Beliyou Haile, Christian Thierfelder, Munyaradzi J. Mutenje and Carlo Azzarri

Improved crop forecasts for the Australian macadamia industry from ensemble models pp. 519-523

David G. Mayer, Kerri A. Chandra and Jolyon R. Burnett

Risk of spread of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) in tomato crops under various climate change scenarios pp. 524-535

Rodrigo Soares Ramos, Lalit Kumar, Farzin Shabani and Marcelo Coutinho Picanço

Assessment of flood recession agriculture for food security in Northern Ghana: An optimization modelling approach pp. 536-543

Bedru B. Balana, Safietou Sanfo, Bruno Barbier, Timothy Williams and Shashi Kolavalli