Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 220, issue C, 2024

Regional-scale trade-offs among beef production, emissions and land use impacts: A cattle diet composition perspective

R. Wang, L. Puillet, C. Pinsard, P. Lescoat and F. Accatino

Integrating production, ecology and livelihood confers an efficiency-driven farming system based on the sustainable farmland framework

Yanshu Yin, Yingnan Zhang, Shu Wang, Ke Xu, Yang Zhang, Thomas Dogot and Changbin Yin

Can citizen science in water-related nature-based solutions deliver transformative participation in agri-food systems? A review

Taha Loghmani-Khouzani, Victoria Dany, Nadine Seifert, Kaveh Madani and Edeltraud Guenther

Participatory AI for inclusive crop improvement

Violet Lasdun, Davíd Güereña, Berta Ortiz-Crespo, Stephen Mutuvi, Michael Selvaraj and Teshale Assefa

Concurrent drought threatens wheat and maize production and will widen crop yield gaps in the future

Miaolei Hou, Yi Li, Asim Biswas, Xinguo Chen, Lulu Xie, Deli Liu, Linchao Li, Hao Feng, Shufang Wu, Yusuke Satoh, Alim Pulatov and Kadambot H.M. Siddique

The role of management and farming practices, yield gaps, nutrient balance, and institutional settings in the context of large-scale organic conversion in Bhutan

Tshotsho,, Christian Lippert, Sabine Zikeli, Tatjana Krimly, Ayoub Barissoul and Arndt Feuerbacher

Optimizing water and nitrogen inputs for sustainable wheat yields and minimal environmental impacts

Xiaomeng Huang, Xinpeng Xu, Qichao Zhu and Yitao Zhang

Eco-efficiency in the agricultural landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff and Silke Hüttel

Economic outcomes from adopting cereal-legume intercropping practices in Sweden

Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Vivian Wei Huang, Zhen Chen, Ortrud Jäck, Nasir Adam, Thanh Mai Ha, Martin Weih and Helena Hansson

Developing a sustainable assessment framework for identifying industrial water suitability: Perspective on the water-energy-food nexus

En Hua, Xinxueqi Han, Bernard A. Engel, Jiajie Guan, Shikun Sun, Pute Wu, Bing Wang and Yubao Wang

Adaptation strategies for winter wheat production at farmer fields under a changing climate: Employing crop and multiple global climate models

Muhammad Rizwan Shoukat, Jingjing Wang, Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman, Xin Hui, Gerrit Hoogenboom and Haijun Yan

Influence of crop-livestock integration on direct and indirect contributions of beef systems to food security

C. Battheu-Noirfalise, A. Mertens, H. Soyeurt, D. Stilmant, E. Froidmont and Y. Beckers

Perceived resilience of community supported agriculture in Germany

Anna Rosman, Joseph MacPherson, Marie Arndt and Katharina Helming

Characterization of crop sequences in Argentina. Spatial distribution and determinants

Diego de Abelleyra, Santiago Banchero and Santiago Verón

Nitrogen fertilizer use and climate interactions: Implications for maize yields in Kansas

Na Huang, Xiaomao Lin, Fei Lun, Ruiyun Zeng, Gretchen F. Sassenrath and Zhihua Pan

Complexity-aware principles for agri-food system interventions: Lessons from project encounters with complexity

Costanza Conti, Andrew Hall, Alastair Orr, Caroline Hambloch and Kai Mausch

Legume choice and planting configuration influence intercrop nutrient and yield gains through complementarity and selection effects in legume-based wheat intercropping systems

Muhammad Ali Raza, Atta Mohi Ud Din, Ghulam Abbas Shah, Wang Zhiqi, Ling Yang Feng, Hina Gul, Hassan Shehryar Yasin, Mohammad Shafiq ur Rahman, Chen Juan, Xue Liang, Raheela Rehman, Amal Mohamed Al Garawi, Wopke van der Werf, Ruijun Qin, Liu Xin, Muhammad Hayder Bin Khalid and Ma Zhongming

Evaluating the utility of weather generators in crop simulation models for in-season yield forecasting

Rohit Nandan, Varaprasad Bandaru, Pridhvi Meduri, Curtis Jones and Romulo Lollato

Improving smallholders' capacity building by creating an enabling environment for sustainable crop production

Yajuan Li, Xinxin Zhang, Qianni Huang, Donasius Pathera, Zhichao An, Xiaoqiang Jiao and Fusuo Zhang

Improved life cycle assessment (LCA) methods to account for crop-livestock interactions within agricultural systems

Pietro Goglio, Laurence G. Smith, Sophie Saget and Marilia I.S. Folegatti Matsuura

Understanding how governance arrangements within agricultural supply chains influence farmers' SAP adoption for adaptation and mitigation practices

Kusnandar Kusnandar, El Bram Apriyanto, Maulana Akbar, Eki Karsani Apriliyadi and Tomy Perdana

Bright spots of agroecology in the Netherlands: A spatial analysis of agroecological practices and income stability

Loes A. Verkuil, Peter H. Verburg, Christian Levers, Anne Elise Stratton and Catharina J.E. Schulp

FACE-ing climate change: Propagation of risks and opportunities for cropping systems in mid-high-latitude regions: A case study between U.S. and China corn belts

Jiazhong Zheng, Weihan Wang, Weiguang Wang, Tong Cui, Shuai Chen, Cundong Xu and Bernard Engel

Can we estimate farm size from field size? An empirical investigation of the field size to farm size relationship

Clemens Jänicke, Maximilian Wesemeyer, Cristina Chiarella, Tobia Lakes, Christian Levers, Patrick Meyfroidt, Daniel Müller, Marie Pratzer and Philippe Rufin

Using conditional Kendall's tau estimation to assess interactions among variables in dairy-cattle systems

Naomi Ouachene, Tristan Senga Kiessé and Michael S. Corson

Driving factors behind precision livestock farming tools adoption: The case of the pedometer on dairy farms

R. Selvaggi, G. Pappalardo, C. Zarbà and Jayson Lusk

Field monitoring reveals scope to reduce environmental impact of ware potato cultivation in the Netherlands without compromising yield

Arie Pieter Paulus Ravensbergen, Martin K. van Ittersum, Renske Hijbeek, Corné Kempenaar and Pytrik Reidsma

A spatially explicit assessment on the carrying capacity of livestock under minimum feed imports and artificial fertilizer use in Dutch agriculture

M. Lessmann, A. Kanellopoulos, J. Kros, F. Orsi and M. Bakker

Understanding farms trajectories methods to build sustainable futures on pioneer fronts: Lessons from a systematic literature review and a framework proposal

Andrés Vega-Martinez, Nathalie Cialdella and Nadine Andrieu

Research agenda for holistically assessing agricultural strategies for human micronutrient deficiencies in east and southern Africa

Philip Grabowski, Douglas Slater, Wanjiku Gichohi-Wainaina, Job Kihara, Regis Chikowo, Agnes Mwangwela, Dalitso Chimwala and Mateete Bekunda

Quantifying the adoption of conservation agriculture: Development and application of the Conservation Agriculture Appraisal Index

Laura I. Ruiz-Espinosa, Nele Verhulst, Floris van Ogtrop, Rebecca Cross, Bram Govaerts, Harm van Rees and Richard Trethowan

Applying life cycle assessment to European high nature value farming systems: Environmental impacts and biodiversity

M. Torres-Miralles, V. Kyttä, P. Jeanneret, M. Lamminen, P. Manzano, H.L. Tuomisto and I. Herzon

Developing sustainable dairy farms in the tropics: From policy to practice

Titis Apdini, Corina E. van Middelaar and Simon J. Oosting

Toward compatibility with national dairy production and climate goals through locally appropriate mitigation interventions in Kenya

Michael W. Graham, Şeyda Özkan, Claudia Arndt, Ricardo González-Quintero, Daniel Korir, Lutz Merbold, Anne Mottet, Phyllis W. Ndung'u, An Notenbaert and Sonja M. Leitner

Feasibility of machine learning-based rice yield prediction in India at the district level using climate reanalysis and remote sensing data

Djavan De Clercq and Adam Mahdi

How does pesticide reduction affect labour time and profitability? A crop production case study

Manika Rödiger, Alexander Zorn, Michael Mielewczik, Katja Heitkämper, Andreas Roesch and Nadja El Benni

A state-and-transition model framework to take stock of natural capital on farms

Frederick W. Rainsford, Matthew Appleby, Angela Hawdon, Alex Maisey, Rachel Lawrence, Imogen Semmler, Daniel O'Brien, Sue Ogilvy and James Q. Radford

Climate change is expected to severely impact Protected Designation of Origin olive growing regions over the Iberian Peninsula

Inês Guise, Bruno Silva, Frederico Mestre, José Muñoz-Rojas, Maria F. Duarte and José M. Herrera

Volume 219, issue C, 2024

Improving livelihood through crop-livestock integration: Insights from a farm trajectory model

Maximilien Cosme, Arouna Koné, Franck Pommereau and Cédric Gaucherel

Studying inclusive innovation with the right data: An empirical illustration from Ethiopia

Solomon Alemu, Frederic Kosmowski, James R. Stevenson, Paola Mallia, Lemi Taye and Karen Macours

Challenges and opportunities for human-centered design in CGIAR

Anna Müller, Jonathan Steinke, Hugo Dorado, Salome Keller, Daniel Jiménez, Berta Ortiz-Crespo and Charlotte Schumann

Land access and feeding strategies in post-Soviet livestock husbandry: Evidence from a rangeland system in Kazakhstan

Sarah Robinson and Martin Petrick

What traits of collaboration networks are associated with project success? The case of two CGIAR agricultural research programs for development

Aaron I. Plex Sulá, Valentina De Col, Berea A. Etherton, Yanru Xing, Amogh Agarwal, Lejla Ramić, Enrico Bonaiuti, Michael Friedmann, Claudio Proietti, Graham Thiele and Karen A. Garrett

Harmonizing methods to account for soil nitrous oxide emissions in Life Cycle Assessment of agricultural systems

Pietro Goglio, Simon Moakes, Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Klara Van Mierlo, Nina Adams, Fossey Maxime, Alberto Maresca, Manuel Romero-Huelva, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Laurence G. Smith, Giampiero Grossi, Ward Smith, Camillo De Camillis, Thomas Nemecek, Francesco Tei and Frank Willem Oudshoorn

How do farm and farmer attributes explain perceived resilience?

Alicia Prat-Benhamou, Alberto Bernués, Paula Gaspar, Joseba Lizarralde, Juan Manuel Mancilla-Leytón, Nerea Mandaluniz, Yolanda Mena, Bárbara Soriano, Daniel Ondé and Daniel Martín-Collado

Gender transformative innovation: Women's inclusion in livestock vaccine systems in northern Ghana

Nelly Njiru, Alessandra Galiè, Immaculate Omondi, Dalmas Omia, Agnes Loriba and Peter Awin

Promoting sustainable potato production - Insights from an integrated life cycle environmental–economic assessment

Tianzuo Zhang, Changting Li, Shuo Wang, Ziyue Cheng, Ziheng Li, Tianshu Xu, Xinying Zhou, Wei Chen and Jinglan Hong

Farmers' preferences for the design of a slurry hosing support scheme to combat soil compaction: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in Germany

Florian Tietjens, Daniel Schröer and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann

Sustainable production and dissemination of genetically improved farmed tilapia seed in smallholder farming systems: A case study from Timor-Leste

Jharendu Pant, Ram C. Bhujel, Adriano Dani F. du Carmu, Lucas Soares de Jesus, Silvino Gomes, Mario Pereira and Shwu Jiau Teoh

Dynamic evaluation of agricultural research for development supports innovation and responsible scaling through high-level inclusion

John Gargani, Petronella Chaminuka and Robert McLean

Exploring inclusive innovation: A case study in operationalizing inclusivity in digital agricultural innovations in Kenya

Nora Ndege, Fiona Marshall and Rob Byrne

European vineyards and their cultural landscapes exposed to record drought and heat

Eugenio Straffelini, Wendi Wang and Paolo Tarolli

Promoting sustainable smallholder farming systems in China

Xiaoxia Guo, Annah Lake Zhu, Xueqin Zhu, Zhichao An, Yan Xu, Minghao Zhuang, Chong Wang and Fusuo Zhang

Reducing N fertilization in the framework of the European Farm to Fork strategy under global change: Impacts on yields, N2O emissions and N leaching of temperate grasslands in the Alpine region

Márcio dos Reis Martins, Christof Ammann, Carolin Boos, Pierluigi Calanca, Ralf Kiese, Benjamin Wolf and Sonja G. Keel

Towards sustainable crop protection in agriculture: A framework for research and policy

Robert Finger, Jaap Sok, Emmanuel Ahovi, Sharmin Akter, Johan Bremmer, Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh, Carolien de Lauwere, Cordelia Kreft, Per Kudsk, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt, Chloe McCallum, Alfons Oude Lansink, Erwin Wauters and Niklas Möhring

Factors influencing farmers' preference for farmland consolidation in Nepal: Evidence from randomized conjoint experiment

Roshan Pun, Niraj Prakash Joshi and Sirish Pun

Computation of soil quality index after fifteen years of long-term tillage and residue management experiment (LT&RE) under rice wheat system

Ram K. Fagodiya, Gargi Sharma, Kamlesh Verma, Arvind Kumar Rai, Kailash Prajapat, Ranbir Singh, Priyanka Chandra, Parvender Sheoran, Rajender Kumar Yadav and A.K. Biswas

Water-energy-food-greenhouse gas nexus: An approach to solutions for water scarcity in agriculture of a semi-arid region

Farnaz Ershadfath, Ali Shahnazari, Mahmoud Raeini Sarjaz, Omid Ali Moghadasi, Farshad Soheilifard, Soghra Andaryani, Rezvan Khosravi, Raheleh Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Hashemi, Dennis Trolle and Jørgen Eivind Olesen

Water quality impacts of recycling nutrients using organic fertilizers in circular agricultural scenarios

W. Lisenbee, A. Saha, P. Mohammadpour, R. Cibin, J. Kaye, C. Grady and I. Chaubey

Special issue opening editorial: Designing, assessing and scaling approaches for integrated seed sector development

Walter Simon de Boef, Berber Kramer, Deborah Nabuuma, Chris O. Ojiewo, David Spielman and Tjeerd-Jan Stomph

Creating territorialized sustainability indices to evaluate pollination

Mariana Paola Mazzei, José Luis Vesprini, Tom David Breeze, María Del Rosario Iglesias and Leonardo Galetto

Drivers of cocoa yield and growth in young monoculture and agroforestry systems

Antonio Jesús Ariza-Salamanca, Rafael Mª. Navarro-Cerrillo, Jayne Crozier, Clare Stirling, Agnese Mancini, Wilma Blaser-Hart and Pablo González-Moreno

Integrating sustainability assessment tools with life cycle analysis for agroecological systems: A UK case study

Sally Westaway, Tomasz Żyłowski, Sam Hardiman and Laurence G. Smith

A substance flow analysis to assess the potential benefits of livestock based circularity for nutrient use efficiency and carbon return to soils in the agro-food-waste system of a tropical island

Manon Alvanitakis, Vivien Kleinpeter, Mathieu Vigne, Anthony Benoist and Jonathan Vayssières

Climate and biodiversity impact of beef and lamb production – A case study in Sweden

Serina Ahlgren, Stefan Wirsenius, Per Toräng, Annelie Carlsson, Anett Seeman, Danira Behaderovic, Olle Kvarnbäck, Nargish Parvin and Anna Hessle

Multi-objective models for crop rotation planning problems

Roberto Da Silva Gervasio Pontes, Diego Nunes Brandão, Fábio Luiz Usberti and Laura Silva De Assis

The amplified effect of market size on innovation: A comparative analysis of pea and wheat seed value chains in France

Aline Fugeray-Scarbel and Stéphane Lemarié

Refining a middle-range theory of inclusive innovation processes in agrifood systems in the Global South

Elizabeth Hoffecker and Eunhae Lee

Irrigation expansion shows potential for increased maize yield and reduced nitrogen leaching in the Midwest US

Kelsie M. Ferin and Christopher J. Kucharik

Living labs in agrifood studies: An opportunity to revisit fundamental questions about participatory research?

Ane Kirstine Aare and Stine Rosenlund Hansen

Integrating the land–water–climate nexus approach with spatial-based sustainable agriculture production

Jutaporn Keson, Thapat Silalertruksa and Shabbir H. Gheewala

Translating theory into practice: A flexible decision-making tool to support the design and implementation of climate-smart agriculture projects

Conor Walsh, Mara Renn, Dominik Klauser, Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Jeremy Haggar, Rouf Abdur, Richard J. Hopkins and Farhad Zamil

Integrating an abandoned farmland simulation model (AFSM) using system dynamics and CLUE-S for sustainable agriculture

Wei Song, Dazhi Yang and Yanwei Wang