Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 136, issue C, 2015

Using agro-environmental models to design a sustainable benchmark for the sustainable value method pp. 1-13

Paolo Merante, Steven Van Passel and Cesare Pacini

Possible implications of dietary changes on nutrient fluxes, environment and land use in Austria pp. 14-29

S. Thaler, M. Zessner, M. Weigl, H. Rechberger, K. Schilling and H. Kroiss

Impacts of agricultural water interventions on farm income: An example from the Kothapally watershed, India pp. 30-38

L. Karlberg, K.K. Garg, J. Barron and S.P. Wani

Organic agriculture values and practices in Portugal and Italy pp. 39-45

Isabel Dinis, Livia Ortolani, Riccardo Bocci and Cláudia Brites

Eco-efficient production of spring barley in a changed climate: A Life Cycle Assessment including primary data from future climate scenarios pp. 46-60

Monia Niero, Cathrine H. Ingvordsen, Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Marja Jalli, Michael F. Lyngkjær, Michael Z. Hauschild and Rikke B. Jørgensen

Organic versus conventional systems in viticulture: Comparative effects on spiders and carabids in vineyards and adjacent forests pp. 61-69

Enrico Caprio, Beatrice Nervo, Marco Isaia, Gianni Allegro and Antonio Rolando

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of EU agri-environment policy measures through evaluation of farm and field-level environmental and economic performance pp. 70-78

G. Cesare Pacini, Paolo Merante, Giulio Lazzerini and Steven Van Passel

Science for food, climate protection and welfare: An economic analysis of plant breeding research in Germany pp. 79-84

Hermann Lotze-Campen, Harald von Witzke, Steffen Noleppa and Gerald Schwarz

The profitability of harvesting grass silages at early maturity stages: An analysis of dairy farming systems in Norway pp. 85-95

O. Flaten, A.K. Bakken and Å.T. Randby

Toward sustainable coffee production in Vietnam: More coffee with less water pp. 96-105

Upali A. Amarasinghe, Chu Thai Hoanh, Dave D'haeze and Tran Quoc Hung

Substitution of corn silage with sorghum silages in lactating cow diets: In vivo methane emission and global warming potential of milk production pp. 106-113

Stefania Colombini, Maddalena Zucali, Luca Rapetti, G. Matteo Crovetto, Anna Sandrucci and Luciana Bava

Dry sowing increases farm level wheat yields but not production risks in a Mediterranean environment pp. 114-124

Andrew L. Fletcher, Michael J. Robertson, Doug G. Abrecht, Darshan L. Sharma and Dean P. Holzworth

Effects of technical interventions on flexibility of farming systems in Burkina Faso: Lessons for the design of innovations in West Africa pp. 125-137

Nadine Andrieu, Katrien Descheemaeker, Thierry Sanou and Eduardo Chia

Improving greenhouse gas emissions intensities of subtropical and tropical beef farming systems using Leucaena leucocephala pp. 138-146

Matthew T. Harrison, Chris McSweeney, Nigel W. Tomkins and Richard J. Eckard

Volume 135, issue C, 2015

Managing greenhouse gas emissions in two major dairy regions of New Zealand: A system-level evaluation pp. 1-9

Alfredo A. Adler, Graeme J. Doole, Alvaro J. Romera and Pierre C. Beukes

Dynamic changes in spatial competition for the nitrogen fertilizer industry in the United States pp. 10-19

William Wilson, Sumadhur Shakya and Bruce Dahl

An analysis of the socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of conservation agriculture as a climate change mitigation activity in Australian dryland grain production pp. 20-30

Jean-Francois Rochecouste, Paul Dargusch, Donald Cameron and Carl Smith

Parameter and uncertainty estimation for maize, peanut and cotton using the SALUS crop model pp. 31-47

K.A. Dzotsi, B. Basso and J.W. Jones

When do I want to know and why? Different demands on sugarcane yield predictions pp. 48-56

Felipe Ferreira Bocca, Luiz Henrique Antunes Rodrigues and Nilson Antonio Modesto Arraes

The financial implications of converting farmland to state-supported environmental plantings in the Darling Downs region, Queensland pp. 57-65

Tek Narayan Maraseni and Geoff Cockfield

Leverages for on-farm innovation from farm typologies? An illustration for family-based dairy farms in north-west Michoacán, Mexico pp. 66-76

José Cortez-Arriola, Walter A.H. Rossing, Ricardo D. Améndola Massiotti, Johannes M.S. Scholberg, Jeroen C.J. Groot and Pablo Tittonell

Resource use assessment of an agricultural system from a life cycle perspective – a dairy farm as case study pp. 77-89

Sophie Huysveld, Veerle Van linden, Steven De Meester, Nico Peiren, Hilde Muylle, Ludwig Lauwers and Jo Dewulf

Evaluation of the DSSAT-CSM for simulating yield and soil organic C and N of a long-term maize and wheat rotation experiment in the Loess Plateau of Northwestern China pp. 90-104

Zhuo Ting Li, J.Y. Yang, C.F. Drury and G. Hoogenboom

Long-term reduction of nitrogen fertilizer use through knowledge training in rice production in China pp. 105-111

Jikun Huang, Zhurong Huang, Xiangping Jia, Ruifa Hu and Cheng Xiang

Application of partial order ranking to identify enhancement potentials for the provision of selected ecosystem services by different land use strategies pp. 112-121

Penka Tsonkova, Christian Böhm, Ansgar Quinkenstein and Dirk Freese

Information networks that generate economic value: A study on clusters of adopters of new or improved technologies and practices among oil palm growers in Mexico pp. 122-132

Norman Aguilar-Gallegos, Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez, Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, Jorge Aguilar-Ávila and Laurens Klerkx

Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us pp. 133-140

Lance W. Robinson, Polly J. Ericksen, Sabrina Chesterman and Jeffrey S. Worden

A conceptual study of value chain analysis as a tool for assessing a veterinary surveillance system for poultry in Great Britain pp. 143-158

Richard M. Irvine

Volume 134, issue C, 2015

Crop residue management and soil health: A systems analysis pp. 6-16

Marie-Soleil Turmel, Alicia Speratti, Frédéric Baudron, Nele Verhulst and Bram Govaerts

Determinants of maize stover utilization as feed, fuel and soil amendment in mixed crop-livestock systems, Ethiopia pp. 17-23

Moti Jaleta, Menale Kassie and Olaf Erenstein

Feeding, crop residue and manure management for integrated soil fertility management – A case study from Kenya pp. 24-35

A. Castellanos-Navarrete, P. Tittonell, M.C. Rufino and K.E. Giller

Trade-offs around the use of biomass for livestock feed and soil cover in dairy farms in the Alaotra lake region of Madagascar pp. 36-47

K. Naudin, G. Bruelle, P. Salgado, E. Penot, E. Scopel, M. Lubbers, N. de Ridder and K.E. Giller

Economic trade-offs of biomass use in crop-livestock systems: Exploring more sustainable options in semi-arid Zimbabwe pp. 48-60

Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Diego Valbuena, Patricia Masikati, Katrien Descheemaeker, Justice Nyamangara, Lieven Claessens, Olaf Erenstein, Andre van Rooyen and Daniel Nkomboni

Social and income trade-offs of conservation agriculture practices on crop residue use in Mexico’s central highlands pp. 61-75

Tina D. Beuchelt, Carolina T. Camacho Villa, Lutz Göhring, Víctor M. Hernández Rodríguez, Jon Hellin, Kai Sonder and Olaf Erenstein

Property rights enforcement and no-till adoption in crop-livestock systems pp. 76-83

Nicholas Magnan

From farm scale synergies to village scale trade-offs: Cereal crop residues use in an agro-pastoral system of the Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso pp. 84-96

N. Andrieu, J. Vayssières, M. Corbeels, M. Blanchard, E. Vall and P. Tittonell

Multi-scale trade-off analysis of cereal residue use for livestock feeding vs. soil mulching in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe pp. 97-106

Frédéric Baudron, Sylvestre Delmotte, Marc Corbeels, Juan M. Herrera and Pablo Tittonell

Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia pp. 107-118

Diego Valbuena, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Olaf Erenstein, Nils Teufel, Alan Duncan, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Braja Swain, Kindu Mekonnen, Ibro Germaine and Bruno Gérard

Tradeoffs around crop residue biomass in smallholder crop-livestock systems – What’s next? pp. 119-128

Pablo Tittonell, Bruno Gérard and Olaf Erenstein

Volume 133, issue C, 2015

Taking from cotton to grow maize: The shifting practices of small-holder farmers in the cotton belt of Mali pp. 1-13

Paul Laris, Jeremy Foltz and Briton Voorhees

A succession-energy framework for reducing non-target impacts of annual crop production pp. 14-21

Richard G. Smith

Socioeconomic and environmental assessment of biodiesel crops on family farming systems in Brazil pp. 22-34

João Guilherme Dal Belo Leite, Flávio Barbosa Justino, João Vasco Silva, Madeleine J. Florin and Martin K. van Ittersum

A diagnostic system to assess sustainability at a farm level: The SOSTARE model pp. 35-53

Maria Luisa Paracchini, Claudia Bulgheroni, Giorgio Borreani, Ernesto Tabacco, Alessandro Banterle, Danilo Bertoni, Graziano Rossi, Gilberto Parolo, Roberto Origgi and Claudio De Paola

Conceptualising farming systems for agricultural development research: Cases from Eastern and Southern Africa pp. 54-62

Stephen Whitfield, Jami L. Dixon, Brian Mulenga and Hambulo Ngoma

Whole-farm economic, risk and resource-use trade-offs associated with integrating forages into crop–livestock systems in western China pp. 63-72

Adam M. Komarek, Lindsay W. Bell, Jeremy P.M. Whish, Michael J. Robertson and William D. Bellotti

Efficient economic and environmental management of pastoral systems: Theory and application pp. 73-84

Graeme J. Doole and Ross Kingwell

Efficiency and stability in subtropical beef cattle grazing systems in the northwest of Argentina pp. 85-96

J.A. Nasca, C.R. Feldkamp, J.I. Arroquy and D. Colombatto

The economics of irrigating wheat in a humid climate – A study in the East of England pp. 97-108

D. El Chami, J.W. Knox, A. Daccache and E.K. Weatherhead

Resource use and greenhouse gas intensity of Australian beef production: 1981–2010 pp. 109-118

S.G. Wiedemann, B.K. Henry, E.J. McGahan, T. Grant, C.M. Murphy and G. Niethe

Diversity in success: Interaction between external interventions and local actions in three rice farming areas in Benin pp. 119-130

Edmond Totin, Barbara van Mierlo, Roch Mongbo and Cees Leeuwis

Spatio-temporal performance of large-scale Gezira Irrigation Scheme, Sudan pp. 131-142

Islam Sabry Al Zayed, Nadir Ahmed Elagib, Lars Ribbe and Jürgen Heinrich

Impact of prospective climate change on water resources and crop yields in the Indrawati basin, Nepal pp. 143-157

I. Palazzoli, S. Maskey, S. Uhlenbrook, E. Nana and D. Bocchiola

Systemic adaptations to climate change in southern Australian grasslands and livestock: Production, profitability, methane emission and ecosystem function pp. 158-166

Afshin Ghahramani and Andrew D. Moore

Ecological recycling agriculture can reduce inorganic nitrogen losses – model results from three Finnish catchments pp. 167-176

Kirsti Granlund, Katri Rankinen, Randall Etheridge, Pentti Seuri and Jouni Lehtoranta

Potential effects of perfect seasonal climate forecasting on agricultural markets, welfare and land use: A case study of Spain pp. 177-189

Hyung Sik Choi, Uwe Schneider, Livia Rasche, Junbo Cui, Erwin Schmid and Hermann Held