Agricultural Systems

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Volume 218, issue C, 2024

Optimizing machine learning for agricultural productivity: A novel approach with RScv and remote sensing data over Europe

Seyed Babak Haji Seyed Asadollah, Antonio Jodar-Abellan and Miguel Ángel Pardo

How to concurrently achieve economic, environmental, and animal welfare performances in French suckler cattle farms

Larissa Mysko, Jean-Joseph Minviel, Patrick Veysset and Isabelle Veissier

Intercropping impacts growth in the forage cactus, but complementarity affords greater productivity, competitive ability, biological efficiency and economic return

Kaique Renan da Silva Salvador, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Cleber Pereira Alves, George do Nascimento Araújo Júnior, Marcelo José da Silva, Leonardo Francelino de Souza, Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz, Fleming Sena Campos, Glayciane Costa Gois, José Geraldo Eugênio de França, José Nunes Filho, Antonio José Steidle Neto, Luciana Sandra Bastos de Souza and Thieres George Freire da Silva

Organic waste recycling for green and sustainable nitrogen management of fruit production systems in China

Jiale Wang, Mohammad Naeem Lali, Zhihao Dong, Huaye Xiong, Yuheng Wang, Li Zhao, Jingkun Zhao, Xiaozhong Wang, Xiaojun Shi, Prakash Lakshmanan and Yueqiang Zhang

Exploring farmer choices in Southern Togo: Utilizing a strategy game to understand decision-making in agricultural practices

Ivan P. Novotny, Nastasia Boul Lefeuvre, Koffi S. Attiogbé, Atakpama Wouyo, Folega Fousseni, Anne Dray and Patrick O. Waeber

Nutrient imbalances of smallholder dairy farming systems in Indonesia: The relevance of manure management

Windi Al Zahra, Corina E. van Middelaar, Simon J. Oosting and Imke J.M. de Boer

Understanding the maize yield gap in Southern Malawi by integrating ground and remote-sensing data, models, and household surveys11Submitted to Agricultural Systems

Daniela Anghileri, Tendai Polite Chibarabada, Agossou Gadedjisso-Tossou, Ailish Craig, Chengxiu Li, Yang Lu, Ellasy Gulule Chimimba, Oscar Kambombe, Frank Musa, Cosmo Ngongondo, Levis Eneya, Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, Abdou Ali, Sosten Chiotha, Jadunandan Dash and Justin Sheffield

Climate mitigation potential and economic costs of natural climate solutions for main cropping systems across China

Yicheng Wang, Fulu Tao, Yi Chen and Lichang Yin

Soil fertility in mixed crop-livestock farming systems of Punjab, Pakistan: The role of institutional factors and sustainable land management practices

Asjad Tariq Sheikh, Ashok Kumar Chaudhary, Samaa Mufti, Stephen Davies and Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen

Why do corporate farms survive in Central and Eastern Europe?

Imre Fertő, Štefan Bojnec, Ichiro Iwasaki and Yoshisada Shida

Measurement and analysis of regional water-energy-food nexus resilience with an improved hybrid kernel extreme learning machine model based on a dung beetle optimization algorithm

Zhiqin Zhang, Liangliang Zhang, Dong Liu, Nan Sun, Mo Li, Muhammad Abrar Faiz, Tianxiao Li, Song Cui and Muhammad Imran Khan

Integrated adoption of controlled grazing and multipurpose fodder trees for enhancing tree cover in dryland farming systems

Gebremariam Yaebiyo, Tewodros Tadesse, Emiru Birhane, Kiros Meles Hadgu, Solomon Kiros and Tigabu Molla Meresa

Achieving sustainable crop management: A holistic approach to crop competitiveness assessment and structure optimization with dual natural-social environmental impacts

Shimeng Ma, Coen J. Ritsema and Sufen Wang

Crop diversification in perennial plantation systems of Sri Lanka: Patterns, determinants and challenges

R.M. Prabodha Subhashini Rathnayaka, R.P. Dayani Gunathilaka and Christopher M. Fleming

Sustainable dairy sector of an emerging economy: An empirical quest based on India

Avijit Sarkar, Hemant Gupta and Avijan Dutta

Understanding the Ivorian market vegetables production: Is the agroecological transition the right strategy?

Moussa Dosso, Jacob Nandjui and Angel Avadí

Whole-farm yield map datasets – Data validation for exploring spatiotemporal yield and economic stability

David E. Clarke, Elizabeth A. Stockdale, Jacqueline A. Hannam, Benjamin P. Marchant and Stephen H. Hallett

Small woody features in agricultural areas: Agroforestry systems of overlooked significance in Europe

Judit Rubio-Delgado, Susanne Schnabel, J. Francisco Lavado-Contador and Ulrich Schmutz

Conciliation or a confrontation of agricultural visions? A characterisation of the networks and key actors for sustainable agrifood transformations in the Bauges

Carine Pachoud

Assessment of food-feed competition for producing milk in cow dairy farms

Nicola Maria Palladini, Giulia Gislon, Anna Sandrucci, Maddalena Zucali, Alberto Tamburini and Luciana Bava

Fostering action perspectives to support crop diversification: Lessons from 25 change-oriented case studies across Europe

Margot Leclère, Lenn Gorissen, Yvonne Cuijpers, Luca Colombo, Mirjam Schoonhoven-Speijer and Walter A.H. Rossing

Mapping drivers of land conversion among smallholders: A global systems perspective

Nicholas Valcourt, Jeffrey Walters, Sara Carlson, Katie Safford, Lexine Hansen, Diane Russell, Kristi Tabaj and Rachel Golden Kroner

Milk production systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Biophysical, socio-economic, and environmental performance

Santiago Fariña, Osiris Vigil Moreno, Francisco Candioti, Cristóbal Villanueva, William Sánchez Ledezma, Cristian J. Moscoso, Cecilia Cajarville, Verónica Charlón, Luis Urbina Abaunza, Antonio Guacapiña Viteri, Silvia Chirife, Domiciano Herrera and Sofía Stirling

Advancing inclusive and effective agri-food systems research for development: A short communication

Fetien Abera, Magali Garcia, Holger Meinke, Christine Negra, Nompumelelo Obokoh and Allison Grove Smith

The water footprint of Spanish Ternera de Navarra PGI beef: Conventional versus novel feeding based on vegetable by-products from the local food industry

Pablo González-Martínez, Irantzu Goenaga, Sara León-Ecay, Joana de las Heras, Noelia Aldai, Kizkitza Insausti and Maite M. Aldaya

Conventional or organic cattle farming? Trade-offs between crop yield, livestock capacity, organic premiums, and government payments

Rasmus Bang, Bjørn Gunnar Hansen, Mario Guajardo, Jon Kristian Sommerseth, Ola Flaten and Leif Jarle Asheim

Changing pasture management practices on the Greek island of Samothraki: Obstacles and opportunities

Marjan Jongen, Dominik Noll, Giorgos Maskalidis, Tiago Domingos and Marina Fischer-Kowalski

Heavy steers and heifers run at low stocking rates enhance drought resilience in a pastoral region of Australia

C. d'Abbadie, R. Kingwell, P. Vercoe, B. Plunkett and A. Peggs

An empirical analysis of carbon emission efficiency in food production across the Yangtze River basin: Towards sustainable agricultural development and carbon neutrality

Ehsan Elahi, Min Zhu, Zainab Khalid and Kezhen Wei

Typology analysis of cattle farms in Northeast Algeria: Potential for sustainable development

Aissam Bousbia, Yassine Gueroui, Abdellah Aouadi, Mahilet Dawit Teweldebirhan, Rui José Branquinho Bessa, George Symeon and Sofiane Boudalia

Digitalisation strategies in the agri-food system: The case of PDO Parmigiano Reggiano

Stefano Ciliberti, Angelo Frascarelli, Bianca Polenzani, Gianluca Brunori and Gaetano Martino

Phenological and epidemiological impacts of climate change on peach production

Chiara Vanalli, Andrea Radici, Renato Casagrandi, Marino Gatto and Daniele Bevacqua

Agroecological alternatives for small and medium tropical crop farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon for adaptation to climate change

Marco Vizuete-Montero, Pablo Carrera-Oscullo, Nancy De Las Mercedes Barreno-Silva, Maritza Sánchez, Hilter Figueroa-Saavedra and Wladimir Moya

Equity principles: Using social theory for more effective social transformation in agricultural research for development

Erin McGuire, Maha Al-Zu'bi, Maria Boa-Alvarado, Thi Thu Giang Luu, Janelle M. Sylvester and Eva Marina Valencia Leñero

Typology analysis of Egyptian agricultural households reveals increasing income diversification and abandonment of agricultural activities

Aimen Sattar, Calum Brown, Mark Rounsevell and Peter Alexander

Enhancing plant growth in aquaponic systems via potassium manipulation in fish feeds: A pilot study of tailored feeds bridging nutritional gaps in aquaponics

Stefano Francisco Pereira Duarte and Brunno Silva Cerozi

Farmer decision making for hybrid maize seed purchases: Effects of brand loyalty, price discounts and product information

Pieter Rutsaert, Jason Donovan, Mike Murphy and Vivian Hoffmann

Do farm advisory organizations promote sustainability? A study in Greece

Chrysanthi Charatsari, Anastasios Michailidis and Evagelos D. Lioutas

Impact of new maize variety adoption on yield and fertilizer input in China: Implications for sustainable food and agriculture

Feifei Chen, Huanguang Qiu, Yilin Zhao, Xun Wei and Xiangyuan Wan

Guidance on farmer participation in the design, testing and scaling of agricultural innovations

Lukas Pawera, Ravishankar Manickam, Carolyne Wangungu, Uon Bonnarith, Pepijn Schreinemachers and Srinivasan Ramasamy

Factors limiting the sustainable implementation of the rice-crayfish system in Hubei Province, China

Shuhao Tan, Yaya Zhang, Qing Liu and Qingyong Zhang

Linking types of East Javanese rice farming systems to farmers' perceptions of complex rice systems

Uma Khumairoh, Heitor Mancini Teixeira, Sudhir Yadav, Rogier P.O. Schulte, Mary Ann Batas, Degi Harja Asmara, Rica Joy Flor, Rohmatin Agustina, Adi Setiawan, Euis E. Nurlaelih, Mangku Purnomo and Jeroen C.J. Groot

Corn grain and silage yield class prediction for zone delineation using high-resolution satellite imagery

S. Sunoj, Benjamin Polson, Isha Vaish, Manuel Marcaida, Louis Longchamps, Jan van Aardt and Quirine M. Ketterings

Cropland fragmentation change across China over the last two decades

Na Zhao, Kainan Chen, Xiaoran Wu, Lili Zhang and Wei Wang

Risk-based evaluations of competing agronomic climate adaptation strategies: The case of rice planting strategies in the indo-Gangetic Plains

Maxwell Mkondiwa and Anton Urfels

Volume 217, issue C, 2024

Decoupling trend and drivers between grain water‑carbon footprint and economy-ecology development in China

Jingxin Sun, Shikun Sun, Yali Yin, Yubao Wang, Jinfeng Zhao, Yihe Tang and Pute Wu

Adapting crop land-use in line with a changing climate improves productivity, prosperity and reduces greenhouse gas emissions

Shibo Guo, Jin Zhao, Chuang Zhao, Erjing Guo, Zhijuan Liu, Matthew Tom Harrison, Ke Liu, Tianyi Zhang and Xiaoguang Yang

The role of farmers' networks in sourcing planting material and information in a context of agroforestry transition in Madagascar

Juliette Mariel, Isabelle Sanchez, Nicolas Verzelen, François Massol, Stéphanie M. Carrière and Vanesse Labeyrie

Increasing food and feed self-sufficiency and avoiding manure N surplus in eastern regions of China through a spatial crop-livestock optimisation model

Yang Li, Yong Shi, Xiangzheng Deng, Zhigang Sun and Francesco Accatino

Gender, agricultural risk perceptions, and maize seed systems: A case study of drought-tolerant maize varieties in Uganda

Astrid Mastenbroek, Tatiana Gumucio and Josephine Nakanwagi

Agricultural adaptation to the environmental and social consequences of climate change in mixed farming systems: Evidence from North Xinjiang, China

Kai Tang

Greenhouse gas emissions from a diversity of sheep production systems in the United States

Erin B. Recktenwald and Richard A. Ehrhardt

Effects of grazing and climate change on aboveground standing biomass and sheep live weight changes in the desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, China

Yuehua Wang, Zhongwu Wang, Lianhai Wu, Haigang Li, Jiangwen Li, Aimin Zhu, Yuxi Jin and Guodong Han

System shift in rice: Processes and pathways of change in rice-based production systems of Southeast Asia

Mathias Becker, Richelyn Clavero, Ohnmar Min Khin, Sichantha Kong, Zar Ni Maung, Punlork Men, Shyam Pariyar, Manuel José C. Regalado, Sophoanrith Ro and Kyaw Kyaw Win

Agriculture-livestock-forestry nexus and household income diversification: Experiences from selected villages of West Bengal, India

Pulak Mishra, Pinaki Das, Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Akash Dandapat and Soumita Dasgupta

Diversified cropping systems for reducing soil erosion and nutrient loss and for increasing crop productivity and profitability in rainfed environments

V. Visha Kumari, S.S. Balloli, Manoranjan Kumar, D.B.V. Ramana, M. Prabhakar, M. Osman, A.K. Indoria, M. Manjunath, V. Maruthi, G. Ravindra Chary, M.A. Sarath Chandran, K.A. Gopinath, G. Venkatesh, M.S. Rao, V.K. Singh and J. Timsina

Supporting a systems approach to scaling for all; insights from using the Scaling Scan tool

Lennart Woltering, Eva M. Valencia Leñero, Maria Boa-Alvarado, Jelle Van Loon, Jan Ubels and Cees Leeuwis

Economic impact of peste des petits ruminants on small ruminant production in Senegal: Gender considerations within a system dynamics modelling approach

J. Aboah, Z.A. Campbell, M. Dione, P. Kotchofa, I. Guy, B. Wieland, M.M. Lo and K.M. Rich

Regional sustainability of the Kattunayakan tribe in Kerala, India through the enhancement of agricultural, livestock, and livelihood options

Rajeev Ramakrishnan, S. Rajendrakumar and Nikhil K. Kothurkar

Developing causal loop diagrams for the perusal of soil health in agricultural practices – A case study of rice nursery cultivation practices in India

Shraddha Vekhande and Bakul Rao

Comparing apples and pears: Linking capitals and capacities to assess the resilience of commercial farming operations

Willem Malherbe, Reinette Biggs and Nadia Sitas

Diversification strategies have a stabilizing effect for income and food availability during livelihood shocks: Evidence from small-scale aquaculture-agriculture systems in Myanmar during the COVID-19 pandemic

Quanli Wang, Cristiano M. Rossignoli, Eric Brako Dompreh, Jie Su, Don Griffiths, Khaing Kyaw Htoo, Hsu Myat Nway, Michael Akester and Alexandros Gasparatos

Evaluation of annual production and economic benefits of tropical rice-crayfish coculture system in China

Yifan Li, Xucan Ku, Shaodong Wang, Guoping Pan, Qiyun Xu, Hongyan Liu and Jiaolong Li

Evaluation of land suitability for surface irrigation under changing climate in a tropical setting of Uganda, East Africa

Joshua Wanyama, Prossie Nakawuka, Erion Bwambale, Shafik Kiraga, Nicholas Kiggundu, Bernard Barasa and Abia Katimbo

Climate services for agriculture: Steering towards inclusive innovation in Australian climate services design and delivery

Stephen Snow, Simon Fielke, Aysha Fleming, Emma Jakku, Yuwan Malakar, Charles Turner, Tammy Hunter, Sigrid Tijs and Graham Bonnett

Using a two-price market value framework to value differences in metabolizable energy concentration of pasture across seasons

C.D. Lewis, K.F. Smith, J.L. Jacobs, C.K.M. Ho, C.M. Leddin, P.J. Moate and B. Malcolm

How farmer preferences and climate change beliefs shape BMP adoption

Sarah Van Wyngaarden, Sven Anders and Debra Davidson

Harvesting insights for transformation: Developing and testing a participatory food systems modeling framework in Southern Senegal's poultry system

María Bustamante, Carlota Rillo, Ibrahima Niang, Lauren Baker and Pablo Vidueira

Modelling the effects of potential climate change on the dynamics of multi-species mountain pastures: A case study in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

S. Morgese, F. Casale, E. Movedi, R. Confalonieri and D. Bocchiola

Economic impacts of constrained replacement heifer supply in dairy herds

Pranav S. Kulkarni, Rene Haijema, Henk Hogeveen, Wilma Steeneveld and Monique C.M. Mourits

Sustainable management strategies for balancing crop yield, water use efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions

Junfang Zhao, Jiaqi Yang, Hongfei Xie, Xi Qin and Ruixi Huang

Applying assessment methods to diversified farming systems: Simple adjustment or complete overhaul?

Marie-Angélina Magne, Aude Alaphilippe, Annette Bérard, Sylvie Cournut, Bertrand Dumont, Marie Gosme, Mickael Hedde, Kevin Morel, Sylvie Mugnier, Virginie Parnaudeau, Marie-Odile Nozières-Petit, Raphaël Paut, Thomas Puech, Corinne Robert, Julie Ryschawy, Rodolphe Sabatier, Fabien Stark, Aude Vialatte and Guillaume Martin

Evidence of the potential benefits of digital technology integration in Asian agronomy and forestry: A systematic review

Zulfadli Hazim Zul Azlan, Syahrul Nizam Junaini and Noor Alamshah Bolhassan

Identifying spatial and temporal dynamics and driving factors of cultivated land fragmentation in Shaanxi province

Yu Zhao and Qi Feng

Co-designing a landscape experiment to investigate diversified cropping systems

Kathrin Grahmann, Moritz Reckling, Ixchel Hernández-Ochoa, Marco Donat, Sonoko Bellingrath-Kimura and Frank Ewert

Marginal lands between recovery and valorization. An inclusive definition to support bio-energy supply chains. The Southern Italy contexts case study

Elena Cervelli, Pier Francesco Recchi, Massimo Fagnano, Ester Scotto di Perta and Stefania Pindozzi

Ex-ante priority setting in crop breeding: Towards inclusive innovation for impact

M. Occelli, E. Compaore, D. Brown, F. Barry, L.S. Poda, F. Traore, A. Waongo, D. Rubin and H.A. Tufan

Can organic rice certification curb the pressure of the agrarian transition in Cambodia? A farming system approach

Alexia Dayet, Jean-Christophe Diepart, Jean-Christophe Castella, Sreymom Sieng, Rada Kong, Florent Tivet and Julien Demenois

Gender bias in customer perceptions: The case of agro-input dealers in Uganda

Anusha De, Caroline Miehe and Bjorn Van Campenhout

Improving canopy transpiration model performance by considering concurrent hot and dry conditions

Dianyu Chen, Xiaotao Hu, Xingwu Duan, Daxin Yang, Youke Wang, Xing Wang and Muhammad Saifullah