Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

Current editor(s): J.W. Hansen, P.K. Thornton and P.B.M. Berentsen

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Volume 120, issue C, 2013

Life cycle assessment of phosphorus use efficient wheat grown in Australia pp. 2-9

Bradley G. Ridoutt, Enli Wang, Peerasak Sanguansri and Zhongkui Luo

A simple regional downscaling approach for spatially distributing land use types for agricultural land pp. 10-19

Dominique Gärtner, Armin Keller and Rainer Schulin

Farmers’ perceptions of the quality of extension services provided by non-governmental organisations in two municipalities in the Central Region of Ghana pp. 20-26

Donus K. Buadi, Kwabena A. Anaman and Joseph A. Kwarteng

A typological characterization of dairy Assaf breed sheep farms at NW of Spain based on structural factor pp. 27-37

J.A. Riveiro, A.R. Mantecón, C.J. Álvarez and P. Lavín

Sustainability of holistic and conventional cattle ranching in the seasonally dry tropics of Chiapas, Mexico pp. 38-48

Bruce G. Ferguson, Stewart A.W. Diemont, Rigoberto Alfaro-Arguello, Jay F. Martin, José Nahed-Toral, David Álvarez-Solís and René Pinto-Ruíz

Farmer perception of suitable conditions for slurry application compared with decision support system recommendations pp. 49-60

A. Kerebel, R. Cassidy, P. Jordan and N.M. Holden

Pan-European crop modelling with EPIC: Implementation, up-scaling and regional crop yield validation pp. 61-75

Juraj Balkovič, Marijn van der Velde, Erwin Schmid, Rastislav Skalský, Nikolay Khabarov, Michael Obersteiner, Bernhard Stürmer and Wei Xiong

Opportunistic Mediterranean agriculture – Using ephemeral pasture legumes to utilize summer rainfall pp. 76-84

Dion L. Nicol, John Finlayson, Timothy D. Colmer and Megan H. Ryan

Volume 119, issue C, 2013

Intensification of coffee systems can increase the effectiveness of REDD mechanisms pp. 1-9

Martin R.A. Noponen, Jeremy P. Haggar, Gareth Edwards-Jones and John R. Healey

Interactions between land use change, regional development, and climate change in the Poyang Lake district from 1985 to 2035 pp. 10-21

Dan Yan, Uwe Schneider, Erwin Schmid, He Qing Huang, Lihu Pan and Oliver Dilly

Modeling maize yield responses to improvement in nutrient, water and cultivar inputs in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 22-34

Christian Folberth, Hong Yang, Thomas Gaiser, Karim C. Abbaspour and Rainer Schulin

Dilemma in participatory selection of varieties pp. 35-42

M. Misiko

Influence of climate change on short term management of field crops – A modelling approach pp. 44-57

Joachim Aurbacher, Phillip S. Parker, Germán A. Calberto Sánchez, Jennifer Steinbach, Evelyn Reinmuth, Joachim Ingwersen and Stephan Dabbert

Volume 118, issue C, 2013

Evaluation of effects of cotton policy changes on land and water use in Uzbekistan: Application of a bio-economic farm model at the level of a water users association pp. 1-13

Nodir Djanibekov, Rolf Sommer and Utkur Djanibekov

Implications of a shift in irrigation technology on resource use efficiency: A Syrian case pp. 14-22

Yigezu A. Yigezu, Mohamed A. Ahmed, Kamil Shideed, Aden Aw-Hassan, Tamer El-Shater and Samman Al-Atwan

The impact of climate change on permanent crops in an Alpine region: A Ricardian analysis pp. 23-32

Maria De Salvo, Roberta Raffaelli and Riccarda Moser

Economically optimal crop sequences using risk-adjusted network flows: Modeling cotton crop rotations in the southeastern United States pp. 33-40

Michael E. Salassi, Michael A. Deliberto and Kurt M. Guidry

CASIMOD’N: An agro-hydrological distributed model of catchment-scale nitrogen dynamics integrating farming system decisions pp. 41-51

Pierre Moreau, Laurent Ruiz, Françoise Vertès, Christine Baratte, Luc Delaby, Philippe Faverdin, Chantal Gascuel-Odoux, Benoit Piquemal, Eric Ramat, Jordy Salmon-Monviola and Patrick Durand

Combining a typology and a conceptual model of cropping system to explore the diversity of relationships between ecosystem services: The case of erosion control in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Costa Rica pp. 52-64

Louise Meylan, Anne Merot, Christian Gary and Bruno Rapidel

Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme pp. 65-77

Catherine W. Kilelu, Laurens Klerkx and Cees Leeuwis

Data Envelopment Analysis of sustainability indicators of European agricultural systems at regional level pp. 78-90

Johanna C. Gerdessen and Stefano Pascucci

Courting the rain: Rethinking seasonality and adaptation to recurrent drought in semi-arid southern Africa pp. 91-104

J. Milgroom and K.E. Giller

Volume 117, issue C, 2013

Adapting to uncertainty associated with short-term climate variability changes in irrigated Mediterranean farming systems pp. 1-12

Gabriele Dono, Raffaele Cortignani, Luca Doro, Luca Giraldo, Luigi Ledda, Massimiliano Pasqui and Pier Paolo Roggero

Framing integrated research to address a dynamically complex issue: The red headed cockchafer challenge pp. 13-18

Craig Miller and Barry Newell

Cropping system effects on sorghum grain yield, soil organic carbon, and global warming potential in central and south Texas pp. 19-29

Manyowa N. Meki, Armen R. Kemanian, Steven R. Potter, Jürg M. Blumenthal, Jimmy R. Williams and Thomas J. Gerik

Climate change awareness is associated with enhanced adaptive capacity pp. 30-34

N.A. Marshall, S. Park, S.M. Howden, A.B. Dowd and E.S. Jakku

The relative profitability of dairy, sheep, beef and grain farm enterprises in southeast Australia under selected rainfall and price scenarios pp. 35-44

Natalie Browne, Ross Kingwell, Ralph Behrendt and Richard Eckard

Climate change and coconut plantations in India: Impacts and potential adaptation gains pp. 45-54

S. Naresh Kumar and P.K. Aggarwal

Adapting crop management practices to climate change: Modeling optimal solutions at the field scale pp. 55-65

Niklaus Lehmann, Robert Finger, Tommy Klein, Pierluigi Calanca and Achim Walter

Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees pp. 66-77

Daniel Müller, Pedro J. Leitão and Thomas Sikor

Climate change and water security: Estimating the greenhouse gas costs of achieving water security through investments in modern irrigation technology pp. 78-89

S. Mushtaq, T.N. Maraseni and K. Reardon-Smith

Contribution of Non-Timber Forest Products livelihood strategies to rural development in drylands of Sudan: Potentials and failures pp. 90-97

Yahia Omar Adam, Jürgen Pretzsch and Davide Pettenella

Volume 115, issue C, 2013

Autonomy and sustainability: An integrated analysis of the development of new approaches to agrosystem management in family-based farming in Carnaubais Territory, Piauí, Brazil pp. 1-9

Francisco das Chagas Oliveira, Ángel Calle Collado and Luiz Fernando Carvalho Leite

An integrated assessment of business risk for pasture-based dairy farm systems intensification pp. 10-20

S.R. Fariña, A. Alford, S.C. Garcia and W.J. Fulkerson

Evaluation of mitigation strategies for nitrate leaching on pasture-based dairy systems pp. 21-28

I. Vogeler, P. Beukes and V. Burggraaf

Encouraging system learning in two poultry subsectors pp. 29-40

Barbara van Mierlo, Arni Janssen, Ferry Leenstra and Ellen van Weeghel

Simulation modelling of temperate grassland based dairy calf to beef production systems pp. 41-50

A. Ashfield, P. Crosson and M. Wallace

A guide for choosing the most appropriate method for multi-criteria assessment of agricultural systems according to decision-makers’ expectations pp. 51-62

M. Carof, B. Colomb and A. Aveline

Mathematical model for strategic planning optimization in the pome fruit industry pp. 63-71

Luis P. Catalá, Guillermo A. Durand, Aníbal M. Blanco and J. Alberto Bandoni

Contribution of sorghum to productivity of small-holder irrigation schemes: On-farm research in the Senegal River Valley, Mauritania pp. 72-82

E. García-Ponce, H. Gómez-Macpherson, O. Diallo, M. Djibril, C. Baba, O. Porcel, B. Mathieu, J. Comas, L. Mateos and D.J. Connor

Agrarian change, agricultural modernization and the modelling of agricultural households in Tibet pp. 83-94

Colin Brown and Scott Waldron

Economic and environmental impacts of changes in culling parity of cows and diet composition in Japanese beef cow–calf production systems pp. 95-103

Kazato Oishi, Yohei Kato, Akifumi Ogino and Hiroyuki Hirooka

Bioeconomic model of decision support system for farm management. Part I: Systemic conceptual modeling pp. 104-116

Soraya Tanure, Carlos Nabinger and João Luiz Becker

The distribution of roles and functions for upscaling and outscaling innovations in agricultural innovation systems pp. 117-128

Frans Hermans, Marian Stuiver, P.J. Beers and Kasper Kok

Man vs. manure: Examining the effects of residential demand on dairy farming in rural America pp. 129-136

Tyler Freeman, Richard Schoney and James Nolan

Satellite detection of earlier wheat sowing in India and implications for yield trends pp. 137-143

David B. Lobell, J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Adam M. Sibley and V.S. Sohu

Predicting nitrogen dynamics in a dairy farming catchment using systems synthesis modelling pp. 144-154

Andrew P. Smith and Andrew W. Western

Volume 114, issue C, 2013

Generating downscaled weather data from a suite of climate models for agricultural modelling applications pp. 1-5

Peter G. Jones and Philip K. Thornton

Analyzing ranch profitability from varying cow sales and heifer replacement rates for beef cow-calf production using system dynamics pp. 6-14

B.L. Turner, R.D. Rhoades, L.O. Tedeschi, R.D. Hanagriff, K.C. McCuistion and B.H. Dunn

Climate change impacts and adaptation scope for agriculture indicated by agro-meteorological metrics pp. 15-31

M. Rivington, K.B. Matthews, K. Buchan, D.G. Miller, G. Bellocchi and G. Russell

Trade-adjusted measures of productivity increases in US hog production pp. 32-37

Kenneth Mathews, Keithly Jones, Michael J. McConnell and Rachel Johnson

Options to reduce the environmental effects of livestock production – Comparison of two economic models pp. 38-53

Elke Stehfest, Maurits van den Berg, Geert Woltjer, Siwa Msangi and Henk Westhoek

Does water harvesting induce fertilizer use among smallholders? Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 54-63

Mekonnen B. Wakeyo and Cornelis Gardebroek

Increasing nutrient use efficiency through improved feeding and manure management in urban and peri-urban livestock units of a West African city: A scenario analysis pp. 64-72

Rodrigue V.C. Diogo, Eva Schlecht, Andreas Buerkert, Mariana C. Rufino and Mark T. van Wijk

Insights into potato innovation systems in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Peru and Uganda pp. 73-83

Oscar Ortiz, Ricardo Orrego, Willy Pradel, Peter Gildemacher, Renee Castillo, Ronal Otiniano, Julio Gabriel, Juan Vallejo, Omar Torres, Gemebredin Woldegiorgis, Belew Damene, Roger Kakuhenzire, Imelda Kasahija and Ignatious Kahiu

Combining agroecology and management science to design field tools under high agrosystem structural or process uncertainty: Lessons from two case studies of grassland management pp. 84-94

M. Duru

A 2010 map estimate of annually tilled cropland within the conterminous United States pp. 95-105

David M. Johnson