Agricultural Systems

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Volume 103, issue 9, 2010

Life cycle assessment of high- and low-profitability commodity and deep-bedded niche swine production systems in the Upper Midwestern United States pp. 599-608

N. Pelletier, P. Lammers, D. Stender and R. Pirog

Modelling agricultural expansion in Kenya's Eastern Arc Mountains biodiversity hotspot pp. 609-620

Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Barnaby J.F. Clark, Petri Pellikka and Mika Siljander

How much land is needed for global food production under scenarios of dietary changes and livestock productivity increases in 2030? pp. 621-638

Stefan Wirsenius, Christian Azar and Göran Berndes

Steps toward sustainable ranching: An emergy evaluation of conventional and holistic management in Chiapas, Mexico pp. 639-646

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

Modeling spatio-temporal crop allocation patterns by a stochastic decision tree method, considering agronomic driving factors pp. 647-655

Luc Sorel, Valérie Viaud, Patrick Durand and Christian Walter

Regional simulation of maize production in tropical savanna fallow systems as affected by fallow availability pp. 656-665

Thomas Gaiser, Michael Judex, Claudia Hiepe and Arnim Kuhn

Bio-economic assessment of climate change impacts on managed grassland production pp. 666-674

Robert Finger, Patrick Lazzarotto and Pierluigi Calanca

A conceptual framework for guiding the participatory development of agricultural decision support systems pp. 675-682

E. Jakku and P.J. Thorburn

Recent changes in the climatic yield potential of various crops in Europe pp. 683-694

I. Supit, C.A. van Diepen, A.J.W. de Wit, P. Kabat, B. Baruth and F. Ludwig

Erratum to "Quantifying economic and environmental tradeoffs of walnut arthropod pest management" [Agricultural Systems 103 (2010) pp. 294-306] pp. 695-695

Kimberly P. Steinmann, Minghua Zhang, Joseph A. Grant, Carolyn Pickel, Rachael Goodhue and Karen Klonsky

Volume 103, issue 8, 2010

Simulating the effects of tax exemptions on fertiliser use in Benin by linking biophysical and economic models pp. 509-520

Arnim Kuhn, Thomas Gaiser and Esaïe Gandonou

Conserving natural resources in olive orchards on sloping land: Alternative goal programming approaches towards effective design of cross-compliance and agri-environmental measures pp. 521-534

Luuk Fleskens and Jan de Graaff

Conserving water in arid regions: Exploring the economic feasibility of alternative crops pp. 535-542

Carol D. Bishop, Kynda Curtis and Man-Keun Kim

The agronomic and economic benefits of fertilizer and mulch use in highland banana systems in Uganda pp. 543-550

L.W.I. Wairegi and P.J.A. van Asten

Energy and carbon inventory of Iowa swine production facilities pp. 551-561

P.J. Lammers, M.S. Honeyman, J.D. Harmon and M.J. Helmers

Enabling natural resource managers to self-assess their adaptive capacity pp. 562-568

Peter R. Brown, Rohan Nelson, Brent Jacobs, Phil Kokic, Jacquie Tracey, Mehnaz Ahmed and Peter DeVoil

Simulating landscape catena effects in no-till dryland agroecosystems using GPFARM pp. 569-584

J.C. Ascough , A.A. Andales, L.A. Sherrod, G.S. McMaster, N.C. Hansen, K.C. DeJonge, Eihab Fathelrahman, L.R. Ahuja, G.A. Peterson and Dana Hoag

FSSIM, a bio-economic farm model for simulating the response of EU farming systems to agricultural and environmental policies pp. 585-597

Kamel Louhichi, Argyris Kanellopoulos, Sander Janssen, Guillermo Flichman, Maria Blanco, Huib Hengsdijk, Thomas Heckelei, Paul Berentsen, Alfons Oude Lansink and Martin Van Ittersum

Volume 103, issue 7, 2010

Potential, spatial distribution and economic performance of regional biomass chains: The North of the Netherlands as example pp. 403-417

F. van der Hilst, V. Dornburg, J.P.M. Sanders, B. Elbersen, A. Graves, W.C. Turkenburg, H.W. Elbersen, J.M.C. van Dam and A.P.C. Faaij

Increasing incomes of Malian cotton farmers: Is elimination of US subsidies the only solution? pp. 418-432

Felix G. Baquedano, John H. Sanders and Jeffrey Vitale

Modeling biomass, nitrogen and water dynamics in rice-wheat rotations pp. 433-443

Qi Jing, Herman van Keulen and Huib Hengsdijk

Analysis of information systems and communication networks for organic and conventional hazelnut producers in the Samsun province of Turkey pp. 444-452

Kursat Demiryurek

Factors influencing potential scale of adoption of a perennial pasture in a mixed crop-livestock farming system pp. 453-462

F. Byrne, M.J. Robertson, A. Bathgate and Z. Hoque

Ontology-based simulation in agricultural systems modeling pp. 463-477

Howard Beck, Kelly Morgan, Yunchul Jung, Sabine Grunwald, Ho-young Kwon and Jin Wu

Optimal site-specific fertilization and harvesting strategies with respect to crop yield and quality response to nitrogen pp. 478-485

Andreas Meyer-Aurich, Alfons Weersink, Markus Gandorfer and Peter Wagner

A participatory, farming systems approach to improving Bali cattle production in the smallholder crop-livestock systems of Eastern Indonesia pp. 486-497

Shaun Lisson, Neil MacLeod, Cam McDonald, Jeff Corfield, Bruce Pengelly, Lalu Wirajaswadi, Rahmat Rahman, Syamsu Bahar, Rusnadi Padjung, Nasruddin Razak, Ketut Puspadi, Dahlanuddin, Yusuf Sutaryono, Sania Saenong, Tanda Panjaitan, Lia Hadiawati, Andrew Ash and Lisa Brennan

The environmental performance of milk production on a typical Portuguese dairy farm pp. 498-507

É.G. Castanheira, A.C. Dias, L. Arroja and R. Amaro

Volume 103, issue 6, 2010

Probabilities for decision analysis in agriculture and rural resource economics: The need for a paradigm change pp. 345-350

J. Brian Hardaker and Gudbrand Lien

The water needed for Italians to eat pasta and pizza pp. 351-360

M.M. Aldaya and A.Y. Hoekstra

Uncertain water supply in an irrigated Mediterranean area: An analysis of the possible economic impact of climate change on the farm sector pp. 361-370

Gabriele Dono and Graziano Mazzapicchio

Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from beef production in western Canada: A case study pp. 371-379

Karen A. Beauchemin, H. Henry Janzen, Shannan M. Little, Tim A. McAllister and Sean M. McGinn

Comparative life cycle environmental impacts of three beef production strategies in the Upper Midwestern United States pp. 380-389

Nathan Pelletier, Rich Pirog and Rebecca Rasmussen

Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment pp. 390-400

Laurens Klerkx, Noelle Aarts and Cees Leeuwis

Soil Science Simplified, fifth ed., N. Eash, C.J. Green, A. Ravzi, W.J. Bennett. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Ames, Iowa, USA (2008). 256 pp., Price US$ 62.99, Hardback, ISBN: 978-0-8138-1823-8 pp. 401-401

Christian V. Braneon

Food, Energy, and Society, third ed., D. Pimentel, M.H. Pimentel (Eds.). CRC Press, Baton Rouge, Florida, USA (2008). 380 pp., Price US$ 89.95, Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4200-4667-0 pp. 401-402

Brian Turano

Volume 103, issue 5, 2010

Participatory evaluation of integrated pest and soil fertility management options using ordered categorical data analysis pp. 233-244

Hugo De Groote, Esther Rutto, George Odhiambo, Fred Kanampiu, Zeyaur Khan, Richard Coe and Bernard Vanlauwe

Learning selection revisited: How can agricultural researchers make a difference? pp. 245-255

Boru Douthwaite and Martin Gummert

Influence of likelihood function choice for estimating crop model parameters using the generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation method pp. 256-264

Jianqiang He, James W. Jones, Wendy D. Graham and Michael D. Dukes

Modeling the impact of HIV/AIDS upon food security of diverse rural households in Western Kenya pp. 265-281

T.B. Gill

Modeling a farm population to estimate on-farm compliance costs and environmental effects of a grassland extensification scheme at the regional scale pp. 282-293

Sandra Uthes, Claudia Sattler, Peter Zander, Annette Piorr, Bettina Matzdorf, Martin Damgaard, Amanda Sahrbacher, Johannes Schuler, Chris Kjeldsen, Uwe Heinrich and Holger Fischer

Quantifying economic and environmental tradeoffs of walnut arthropod pest management pp. 294-306

Kimberly P. Steinmann, Minghua Zhang, Joseph A. Grant, Carolyn Pickel, Rachael Goodhue and Karen Klonsky

Yield gap of rainfed rice in farmers' fields in Central Java, Indonesia pp. 307-315

A.A. Boling, T.P. Tuong, H. van Keulen, B.A.M. Bouman, H. Suganda and J.H.J. Spiertz

The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis pp. 316-326

Kathleen Neumann, Peter Verburg, Elke Stehfest and Christoph Müller

Integrating agroecology and landscape multifunctionality in Vermont: An evolving framework to evaluate the design of agroecosystems pp. 327-341

Sarah Taylor Lovell, S'ra DeSantis, Chloe A. Nathan, Meryl Breton Olson, V. Ernesto Méndez, Hisashi C. Kominami, Daniel L. Erickson, Katlyn S. Morris and William B. Morris

Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization, A. Vinayak Reddy, M. Yadagira Charyulu (Eds.). New Century Publications, New Delhi, India (2008). 346 pp., US$ 42.50, Hardback, ISBN: 978-81-7708-171-8 pp. 342-343

Gopal Alagarswamy

Biofuels: Production, Application and Development, A.H. Scragg. CABI, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK (2009). 240 pp., Price £ 39.99/US$ 75.91/[euro] 55.93, Softback, ISBN: 978-1-84593-592-4 pp. 343-344

Tomas Persson

The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses, D.R. Layne, D. Bassi (Eds.). CABI, Wallingford, UK (2008). 615 pp., US$ 270, Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-84593-386-9 pp. 343-343

Mark Rieger

Volume 103, issue 4, 2010

Wandering off the paths of planned innovation: The role of formal and informal intermediaries in a large-scale irrigation scheme in Morocco pp. 171-179

J. Poncet, M. Kuper and J. Chiche

An intrinsic mechanism for the co-existence of different survival strategies within mobile pastoralist communities pp. 180-186

Tomoo Okayasu, Toshiya Okuro, Undarmaa Jamsran and Kazuhiko Takeuchi

The potential contribution of forage shrubs to economic returns and environmental management in Australian dryland agricultural systems pp. 187-197

Marta Monjardino, Dean Revell and David Pannell

Developing greenhouse gas marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural emissions from crops and soils in the UK pp. 198-209

Michael MacLeod, Dominic Moran, Vera Eory, R.M. Rees, Andrew Barnes, Cairistiona F.E. Topp, Bruce Ball, Steve Hoad, Eileen Wall, Alistair McVittie, Guillaume Pajot, Robin Matthews, Pete Smith and Andrew Moxey

Long-term stochastic simulation of mountain beef cattle herds under diverse management strategies pp. 210-220

D. Villalba, G. Ripoll, R. Ruiz and A. Bernués

BANAD: A farm model for ex ante assessment of agro-ecological innovations and its application to banana farms in Guadeloupe pp. 221-232

Jean-Marc Blazy, Philippe Tixier, Alban Thomas, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Frédéric Salmon and Jacques Wery

Volume 103, issue 3, 2010

Using a role-playing game to inform the development of land-use models for the study of a complex socio-ecological system pp. 117-126

C. Washington-Ottombre, B. Pijanowski, D. Campbell, J. Olson, J. Maitima, A. Musili, T. Kibaki, H. Kaburu, P. Hayombe, E. Owango, B. Irigia, S. Gichere and A. Mwangi

Potential benefits of early vigor and changes in phenology in wheat to adapt to warmer and drier climates pp. 127-136

Fulco Ludwig and Senthold Asseng

Farm types for beef production and their economic success in a mountainous province of northern Vietnam pp. 137-145

Le Thi Thanh Huyen, Pera Herold and A. Valle Zárate

Evidence of farm-level synergies in mixed-farming systems in the Australian Wheat-Sheep Zone pp. 146-152

Renato Villano, Euan Fleming and Pauline Fleming

Social costs and incentives for optimal control of soil nutrient depletion in the central highlands of Ethiopia pp. 153-160

Chillot Yirga and Rashid M. Hassan

Balancing land use to manage river volume and salinity: Economic and hydrological consequences for the Little River catchment in Central West, New South Wales, Australia pp. 161-170

John Finlayson, Andrew Bathgate, Tom Nordblom, Tivi Theiveyanathan, Bob Farquharson, Russell Crosbie, David Mitchell and Ziaul Hoque

Volume 103, issue 2, 2010

Editors' note pp. iii-iii

Paul Berentsen and Philip Thornton

A preliminary assessment of climate change impacts on sugarcane in Swaziland pp. 63-72

J.W. Knox, J.A. Rodríguez Díaz, D.J. Nixon and M. Mkhwanazi

Adapting to climate change: Agricultural system and household impacts in East Africa pp. 73-82

Philip K. Thornton, Peter G. Jones, Gopal Alagarswamy, Jeff Andresen and Mario Herrero

The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa - A typology of smallholder farms pp. 83-97

P. Tittonell, A. Muriuki, K.D. Shepherd, D. Mugendi, K.C. Kaizzi, J. Okeyo, L. Verchot, R. Coe and B. Vanlauwe

Input management in integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems in Yucatan: Tree spinach leaves as a dietary supplement in tilapia culture pp. 98-104

Gaspar Román Poot-López, Juan M Hernandez and Eucario Gasca-Leyva

Contributing understanding of mitigation options for phosphorus and sediment to a review of the efficacy of contemporary agricultural stewardship measures pp. 105-109

Clare Deasy, John N. Quinton, Martyn Silgram, Alison Bailey, Bob Jackson and Carly J. Stevens

Intensive versus low-input cropping systems: What is the optimal partitioning of agricultural area in order to reduce pesticide use while maintaining productivity? pp. 110-116

Marie Gosme, Frédéric Suffert and Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy

Volume 103, issue 1, 2010

Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production in a Mediterranean greenhouse using different water sources: Groundwater, treated wastewater and desalinated seawater pp. 1-9

Ivan Muñoz, María del Mar Gómez and Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba

A seasonal model of contracts between a monopsonistic processor and smallholder pepper producers in Costa Rica pp. 10-20

Fernando Sáenz-Segura, Marijke D'Haese and Robert A. Schipper

Intensification of New Zealand beef farming systems pp. 21-35

T.A. White, V.O. Snow and W.McG. King

Evaluation of the utilization of heated sewage sludge for peri-urban horticulture production in the Sahel of West Africa pp. 36-40

Keiichi Hayashi, Tahirou Abdoulaye and Toshiyuki Wakatsuki

Energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and economic performance assessments in French Charolais suckler cattle farms: Model-based analysis and forecasts pp. 41-50

P. Veysset, M. Lherm and D. Bébin

Constraints to farmers' adoption of direct-seeding mulch-based cropping systems: A farm scale modeling approach applied to the mountainous slopes of Vietnam pp. 51-62

François Affholder, Damien Jourdain, Dang Dinh Quang, To Phuc Tuong, Marion Morize and Aymeric Ricome