Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 98, issue 3, 2008

Analysing agricultural users' patterns of behaviour: The case of OPTIRas(TM), a decision support system for starch crop selection pp. 159-166

Laura Maruster, Niels R. Faber, René J. Jorna and Rob van Haren

A comparison of energy use in conventional and organic olive oil production in Spain pp. 167-176

Gloria I. Guzmán and Antonio M. Alonso

Disentangling the effect of environmental factors on yield and nitrogen uptake of irrigated rice in Asia pp. 177-188

Qi Jing, Bas Bouman, Herman van Keulen, Huib Hengsdijk, Weixing Cao and Tingbo Dai

Exploring options for farm-level strategic and tactical decision-making in fruit production systems of South Patagonia, Argentina pp. 189-198

E.D. Cittadini, M.T.M.H. Lubbers, N. de Ridder, H. van Keulen and G.D.H. Claassen

The role and value of eastern star clover in managing herbicide-resistant crop weeds: A whole-farm analysis pp. 199-207

Lauren Gibson, Ross Kingwell and Graeme Doole

Spatial distribution of grassland productivity and land use in Europe pp. 208-219

H.J. Smit, M.J. Metzger and F. Ewert

Optimal management of molds in stored corn pp. 220-227

Yigezu A. Yigezu, Corinne Alexander, Paul Preckel, D.E. Maier, C.P. Woloshuk, L.J. Mason, J. Lawrence and D.J. Moog

Water Resource Economics: The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects. Ronald C. Griffin. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2006). 402 pp., $50.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 0 262 07267-X pp. 228-229

Upton Hatch

Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture Through Social Networks. K.D. Warner. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 291 pp, 2007. US$62.00 (hardback), ISBN-13 978-0-262-23252-4; $25.00 (soft back), ISBN-13 978-0-262-73180-5 pp. 228-228

Constance L. Neely

M. Adato and R. Meinzen-Dick, Editors, Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty. Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries, International Food Policy Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2007) ISBN 978-0-8018-8596-9 416 pp., US$60.00 (Hardback) pp. 229-230

Myles J. Fisher

Volume 98, issue 2, 2008

Environmental performance in the US broiler poultry sector: Life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas, ozone depleting, acidifying and eutrophying emissions pp. 67-73

N. Pelletier

Energy requirements for transport and surface application of liquid pig manure in Manitoba, Canada pp. 74-81

M.J. Wiens, M.H. Entz, C. Wilson and K.H. Ominski

Modified rice cultivation in Tamil Nadu, India: Yield gains and farmers' (lack of) acceptance pp. 82-94

K. Senthilkumar, P.S. Bindraban, T.M. Thiyagarajan, N. de Ridder and K.E. Giller

Transformation toward agricultural sustainability in New Zealand hill country pastoral landscapes pp. 95-107

M.B. Dodd, M.E. Wedderburn, T.G. Parminter, B.S. Thorrold and J.M. Quinn

Analysing farming practices to develop a numerical, operational model of farmers' decision-making processes: An irrigated hay cropping system in France pp. 108-118

A. Merot, J.-E. Bergez, A. Capillon and J. Wery

Agricultural intensification in the Sahel - The ladder approach pp. 119-125

Jens B. Aune and André Bationo

Greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian beef industry pp. 126-134

X.P.C. Vergé, J.A. Dyer, R.L. Desjardins and D. Worth

Analysis of two variants of a spatially distributed crop model, using wavelet transforms and geostatistics pp. 135-146

M.J. Pringle, B.P. Marchant and R.M. Lark

Household livelihood strategies and forest dependence in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia pp. 147-155

Bedru Babulo, Bart Muys, Fredu Nega, Eric Tollens, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers and Erik Mathijs

Sham S. Goyal, Rodulf Tischner and Amarjit S. Basra, Editors, Enhancing the Efficiency of Nutilization in Plants, The Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY, USA (2006) XVI+489 pp., US$79.95 (hardback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-140-1; US$59.95 (softback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-141-8 pp. 156-157

Johannes Scholberg

S. Raman, Editor, Agricultural Sustainability: Principles, Processes, and Prospects, The Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York, USA (2006) XXII+474 pp., US$69.95 (softback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-311-5; US$89.95 (hardback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-310-8 pp. 157-158

Jagadish Timsina

Volume 98, issue 1, 2008

An innovation systems perspective on strengthening agricultural education and training in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-9

David Spielman, Javier Ekboir, Kristin Davis and Cosmas Ochieng

The meaning of agricultural sustainability: Evidence from a conjoint choice survey pp. 10-20

Olha Sydorovych and Ada Wossink

Climate change impacts on irrigated maize in Mediterranean climates: Evaluation of double cropping as an emerging adaptation alternative pp. 21-30

Francisco J. Meza, Daniel Silva and Hernan Vigil

A measure for the efficiency of water use and its determinants, a case study of small-scale irrigation schemes in North-West Province, South Africa pp. 31-39

Stijn Speelman, Marijke D'Haese, Jeroen Buysse and Luc D'Haese

HydroLOGIC: An irrigation management system for Australian cotton pp. 40-49

Q.D. Richards, M.P. Bange and S.B. Johnston

Strategic approaches to targeting technology generation: Assessing the coincidence of poverty and drought-prone crop production pp. 50-61

Glenn Hyman, Sam Fujisaka, Peter Jones, Stanley Wood, M. Carmen de Vicente and John Dixon

Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems, J.S. Bhatti, R. Lal, M.J. Apps, M.A. Price (Eds.). Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA. (2006). xx+446 pp., US$169.95 (hardback), ISBN: 13 978-0849330971 pp. 62-63

Harvey Hill

Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture: A New Social Contract, Charles A. Francis, Raymond P. Poincelot, George Bird (Eds.). Haworth Press, Binghampton, New York, USA (2006). 367 pp., US$69.95 (hardback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-331-3; US$49.95 (softback), ISBN: 13 978-1-56022-332-0 pp. 63-64

Jeffrey Jordan

Sociological Perspectives of Organic Agriculture: From Pioneer to Policy, G.C. Holt, M. Reed (Eds.). CABI Press, Oxfordshire, UK (2006). 320 pp., US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN: 13 978-1-84593-0387 pp. 64-65

Todd Crane

Volume 97, issue 3, 2008

Integrated agricultural research and crop breeding: Allelopathic weed control in cereals and long-term productivity in perennial biomass crops pp. 99-107

M. Weih, U.M.E. Didon, A.-C. Rönnberg-Wästljung and C. Björkman

Pasture and forage crop systems for non-irrigated dairy farms in southern Australia. 1. Physical production and economic performance pp. 108-125

D.F. Chapman, S.N. Kenny, D. Beca and I.R. Johnson

Pasture and forage crop systems for non-irrigated dairy farms in southern Australia. 2. Inter-annual variation in forage supply, and business risk pp. 126-138

D.F. Chapman, S.N. Kenny, D. Beca and I.R. Johnson

SIMBA, a model for designing sustainable banana-based cropping systems pp. 139-150

Philippe Tixier, Eric Malézieux, Marc Dorel and Jacques Wery

Aggregating field-scale knowledge into farm-scale models of African smallholder systems: Summary functions to simulate crop production using APSIM pp. 151-166

R. Chikowo, M. Corbeels, P. Tittonell, B. Vanlauwe, A. Whitbread and K.E. Giller

Hans Langeveld and Niels Röling, Editors, Changing European Farming Systems for a Better Future: New Visions for Rural Areas, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands (2006) 480 pp., US$107.00 Hardback, ISBN-13: 978-90-8686-002-9 pp. 167-168

Norman E. Breuer

Volume 97, issue 1-2, 2008

Integrating new soybean varieties for soil fertility management in smallholder systems through participatory research: Lessons from western Kenya pp. 1-12

M. Misiko, P. Tittonell, J.J. Ramisch, P. Richards and K.E. Giller

Development and evaluation of a pastoral simulation model that predicts dairy cattle performance based on animal genotype and environmental sensitivity information pp. 13-25

Jeremy Bryant, Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos, Colin Holmes, Jennie Pryce, Jose Rossi and Kevin Macdonald

A systematic representation of crop rotations pp. 26-33

M.S. Castellazzi, G.A. Wood, P.J. Burgess, J. Morris, K.F. Conrad and J.N. Perry

Validating CERES-wheat under North-German environmental conditions pp. 34-47

M. Langensiepen, H. Hanus, P. Schoop and W. Gräsle

Economic impacts of shifting sloping farm lands to alternative uses pp. 48-55

Xianchun Liao and Yaoqi Zhang

Do farmers waste fertilizer? A comparison of ex post optimal nitrogen rates and ex ante recommendations by model, site and year pp. 56-67

Predrag Rajsic and Alfons Weersink

Use of available information at a European level to construct crop nitrogen response curves for the regions of the EU pp. 68-82

C. Godard, J. Roger-Estrade, Pierre-Alain Jayet, N. Brisson and C. Le Bas

The potential of a herbicide resistant maize technology for Striga control in Africa pp. 83-94

Hugo De Groote, Lucy Wangare, Fred Kanampiu, Martins Odendo, Alpha Diallo, Haron Karaya and Dennis Friesen

Book Review pp. 95-96

David Emory Stooksbury

Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future, Manjit S. Kang (Ed.). The Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, New York, USA (2007). 224 pp., US$65.00 Softback, ISBN-13: 978-1-56022-171-5; US$80.00 Hardback, ISBN-13: 978-1-56022-170-8 pp. 96-97

Piara Singh

Volume 96, issue 1-3, 2008

Impact of small-holder irrigation on the agricultural production, food supply and economic prosperity of a representative village beside the Senegal River, Mauritania pp. 1-15

David Connor, Jordi Comas, Helena-Gomez Macpherson and Luciano Mateos

Increasing the environmental and social sustainability of cotton farming through farmer education in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 16-25

Francesca Mancini, Aad J. Termorshuizen, Janice L.S. Jiggins and Ariena H.C. van Bruggen

Livestock feed resources, production and management in the agro-pastoral system of the Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalayan region of Pakistan: The effect of accessibility pp. 26-36

Abdur Rahman, Alan J. Duncan, David W. Miller, Juergen Clemens, Pilar Frutos, Iain J. Gordon, Atiq-ur Rehman, Ataullah Baig, Farman Ali and Iain A. Wright

Decision support for spatially targeted livestock policies: Diverse examples from Uganda and Thailand pp. 37-51

Pierre J. Gerber, Gerrit J. Carsjens, Thanee Pak-uthai and Timothy P. Robinson

Can payments for ecosystem services secure the water tower of Tibet pp. 52-63

Walter Immerzeel, Jetse Stoorvogel and John Antle

Impact of sugarcane supply scheduling on mill sugar production: A South African case study pp. 64-74

P.-Y. Le Gal, P.W.L. Lyne, E. Meyer and L.-G. Soler

A fresh look at shifting cultivation: Fallow length an uncertain indicator of productivity pp. 75-84

Ole Mertz, Reed L. Wadley, Uffe Nielsen, Thilde B. Bruun, Carol J.P. Colfer, Andreas de Neergaard, Martin R. Jepsen, Torben Martinussen, Qiang Zhao, Gabriel T. Noweg and Jakob Magid

The relative profitability and environmental impacts of different sheep systems in a Mediterranean environment pp. 85-94

Emma Kopke, John Young and Ross Kingwell

Life cycle assessment of conventional and organic milk production in the Netherlands pp. 95-107

M.A. Thomassen, K.J. van Calker, M.C.J. Smits, G.L. Iepema and I.J.M. de Boer

Benefit-cost meta-analysis of investment in the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR pp. 108-123

David Raitzer and Timothy G. Kelley

Combining classification tree analyses with interviews to study why sub-alpine grasslands sometimes revert to forest: A case study from the Swiss Alps pp. 124-138

Mario Gellrich, Priska Baur, Brett Harvey Robinson and Peter Bebi

Path-dependency in plant breeding: Challenges facing participatory reforms in the Ethiopian Sorghum Improvement Program pp. 139-149

Shawn J. McGuire

Integrated assessment of agricultural systems - A component-based framework for the European Union (SEAMLESS) pp. 150-165

Martin K. van Ittersum, Frank Ewert, Thomas Heckelei, Jacques Wery, Johanna Alkan Olsson, Erling Andersen, Irina Bezlepkina, Floor Brouwer, Marcello Donatelli, Guillermo Flichman, Lennart Olsson, Andrea E. Rizzoli, Tamme van der Wal, Jan Erik Wien and Joost Wolf

A preliminary whole-farm economic analysis of perennial wheat in an Australian dryland farming system pp. 166-174

Lindsay W. Bell, Byrne (nee Flugge), Felicity, Mike A. Ewing and Len J. Wade

How resource poor households value and access poultry: Village poultry keeping in Tigray, Ethiopia pp. 175-183

H.A. Aklilu, H.M.J. Udo, C.J.M. Almekinders and A.J. Van der Zijpp

Multipurpose fodder trees in the Ethiopian highlands: Farmers' preference and relationship of indigenous knowledge of feed value with laboratory indicators pp. 184-194

A. Mekoya, S.J. Oosting, S. Fernandez-Rivera and A.J. Van der Zijpp

Reduction in data collection for determination of cultivar coefficients for breeding applications pp. 195-206

J. Anothai, A. Patanothai, K. Pannangpetch, S. Jogloy, K.J. Boote and G. Hoogenboom

Dynamics and developmental trends of smallholder pig production systems in North Vietnam pp. 207-223

U. Lemke and A. Valle Zarate

Comparing annual and perennial energy cropping systems with different management intensities pp. 224-236

Constanze Boehmel, Iris Lewandowski and Wilhelm Claupein

Defining the experimental unit for the design and analysis of site-specific experiments in commercial cotton fields pp. 237-249

Jeffrey L. Willers, George A. Milliken, Johnie N. Jenkins, Charles G. O'Hara, Patrick D. Gerard, Daniel B. Reynolds, Debbie L. Boykin, Paul V. Good and Kenneth B. Hood

Benchmarking and multivariate data analysis techniques for improving the efficiency of irrigation districts: An application in spain pp. 250-259

J.A. Rodriguez-Diaz, E. Camacho-Poyato, R. Lopez-Luque and L. Perez-Urrestarazu

Simulating grassland utilization in beef suckler systems to investigate the trade-offs between production and floristic diversity pp. 260-272

M. Jouven and R. Baumont

Ecological Responses and Adaptations of Crops to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Zoltan Tuba (Ed.). Food Products Press, Binghamton, NY, USA (2005). xvi+436 pp., US$49.95, Softback, ISBN: 1-56022-121-6; US$79.95, Hardback, ISBN: 978-1-56022-121-0 pp. 273-274

Kazuhiko Kobayashi

D.E. Radcliffe and M.L. Cabrera, Editors, Modeling Phosphorus in the Environment, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2006) ISBN 0-8493-3777-1 420 pp., US$129.95 (hardback) pp. 274-274

Liwang Ma

D.J. Zarin, J.R.R. Alavalapati, F.E. Putz and M. Schmink, Editors, Working Forests in the Neotropics - Conservation Through Sustainable Management, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, USA (2004) ISBN 978-0-231-12907-7, 978-0-231-12906-0 416 pp. US$49.50 (softback) pp. 275-276

Douglas C. Daly

D. Wallach, D. Makowski and J.W. Jones, Editors, Working with Dynamic Crop Models: Evaluation, Analysis, Parameterization, and Applications, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006) ISBN 978-0-444-52135-4 447 pp., Price: US$83.95 (hardback) pp. 276-277

Gail G. Wilkerson