Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 202, issue C, 2022

Strategizing research and development investments in climate change adaptation for root, tuber and banana crops in the African Great Lakes Region: A spatial prioritisation and targeting framework

Elke Vandamme, Rhys Manners, Julius Adewopo, Graham Thiele, Michael Friedmann and Philip Thornton

The importance of proximity dimensions in agricultural knowledge and innovation systems: The case of banana disease management in Rwanda

Michel Kabirigi, Milad Abbasiharofteh, Zhanli Sun and Frans Hermans

Multi-actor co-innovation partnerships in agriculture, forestry and related sectors in Europe: Contrasting approaches to implementation

Andrew F. Fieldsend, Eszter Varga, Szabolcs Biró, Susanne Von Münchhausen and Anna Maria Häring

A systems thinking approach to understand the drivers of change in backyard poultry farming system

Joshua Aboah and Dolapo Enahoro

Selected shade tree species improved cocoa yields in low-input agroforestry systems in Ghana

Bismark Kwesi Asitoakor, Philippe Vaast, Anders Ræbild, Hans Peter Ravn, Vincent Yao Eziah, Kwadwo Owusu, Eric Opoku Mensah and Richard Asare

Improved descriptions of soil hydrology in crop models: The elephant in the room?

Nicholas Jarvis, Mats Larsbo, Elisabet Lewan and Sarah Garré

Analysis of perceived robustness, adaptability and transformability of Spanish extensive livestock farms under alternative challenging scenarios

Bertolozzi-Caredio Daniele, Soriano Barbara, Bardaji Isabel and Garrido Alberto

Intensification of rice-pasture rotations with annual crops reduces the stability of sustainability across productivity, economic, and environmental indicators

Ignacio Macedo, Alvaro Roel, José Ignacio Velazco, Alexander Bordagorri, José A. Terra and Cameron M. Pittelkow

Modeling drivers of farming system trajectories in Mediterranean peri-urban regions: Two case studies in Avignon (France) and Pisa (Italy)

I. Ruiz-Martinez, D. Martinetti, E. Marraccini and M. Debolini

Using a participatory system dynamics modelling approach to inform the management of Malaysian rubber production

Muhammad Fadzli Ali, Siti Hawa Sulong, Kotir Julius, Carl Smith and Ammar Abdul Aziz

Volume 201, issue C, 2022

A participatory approach based on the serious game Dynamix to co-design scenarios of crop-livestock integration among farms

Julie Ryschawy, Myriam Grillot, Anaïs Charmeau, Aude Pelletier, Marc Moraine and Guillaume Martin

Climate variability in agroecosystems: A quantitative assessment of stakeholder-defined policies for enhanced socio-ecological resilience

Jordan M. Carper, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Jan F. Adamowski and Azhar Inam

Dryland fallow vs flex-cropping decisions in inland Pacific Northwest of USA

Harsimran Kaur, David R. Huggins, Bryan Carlson, Claudio Stockle and Roger Nelson

The immediate impact of the first waves of the global COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural systems worldwide: Reflections on the COVID-19 special issue for agricultural systems

Emma Stephens, Jagadish Timsina, Guillaume Martin, Mark van Wijk, Laurens Klerkx, Pytrik Reidsma and Val Snow

Interplay: A game for the participatory design of locally adapted cereal–legume intercrops

Clémentine Meunier, Marion Casagrande, Blandine Rosiès, Laurent Bedoussac, Cairistiona F.E. Topp, Robin L. Walker, Christine A. Watson and Guillaume Martin

Diversity and drivers of crop diversification pathways of European farms

Eva Revoyron, Marianne Le Bail, Jean-Marc Meynard, Anita Gunnarsson, Marco Seghetti and Luca Colombo

Modeling age and yield dynamics in Coffea arabica pruning systems

Eduardo Somarriba and Francisco Quesada

Investigating two solutions to balance revenues and N surplus in Swiss winter wheat

F. Argento, F. Liebisch, T. Anken, A. Walter and N. El Benni

Labour productivity: The forgotten yield gap

James Cock, Steven Prager, Holger Meinke and Ruben Echeverria

Positive deviant strategies implemented by organic multi-species livestock farms in Europe

Defne Ulukan, Myriam Grillot, Marc Benoit, Gun Bernes, Bertrand Dumont, Marie-Angélina Magne, Leonardo Monteiro, David Parsons, Patrick Veysset, Julie Ryschawy, Lucille Steinmetz and Guillaume Martin

Using a bio-economic farm model to evaluate the economic potential and pesticide load reduction of the greenRelease technology

T. Kuhn, N. Möhring, A. Töpel, F. Jakob, Wolfgang Britz, S. Bröring, A. Pich, U. Schwaneberg and M. Rennings

Spatio-temporal design of strip cropping systems

Stella D. Juventia, Isabella L.M. Selin Norén, Dirk F. van Apeldoorn, Lenora Ditzler and Walter A.H. Rossing

Assimilation of wheat and soil states for improved yield prediction: The APSIM-EnKF framework

Yuxi Zhang, Jeffrey P. Walker and Valentijn R.N. Pauwels

How do farmers change their practices at the farm level after co-design processes in Farmer Field Schools?

Teatske Bakker, Patrick Dugué and Stéphane de Tourdonnet

Managing biomass in semi-arid Burkina Faso: Strategies and levers for better crop and livestock production in contrasted farm systems

Gildas G.C. Assogba, Myriam Adam, David Berre and Katrien Descheemaeker

Calibrating APSIM for forage sorghum using remote sensing and field data under sub-optimal growth conditions

Facundo N. Della Nave, Jonathan J. Ojeda, J. Gonzalo N. Irisarri, Keith Pembleton, Mariano Oyarzabal and Martín Oesterheld

Soybean performance under moisture limitation in a temperate tree-based intercropping system

Geneviève Gagné, François Lorenzetti, Alain Cogliastro and David Rivest

Quantifying inter-species nitrogen competition in the tomato-corn intercropping system with different spatial arrangements

Ning Chen, Xianyue Li, Jiří Šimůnek, Haibin Shi, Yuehong Zhang and Qi Hu

Towards automation of in-season crop type mapping using spatiotemporal crop information and remote sensing data

Chen Zhang, Liping Di, Li Lin, Hui Li, Liying Guo, Zhengwei Yang, Eugene G. Yu, Yahui Di and Anna Yang

Precision farming: what do Italian farmers really think? An application of the Q methodology

Yari Vecchio, Jorgelina Di Pasquale, Teresa Del Giudice, Gregorio Pauselli, Margherita Masi and Felice Adinolfi

Modelling the production, profit, and greenhouse gas emissions of Irish sheep flocks divergent in genetic merit

L. Farrell, J. Herron, T. Pabiou, N. McHugh, K. McDermott, L. Shalloo, D. O'Brien and A. Bohan

Impacts of digitalization on value creation and capture: Evidence from the agricultural value chain

Cristina Orsolin Klingenberg, José Antônio Valle Antunes Júnior and Gordon Müller-Seitz

Multi-level impacts of climate change and supply disruption events on a potato supply chain: An agent-based modeling approach

Md Mamunur Rahman, Ruby Nguyen and Liang Lu

Conservation agriculture improves agronomic, economic, and soil fertility indicators for a clay soil in a rainfed Mediterranean climate in Morocco

Mina Devkota, Krishna Prasad Devkota and Shiv Kumar

Identifying exemplary sustainable cropping systems using a positive deviance approach: Wheat-maize double cropping in the North China Plain

Zhengyuan Liang, Wopke van der Werf, Zhan Xu, Jiali Cheng, Chong Wang, Wen-Feng Cong, Chaochun Zhang, Fusuo Zhang and Jeroen C.J. Groot

The cocoa yield gap in Ghana: A quantification and an analysis of factors that could narrow the gap

Paulina A. Asante, Eric Rahn, Pieter A. Zuidema, Danaё M.A. Rozendaal, Maris E.G. van der Baan, Peter Läderach, Richard Asare, Nicholas C. Cryer and Niels P.R. Anten

Effects of land use type and tank components on soil properties and sustainability of tank cascade system in the Dry Zone of north central Sri Lanka

Tharindu Nuwan Kulasinghe and Randombage Saman Dharmakeerthi

Volume 200, issue C, 2022

Prospects for summer cover crops in southern Australian semi-arid cropping systems

Terry J. Rose, Shahnaj Parvin, Eusun Han, Jason Condon, Bonnie M. Flohr, Cassandra Schefe, Michael T. Rose and John A. Kirkegaard

Biodynamic farming as a resource for sustainability transformations: Potential and challenges

C. Rigolot and M. Quantin

Assessing impact of salinity and climate scenarios on dry season field crops in the coastal region of Bangladesh

Ana J.P. Carcedo, Leonardo M. Bastos, Sudhir Yadav, Manoranjan K. Mondal, S.V. Krishna Jagadish, Farhana A. Kamal, Asish Sutradhar, P.V. Vara Prasad and Ignacio Ciampitti

Climate change-induced reduction in agricultural land suitability of West-Africa's inland valley landscapes

Komlavi Akpoti, Thomas Groen, Elliott Dossou-Yovo, Amos T. Kabo-bah and Sander J. Zwart

Relational drivers of the agroecological transition: An analysis of farmer trajectories in the Limagne plain, France

Etienne Polge and Hugo Pagès

Information transfer as a tool to improve the resilience of farmers against the effects of climate change: The case of the Peruvian National Agrarian Innovation System

Amparo Blazquez-Soriano and Rosmery Ramos-Sandoval

Crop diversification improves cropping system sustainability: An 8-year on-farm experiment in South-Western France

Lionel Alletto, Aline Vandewalle and Philippe Debaeke

Field validation of a farmer supplied data approach to close soybean yield gaps in the US North Central region

José F. Andrade, Spyridon Mourtzinis, Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Shawn P. Conley, John Gaska, Herman J. Kandel, Laura E. Lindsey, Seth Naeve, Scott Nelson, Maninder P. Singh, Laura Thompson, James E. Specht and Patricio Grassini

Structural change in agriculture and farmers' social contacts: Insights from a Swiss mountain region

Victoria Junquera, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey and Florian Knaus

Annual paddy rice planting area and cropping intensity datasets and their dynamics in the Asian monsoon region from 2000 to 2020

Jichong Han, Zhao Zhang, Yuchuan Luo, Juan Cao, Liangliang Zhang, Huimin Zhuang, Fei Cheng, Jing Zhang and Fulu Tao

Volume 199, issue C, 2022

Reconciling productivity, profitability and sustainability of small-holder sugarcane farms: A combined life cycle and data envelopment analysis

Linsheng Yang, Yifan Zhou, Bo Meng, Haojie Li, Jian Zhan, Huaye Xiong, Huanyu Zhao, Wenfeng Cong, Xiaozhong Wang, Wushuai Zhang, Prakash Lakshmanan, Yan Deng, Xiaojun Shi, Xinping Chen and Fusuo Zhang

Assessment of the diversity of crop rotations based on network analysis indicators

Benjamin Nowak, Audrey Michaud and Gaëlle Marliac

Establishing an Agri-food living lab for sustainability transitions: Methodological insight from a case of strengthening the niche of organic vegetables in the Vestfold region in Norway

Christine Hvitsand, Ruth Kjærsti Raanaas, Sigrid Gjøtterud and Anna Marie Nicolaysen

Relative yield of food and efficiency of land-use in organic agriculture - A regional study

David J. Connor

Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems

Antonio Lecegui, Ana María Olaizola, Feliu López-i-Gelats and Elsa Varela

The potential of kernel density estimation for modelling relations among dairy farm characteristics

Tristan Senga Kiessé, Michael S. Corson and Maguy Eugène

Climate change and maize productivity in Uganda: Simulating the impacts and alleviation with climate smart agriculture practices

Alex Zizinga, Jackson-Gilbert Majaliwa Mwanjalolo, Britta Tietjen, Bobe Bedadi, Himanshu Pathak, Geofrey Gabiri and Dennis Beesigamukama

Designing scenarios for upscaling climate-smart agriculture on a small tropical island

S. Selbonne, L. Guindé, A. Belmadani, C. Bonine, F. L. Causeret, M. Duval, J. Sierra and Jean-Marc Blazy

Farm-planning under risk: An application of decision analysis and portfolio theory for the assessment of crop diversification strategies in horticultural systems

Oscar Burbano-Figueroa, Alexandra Sierra-Monroy, Adriana David-Hinestroza, Cory Whitney, Christian Borgemeister and Eike Luedeling

Beyond agroecology: Agricultural rewilding, a prospect for livestock systems

Michael S. Corson, Aymeric Mondière, Loïs Morel and Hayo M.G. van der Werf

Dominant sources of uncertainty in simulating maize adaptation under future climate scenarios in China

Mingxia Huang, Jing Wang, Bin Wang, De Li Liu, Puyu Feng, Qiang Yu, Xuebiao Pan, Siyi Li and Tengcong Jiang

Reap when you sow? The productivity impacts of early sowing in Malawi

Eric Owusu and Boris E. Bravo-Ureta