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Agriculture, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2017 - 8 articles

Cover Story: We established a direct relationship between market price, leaf area index and farmers’ behaviour for durum wheat cultivation in Southern Italy. Results are drawn from 15 years of satellite, economic and policy data and showed that, under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the variation in vegetative land cover followed the same trend as the durum wheat market price, rather than weather and climate drivers. This was mainly due to the CAP’s reforms on market price distortion. Evidence is provided of farmers’ control on their cropping systems with high impacts of political and economic constraints. View the paper here.
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Articles (8)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
14,122 Views
20 Pages

This paper focuses on how the use of renewable energy technologies such as biogas can help to achieve environmental and socio-economic sustainability. It combines research on sustainable consumption and production, natural and industrial ecosystems a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,728 Views
12 Pages

Advances in Eco-Efficient Agriculture: The Plant-Soil Mycobiome

  • Marcela Claudia Pagano,
  • Eduardo J. Azevedo Correa,
  • Neimar F. Duarte,
  • Bakhytzhan Yelikbayev,
  • Anthonia O’Donovan and
  • Vijai Kumar Gupta

In order to achieve a desirable ecological and sustainable agriculture a thorough understanding of the plant-soil mycobiome is imperative. Commercial industrial agriculture alters greenhouse gas emissions, promotes loss of plant and soil biodiversity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,615 Views
20 Pages

A 3-year study was conducted in cornfield to evaluate how composted cattle manure application affects net global warming potential (GWP; the sum of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) minus net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB)) and greenhouse gas in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,863 Views
20 Pages

Durum Wheat Cover Analysis in the Scope of Policy and Market Price Changes: A Case Study in Southern Italy

  • Si Mokrane Siad,
  • Andrea Gioia,
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom,
  • Vito Iacobellis,
  • Antonio Novelli,
  • Eufemia Tarantino and
  • Pandi Zdruli

Agricultural land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment, and subjective evidence of socio-economic and environmental interactions has been demonstrated. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to analyze empirically th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,897 Views
12 Pages

Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) leaves were studied to assess the potential of apricot leaves for future studies and their applications in nutraceutical and bioactive functional ingredients. The changes in the phenolic profile, carotenoids, pigments an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,007 Views
11 Pages

Efflux of Soil Nitrous Oxide from Applied Fertilizer Containing Organic Materials in Citrus unshiu Field in Southwestern Japan

  • Yo Toma,
  • Takeshi Higuchi,
  • Osamu Nagata,
  • Yasuhiko Kato,
  • Tooru Izumiya,
  • Shingo Oomori and
  • Hideto Ueno

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agricultural fields are an important source of the increasing atmospheric N2O concentration. We conducted a two-year investigation of soil N2O emissions induced by the application of combined organic and synthetic f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,677 Views
16 Pages

The rise of supermarkets in Indonesia since the end of the 1990s have been transforming the food retail sector and providing further market opportunities for small-scale farmers, in which most of Indonesia’s farmer falls into this category. The aim o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,802 Views
9 Pages

Assessment of Photosynthetic Pigment and Water Contents in Intact Sunflower Plants from Spectral Indices

  • Antonio José Steidle Neto,
  • Daniela De Carvalho Lopes and
  • João Carlos Ferreira Borges Júnior

Under water-limited conditions, monitoring water and chlorophyll status is essential to avoid restrictions in crop growth and yield. This study was carried out to assess water and chlorophyll contents from spectral indices in sunflower plants. The hy...

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