Agricultural Systems

Article	Citations
Digital twins in smart farming	298
Machine learning for large-scale crop yield forecasting	151
Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU	129
COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada	124
Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research	120
Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction	112
COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and food systems in Nepal: Implications for SDGs	107
Can China's overuse of fertilizer be reduced without threatening food security and farm incomes?	82
Immediate impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on bean value chain in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa	75
Multi-level impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on agricultural systems in India: The case of Uttar Pradesh	75
Ag-IoT for crop and environment monitoring: Past, present, and future	74
The two-way relationship between food systems and the COVID19 pandemic: causes and consequences	69
Big data in agriculture: Between opportunity and solution	67
Emerging responses to the COVID-19 crisis from family farming and the agroecology movement in Latin America – A rediscovery of food, farmers and collective action	67
Impact of Covid-19 on farming systems in Europe through the lens of resilience thinking	67
Managing salinity for sustainable agricultural production in salt-affected soils of irrigated drylands	67
Enhancing the ability of agriculture to cope with major crises or disasters: What the experience of COVID-19 teaches us	66
Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Foresighting Australian digital agricultural futures: Applying responsible innovation thinking to anticipate research and development impact under different scenarios	65
Towards automation of in-season crop type mapping using spatiotemporal crop information and remote sensing data	62
Carbon footprint and water footprint of rice and wheat production in Punjab, India	61
Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural production and food systems in late transforming Southeast Asia: The case of Myanmar	61
Constraints for adopting climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Southeast Kenya	60
Building resilient food system amidst COVID-19: Responses and lessons from China	58
Agricultural labor, COVID-19, and potential implications for food security and air quality in the breadbasket of India	57

COVID-19 impacts on Flemish food supply chains and lessons for agri-food system resilience	55
Five mechanisms blocking the transition towards ‘nature-inclusive’ agriculture: A systemic analysis of Dutch dairy farming	54
India's COVID-19 social assistance package and its impact on the agriculture sector	53
Smallholder farmer perceptions about the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and livelihoods in Senegal	53
Productivity or stability? Exploring maize-legume intercropping strategies for smallholder Conservation Agriculture farmers in Zimbabwe	53
Immediate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on farming systems in Central America and Mexico	51
Approach for optimizing the water-land-food-energy nexus in agroforestry systems under climate change	50
Resilience achieved via multiple compensating subsystems: The immediate impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the agri-food systems of Australia and New Zealand	50
Response and resilience of Asian agrifood systems to COVID-19: An assessment across twenty-five countries and four regional farming and food systems	49
Resilience or how do we enable agricultural systems to ride the waves of unexpected change?	49
Assessing the vulnerability and risk of maize to drought in China based on the AquaCrop model	48
Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture and food systems in Pacific Island countries (PICs): Evidence from communities in Fiji and Solomon Islands	48
Impacts of multi-timescale SPEI and SMDI variations on winter wheat yields	47
Coupling geographic information system integrated fuzzy logic-analytical hierarchy process with global and machine learning based sensitivity analysis for agricultural suitability mapping	47
Windbreaks in the United States: A systematic review of producer-reported benefits, challenges, management activities and drivers of adoption	46
Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements	46
Annual paddy rice planting area and cropping intensity datasets and their dynamics in the Asian monsoon region from 2000 to 2020	46
COVID-19 and food systems in Pacific Island Countries, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste: Opportunities for actions towards the sustainable development goals	45
Resilience of French organic dairy cattle farms and supply chains to the Covid-19 pandemic	44
Challenges and potential pathways towards sustainable agriculture within the European Green Deal	43
Multi-faceted impact and outcome of COVID-19 on smallholder agricultural systems: Integrating qualitative research and fuzzy cognitive mapping to explore resilient strategies	40
Experiences and challenges of agricultural development in an artificial oasis: A review	40
Drivers of change in mountain agriculture: A thirty-year analysis of trajectories of evolution of cattle farming systems in the Spanish Pyrenees	40
Exploring actors, their constellations, and roles in digital agricultural innovations	39
Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean	39
Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany	39
Data sharing platforms: How value is created from agricultural data	38
Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal	38
A meta-analysis of the possible impact of climate change on global cotton yield based on crop simulation approaches	37
Scenarios for European agricultural policymaking in the era of digitalisation	37
Climate change-induced aridity is affecting agriculture in Northeast Italy	37
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on apple orchards in Europe	36
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand beef through better integration of dairy and beef production	36
Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk	35
Biodiversity indicators for result-based agri-environmental schemes – Current state and future prospects	35
Soil-dependent responses of US crop yields to climate variability and depth to groundwater	34
Stability of farm income: The role of agricultural diversity and agri-environment scheme payments	34
Farmers' perception of the barriers that hinder the implementation of agriculture 4.0	33
Adoption pathway analysis: Representing the dynamics and diversity of adoption for agricultural practices	33
Towards sustainable circular agriculture: An integrated optimization framework for crop-livestock-biogas-crop recycling system management under uncertainty	33
An analytical framework to estimate the economics and adoption potential of dual land-use systems: The case of agrivoltaics	33
Process-based greenhouse climate models: Genealogy, current status, and future directions	32
Projecting potential impact of COVID-19 on major cereal crops in Senegal and Burkina Faso using crop simulation models	31
Is food security an illusion for cities? A system dynamics approach to assess disturbance in the urban food supply chain during pandemics	31
Digital innovation ecosystems in agri-food: design principles and organizational framework	31
Viability of temperate fruit tree varieties in Spain under climate change according to chilling accumulation	30
Crafting actionable knowledge on ecological intensification: Lessons from co-innovation approaches in Uruguay and Europe	30
Improved nutrient management in cereals using Nutrient Expert and machine learning tools: Productivity, profitability and nutrient use efficiency	30
Performance of a wheat yield prediction model and factors influencing the performance: A review and meta-analysis	29
Concepts of agricultural marginal lands and their utilisation: A review	29

New trends in the global digital transformation process of the agri-food sector: An exploratory study based on Twitter	28
Diversified crop-livestock farms are risk-efficient in the face of price and production variability	28
Driving mechanism for farmers to adopt improved agricultural systems in China: The case of rice-green manure crops rotation system	28
Reconciling productivity, profitability and sustainability of small-holder sugarcane farms: A combined life cycle and data envelopment analysis	27
Evaluation of the contribution of 16 European beef production systems to food security	27
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi	27
Coupling landscape-scale diagnostics surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation to identify entry points for sustainably closing rice yield gaps in Nepal	27
Participatory design of digital innovation in agricultural research-for-development: insights from practice	27
Perceived effects of COVID-19 restrictions on smallholder farmers: Evidence from seven lower- and middle-income countries	27
Impact of best management practices on sustainable crop production and climate resilience in smallholder farming systems of South Asia	27
The spatial-temporal coupling pattern of grain yield and fertilization in the North China plain	27
Accelerating the transition towards sustainable agriculture: The case of organic dairy farming in the Netherlands	27
Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation modeling	27
Carbon footprints and social carbon cost assessments in a perennial energy crop system: A comparison of fertilizer management practices in a Mediterranean area	27
Enabling circularity in grain production systems with novel technologies and policy	26
Cacao-based agroforestry systems in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon Biomes: An ecoregional analysis of land use	26
Assessing yield and economic impact of introducing soybean to the lowland rice system in southern Brazil	26
Modeling climatically suitable areas for soybean and their shifts across China	26
Exploring how social capital and learning are related to the resilience of Dutch arable farmers	26
Improving regional wheat drought risk assessment for insurance application by integrating scenario-driven crop model, machine learning, and satellite data	26
Assessment of COVID-19 impacts on U.S. counties using the immediate impact model of local agricultural production (IMLAP)	26
Identifying adaptation strategies to climate change for Mediterranean olive orchards using impact response surfaces	25
Climate change, soil water conservation, and productivity: Evidence from cocoa farmers in Ghana	25
A systematic review of the contribution of system dynamics to value chain analysis in agricultural development	25
Best management practices scenario analysis to reduce agricultural nitrogen loads and sediment yield to the semiarid Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain)	25
Modelling policies towards pesticide-free agricultural production systems	25
Resilience capacities as perceived by European farmers	24
The fruits of knowledge co-creation in agriculture and food-related multi-stakeholder platforms in sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic literature review	24
Climate change and maize productivity in Uganda: Simulating the impacts and alleviation with climate smart agriculture practices	24
Empathising, defining and ideating with the farming community to develop a geotagged photo app for smart devices: A design thinking approach	24
Revisiting linear regression to test agreement in continuous predicted-observed datasets	24
Immediate effects of COVID-19 on the global dairy sector	24
Combining on-farm innovation tracking and participatory prototyping trials to develop legume-based cropping systems in West Africa	23
Pathways for building resilience to COVID-19 pandemic and revitalizing the Nepalese agriculture sector	23
The application of ecologically intensive principles to the systemic redesign of livestock farms on native grasslands: A case of co-innovation in Rocha, Uruguay	23
Which is more important to sorghum production systems in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa: Climate change or improved management practices?	23
Farmer-centred design: An affordances-based framework for identifying processes that facilitate farmers as co-designers in addressing complex agricultural challenges	23
Understanding the dynamics of integrated rice–crawfish farming in Qianjiang county, China using Landsat time series images	23
Explaining yield and gross margin gaps for sustainable intensification of the wheat-based systems in a Mediterranean climate	23
Exploring transitions towards sustainable farming practices through participatory research – The case of Danish farmers' use of species mixtures	23
Quantifying farmers' preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh's risk prone farming systems	23
Farmer-centered ecological intensification: Using innovation characteristics to identify barriers and opportunities for a transition of agroecosystems towards sustainability	22
Digital revolution for the agroecological transition of food systems: A responsible research and innovation perspective	22
Analysing price volatility in agricultural value chains using systems thinking: A case study of the Indonesian chilli value chain	22
Modeling the effects of long-term reduced N application on soil N losses and yield in a greenhouse tomato production system	22
Exploring the agricultural landscape diversity-food security nexus: an analysis in two contrasted parklands of Central Senegal	21
Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield	21
Field validation of a farmer supplied data approach to close soybean yield gaps in the US North Central region	21
Mapping development potential of dry-season small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan African countries under joint biophysical and economic constraints - An agent-based modeling approach with an applicat	21
Resilience of agricultural systems: biodiversity-based systems are stable, while intensified ones are resistant and high-yielding	21
Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production	21
Collaboration for innovative routes to market: COVID-19 and the food system	21
Selected shade tree species improved cocoa yields in low-input agroforestry systems in Ghana	21
Spatio-temporal design of strip cropping systems	21
Multi-level impacts of climate change and supply disruption events on a potato supply chain: An agent-based modeling approach	21
Mutual analyses of agriculture land use and transportation networks: The future location of soybean and corn production in Brazil.	21
Environmental life cycle assessment of Finnish beef – cradle-to-farm gate analysis of dairy and beef breed beef production	21
Environmental trade-offs of relay-cropping winter cover crops with soybean in a maize-soybean cropping system	21
Effectiveness and upscaling potential of climate smart agriculture interventions: Farmers' participatory prioritization and livelihood indicators as its determinants	21
Impact of climate change and planting date shifts on growth and yields of double cropping rice in southeastern China in future	21
Crop yield estimation based on assimilation of crop models and remote sensing data: A systematic evaluation	20
Prospects for summer cover crops in southern Australian semi-arid cropping systems	20
Agricultural emissions reduction potential by improving technical efficiency in crop production	20
Farmers' information needs, access and its impact: Evidence from different cotton producing regions in the Maharashtra state of India	20
Farm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of California direct market farmers	20
Disruption disrupted? Reflecting on the relationship between responsible innovation and digital agriculture research and development at multiple levels in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	20
Historical and projected impacts of climate change and technology on soybean yield in China	20
Crop diversification improves cropping system sustainability: An 8-year on-farm experiment in South-Western France	20
A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture	20
Farm typologies for understanding farm systems and improving agricultural policy	20
Suitability of root, tuber, and banana crops in Central Africa can be favoured under future climates	20
Assessing the multidimensional elements of sustainability in European agroforestry systems	20
Beyond agroecology: Agricultural rewilding, a prospect for livestock systems	19
Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy	19
A functional analysis of the role of input suppliers in an agricultural innovation system: The case of small-scale irrigation in Kenya	19
Alfalfa and silage maize intercropping provides comparable productivity and profitability with lower environmental impacts than wheat–maize system in the North China plain	19
Biological nitrogen fixation of legumes crops under organic farming as driven by cropping management: A review	19
Economic implications of the loss of glyphosate and paraquat on Australian mixed enterprise farms	19
Multi-actor Horizon 2020 projects in agriculture, forestry and related sectors: A Multi-level Innovation System framework (MINOS) for identifying multi-level system failures	19
Forecasting future crop suitability with microclimate data	19

The effect of climate variability on Colombian coffee productivity: A dynamic panel model approach	19
Revitalizing agricultural sciences with design sciences	19
Investigating narratives and trends in digital agriculture: A scoping study of social and behavioural science studies	19
Social media platforms, open communication and problem solving in the back-office of Ghanaian extension: A substantive, structural and relational analysis	19
Yield gap analysis to identify attainable milk and meat productivities and the potential for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in cattle systems of Colombia	19
The agronomic and economic viability of innovative cropping systems to reduce Fusarium head blight and related mycotoxins in wheat	18
Revisiting yield gaps and the scope for sustainable intensification for irrigated lowland rice in Southeast Asia	18
Impacts of digitalization on value creation and capture: Evidence from the agricultural value chain	18
Precision farming: what do Italian farmers really think? An application of the Q methodology	18
Redefining the link between rainfall and crop establishment in dryland cropping systems	18
Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's chicken and egg sector, with implications for the sustainable development goals	18
Using a positive deviance approach to inform farming systems redesign: A case study from Bihar, India	18
Patchy landscapes support more plant diversity and ecosystem services than wood grasslands in Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems	18
Modeling impacts of climate change on crop yield and phosphorus loss in a subsurface drained field of Lake Erie region, Canada	18
Challenges of complying with both food value chain specifications and agroecology principles in vegetable crop protection	18
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	18
Co-production, uptake of weather and climate services, and welfare impacts on farmers in Senegal: A panel data approach	17
Factors affecting the adoption of ecological intensification practices: A case study in vegetable production in Chile	17
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion	17
Integrated watershed management on soil quality, crop productivity and climate change adaptation, dry highland of Northeast Ethiopia	17
Evaluation of APEX modifications to simulate forage production for grazing management decision-support in the Western US Great Plains	17
“That is my farm” – An integrated co-learning approach for whole-farm sustainable intensification in smallholder farming	17
Robustness to import declines of three types of European farming systems assessed with a dynamic nitrogen flow model	17
Identifying exemplary sustainable cropping systems using a positive deviance approach: Wheat-maize double cropping in the North China Plain	17
Conservation agriculture improves agronomic, economic, and soil fertility indicators for a clay soil in a rainfed Mediterranean climate in Morocco	17
The importance of proximity dimensions in agricultural knowledge and innovation systems: The case of banana disease management in Rwanda	17
Digitalization, sustainability, and coffee. Opportunities and challenges for agricultural development	17
Connected cows and cyber chickens? Stocktaking and case studies of digital livestock tools in Kenya and India	17
Selecting higher nutritive value annual pasture legumes increases the profitability of sheep production	17
Health crisis and quarantine measures in Peru: Effects on livelihoods of coffee and potato farmers	17
Designing a research agenda for coupled innovation towards sustainable agrifood systems	17
Multi-actor co-innovation partnerships in agriculture, forestry and related sectors in Europe: Contrasting approaches to implementation	17
Field scale spatial wheat yield forecasting system under limited field data availability by integrating crop simulation model with weather forecast and satellite remote sensing	17
Fostering local crop-livestock integration via legume exchanges using an innovative integrated assessment and modelling approach based on the MAELIA platform	17
Diversity and drivers of crop diversification pathways of European farms	17
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	16
Optimizing nitrogen application and sowing date can improve environmental sustainability and economic benefit in wheat-rice rotation	16
A sustainable approach to narrowing the summer maize yield gap experienced by smallholders in the North China Plain	16
An integrated socio-cyber-physical system framework to assess responsible digitalisation in agriculture: A first application with Living Labs in Europe	16
Effects of farm type on food production, landscape openness, grassland biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions in mixed agricultural-forestry regions	16
Mapping farmer perceptions, Conservation Agriculture practices and on-farm measurements: The role of systems thinking in the process of adoption	16
Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems	16
Visualising adoption processes through a stepwise framework: A case study of mechanisation on the Nepal Terai	16
Better before worse trajectories in food systems? An investigation of synergies and trade-offs through climate-smart agriculture and system dynamics	16
Liming agricultural soils in Western Kenya: Can long-term economic and environmental benefits pay off short term investments?	16
An integrated seed health strategy and phytosanitary risk assessment: Potato in the Republic of Georgia	16
Sustainable intensification of crop production under alternative future changes in climate and technology: The case of the North Savo region	16
Signs of agricultural sustainability: A global assessment of sustainability governance initiatives and their indicators in crop farming	15
Quantitative contributions of climate change, new cultivars adoption, and management practices to yield and global warming potential in rice-winter wheat rotation ecosystems	15
Motivations, goals, and benefits associated with organic grain farming by producers in Iowa, U.S.	15
Economic and environmental consequences of nitrogen application rates, timing and methods on corn in Ontario	15
Collective design of innovative agroecological cropping systems for the industrial vegetable sector	15
Unravelling drivers of high variability of on-farm cocoa yields across environmental gradients in Ghana	15
Farm scale as a driver of agricultural development in the Kenyan Rift Valley	15
Relative yield of food and efficiency of land-use in organic agriculture - A regional study	15
Conventionalised vs. agroecological practices on organic vegetable farms: Investigating the influence of farm structure in a bifurcation perspective	15
Rapid assessments of the impact of COVID-19 on the availability of quality seed to farmers: Advocating immediate practical, remedial and preventative action	15
Modeling CH4 and N2O emissions for continuous and noncontinuous flooding rice systems	15
Ammonia volatilisation from grazed, pasture based dairy farming systems	15
A design for a generic and modular bio-economic farm model	15
Communality in farmer managed irrigation systems: Insights from Spain, Ecuador, Cambodia and Mozambique	14
Farmers' resource endowment and risk management affect agricultural practices and innovation capacity in the Northwestern uplands of Cambodia	14
Energy scarcity and rising cost: Towards a paradigm shift for livestock	14
Bridging the gap between data and decisions: A review of process-based models for viticulture	14
The cocoa yield gap in Ghana: A quantification and an analysis of factors that could narrow the gap	14
Covid-19 management by farmers and policymakers in Burkina Faso, Colombia and France: Lessons for climate action	14
Developing integrated rice-animal farming based on climate and farmers choices	14
Performance, meat quality, profitability, and greenhouse gas emissions of suckler bulls from pasture-based compared to an indoor high-concentrate weanling-to-beef finishing system	14
Circularity indicators and their relation with nutrient use efficiency in agriculture and food systems	14
Smallholder cocoa agroforestry systems; is increased yield worth the labour and capital inputs?	14
Exploring the landscape of controlled environment agriculture research: A systematic scoping review of trends and topics	14
Potential for land and water management adaptations in Mediterranean croplands under climate change	14
Modeling cover crop biomass production and related emissions to improve farm-scale decision-support tools	14