Agricultural Systems

Article	Citations
Digital twins in smart farming	243
Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems	171
Editorial: Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural and food systems worldwide and on progress to the sustainable development goals	161
Machine learning for large-scale crop yield forecasting	117
COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada	112
Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU	104
The role of farmers' social networks in the implementation of no-till farming practices	99
COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and food systems in Nepal: Implications for SDGs	96
Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research	94
Agroecology for adaptation to climate change and resource depletion in the Mediterranean region. A review	93
Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction	87
Manuresheds: Advancing nutrient recycling in US agriculture	81
Potential of multi-species livestock farming to improve the sustainability of livestock farms: A review	74
Assessing resilience and adaptability in agroecological transitions	74
Impact of terminal heat stress on wheat yield in India and options for adaptation	74
Multi-level impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on agricultural systems in India: The case of Uttar Pradesh	73
Scaling Readiness: Science and practice of an approach to enhance impact of research for development	71
Immediate impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on bean value chain in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa	69
Can China's overuse of fertilizer be reduced without threatening food security and farm incomes?	67
The two-way relationship between food systems and the COVID19 pandemic: causes and consequences	64
Foresighting Australian digital agricultural futures: Applying responsible innovation thinking to anticipate research and development impact under different scenarios	61
Enhancing the ability of agriculture to cope with major crises or disasters: What the experience of COVID-19 teaches us	60
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	60
Impact of Covid-19 on farming systems in Europe through the lens of resilience thinking	59
Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural production and food systems in late transforming Southeast Asia: The case of Myanmar	59

Crop insurance and pesticide use in European agriculture	55
Agricultural labor, COVID-19, and potential implications for food security and air quality in the breadbasket of India	55
Ag-IoT for crop and environment monitoring: Past, present, and future	54
Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Carbon footprint and water footprint of rice and wheat production in Punjab, India	53
Designing high-yielding maize ideotypes to adapt changing climate in the North China Plain	52
Managing salinity for sustainable agricultural production in salt-affected soils of irrigated drylands	52
Building resilient food system amidst COVID-19: Responses and lessons from China	51
Towards automation of in-season crop type mapping using spatiotemporal crop information and remote sensing data	49
Big data in agriculture: Between opportunity and solution	49
India's COVID-19 social assistance package and its impact on the agriculture sector	49
Maize, wheat and rice production potential changes in China under the background of climate change	47
Resilience or how do we enable agricultural systems to ride the waves of unexpected change?	46
Productivity or stability? Exploring maize-legume intercropping strategies for smallholder Conservation Agriculture farmers in Zimbabwe	45
Smallholder farmer perceptions about the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and livelihoods in Senegal	45
Immediate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on farming systems in Central America and Mexico	45
Essential fragmentation metrics for agricultural policies: Linking landscape pattern, ecosystem service and land use management in urbanizing China	44
Farming smarter with big data: Insights from the case of Australia's national dairy herd milk recording scheme	44
Influence of diversity and intensification level on vulnerability, resilience and robustness of agricultural systems	44
Windbreaks in the United States: A systematic review of producer-reported benefits, challenges, management activities and drivers of adoption	43
Assessing the vulnerability and risk of maize to drought in China based on the AquaCrop model	43
COVID-19 impacts on Flemish food supply chains and lessons for agri-food system resilience	43
Is new olive farming sustainable? A spatial comparison of productive and environmental performances between traditional and new olive orchards with the model OliveCan	43
Resilience achieved via multiple compensating subsystems: The immediate impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the agri-food systems of Australia and New Zealand	42
Response and resilience of Asian agrifood systems to COVID-19: An assessment across twenty-five countries and four regional farming and food systems	42
Impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture and food systems in Pacific Island countries (PICs): Evidence from communities in Fiji and Solomon Islands	41
Constraints for adopting climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Southeast Kenya	41
Simulated seasonal responses of grazed dairy pastures to nitrogen fertilizer in SE Australia: N loss and recovery	41
Approach for optimizing the water-land-food-energy nexus in agroforestry systems under climate change	40
Science of Scaling: Understanding and guiding the scaling of innovation for societal outcomes	39
Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements	39
Impacts of multi-timescale SPEI and SMDI variations on winter wheat yields	39
Five mechanisms blocking the transition towards ‘nature-inclusive’ agriculture: A systemic analysis of Dutch dairy farming	39
COVID-19 and food systems in Pacific Island Countries, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste: Opportunities for actions towards the sustainable development goals	38
Resilience of French organic dairy cattle farms and supply chains to the Covid-19 pandemic	38
Exploring actors, their constellations, and roles in digital agricultural innovations	37
Experiences and challenges of agricultural development in an artificial oasis: A review	37
Optimization of sustainable bioenergy production considering energy-food-water-land nexus and livestock manure under uncertainty	37
Multi-faceted impact and outcome of COVID-19 on smallholder agricultural systems: Integrating qualitative research and fuzzy cognitive mapping to explore resilient strategies	36
Coupling geographic information system integrated fuzzy logic-analytical hierarchy process with global and machine learning based sensitivity analysis for agricultural suitability mapping	35
Variations in yield gaps of smallholder cocoa systems and the main determining factors along a climate gradient in Ghana	34
Towards sustainable water management in an arid agricultural region: A multi-level multi-objective stochastic approach	34
Towards actionable farm typologies: Scaling adoption of agricultural inputs in Rwanda	34
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on apple orchards in Europe	34
Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal	33
Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany	33
Immediate impacts of COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and food systems in the Caribbean	33
Data sharing platforms: How value is created from agricultural data	33
Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk	32
Reducing the maize yield gap in Ethiopia: Decomposition and policy simulation	32

Drivers of change in mountain agriculture: A thirty-year analysis of trajectories of evolution of cattle farming systems in the Spanish Pyrenees	32
Soil carbon sequestration potential in a Vertisol in central India- results from a 43-year long-term experiment and APSIM modeling	32
Mid-season empirical cotton yield forecasts at fine resolutions using large yield mapping datasets and diverse spatial covariates	32
Annual paddy rice planting area and cropping intensity datasets and their dynamics in the Asian monsoon region from 2000 to 2020	32
Identification of resilience factors of organic dairy cattle farms	31
Assessing the impacts of recent-past climatic constraints on potential wheat yield and adaptation options under Mediterranean climate in southern Portugal	30
An analytical framework to estimate the economics and adoption potential of dual land-use systems: The case of agrivoltaics	30
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand beef through better integration of dairy and beef production	30
Designing future dairy systems for New Zealand using reflexive interactive design	30
Projecting potential impact of COVID-19 on major cereal crops in Senegal and Burkina Faso using crop simulation models	30
Scenarios for European agricultural policymaking in the era of digitalisation	30
Soil-dependent responses of US crop yields to climate variability and depth to groundwater	29
A review of European models to assess the sustainability performance of livestock production systems	29
SSM-iCrop2: A simple model for diverse crop species over large areas	29
Challenges and potential pathways towards sustainable agriculture within the European Green Deal	28
A meta-analysis of the possible impact of climate change on global cotton yield based on crop simulation approaches	27
Using remote sensing to assess the effect of trees on millet yield in complex parklands of Central Senegal	27
Improved nutrient management in cereals using Nutrient Expert and machine learning tools: Productivity, profitability and nutrient use efficiency	26
Adoption pathway analysis: Representing the dynamics and diversity of adoption for agricultural practices	26
Process-based greenhouse climate models: Genealogy, current status, and future directions	26
System diversification and grazing management as resilience-enhancing agricultural practices: The case of crop-livestock integration	26
Is food security an illusion for cities? A system dynamics approach to assess disturbance in the urban food supply chain during pandemics	26
Viability of temperate fruit tree varieties in Spain under climate change according to chilling accumulation	26
Driving mechanism for farmers to adopt improved agricultural systems in China: The case of rice-green manure crops rotation system	25
Assessment of COVID-19 impacts on U.S. counties using the immediate impact model of local agricultural production (IMLAP)	25
Rules for grown soybean-maize cropping system in Midwestern Brazil: Food production and economic profits	25
Biodiversity indicators for result-based agri-environmental schemes – Current state and future prospects	25
Stability of farm income: The role of agricultural diversity and agri-environment scheme payments	25
Modeling climatically suitable areas for soybean and their shifts across China	24
Is rural food security primarily associated with smallholder agriculture or with commercial agriculture?: An approach to the case of Mexico using structural equation modeling	24
Towards sustainable circular agriculture: An integrated optimization framework for crop-livestock-biogas-crop recycling system management under uncertainty	24
Identifying adaptation strategies to climate change for Mediterranean olive orchards using impact response surfaces	24
Coupling landscape-scale diagnostics surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation to identify entry points for sustainably closing rice yield gaps in Nepal	24
Improving regional wheat drought risk assessment for insurance application by integrating scenario-driven crop model, machine learning, and satellite data	24
Design of equipment for agroecology: Coupled innovation processes led by farmer-designers	24
Reconciling productivity, profitability and sustainability of small-holder sugarcane farms: A combined life cycle and data envelopment analysis	23
Crafting actionable knowledge on ecological intensification: Lessons from co-innovation approaches in Uruguay and Europe	23
Carbon footprints and social carbon cost assessments in a perennial energy crop system: A comparison of fertilizer management practices in a Mediterranean area	23
Assessing yield and economic impact of introducing soybean to the lowland rice system in southern Brazil	23
Diversified crop-livestock farms are risk-efficient in the face of price and production variability	23
Impact of best management practices on sustainable crop production and climate resilience in smallholder farming systems of South Asia	23
Environmental impact and efficiency of use of resources of different mountain dairy farming systems	23
Performance of a wheat yield prediction model and factors influencing the performance: A review and meta-analysis	23
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi	23
Immediate effects of COVID-19 on the global dairy sector	23
Almond farm profitability under agroecological management in south-eastern Spain: Accounting for externalities and opportunity costs	22
Digital innovation ecosystems in agri-food: design principles and organizational framework	22
Concepts of agricultural marginal lands and their utilisation: A review	22
Which is more important to sorghum production systems in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa: Climate change or improved management practices?	22
Farmers' perception of the barriers that hinder the implementation of agriculture 4.0	22
The fruits of knowledge co-creation in agriculture and food-related multi-stakeholder platforms in sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic literature review	22
Best management practices scenario analysis to reduce agricultural nitrogen loads and sediment yield to the semiarid Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain)	22
Combining on-farm innovation tracking and participatory prototyping trials to develop legume-based cropping systems in West Africa	21
Perceived effects of COVID-19 restrictions on smallholder farmers: Evidence from seven lower- and middle-income countries	21
Cacao-based agroforestry systems in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon Biomes: An ecoregional analysis of land use	21
Climate change-induced aridity is affecting agriculture in Northeast Italy	21
Farmer-centered ecological intensification: Using innovation characteristics to identify barriers and opportunities for a transition of agroecosystems towards sustainability	21
Evaluation of the contribution of 16 European beef production systems to food security	21
Resilience and equity: Quantifying the distributional effects of resilience-enhancing strategies in a smallholder agricultural system	21
Climate change and maize productivity in Uganda: Simulating the impacts and alleviation with climate smart agriculture practices	21
Accelerating the transition towards sustainable agriculture: The case of organic dairy farming in the Netherlands	21
Climate change, soil water conservation, and productivity: Evidence from cocoa farmers in Ghana	21
Modeling the effects of long-term reduced N application on soil N losses and yield in a greenhouse tomato production system	21
Enabling circularity in grain production systems with novel technologies and policy	20
Pathways for building resilience to COVID-19 pandemic and revitalizing the Nepalese agriculture sector	20
Effects of proximity to markets on dairy farming intensity and market participation in Kenya and Ethiopia	20
Participatory design of digital innovation in agricultural research-for-development: insights from practice	20
Exploring how social capital and learning are related to the resilience of Dutch arable farmers	20
APSIM-Tropical Pasture: A model for simulating perennial tropical grass growth and its parameterisation for palisade grass (Brachiaria brizantha)	20
Resilience of agricultural systems: biodiversity-based systems are stable, while intensified ones are resistant and high-yielding	20
Understanding the dynamics of integrated rice–crawfish farming in Qianjiang county, China using Landsat time series images	20
Explaining yield and gross margin gaps for sustainable intensification of the wheat-based systems in a Mediterranean climate	19
Environmental life cycle assessment of Finnish beef – cradle-to-farm gate analysis of dairy and beef breed beef production	19
Mutual analyses of agriculture land use and transportation networks: The future location of soybean and corn production in Brazil.	19
Quantifying farmers' preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh's risk prone farming systems	19
Resilience capacities as perceived by European farmers	19
Exploring transitions towards sustainable farming practices through participatory research – The case of Danish farmers' use of species mixtures	19
Modeling plant production at country level as affected by availability and productivity of land and water	19
Empathising, defining and ideating with the farming community to develop a geotagged photo app for smart devices: A design thinking approach	18
Prospects for summer cover crops in southern Australian semi-arid cropping systems	18

A systematic review of the contribution of system dynamics to value chain analysis in agricultural development	18
Environmental trade-offs of relay-cropping winter cover crops with soybean in a maize-soybean cropping system	18
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	18
Exploring the agricultural landscape diversity-food security nexus: an analysis in two contrasted parklands of Central Senegal	18
Anchoring innovation methodologies to ‘go-to-scale’; a framework to guide agricultural research for development	18
Collaboration for innovative routes to market: COVID-19 and the food system	18
Analysing price volatility in agricultural value chains using systems thinking: A case study of the Indonesian chilli value chain	18
New trends in the global digital transformation process of the agri-food sector: An exploratory study based on Twitter	18
Social media platforms, open communication and problem solving in the back-office of Ghanaian extension: A substantive, structural and relational analysis	18
Disruption disrupted? Reflecting on the relationship between responsible innovation and digital agriculture research and development at multiple levels in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	17
Revisiting linear regression to test agreement in continuous predicted-observed datasets	17
Multi-actor Horizon 2020 projects in agriculture, forestry and related sectors: A Multi-level Innovation System framework (MINOS) for identifying multi-level system failures	17
The application of ecologically intensive principles to the systemic redesign of livestock farms on native grasslands: A case of co-innovation in Rocha, Uruguay	17
The spatial-temporal coupling pattern of grain yield and fertilization in the North China plain	17
Root and shoot interactions in a tropical integrated crop–livestock–forest system	17
Quantifying sheep enterprise profitability with varying flock replacement rates, lambing rates, and breeding strategies in New Zealand	17
Cropping system yield gaps can be narrowed with more optimal rotations in dryland subtropical Australia	17
Digital revolution for the agroecological transition of food systems: A responsible research and innovation perspective	17
Multi-level impacts of climate change and supply disruption events on a potato supply chain: An agent-based modeling approach	17
Crop, soil and farm systems models – science, engineering or snake oil revisited	17
Impacts of organic fertilization with a drip irrigation system on bacterial and fungal communities in cotton field	17
Suitability of root, tuber, and banana crops in Central Africa can be favoured under future climates	17
Field validation of a farmer supplied data approach to close soybean yield gaps in the US North Central region	17
Farmer-centred design: An affordances-based framework for identifying processes that facilitate farmers as co-designers in addressing complex agricultural challenges	17
Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy	17
Co-production, uptake of weather and climate services, and welfare impacts on farmers in Senegal: A panel data approach	17
Households' livelihood strategies facing market uncertainties: How did Thai farmers adapt to a rubber price drop?	17
Alfalfa and silage maize intercropping provides comparable productivity and profitability with lower environmental impacts than wheat–maize system in the North China plain	17
Designing a research agenda for coupled innovation towards sustainable agrifood systems	17
Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production	17
Evaluation of APEX modifications to simulate forage production for grazing management decision-support in the Western US Great Plains	16
Factors affecting the adoption of ecological intensification practices: A case study in vegetable production in Chile	16
Redefining the link between rainfall and crop establishment in dryland cropping systems	16
Cost-effectiveness of environmental impact abatement measures in a European pig production system	16
Economic implications of the loss of glyphosate and paraquat on Australian mixed enterprise farms	16
Bioeconomic and greenhouse gas emissions modelling of the factors influencing technical efficiency of temperate grassland-based suckler calf-to-beef production systems	16
An integrated seed health strategy and phytosanitary risk assessment: Potato in the Republic of Georgia	16
Health crisis and quarantine measures in Peru: Effects on livelihoods of coffee and potato farmers	16
Crop-livestock integration provides opportunities to mitigate environmental trade-offs in transitioning smallholder agricultural systems of the Greater Mekong Subregion	16
Quantifying the uncertainty in nitrogen application and groundwater nitrate leaching in manure based cropping systems	16
Revitalizing agricultural sciences with design sciences	16
Sustainable intensification in Western Kenya: Who will benefit?	16
Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield	16
Using a positive deviance approach to inform farming systems redesign: A case study from Bihar, India	16
Assessing the multidimensional elements of sustainability in European agroforestry systems	16
The effect of climate variability on Colombian coffee productivity: A dynamic panel model approach	16
Responding to future regime shifts with agrobiodiversity: A multi-level perspective on small-scale farming in Uganda	16
Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's chicken and egg sector, with implications for the sustainable development goals	15
Forecasting future crop suitability with microclimate data	15
Robustness to import declines of three types of European farming systems assessed with a dynamic nitrogen flow model	15
An integrated socio-cyber-physical system framework to assess responsible digitalisation in agriculture: A first application with Living Labs in Europe	15
Smallholder mechanization induced by yield-enhancing biological technologies: Evidence from Nepal and Ghana	15
Effects of farm type on food production, landscape openness, grassland biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions in mixed agricultural-forestry regions	15
Fostering local crop-livestock integration via legume exchanges using an innovative integrated assessment and modelling approach based on the MAELIA platform	15
Crop diversification improves cropping system sustainability: An 8-year on-farm experiment in South-Western France	15
Sustainable intensification of crop production under alternative future changes in climate and technology: The case of the North Savo region	15
Yield gap analysis to identify attainable milk and meat productivities and the potential for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in cattle systems of Colombia	15
Diversity in perception and management of farming risks in southern Mali	15
Selecting higher nutritive value annual pasture legumes increases the profitability of sheep production	15
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	15
Farmers' information needs, access and its impact: Evidence from different cotton producing regions in the Maharashtra state of India	15
The agronomic and economic viability of innovative cropping systems to reduce Fusarium head blight and related mycotoxins in wheat	15
Unravelling drivers of high variability of on-farm cocoa yields across environmental gradients in Ghana	14
A functional analysis of the role of input suppliers in an agricultural innovation system: The case of small-scale irrigation in Kenya	14
Context matters: Agronomic field monitoring and participatory research to identify criteria of farming system sustainability in South-East Asia.	14
Selected shade tree species improved cocoa yields in low-input agroforestry systems in Ghana	14
A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture	14
Impact of climate change and planting date shifts on growth and yields of double cropping rice in southeastern China in future	14
Inhibition of methane emissions from Chinese rice fields by nitrogen deposition based on the DNDC model	14
Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems	14
“That is my farm” – An integrated co-learning approach for whole-farm sustainable intensification in smallholder farming	14
Modelling policies towards pesticide-free agricultural production systems	14
Revisiting yield gaps and the scope for sustainable intensification for irrigated lowland rice in Southeast Asia	14
Historical and projected impacts of climate change and technology on soybean yield in China	14
Farm scale as a driver of agricultural development in the Kenyan Rift Valley	14
Predicting methane emissions, animal-environmental metrics and carbon footprint from Brahman (Bos indicus) breeding herd systems based on long-term research on grazing of neotropical savanna and Brach	14
Relative yield of food and efficiency of land-use in organic agriculture - A regional study	14
Patchy landscapes support more plant diversity and ecosystem services than wood grasslands in Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems	14
Rapid assessments of the impact of COVID-19 on the availability of quality seed to farmers: Advocating immediate practical, remedial and preventative action	14
Quantitative contributions of climate change, new cultivars adoption, and management practices to yield and global warming potential in rice-winter wheat rotation ecosystems	13
Farmers' resource endowment and risk management affect agricultural practices and innovation capacity in the Northwestern uplands of Cambodia	13
Covid-19 management by farmers and policymakers in Burkina Faso, Colombia and France: Lessons for climate action	13
Effectiveness and upscaling potential of climate smart agriculture interventions: Farmers' participatory prioritization and livelihood indicators as its determinants	13
Bridging the gap between data and decisions: A review of process-based models for viticulture	13
Managing agricultural vulnerability to phosphorus scarcity through bottom-up assessment of regional-scale opportunities	13
Mapping farmer perceptions, Conservation Agriculture practices and on-farm measurements: The role of systems thinking in the process of adoption	13
A sustainable approach to narrowing the summer maize yield gap experienced by smallholders in the North China Plain	13
Conventionalised vs. agroecological practices on organic vegetable farms: Investigating the influence of farm structure in a bifurcation perspective	13
Spatio-temporal design of strip cropping systems	13
Field scale spatial wheat yield forecasting system under limited field data availability by integrating crop simulation model with weather forecast and satellite remote sensing	13
Integrated watershed management on soil quality, crop productivity and climate change adaptation, dry highland of Northeast Ethiopia	13
Reallocating crop rotation patterns improves water quality and maintains crop yield	13
Adaptation of farmland management strategies to maintain livelihood by the Chagga people in the Kilimanjaro highlands	13
Economic and environmental consequences of nitrogen application rates, timing and methods on corn in Ontario	13
Modeling impacts of climate change on crop yield and phosphorus loss in a subsurface drained field of Lake Erie region, Canada	13