A5039938354- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Potato Plant Research
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Water resources management and optimization
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Wageningen University & Research
2015-2024
Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences
2010-2024
Prysmian Group (Netherlands)
2009-2019
Plant Production Research Institute
2010-2017
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
2006-2008
Agricultural systems in Europe face accumulating economic, ecological and societal challenges, raising concerns about their resilience to shocks stresses. These issues need be addressed with a focus on the regional context which farming operate because farms, farmers' organizations, service suppliers supply chain actors are embedded local environments functions of agriculture. We define system as its ability ensure provision increasingly complex social, environmental institutional stresses,...
The coming 10–20 years will be most critical for making the transition to a global food system in which mineral nutrients agriculture must managed more holistic manner. Fertilizers play particular role that because they are among key drivers securing security and improving human nutrition through increased crop yields nutritional quality. A new paradigm responsible plant follows systems circular economy approach achieve multiple socioeconomic, environmental health objectives. Achieving...
Food production must adapt in the face of climate change.In Europe, projected vulnerability food to change is particularly high Mediterranean regions.Increasing agricultural diversity has been suggested as an adaptation strategy, but empirical evidence lacking.We analyzed relationship between regional farm (i.e., among types) and effects variability on wheat (Triticum spp.) productivity.An extensive data set with information from more than 50 000 farms 1990 2003 was analyzed, along observed...
As the sustainability of agricultural citizen science projects depends on volunteer farmers who contribute their time, energy and skills, understanding motivation is important to attract retain participants in projects. The objectives this study were assess 1) farmers' motivations participate as scientists 2) mobile telephone usage. Building motivational factors identified from previous studies, a questionnaire based methodology was developed which allowed analysis relation characteristics....
Resilience is the ability to deal with shocks and stresses, including unknown previously unimaginable, such as Covid-19 crisis.This paper assesses (i) how different farming systems were exposed crisis, (ii) which resilience capacities revealed (iii) was enabled or constrained by systems' social institutional environment.The 11 included have been analysed since 2017. This allows a comparison of pre-Covid-19 findings crisis. Pre-Covid are from SURE-Farm systematic sustainability assessment....
Scenarios describe plausible and internally consistent views of the future. They can be used by scientists, policymakers entrepreneurs to explore challenges global environmental change given an appropriate level spatial sectoral detail systematic development. We followed a nine-step protocol extend enrich set scenarios - Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) providing regional for European agriculture food systems using one-to-one nesting participatory approach. The resulting five...
Despite its frequent use in policy discussions on future agricultural production, both the concept of yield gap and determinants are understood differently by economists agronomists. This study provides a micro-level framework that disentangles integrates agronomic economic approaches to measurement. It decomposes conventional indicator into four components together provide better understanding why actual farm falls below potential: (1) technical efficiency gap, (2) allocative (3) (4)...
Abstract Ethiopia has achieved the second highest maize yield in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, farmers’ yields are still much lower than on-farm and on-station trial yields, only ca. 20% of estimated water-limited potential yield. This article provides a comprehensive national level analysis drivers Ethiopia, by decomposing gaps into efficiency, resource technology components, accounting for broad set detailed input crop management choices. Stochastic frontier was combined with concepts...
Yield gap analyses are useful to assess and benchmark the productivity of cropping systems. Often such performed at higher aggregation levels. As a result, these studies lack detail explain yield gaps field level hence make it difficult translate findings into precise recommendations farmers extensionists. This study provides detailed approach for assessments through coupling frequent monitoring in farmers' fields with crop growth modelling. We used ware potato production Netherlands as case...
Climate change will affect crop yields and consequently farmers' income. The underlying relationships are not well understood, particularly the importance of management related factors at farm regional level. We analyze impacts trends variability in climatic conditions from 1990 to 2003 on five crops income type level Europe considering characteristics other factors. While Mediterranean regions often characterized as most vulnerable climate change, our data suggest effective adaptation...
The aim of this paper is to improve understanding the adaptive capacity European agriculture climate change. Extensive data on farm characteristics individual farms from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) have been combined with climatic and socio-economic analyze influence management crop yields income identify factors that determine capacity. A multilevel analysis was performed account for regional differences in studied relationships. Our results suggest conditions should be considered...
Rather than on crop modelling only, climate change impact assessments in agriculture need to be based integrated assessment and farming systems analysis, account for adaptation at different levels. With a case study Flevoland, the Netherlands, we illustrate that (1) models cannot all relevant impacts options, (2) changes technology, policy prices have had are likely larger farms change. While indicates positive of yields major crops 2050, semi-quantitative participatory method assessing...