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Author Llonch, P.; Lawrence, A.B.; Haskell, M.J.; Blanco-Penedo, I.; Turner, S.P.
Title The need for a quantitative assessment of animal welfare trade-offs in climate change mitigation scenarios Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Advances in Animal Biosciences Abbreviated Journal Advances in Animal Biosciences
Volume 6 Issue 01 Pages 9-11
Keywords (down) GHG mitigation; animal welfare; sustainable production
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ISSN 2040-4700 ISBN Medium Article
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4677
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Author Kahiluoto, H.; Kaseva, J.; Hakala, K.; Himanen, S.J.; Jauhiainen, L.; Rötter, R.P.; Salo, T.; Trnka, M.
Title Cultivating resilience by empirically revealing response diversity Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Global Environmental Change Abbreviated Journal Glob. Environ. Change
Volume 25 Issue Pages 186-193
Keywords (down) generic approach; climate change; food security; agrifood systems; cultivars; adaptive capacity; climate-change; functional diversity; plant-communities; genetic diversity; biodiversity; ecosystems; management; redundancy; evenness; weather
Abstract Intensified climate and market turbulence requires resilience to a multitude of changes. Diversity reduces the sensitivity to disturbance and fosters the capacity to adapt to various future scenarios. What really matters is diversity of responses. Despite appeals to manage resilience, conceptual developments have not yet yielded a break-through in empirical applications. Here, we present an approach to empirically reveal the ‘response diversity’: the factors of change that are critical to a system are identified, and the response diversity is determined based on the documented component responses to these factors. We illustrate this approach and its added value using an example of securing food supply in the face of climate variability and change. This example demonstrates that quantifying response diversity allows for a new perspective: despite continued increase in cultivar diversity of barley, the diversity in responses to weather declined during the last decade in the regions where most of the barley is grown in Finland. This was due to greater homogeneity in responses among new cultivars than among older ones. Such a decline in the response diversity indicates increased vulnerability and reduced resilience. The assessment serves adaptive management in the face of both ecological and socioeconomic drivers. Supplier diversity in the food retail industry in order to secure affordable food in spite of global price volatility could represent another application. The approach is, indeed, applicable to any system for which it is possible to adopt empirical information regarding the response by its components to the critical factors of variability and change. Targeting diversification in response to critical change brings efficiency into diversity. We propose the generic procedure that is demonstrated in this study as a means to efficiently enhance resilience at multiple levels of agrifood systems and beyond. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0959-3780 ISBN Medium Article
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4525
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Author Mínguez, M.I.
Title Agriculture in Spain and the climate change issue Type Report
Year 2016 Publication Watch Letter Abbreviated Journal Watch Lett.
Volume 37 Issue Pages
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Abstract Climate change awareness is pushing research and innovation in agriculture. Studies are booming on phenology and heat stress physiology – in parallel with improvement of their simulation in crop models- water use, irrigation requirements and improvement – be it deficit, strategic or precision irrigation-, cereal grain quality, and pest and disease evolution; large international and European research projects are working on these and mapping new areas for cultivation or species/cultivar changes.
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Series Editor International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies CIHEAM Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4881
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Author Leogrande, R.; Lopedota, O.; Vitti, C.; Ventrella, D.; Montemurro, F.
Title Saline water and municipal solid waste compost application on tomato crop: Effects on plant and soil Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Journal of Plant Nutrition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 39 Issue 4 Pages 491-501
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Abstract A field experiment was conducted in Southern Italy to evaluate the effects of different water quality and fertilizers on yield performance of tomato crop. In mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizer and irrigation with fresh water (Electrical Conductivity, EC, = 0.9 dS m⁻¹) (FWF); mineral N fertilizer and irrigation with saline water (EC = 6.0 dS m⁻¹) (SWF); municipal solid waste (MSW) compost and irrigation with fresh water (EC = 0.9 dS m⁻¹) (FWC); MSW compost and irrigation with saline water (EC = 6.0 dS m⁻¹) (SWC). At harvest, weight and number of fruits and refractometric index (°Brix) were measured, total and marketable yield and dry matter of fruit were calculated. The results indicated that MSW compost, applied as amendment, could substitute the mineral fertilizer. In fact, in the treatments based on compost application, the tomato average marketable yield increased by 9% compared with treatments with mineral fertilizer. The marketable yield in the SWF and SWC treatments (with an average soil EC in two years to about 3.5 dS m⁻¹) decreased respectively of 20 and 10%, in respect to fresh water treatments. At the end of the experiment, application of compost significantly decreased the sodium absorption rate (SAR) of SWC treatment in respect of SWF (−29.9%). Significant differences were observed among the four treatments both on soil solution cations either exchangeable cations. In particular compost application increased the calcium (Ca) and potassium (K) contents in saturated soil paste respect to the SWF ones (31.4% and 59.5%, respectively). At the same time saturated soil paste sodium (Na) in SWC treatment recorded a decrease of 17.4% compared to SWF.
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Author Acharya, T.; Fanzo, J.; Gustafson, D.; Ingram, J.; Schneeman, B.; Allen, L.; Boote, K.; Drewnowski, A.; Ewert, F.; Hall, S.; Hendley, P.; Howden, M.; Janssen, S.; Jones, J.; Latulippe, M.; Lotze-Campen, H.; McDermott, J.; Meijl, H.V.; Nelson, G.; Newsome, R.; Roulin, A.; Scholes, B.; Tanumihardjo, S.; Tavill, G.; van der Mensbrugghe, D.; Wiebe, K.
Title Assessing Sustainable Nutrition Security: The Role of Food Systems: Working Paper Type Report
Year 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords (down) ftnotmacsur
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Series Editor ILSI Research Foundation: Center for Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition Security Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 4995
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