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	Author	Rusu, T.; Moraru, P.I.; Bogdan, I.; Pop, A.; Coste, C.; Marin, D.I.; Mihalache, M.
	Title	Impacts of climate change on agricultural technology management in the Transylvanian Plain, Romania			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Scientific Papers, Series A. Agronomy	Abbreviated Journal	Scientific Papers, Series A. Agronomy
	Volume	Lvi	Issue		Pages	113-118
	Keywords	climate monitoring; agricultural technology management; Transylvanian Plain
	Abstract	The Transylvanian Plain, Romania is an important region for agronomic productivity. However, limited soils data and adoption of best management practices hinder land productivity. Soil temperatures of the Transylvanian Plain were evaluated using a set of twenty datalogging stations positioned throughout the plain. Each station stores electronic data of ground temperature on 3 different levels of depth (10, 30 and 50 cm), of soil humidity at a depth of 10 cm, of the air temperature at 1 meter and of precipitation. Monitoring the thermal and hydric regime of the area is essential in order to identify and implement sets of measures of adjustment to the impact of climatic changes. After analyzing the recorded data, thermic and hydric, in the Transylvanian Plain, we recommend as optimal sowing period, advancing those known in the literature, with 5 days for corn and soybeans, and maintaining the same optimum period for sunflower and sugar beet. Water requirements are provided in an optimum, of 58.8 to 62.1% for the spring weeding crops during the growing season, thus irrigation is necessary to ensure optimum production potential. The amount of biological active degrees registered in Transylvanian Plain shows the necessity to reconstruct crop zoning, known in the literature, for the analyzed crops: wheat, corn, soy, sunflower and sugar beet.
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	Notes	CropM, ftnotmacsur			Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4614
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	Author	Allan, C.; Nguyen, T.P.L.; Seddaiu, G.; Wilson, B.; Roggero, P.P.
	Title	Integrating local knowledge with experimental research: case studies on managing cropping systems in Italy and Australia			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Italian Journal of Agronomy	Abbreviated Journal	Ital. J. Agron.
	Volume	8	Issue	2	Pages	15
	Keywords	participatory action research; agronomic research; local knowledge; knowledge integration
	Abstract	The sustainable development of agricultural systems is currently challenged by many complex agro-environmental issues. These are characterized by an incomplete understanding of the situation and the problems that arise, and the conflicting opinions that result, issues over boundaries that are often difficult to define, and controversy over the multiple goals and uncertain outcomes. Added to these characteristics, we also have the slow and often inadequate uptake and implementation of research outcomes in this complex, real world. In order to improve sustainability of agro-ecosystems, agronomic research must move away from the linear research approaches and extension practices adopted so far that have focused purely on biophysical agro-ecosystems. The theoretical operational space of agronomic research must be transformed by considering agronomic issues as part of a broader social-agro-ecosystem. One aspect of this transformation is the inclusion of knowledge collected on a local level with the participation of farmers on the ground. The integration of local experiential knowledge with traditional agronomic research is by necessity based on the participation of many different stakeholders and there can be no single blueprint for how best to develop and use the input received. However, agronomists and policy advisors require general guidelines drawn up from actual experience in order to accelerate positive agronomic change. We address this need through a comparative analysis of two case studies; one involves multi-stakeholder research in a cropping system in the dairy district of Arborea, Sardinia, Italy. The central question was: How can high crop production be maintained while also achieving the EU target water quality and minimizing the production costs? The second case is a multi-stakeholder soil health project from south-eastern Australia. Here the central question was: How can soil decline be prevented and reversed in this district, and soils made more resilient to future challenges? The Social Learning for the Integrated Management and sustainable use of water (SLIM) framework, a useful heuristic tool for exploring the dynamics of transformational change, guided the analysis of the case studies. Within this framework, a key indicator of success is the emergence of new knowledge from the creation of new spaces for learning between researchers and local stakeholders. The Italian case study appears to have been the most successful in this sense, as opportunities for joint exploration of research data allowed new potential farming responses to the central question to emerge. The multi-stakeholder processes in the Australian case focused more on providing public openings for individual learning, and missed the opportunity for new knowledge to emerge through joint exploration. We conclude that participatory approaches may enable transformative practice through knowledge integration, but that this process is not an automatic outcome of increased community participation.
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	ISSN	2039-6805 1125-4718	ISBN		Medium	Article
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	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4482
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	Author	Köchy, M.; Banse, M.; Brouwer, F.; Dono, G.A.G., L.
	Title	Integrated modelling of climate impacts on food and farming at regional to supranational scales			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 2nd Scientific Conference, Bonn, Germany, 2013-04-09 to 2013-04-12
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	2558
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	Author	Banse, M.; Köchy, M.; Tiffin, R.
	Title	MACSUR – A European network of crop, livestock and trade modelling activities for assessing impacts of climate change on food security			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 2nd Scientific Conference, Bonn, Germany, 2013-04-09 to 2013-04-12
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	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	2293
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	Author	Porter, J.R.; Christensen, S.
	Title	Deconstructing crop processes and models via identities			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Plant Cell and Environment	Abbreviated Journal	Plant Cell and Environment
	Volume	36	Issue	11	Pages	1919-1925
	Keywords	Biomass; Carbon Dioxide/pharmacology; Climate Change; Crops, Agricultural/drug effects/physiology; Models, Biological; Kaya-Porter identity; crop models; deconstruction; resource use efficiency
	Abstract	This paper is part review and part opinion piece; it has three parts of increasing novelty and speculation in approach. The first presents an overview of how some of the major crop simulation models approach the issue of simulating the responses of crops to changing climatic and weather variables, mainly atmospheric CO2 concentration and increased and/or varying temperatures. It illustrates an important principle in models of a single cause having alternative effects and vice versa. The second part suggests some features, mostly missing in current crop models, that need to be included in the future, focussing on extreme events such as high temperature or extreme drought. The final opinion part is speculative but novel. It describes an approach to deconstruct resource use efficiencies into their constituent identities or elements based on the Kaya-Porter identity, each of which can be examined for responses to climate and climatic change. We give no promise that the final part is correct’, but we hope it can be a stimulation to thought, hypothesis and experiment, and perhaps a new modelling approach.
	Address	2016-10-31
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	ISSN	0140-7791	ISBN		Medium	Article
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	Notes	CropM, ft_macsur			Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4799
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