The mapping of ecosystem service supply has become quite common in ecosystem service
assessment practice for terrestrial ecosystems, but land cover remains the most common …

Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodological framework that estimates
environmental impacts of products, systems or services in a life cycle perspective (from …

Meeting an increasing demand for food while preserving the environment is one of the most
important challenges of the 21st century. To meet this challenge, conservation agriculture …

During the last decades crop rotation practice in conventional farming systems was
subjected to fundamental changes. This process was forced by agronomical innovations …

Purpose For the development of any life cycle assessment study, the practitioner frequently
integrates primary data collected on-field, with background data taken from various life cycle …

Detailed and timely information on crop area, production and yield is important for the
assessment of environmental impacts of agriculture, for the monitoring of the land use and …

This paper presents results of a case study in Middle Saxony, Germany, where the impact of
conversion, afforestation and alternatively introduction of short rotation coppice areas on the …

Climate-change scenarios predict increased scarcity of water available for agriculture in
irrigated regions. To design and assess cropping system adaptations to more frequent …

The crop simulation model AquaCrop, recently developed by FAO can be used for a wide
range of purposes. However, in its present form, its use over large areas or for applications …

One of the great challenges of developing sustainable water management is to integrate
water and land use issues, and to favor stakeholders' involvement in the process of …