Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil resources. Both direct energy use for crop
management and indirect energy use for fertilizers, pesticides and machinery production …

Growing populations and a constrained fossil-manufactured energy supply present a major
challenge for society and there is a real need to develop forms of agriculture that are less …

Organic farming (OF) is considered a promising solution for reducing environmental burdens
related to intensive agricultural management practices. The question arises whether OF …

Energy efficiency of agriculture needs improvement to reduce the dependency on non-
renewable energy sources. We estimated the energy flows of a wheat–maize–soybean …

The Vercelli rice district in northern Italy plays a key role in the agri-food industry in a country
which accounts for more than 50% of the EU rice production and exports roughly 70 …

Reducing the energy derived from fossil fuels within agricultural systems has important
implications for decreasing atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases, thus assisting the …

Current conventional agricultural systems using intensive energy has to be re-vitalized by
new integrated approaches relying on renewable energy resources, which can allow …

Extensive or low-input farming is considered a way of remedying many problems associated
with intensive farming practices. But do extensive farming systems really result in a clear …

The objectives of this study were to analyze energy use and greenhouse gases (GHG)
emissions in various wheat production scenarios in north eastern Iran and to identify …

Main objectives of this study were to define total amount of input usage and do the economic
comparison of wheat and sunflower production in Thrace Region in Turkey and to determine …