Conventional farming has led to extensive use of chemicals and, in turn, to negative
environmental impacts such as soil erosion, groundwater pollution and atmosphere …

Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists
farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security …

In response to global calls for sustainable food production, we identify two diverging
paradigms to address the future of agriculture. We explore the possibility of uniting these two …

aus sechs Bereichen 6 Verzeichnis der Tabellen Tabelle 4.1: Minderung der
Treibhausgasemission durch die Einsparung von 1 kg nicht ausgenutzten Stickstoffs in der …

Crop simulation models have the potential to assess the risk associated with the selection of
a specific N fertilizer rate, by integrating the effects of soil-crop interactions on crop growth …

Uncertainties in farming necessitate detailed knowledge of the production efficiencies to
maintain sustainability. To accomplish ecologically based agriculture, with the goal of …

Intensive use of groundwater and chemical fertilizer has led to serious negative impacts on
environmental conditions in the North China Plain. The main objective of this study was to …

Efficient use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is critically important for China's food security and
sustainable development. Crop models have been widely used to analyze yield variability …

Winter oilseed rape (WOSR) is a major crop in Germany, combining economic benefits with
a high value in crop rotation, but it still lacks agronomically sound concepts for site-specific …

Crop growth models including CERES-Maize and CROPGRO-Soybean have been used in
the past to evaluate causes of spatial yield variability and to evaluate economic …