Besides producing food for humanity's nutrition, agriculture also fulfills other functions such
as providing a livelihood for farmers and preserving an attractive and biodiverse landscape …

Vegetation health mapping is extremely helpful for distinguishing nuisance and scourge
conditions and it is additionally valuable in surveying zones of lumber gather. Decline in …

Agriculture and especially dairy production cause considerable environmental impacts.
Therefore, the growing world population and food demand long for sustainable agricultural …

The agri-food sector is under increased pressure from consumers to improve on the
sustainability of production processes. Policies that incentivise farmers to improve …

Agriculture is a major driver of change with manifold impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem
services. As social-ecological systems, agricultural landscapes result from the intertwined …

This study presents a novel landscape classification map of the Republic of Ireland and is
the first to identify broad landscape classes by incorporating physiographic and land cover …

Drought is the most complex but least understood of all natural hazards that impacts around
55 million people globally every year. A hydrological drought (drought here after) is when …

High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) represents a rural landscape characterized by extensive
farming practices. These lands not only deliver vital ecosystem services (ES) but also serve …

The effective conservation of high nature value farmland (HNV) will be crucial for the
conservation of European and Irish biodiversity, and to meet the growing demand for a wide …

Implications Ruminant livestock production in Ireland is mainly grass based, which confers
some environmental advantages in terms of manure recycling, soil organic carbon content …