The number of young farmers has decreased over recent decades in several developed
countries such as the United States and European countries. A recent strategy adopted by …

AdaptaOlive is a simplified physically-based model that has been developed to assess the
behavior of olive under future climate conditions in Andalusia, southern Spain. The …

Verticillium wilt caused by a highly virulent, defoliating (D) pathotype of Verticillium dahliae
is threatening olive production in Spain and other Mediterranean countries. This disease …

Recent findings on the contribution of smallholders to global food production and security
challenge the values used in several reports of international organizations. The skewed …

Land use change (LUC) is identified as one of the main drivers of soil erosion in the
Mediterranean. However, very little information exists regarding the relationship between …

The identification of agricultural adaptation strategies to offset climate change impact
requires a detailed knowledge of the response of crop systems under future climatic …

Economic, social, and climatic conditions affect agricultural production. Those changes are
relevant to the rainfed agricultural areas of the Mediterranean Belt, including Spain—the …

Olive oil consumption has grown substantially in recent years, due in part to the fact that
olive oil is healthy. Much of the global olive oil production comes from the rural areas of Jaén …

We investigated the role of spatial dependency in the technical efficiency estimates of rice
farmers using panel data from the Central Visayan island of Bohol in the Philippines …

Developing verticillium wilt resistant genotypes is currently a major objective in olive
breeding. In this study, 6017 genotypes derived from 48 crosses obtained by open …