Farmers must yearly allocate fields to different crops and choose crop management options.
Far from being obvious, these decisions are critical because they modify farm productivity …

The global impact of agriculture has recently become a major research topic, stressed by the
rapid growth of the world population. Agriculture management is indeed influencing the …

The inventory of muddy floods in France indicates that the occurrence of these events
seriously increased in the North West and the East of the country. Muddy floods triggering …

Erosive runoff is a recurring problem and is a source of sometimes deadly muddy floods in
the Pays de Caux (France). The risk results from a conjunction of natural factors and human …

Farming activities are major drivers of the landscape-related ecological patterning because
of their multiple influences on both non-arable and arable landscape elements and mosaics …

This paper describes an analysis of farmer cropping-plan decision-making. We surveyed 30
farmers to study the dynamics of their cropping-plan decision-making on irrigated arable …

The spatial and temporal arrangement of crops is a conspicuous feature of rural landscapes.
It has been identified as an important factor in many environmental issues, such as the …

The global water and carbon cycles are greatly influenced by terrestrial vegetation, making
trustworthy representations of dynamic biosphere–hydrosphere interactions a crucial …

In many cultivated areas of the loess belt in Northern Europe, loamy soils are particularly
sensitive to runoff and erosion. Those processes may not be continuous within a catchment …

The assessment of agriculture at a regional scale is necessary to better guide regional
agricultural planning. To improve the contribution of agriculture to sustainable regional …