Landscape agronomy: Bibliometric insights on key issues and background topics of a conceptual framework. Communication at the 10th world congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, 1-5 July 2019 Milan Italy
Research topics in crop diversification literature at the landscape level: ea...Davide Rizzo
Crop diversification has many benefits both at the cropping system and the food system levels and has been addressed in agricultural research (Hufnagel et al., 2020). Landscape design and management in agricultural regions can support crop diversification by building bridges with scientific domains like ecology and geography (Benoit et al., 2012). Though, little is known on how the research community has addressed the crop diversification within a landscape perspective. In this paper we investigated a bibliographic corpus retrieved from the Scopus database papers coupling crop diversification and landscape (in title, abstract and keywords), retrieving 461 papers for the period 1990 to 2020. The corpus was analysed using the CorText platform (e.g., Ruiz-Martinez et al., 2015). First, natural language processing was used to extract multi-terms from title, abstract and keywords. Then, we mined the temporal dynamics and co-occurrence of the 100 most frequent terms. Our findings showed that species richness emerges as the main topic in this corpus, and that natural enemies, crop types and natural control increased in importance. In the last years, genetic diversity, climate change and agricultural production also gained attention. On the contrary, land use and some of the terms related to diversity (landscape, plant and farmland) were marginal or decreasing. By analysing the terms co-occurrence on the three decades, we observed that the papers addressing crop varieties and agroforestry system split into two streams: one about agricultural production in relation to climate change and the other about farm size and land use. Instead, the functional diversity and field margin disappeared from the recent literature. Land use patterns and landscape diversity converged mainly on studies about biological pest control. Altogether, the corpus highlighted that the spatial configuration lost in importance when addressing crop diversification. In addition, the species diversity gained in attention finally catching a large part of the literature in the corpus. From a landscape approach perspective, we might point out the apparent lack of a major topic: the involvement of local community and stakeholders. Our simple and rapid text mining approach yielded early evidence of knowledge gaps about the landscape level in crop diversification literature. The expected contribution of approaching the crop diversification at the landscape level would be to provide a relevant framework for the characterisation of the baseline system to be diversified. In particular, the landscape agronomy perspective stressed the need to define the scale and target area for crop diversification consistently with (natural and cultivated) species diversity embedded in a local socio-technical system.
An overview of weeding by robots – focus on European solutionsDavide Rizzo
This presentation addressed an overview of the European context, mowing towards data-intensive farming, driven by the agfood sector. It is an invited presentation in the framework of a meeting coordinated by Matthew Cutulle (Clemson University) for a Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) planning grant about Robotic Weed Control in Specialty Crops. The meeting was organized as a side event during the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference. The presentation provides an overview of European trends on the topic, with a focus on the French institutional perspective aiming at the support and development of agricultural robotics to face the lack of labour and the willingness to phase out glyphosate. In this context, the RobAgri association was presented. The last part lists some sources of information about agricultural robotics, with a list of European sources of information on agricultural robotics and automation. The presentation ends with a list of robot examples that were compared from the agronomic point of view.
A robot from the scratch in 5 months. How agronomy students could master agri...Davide Rizzo
Education and training are identified as key elements to support precision agriculture in Europe and operationalize the transition towards sustainable production systems. In particular, the French agricultural machinery sector is aware that leveraging precision agriculture requires a closer consideration of the farmers’ needs. Hence, educational programs are expected to bridge the gap between agriculture and machinery design and innovation. In this paper we will discuss the learning process that led a group of students in agronomy at mastering robotics and how this could help improving educational programs on agricultural equipment. The context was a competition organized by a French applied agricultural research organization that challenged students to build a robot for the mechanical weeding of sugar beet. The teachers adopted a design thinking approach, supporting the students only if needed, rather promoting the students’ appropriation of the subject. The farming experience of the students allowed them to choose the simplest sensor, which used the plants as physical boundaries of the robot navigation corridor. This simple and robust solution exploited the agronomic characteristics of the sugar beet that is sown on straight lines and it is not damaged by physical contact. Furthermore, this choice was suited for working in field conditions and easily understandable by the practitioners. In conclusion, we discuss the lessons learned about the environmental and educational conditions that allowed this experience and that could help agricultural students and farmers at mastering new technologies and equipment innovation.
Distribution of precision agriculture technologies: a first survey of French ...Davide Rizzo
Precision agriculture technologies (PAT) are very diversified. The proliferation of precision agriculture products and services, as well as of their providers can confuse farmers. In addition, the lack of agronomic references for these technologies is slowing their adoption. The organization and development of the distribution network can help the providers of PAT to support farmers and other end customers. This study describes how PAT are being addressed by ordinary dealers of agricultural machinery and equipment. We aimed at identifying the main trends in the distribution of PAT among dealers, as well as the obstacles and the expected added value of these technologies for their business. We focused on metropolitan France as the first European country for agricultural production and highly committed to the development of agtech. A series of semi-direct interviews was realized on a sample covering the main tractor manufacturers on the national territory, the involvement of the dealer manager in the national trade union (i.e., SEDIMA) and already offering PAT. The interview consisted of four parts: (i) current offer by the dealership and level of PAT use/equipment by customers; (ii) 5-years strategy of the dealership about these technologies; (iii) changes in personnel (recruitment, training, etc.) and organization related to these new products/services; (iv) identification of expected added value and obstacles. The notes taken during the phone interviews were coded into themes and topics to ensure harmonization and comparability, then analyzed to provide summary statistics, and to identify main trends and recommendations about the distribution of PAT.
FULL PAPER available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5602074
Trends in Agricultural Robots. A Comparative Agronomic Grid Based on a French...Davide Rizzo
Equipment innovation is one of the crucial levers for the improvement of economic, societal and environmental performances of agriculture. In particular, precision farming is expected to be among the 10 technologies that could change our lives. Amid the different technologies enabling a greater precision of agriculture, robotics and sensors could radically change the way of farming. Automatic machines collecting and managing data, eventually feeding a bigdata approach, could provide new tools for fine-tuning farmers’ decision making and help them in mastering the environmental footprint of agriculture. Nevertheless, what is a robot from the agricultural point of view? What are the solutions under development or on the market? How to compare them? The disruptive transformation of the agricultural machinery market requires the definition of new landmarks, especially for agronomists who are facing new opportunities and technologies. We present here the early results of a comparative overview realized by a group of students in agronomy and specializing in agricultural equipment and new technologies at UniLaSalle. The five students were asked to provide figures and a summary of the agricultural robots available in France, either on the market or upcoming. Firstly, they defined what a “robot” is. They referred to Coiffet (2007) who considers “robot” a machine for the human assistance executing a work or a physical task, either as a tool handled during the execution of the task or capable to perform the work without human intervention. Accordingly, the database includes only agricultural machines fulfilling at least two out of the three following criteria: the capability to execute a task, the operational flexibility, the self-adaptability to the working environment. Three robot classes were identified (decision, assistance or substitution) further classified in two agricultural domains and related operational subdomains: crop production (including permanent crops, horticulture, field crop and other crops) and breeding (including cattle, poultry, and pig). Out of a 4 months work, the database finally contains 98 robots from 70 enterprises, with full specifications retrieved from more than 300 websites and 7 French agricultural journals, as well as through the participation to some specialized fora. For comparison, the “Agricultural Robots” report by Tractica highlighted 149 profiles over a comparable time period. Drawing upon a solid background in agronomy, the students analysed the farming operation performed by the listed robots, with a focus on the vehicle-soil interface. Altogether, the design and development of this database can provide agronomists with an up-to-date comparative grid of the existing and upcoming agricultural robots. Identifying clear landmarks in the high pace robot landscape will enhance the agronomic evaluation and enable a clearer understanding of robot relevance for farmers.
Keynote for the 9th International Scientific Conference
RURAL DEVELOPMENT 2019: Research and Innovation for Bioeconomy, 26-28th September 2019 Vytautas Magnus University | Akademija, Kaunas district, Lithuania http://www.ruraldevelopment.lt
This talk provides an overview of the multiple, sometimes contrasting perspectives on agtech players and their role for future agriculture and challenges for education and training (in France).
Conceptualizing the land change transitions with a territorial approachDavide Rizzo
Humans occupy the space in different ways. The practices through which they deal with local biophysical potential to pursue their goals shape the space forming the “land”. We consider the land as the spatial entity whose character is defined by these human and natural interactions at a given time. “Land changes” occur when at least one of the following land components is modified: the shape of this spatial entity, its cover/use, the practices operated on it, its tenure or its accessibility. . Taken together several partial or individual changes may show common dynamics that can be named “land change transitions” (LCT). Intentional (i.e., planned) and unintentional changes coexist in the real world eventually driving these transitions according to local and global dynamics. Rethinking LCT is a way to address drastic and subtle land changes to understanding and steering them. Indeed, this is a twofold challenge for research. On the one hand research has to bridge the gap with the complex array of actions taking place on land, on the other hand understanding LCT requires to work across disciplinary boundaries.
For that, our communication aims at conceptualizing LCT stressing out the “territory” as a relevant inter- and trans- disciplinary perspective. In this context territory is meant as the level of organisation for local actions in response to wider global drivers. We focus on rural territories – placed in-between the more permanent urban and natural areas – the spaces on Earth where probably the most important LCT are taking place. Changes of land cover (e.g., from agriculture to urban), so as of the land system structure (e.g., the increasing mix of urban and agricultural areas) or of the practices (e.g., the conversion to organic farming of producers located in peri-urban areas or their coordination with consumers’ associations) occur unevenly in space and over time, eventually making the land character evolving more rapidly than in the past and more deeply than in urban or natural areas. Undesired side-effects for these lands are widely documented in literature, such as the loss of the cultural character or the threatening of natural resources. We will discuss the relevance of a territorial approach to articulate local and global land change transitions, and to make explicit how the relations between different land users and managers with the local biophysical potential shape and can be used to design different land system architecture (Turner II et al., 2013).
Strip-Till for Fine Seedbed Preparation in Silty Soil Davide Rizzo
The sustainable intensification process has though two main barriers: the learning curve to master new techniques and the cost of equipment suited for the new practices. This communication aims to discuss a project of strip-till design following an innovation system approach. First, we present the agronomic challenge and our approach for a custom supply development. Then, we discuss the relevance of our some early outcomes for the wider goal of sustainable intensification of crop production.
Research topics in crop diversification literature at the landscape level: ea...Davide Rizzo
Crop diversification has many benefits both at the cropping system and the food system levels and has been addressed in agricultural research (Hufnagel et al., 2020). Landscape design and management in agricultural regions can support crop diversification by building bridges with scientific domains like ecology and geography (Benoit et al., 2012). Though, little is known on how the research community has addressed the crop diversification within a landscape perspective. In this paper we investigated a bibliographic corpus retrieved from the Scopus database papers coupling crop diversification and landscape (in title, abstract and keywords), retrieving 461 papers for the period 1990 to 2020. The corpus was analysed using the CorText platform (e.g., Ruiz-Martinez et al., 2015). First, natural language processing was used to extract multi-terms from title, abstract and keywords. Then, we mined the temporal dynamics and co-occurrence of the 100 most frequent terms. Our findings showed that species richness emerges as the main topic in this corpus, and that natural enemies, crop types and natural control increased in importance. In the last years, genetic diversity, climate change and agricultural production also gained attention. On the contrary, land use and some of the terms related to diversity (landscape, plant and farmland) were marginal or decreasing. By analysing the terms co-occurrence on the three decades, we observed that the papers addressing crop varieties and agroforestry system split into two streams: one about agricultural production in relation to climate change and the other about farm size and land use. Instead, the functional diversity and field margin disappeared from the recent literature. Land use patterns and landscape diversity converged mainly on studies about biological pest control. Altogether, the corpus highlighted that the spatial configuration lost in importance when addressing crop diversification. In addition, the species diversity gained in attention finally catching a large part of the literature in the corpus. From a landscape approach perspective, we might point out the apparent lack of a major topic: the involvement of local community and stakeholders. Our simple and rapid text mining approach yielded early evidence of knowledge gaps about the landscape level in crop diversification literature. The expected contribution of approaching the crop diversification at the landscape level would be to provide a relevant framework for the characterisation of the baseline system to be diversified. In particular, the landscape agronomy perspective stressed the need to define the scale and target area for crop diversification consistently with (natural and cultivated) species diversity embedded in a local socio-technical system.
An overview of weeding by robots – focus on European solutionsDavide Rizzo
This presentation addressed an overview of the European context, mowing towards data-intensive farming, driven by the agfood sector. It is an invited presentation in the framework of a meeting coordinated by Matthew Cutulle (Clemson University) for a Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) planning grant about Robotic Weed Control in Specialty Crops. The meeting was organized as a side event during the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference. The presentation provides an overview of European trends on the topic, with a focus on the French institutional perspective aiming at the support and development of agricultural robotics to face the lack of labour and the willingness to phase out glyphosate. In this context, the RobAgri association was presented. The last part lists some sources of information about agricultural robotics, with a list of European sources of information on agricultural robotics and automation. The presentation ends with a list of robot examples that were compared from the agronomic point of view.
A robot from the scratch in 5 months. How agronomy students could master agri...Davide Rizzo
Education and training are identified as key elements to support precision agriculture in Europe and operationalize the transition towards sustainable production systems. In particular, the French agricultural machinery sector is aware that leveraging precision agriculture requires a closer consideration of the farmers’ needs. Hence, educational programs are expected to bridge the gap between agriculture and machinery design and innovation. In this paper we will discuss the learning process that led a group of students in agronomy at mastering robotics and how this could help improving educational programs on agricultural equipment. The context was a competition organized by a French applied agricultural research organization that challenged students to build a robot for the mechanical weeding of sugar beet. The teachers adopted a design thinking approach, supporting the students only if needed, rather promoting the students’ appropriation of the subject. The farming experience of the students allowed them to choose the simplest sensor, which used the plants as physical boundaries of the robot navigation corridor. This simple and robust solution exploited the agronomic characteristics of the sugar beet that is sown on straight lines and it is not damaged by physical contact. Furthermore, this choice was suited for working in field conditions and easily understandable by the practitioners. In conclusion, we discuss the lessons learned about the environmental and educational conditions that allowed this experience and that could help agricultural students and farmers at mastering new technologies and equipment innovation.
Distribution of precision agriculture technologies: a first survey of French ...Davide Rizzo
Precision agriculture technologies (PAT) are very diversified. The proliferation of precision agriculture products and services, as well as of their providers can confuse farmers. In addition, the lack of agronomic references for these technologies is slowing their adoption. The organization and development of the distribution network can help the providers of PAT to support farmers and other end customers. This study describes how PAT are being addressed by ordinary dealers of agricultural machinery and equipment. We aimed at identifying the main trends in the distribution of PAT among dealers, as well as the obstacles and the expected added value of these technologies for their business. We focused on metropolitan France as the first European country for agricultural production and highly committed to the development of agtech. A series of semi-direct interviews was realized on a sample covering the main tractor manufacturers on the national territory, the involvement of the dealer manager in the national trade union (i.e., SEDIMA) and already offering PAT. The interview consisted of four parts: (i) current offer by the dealership and level of PAT use/equipment by customers; (ii) 5-years strategy of the dealership about these technologies; (iii) changes in personnel (recruitment, training, etc.) and organization related to these new products/services; (iv) identification of expected added value and obstacles. The notes taken during the phone interviews were coded into themes and topics to ensure harmonization and comparability, then analyzed to provide summary statistics, and to identify main trends and recommendations about the distribution of PAT.
FULL PAPER available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5602074
Trends in Agricultural Robots. A Comparative Agronomic Grid Based on a French...Davide Rizzo
Equipment innovation is one of the crucial levers for the improvement of economic, societal and environmental performances of agriculture. In particular, precision farming is expected to be among the 10 technologies that could change our lives. Amid the different technologies enabling a greater precision of agriculture, robotics and sensors could radically change the way of farming. Automatic machines collecting and managing data, eventually feeding a bigdata approach, could provide new tools for fine-tuning farmers’ decision making and help them in mastering the environmental footprint of agriculture. Nevertheless, what is a robot from the agricultural point of view? What are the solutions under development or on the market? How to compare them? The disruptive transformation of the agricultural machinery market requires the definition of new landmarks, especially for agronomists who are facing new opportunities and technologies. We present here the early results of a comparative overview realized by a group of students in agronomy and specializing in agricultural equipment and new technologies at UniLaSalle. The five students were asked to provide figures and a summary of the agricultural robots available in France, either on the market or upcoming. Firstly, they defined what a “robot” is. They referred to Coiffet (2007) who considers “robot” a machine for the human assistance executing a work or a physical task, either as a tool handled during the execution of the task or capable to perform the work without human intervention. Accordingly, the database includes only agricultural machines fulfilling at least two out of the three following criteria: the capability to execute a task, the operational flexibility, the self-adaptability to the working environment. Three robot classes were identified (decision, assistance or substitution) further classified in two agricultural domains and related operational subdomains: crop production (including permanent crops, horticulture, field crop and other crops) and breeding (including cattle, poultry, and pig). Out of a 4 months work, the database finally contains 98 robots from 70 enterprises, with full specifications retrieved from more than 300 websites and 7 French agricultural journals, as well as through the participation to some specialized fora. For comparison, the “Agricultural Robots” report by Tractica highlighted 149 profiles over a comparable time period. Drawing upon a solid background in agronomy, the students analysed the farming operation performed by the listed robots, with a focus on the vehicle-soil interface. Altogether, the design and development of this database can provide agronomists with an up-to-date comparative grid of the existing and upcoming agricultural robots. Identifying clear landmarks in the high pace robot landscape will enhance the agronomic evaluation and enable a clearer understanding of robot relevance for farmers.
Keynote for the 9th International Scientific Conference
RURAL DEVELOPMENT 2019: Research and Innovation for Bioeconomy, 26-28th September 2019 Vytautas Magnus University | Akademija, Kaunas district, Lithuania http://www.ruraldevelopment.lt
This talk provides an overview of the multiple, sometimes contrasting perspectives on agtech players and their role for future agriculture and challenges for education and training (in France).
Conceptualizing the land change transitions with a territorial approachDavide Rizzo
Humans occupy the space in different ways. The practices through which they deal with local biophysical potential to pursue their goals shape the space forming the “land”. We consider the land as the spatial entity whose character is defined by these human and natural interactions at a given time. “Land changes” occur when at least one of the following land components is modified: the shape of this spatial entity, its cover/use, the practices operated on it, its tenure or its accessibility. . Taken together several partial or individual changes may show common dynamics that can be named “land change transitions” (LCT). Intentional (i.e., planned) and unintentional changes coexist in the real world eventually driving these transitions according to local and global dynamics. Rethinking LCT is a way to address drastic and subtle land changes to understanding and steering them. Indeed, this is a twofold challenge for research. On the one hand research has to bridge the gap with the complex array of actions taking place on land, on the other hand understanding LCT requires to work across disciplinary boundaries.
For that, our communication aims at conceptualizing LCT stressing out the “territory” as a relevant inter- and trans- disciplinary perspective. In this context territory is meant as the level of organisation for local actions in response to wider global drivers. We focus on rural territories – placed in-between the more permanent urban and natural areas – the spaces on Earth where probably the most important LCT are taking place. Changes of land cover (e.g., from agriculture to urban), so as of the land system structure (e.g., the increasing mix of urban and agricultural areas) or of the practices (e.g., the conversion to organic farming of producers located in peri-urban areas or their coordination with consumers’ associations) occur unevenly in space and over time, eventually making the land character evolving more rapidly than in the past and more deeply than in urban or natural areas. Undesired side-effects for these lands are widely documented in literature, such as the loss of the cultural character or the threatening of natural resources. We will discuss the relevance of a territorial approach to articulate local and global land change transitions, and to make explicit how the relations between different land users and managers with the local biophysical potential shape and can be used to design different land system architecture (Turner II et al., 2013).
Strip-Till for Fine Seedbed Preparation in Silty Soil Davide Rizzo
The sustainable intensification process has though two main barriers: the learning curve to master new techniques and the cost of equipment suited for the new practices. This communication aims to discuss a project of strip-till design following an innovation system approach. First, we present the agronomic challenge and our approach for a custom supply development. Then, we discuss the relevance of our some early outcomes for the wider goal of sustainable intensification of crop production.
% Of US Population Working in ConstructionTed Grunenwald
This document shows the percentage of the total US population employed in the construction industry from 1960 to 2017. The percentage was around 3% in the early 1960s, declined to under 2.5% in the late 1970s and 1980s, and has generally remained between 4-5% since the mid-1990s, with some fluctuation.
The document provides an overview of the RECAP H2020 Project. It discusses how the project will use satellite data from the European Space Agency's Sentinel missions along with user-generated data from farmers to develop a cloud-based platform. The platform will help farmers comply with cross-compliance regulations under the Common Agricultural Policy by providing personalized information and alerts. It will also help agricultural authorities and consultants. The project aims to promote sustainable farming practices.
Keith Wiebe, Shanila Dunston, Jim Woodhill, Steven Prager, and Ignacio Perez
WEBINAR
Launching the Global Foresight for Food and Agriculture Tool
Co-Organized by the Food Security Portal, IFPRI, and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
DEC 18, 2019 - 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM EST
The document provides information about the Faculty of Engineering at the Lebanese University. It includes the following key points:
- The faculty participated in an exhibition organized by the Ministry of Industry that showcased industrial projects between universities and companies in Lebanon.
- The faculty takes part in conferences organized by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, displaying projects over three days.
- The faculty offers various engineering programs including electrical, civil, and mechanical engineering. It provides information on course requirements, research centers, student life resources, and admission requirements.
Krijn J. Poppe presented on economic and scientific collaboration between East and West. He discussed trends in science and innovation such as the focus on multi-actor and interdisciplinary research. Collaboration between East and West could focus on topics like ICT, precision farming, and supply chain integration. Organizing collaboration through Horizon 2020 projects, public-private partnerships, and programs like the EBRD could help strengthen interaction in research between East and West.
ICT and agricultural development - impacts of information and communication t...Luiz Fernando do Amaral
The document summarizes a PhD thesis that examines the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on sustainable agricultural development. The thesis contains two empirical models - a global model analyzing the relationship between internet/mobile use and cereal yields, and a sub-national Brazilian model analyzing the impact of 3G availability on deforestation rates. The global model found a positive correlation between internet use and yields, while results for mobile use were inconclusive. The sub-national model estimated that 3G availability reduced deforestation by around 1% in treated municipalities. In conclusion, ICT infrastructure and use may positively impact sustainable rural development by increasing access to agricultural information, but more research is still needed.
IRJET- Deep Learning in Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Agriculture Activitie...IRJET Journal
1) The document discusses using a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network model to predict greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities in Rwanda over time.
2) It analyzes emissions data from 1961-2017 obtained from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization website. The LSTM model is applied and predicts emissions accurately until 2055.
3) The results show each agricultural activity will contribute differently to future greenhouse gas emissions in Rwanda. This highlights the need to take measures to control emissions from high contributing activities based on their predicted trends.
This review paper is focusing adoption of climate smart agricultural practices that focuses on the major factors affecting based on the dry land of Ethiopia
Published on Aug 26, 2019
CONTENTS
-For the first time in Africa: 24th International Grassland Congress
-Buffelgrass: Broadening the frontier of genetic resources conservation, research and utilization
-Potential of Namibian native forage legumes as ruminant fodder
-Dairy farmers in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania reap big from Brachiaria grasses
-Agronomic status of grasses of the genus Urochloa in Grupo Papalotla
-Andropogon gayanus: Adoption and impact in Mexico
-Announcements
Farmers manage large areas of landscapes that are altogether designed by heterogeneous actors. Conflicts may eventually arise in complex regions like the Mediterranean where the urban and agricultural actors’ spaces for action easily overlap and concur for the use and management of soil and water. A territorial or landscape perspective is therefore required to inform the design of land management systems capable to meet the place-based development goals. A greater involvement of agronomy in the landscape arena would help to design landscape management policies that are better informed of farming systems. Our aim is to present a territorial approach that supported a prospective analysis for the design of shared land management actions using the territory game.
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Oral communication presented at the 14th conference of the European Society for Agronomy, Edinburgh 5-9 September 2016: "Growing landscapes: cultivating innovative agricultural systems"
AI and Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Improved Decision-making in the Afri...AKADEMIYA2063
1. The document discusses how satellite remote sensing data and AI can help improve decision making in Africa's agricultural sector regarding food security and climate change adaptation. It highlights how satellite data can provide important climate and environmental data to help monitor climate impacts, develop adaptation plans, and forecast food production.
2. AI algorithms can analyze large satellite datasets to discover climate patterns and trends needed to optimize practices like crop management and water resources. International cooperation is important for tackling climate change, including sharing African data to improve global models and strategies.
The document discusses new emerging agricultural professions as agriculture adapts to technological advances and changing needs. Some of the new roles mentioned include operators of automated agricultural machinery, urban farmers who work on vertical farms in cities, experts in genetically modified organisms, and agricultural engineers who implement new computer and sensor technologies. The summary also notes that qualified agricultural work in Spain has increased by 23.33% according to government reports, and new university degree programs are helping to further develop these roles.
Updates on the preparations of the SRCCL and Working Group III contribution t...ipcc-media
This document provides an overview and timeline for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL). Key points:
1) SRCCL is one of the IPCC's Special Reports being produced during the AR6 cycle, with approval scheduled for August 2019.
2) SRCCL emerged from a cluster of six proposals related to land use and will examine the interlinkages between climate change, desertification, land degradation, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes.
3) The report is structured around 7 chapters that will frame the issues, examine land-climate interactions, and explore interlinkages, risks, and response options.
4) The timeline outlines important upcoming dates for
Management of Drought and Desertification for Sustainable Agricultural Develo...IJAEMSJORNAL
It is no gain saying today that uncontrolled and uncoordinated roles of man are responsible for geo-environmental degradation in Nigeria, be it intentional or inadvertent. Take for instance, Nigeria which will be the focus of this paper has some conservation legislations currently in force and yet the state has not and may never recover from devastating drought years. Many failed measures have been advanced as efforts to improving the productivity of the needed potential of large expanse of land put under cultivation proved unsuccessful. That is, all the measures ever launched to improve agricultural output are not yielding much needed positive results. This is partly due to poor management during persistent drought spells. However, this paper sets to unravel the drought management skills that could be employed to actualise agricultural sustainability. Basically, literature search of information from articles from Google scholar, libraries, etc. as well as personal survey to federal and state ministry of agriculture were exploited. It may be safe to state, therefore, that designing strategies to control or curb drought should take advantage of archived data for present and future research studies that may help arrest the seemingly physical march of the Sahara Desert into West Africa.
Land Use/Cover change Evaluation of Gibe III Dam in Southern Ethiopia by ayel...Space science
This article is worked by Ayele Akirso Adugna when he was AAU Graguate class student for his course project of Natural resource Mapping and monitoring in the year 2020, In Ethiopia.
Role- IPCC: How it works and what it’s working onGetting more involvedipcc-media
The document summarizes activities and findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It outlines the IPCC's history and role in assessing climate change science since 1988. It describes the IPCC's current Sixth Assessment cycle which includes several special reports issued in 2018 and 2019, and the three working group reports and synthesis report to be released in 2021 and 2022. The document encourages involvement in the IPCC process through contributing literature, participating as a writer or reviewer, and working with national governments.
This document summarizes a strategy for estimating carbon and water budgets for croplands at the plot scale over large areas using remote sensing data and a crop model. The objectives are to analyze ecosystem services like yield, biomass, evapotranspiration, and net CO2 fluxes to calculate annual carbon and water budgets and test the effects of management practices. A multi-temporal remote sensing data assimilation scheme was developed to run the SAFYE-CO2 crop model without needing detailed ground data by using Sentinel satellite imagery. The approach provides good estimates of fluxes compared to observations and performs well compared to other models without requiring management data. It can help quantify the effects of practices like cover crops on carbon storage and other benefits.
This document summarizes a workshop on international soil carbon sequestration research. It notes that 128 countries include agriculture, forestry and land use in their climate pledges but there remains a gap in meeting emission reduction targets. Limiting warming to 1.5C will require removing CO2 from the atmosphere using technologies like soil carbon sequestration. Research shows soil organic carbon levels can be increased to store carbon while maintaining food security. International initiatives like CIRCASA and 4 per 1000 aim to strengthen research collaboration and understanding of soil carbon sequestration's potential for climate mitigation and adaptation.
The data perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for the Enchanced Transpar...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Christopher Martius, Martin Herold, Viola Heinrich and Camilo Ernesto Zamora Ospina at COP28 side event "Is the looking glass half full or half empty? Transparency for climate discussions and reporting", 4 December 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
% Of US Population Working in ConstructionTed Grunenwald
This document shows the percentage of the total US population employed in the construction industry from 1960 to 2017. The percentage was around 3% in the early 1960s, declined to under 2.5% in the late 1970s and 1980s, and has generally remained between 4-5% since the mid-1990s, with some fluctuation.
The document provides an overview of the RECAP H2020 Project. It discusses how the project will use satellite data from the European Space Agency's Sentinel missions along with user-generated data from farmers to develop a cloud-based platform. The platform will help farmers comply with cross-compliance regulations under the Common Agricultural Policy by providing personalized information and alerts. It will also help agricultural authorities and consultants. The project aims to promote sustainable farming practices.
Keith Wiebe, Shanila Dunston, Jim Woodhill, Steven Prager, and Ignacio Perez
WEBINAR
Launching the Global Foresight for Food and Agriculture Tool
Co-Organized by the Food Security Portal, IFPRI, and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
DEC 18, 2019 - 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM EST
The document provides information about the Faculty of Engineering at the Lebanese University. It includes the following key points:
- The faculty participated in an exhibition organized by the Ministry of Industry that showcased industrial projects between universities and companies in Lebanon.
- The faculty takes part in conferences organized by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, displaying projects over three days.
- The faculty offers various engineering programs including electrical, civil, and mechanical engineering. It provides information on course requirements, research centers, student life resources, and admission requirements.
Krijn J. Poppe presented on economic and scientific collaboration between East and West. He discussed trends in science and innovation such as the focus on multi-actor and interdisciplinary research. Collaboration between East and West could focus on topics like ICT, precision farming, and supply chain integration. Organizing collaboration through Horizon 2020 projects, public-private partnerships, and programs like the EBRD could help strengthen interaction in research between East and West.
ICT and agricultural development - impacts of information and communication t...Luiz Fernando do Amaral
The document summarizes a PhD thesis that examines the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on sustainable agricultural development. The thesis contains two empirical models - a global model analyzing the relationship between internet/mobile use and cereal yields, and a sub-national Brazilian model analyzing the impact of 3G availability on deforestation rates. The global model found a positive correlation between internet use and yields, while results for mobile use were inconclusive. The sub-national model estimated that 3G availability reduced deforestation by around 1% in treated municipalities. In conclusion, ICT infrastructure and use may positively impact sustainable rural development by increasing access to agricultural information, but more research is still needed.
IRJET- Deep Learning in Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Agriculture Activitie...IRJET Journal
1) The document discusses using a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network model to predict greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities in Rwanda over time.
2) It analyzes emissions data from 1961-2017 obtained from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization website. The LSTM model is applied and predicts emissions accurately until 2055.
3) The results show each agricultural activity will contribute differently to future greenhouse gas emissions in Rwanda. This highlights the need to take measures to control emissions from high contributing activities based on their predicted trends.
This review paper is focusing adoption of climate smart agricultural practices that focuses on the major factors affecting based on the dry land of Ethiopia
Published on Aug 26, 2019
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Farmers manage large areas of landscapes that are altogether designed by heterogeneous actors. Conflicts may eventually arise in complex regions like the Mediterranean where the urban and agricultural actors’ spaces for action easily overlap and concur for the use and management of soil and water. A territorial or landscape perspective is therefore required to inform the design of land management systems capable to meet the place-based development goals. A greater involvement of agronomy in the landscape arena would help to design landscape management policies that are better informed of farming systems. Our aim is to present a territorial approach that supported a prospective analysis for the design of shared land management actions using the territory game.
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Oral communication presented at the 14th conference of the European Society for Agronomy, Edinburgh 5-9 September 2016: "Growing landscapes: cultivating innovative agricultural systems"
AI and Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Improved Decision-making in the Afri...AKADEMIYA2063
1. The document discusses how satellite remote sensing data and AI can help improve decision making in Africa's agricultural sector regarding food security and climate change adaptation. It highlights how satellite data can provide important climate and environmental data to help monitor climate impacts, develop adaptation plans, and forecast food production.
2. AI algorithms can analyze large satellite datasets to discover climate patterns and trends needed to optimize practices like crop management and water resources. International cooperation is important for tackling climate change, including sharing African data to improve global models and strategies.
The document discusses new emerging agricultural professions as agriculture adapts to technological advances and changing needs. Some of the new roles mentioned include operators of automated agricultural machinery, urban farmers who work on vertical farms in cities, experts in genetically modified organisms, and agricultural engineers who implement new computer and sensor technologies. The summary also notes that qualified agricultural work in Spain has increased by 23.33% according to government reports, and new university degree programs are helping to further develop these roles.
Updates on the preparations of the SRCCL and Working Group III contribution t...ipcc-media
This document provides an overview and timeline for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL). Key points:
1) SRCCL is one of the IPCC's Special Reports being produced during the AR6 cycle, with approval scheduled for August 2019.
2) SRCCL emerged from a cluster of six proposals related to land use and will examine the interlinkages between climate change, desertification, land degradation, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes.
3) The report is structured around 7 chapters that will frame the issues, examine land-climate interactions, and explore interlinkages, risks, and response options.
4) The timeline outlines important upcoming dates for
Management of Drought and Desertification for Sustainable Agricultural Develo...IJAEMSJORNAL
It is no gain saying today that uncontrolled and uncoordinated roles of man are responsible for geo-environmental degradation in Nigeria, be it intentional or inadvertent. Take for instance, Nigeria which will be the focus of this paper has some conservation legislations currently in force and yet the state has not and may never recover from devastating drought years. Many failed measures have been advanced as efforts to improving the productivity of the needed potential of large expanse of land put under cultivation proved unsuccessful. That is, all the measures ever launched to improve agricultural output are not yielding much needed positive results. This is partly due to poor management during persistent drought spells. However, this paper sets to unravel the drought management skills that could be employed to actualise agricultural sustainability. Basically, literature search of information from articles from Google scholar, libraries, etc. as well as personal survey to federal and state ministry of agriculture were exploited. It may be safe to state, therefore, that designing strategies to control or curb drought should take advantage of archived data for present and future research studies that may help arrest the seemingly physical march of the Sahara Desert into West Africa.
Land Use/Cover change Evaluation of Gibe III Dam in Southern Ethiopia by ayel...Space science
This article is worked by Ayele Akirso Adugna when he was AAU Graguate class student for his course project of Natural resource Mapping and monitoring in the year 2020, In Ethiopia.
Role- IPCC: How it works and what it’s working onGetting more involvedipcc-media
The document summarizes activities and findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It outlines the IPCC's history and role in assessing climate change science since 1988. It describes the IPCC's current Sixth Assessment cycle which includes several special reports issued in 2018 and 2019, and the three working group reports and synthesis report to be released in 2021 and 2022. The document encourages involvement in the IPCC process through contributing literature, participating as a writer or reviewer, and working with national governments.
This document summarizes a strategy for estimating carbon and water budgets for croplands at the plot scale over large areas using remote sensing data and a crop model. The objectives are to analyze ecosystem services like yield, biomass, evapotranspiration, and net CO2 fluxes to calculate annual carbon and water budgets and test the effects of management practices. A multi-temporal remote sensing data assimilation scheme was developed to run the SAFYE-CO2 crop model without needing detailed ground data by using Sentinel satellite imagery. The approach provides good estimates of fluxes compared to observations and performs well compared to other models without requiring management data. It can help quantify the effects of practices like cover crops on carbon storage and other benefits.
This document summarizes a workshop on international soil carbon sequestration research. It notes that 128 countries include agriculture, forestry and land use in their climate pledges but there remains a gap in meeting emission reduction targets. Limiting warming to 1.5C will require removing CO2 from the atmosphere using technologies like soil carbon sequestration. Research shows soil organic carbon levels can be increased to store carbon while maintaining food security. International initiatives like CIRCASA and 4 per 1000 aim to strengthen research collaboration and understanding of soil carbon sequestration's potential for climate mitigation and adaptation.
The data perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for the Enchanced Transpar...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Christopher Martius, Martin Herold, Viola Heinrich and Camilo Ernesto Zamora Ospina at COP28 side event "Is the looking glass half full or half empty? Transparency for climate discussions and reporting", 4 December 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Overview of the IPCC, its role, mandate, history and the production of the IP...ipcc-media
The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide comprehensive assessments of the scientific basis of climate change. It has produced several assessment reports and special reports that have informed international climate change negotiations and policies. The IPCC follows an intensive review process involving scientists and representatives from governments around the world to produce reports that are neutral and policy-relevant assessments of climate change science and impacts. It is currently producing its Sixth Assessment report to inform the global response to climate change.
The document provides information about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It summarizes that the IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme to assess scientific information on climate change. It produces major assessment reports approximately every 6-7 years to inform international climate change agreements and policies. The IPCC involves thousands of experts worldwide and its reports have been instrumental in international negotiations and agreements to address climate change, including the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement.
Is farming technology innovation locus dependent? Making of an agricultural F...Davide Rizzo
Innovation has multiple targets – products, production processes, marketing, stakeholders’ organizations, etc. – whose nature depends upon the socio-technical framework that orients the match between inventions and market. Amid the wealth of options to facilitate innovation, fablabs are a specific example of the digitalisation era. Originally, a fablab is “the educational outreach component of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms” whose identity is defined by a charter that connects local labs to the global network. Fablabs’ goal is to provide a stimulus for local entrepreneurship as well as for learning and innovation by providing access to tools for digital fabrication. This paper aims at understanding the role of fablabs and other third places in the specific context of farming technology innovation. To this end, we propose a genetic-like analysis (i.e. genotype x environment x management practices), by addressing the historical identity and traits of FTI actors, the description of the main characteristics and dynamics of the place where they are based and the innovation governance put in practice to enhance their interactions. The approach was applied at two levels: first, the main actors of the farming technology innovation in Europe, ending with a bibliometric analysis of the available literature about fablabs, makerspaces and living labs, with a focus on agriculture. Then, a case study from northern France to describe the making of AgriLab, a fablab dedicated to open innovation towards sustainable agriculture, spanning from equipment to digital tools. AgriLab is based in Beauvais (Hauts-de-France region), together with several other local and international actors of farming technology innovation. In conclusion, we question the role of third places and AgriLab as catalysts for the emergence of relevant farming technology innovations considering the influence from the local and wider context.
Full paper available at https://zenodo.org/record/6420888
The Physics Of Earth Atmospheric Co2 Concentration EssayRochelle Schear
The lab report describes an experiment where deciduous and coniferous leaf packs were placed in a river to examine how allochthonous material influences macroinvertebrate communities, finding that deciduous leaf packs had higher taxa richness and abundance of shredders compared to coniferous packs, demonstrating that the type of leaf litter affects the macroinvertebrate community.
This document provides an overview of integrated crop-livestock-forest systems and soil organic matter dynamics research in Brazil. It discusses:
1) The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and its research on low-carbon agriculture practices like no-till farming and integrated crop-livestock-forest systems.
2) Embrapa's research networks studying greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in grains, pastureland, and forest systems.
3) Preliminary results on soil organic matter dynamics in integrated crop-livestock-forest experimental fields using spectroscopic and laser-based techniques.
Landscape agronomy at the watershed scaleDavide Rizzo
Agriculture is challenged by large scale issues, like impacts of land system changes on the preservation of environmental resources, urging agronomy to evolve. Landscape agronomy has been proposed as new perspective to address these issues (Benoît, Rizzo et al. 2012). It stressed the need for developing spatially-explicit modeling and assessment of agricultural activities at spatial levels encompassing the farm and its contexts. In line with this, we aimed at comparing two empirical studies whose common purpose was to characterize the landscape organization of agricultural land uses within a hydrological spatial framework. In particular, primary catchments were aggregated or segmented according to land use dynamics, stressing out the role of crops and meadows dynamics at different stream order levels (see Strahler, 1957). Both studies had thus to face difficulties at retrieving datasets to describe agriculture at wide spatial levels over long periods.
Similar to Landscape Agronomy T0936 Rizzo etal IALE2019 (20)
Carbon farming: le esperienze degli agricoltori francesi ed europeiDavide Rizzo
Il carbon farming richiede il tracciamento e la tracciabilità delle operazioni agricole. In tal senso sfrutta la digitalizzazione agricola, in tumultuoso sviluppo per capacità di raccolta e trattamento dati. In questa presentazione si riporta una sintesi dell'orientamento strategico francese verso l'eco-efficienza delle pratiche. La frammentazione degli operatori e la domanda crescente di servizi trova soluzione nello sviluppo di piattaforme relazionali di aggregazione e trattamento dati, di cui sono forniti molti esempi. Un ruolo particolare è svolto dalle piattaforme di tracciamento dati, in parallelo alla definizione dei codici di condotta per la gestione della proprietà dei dati. In conclusione si riportano alcuni consigli di lettura per approfondire il tema.
Do the robots dream of farmers? Future perspective of the algorithmization an...Davide Rizzo
The talk will guide the audience through the journey towards algorithm-wise agriculture already in action with agricultural robots and sophisticated decision support systems. An open event within the Pondering BEYOND seminars, a video-conferences series highlighting research on themes related to BEYOND presented by the project’s participants, their international collaborators and invited guests (27 September 2021)
Panorama des leviers d’action disponible pour la gestion des cultures Rôle de...Davide Rizzo
Les nouvelles technologies apportent beaucoup de possibilités pour la transition agroécologique. Il convient de se saisir de ces opportunités et de les positionner de façon pertinente pour apporter une valeur ajoutée pour la protection des cultures
Evoluzione dell’Agritech in Europa. Dalla robotica alle nuove tecnologie per ...Davide Rizzo
Presentazione per il seminario online del progetto TRAINAGRO dal titolo "Uso sostenibile dei prodotti fitosanitari: trasformare il dato aziendale in informazione" del 29 marzo 2021.
Transition agroécologique - quel apport de l'agtech ?Davide Rizzo
Quel est l'apport des nouvelles technologies pour l'agriculture (agtech) au déploiement de la transition agro-écologique. Un rapide aperçu des mythes et limithes des innovations liées à la numérisation de connaissances en agriculture. Intervention invitée dans le cadre de la 3e conférence sur la résilience agricole organisée par les élèves ingénieurs d'UniLaSalle. La vidéo est disponible à la minute 12 du live:
https://youtu.be/uAUEbUgvtbI?t=752
Monte Pisano Venti anni di esperienze Rizzo Gennai Schott 2020Davide Rizzo
Contributo alla tutela del paesaggio agrario terrazzato toscano: bilancio di venti anni di esperienze di studio della fragilità delle sistemazioni idraulico-agrarie del Monte Pisano.
Davide Rizzo, agronomo, e Sabine C. Gennai-Schott, geografa
Il Monte Pisano si trova nella Toscana occidentale, lungo la costa tirrenica, oggi caratterizzato da oliveti terrazzati nella fascia pedecollinare, con pinete, residui castagneti e bosco misto nella fascia più alta. L'olivicoltura in questo ambiente terrazzato ad alta intensità di manodopera non è più praticabile senza un approccio multifunzionale ed è oggi gestita da alcuni agricoltori professionisti e molti olivicoltori hobbisti/amatoriali. Il grande incendio del settembre 2018 fece conoscere quest’area a livello nazionale. In realtà da lunghissima data il Monte Pisano è oggetto di studi, in particolare dell’Università di Pisa per gli aspetti naturalistici, litologici e culturali. Da un paio di decenni i ricercatori del Land Lab della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna si sono focalizzati sugli aspetti socio-tecnici. A inizio anni 2000 Mariassunta Galli iniziò con uno studio sulle pratiche agricole sostenibili contestualizzate alla gestione dei territori e alle politiche di sviluppo rurali, che fece emergere il bisogno di conoscenze sul sistema terrazzato per sostenere gestione di recupero post-incendio. La cartografia dettagliata dei terrazzamenti di tre dei sette comuni dell’area fu rinforzata dalla produzione di un manuale di gestione degli elementi terrazzati e alcune proposte di recupero della sentieristica. Infine, in anni più recenti il quadro fu completato dallo studio dei profili degli olivicoltori hobbisti, in particolare delle loro motivazioni e vincoli. Nel loro insieme i risultati di questi studi hanno permesso l’iscrizione del Monte Pisano come uno dei casi di riferimento nei due recenti incontri dell’alleanza mondiale dei paesaggi terrazzati (ITLA 2016 e 2019). Inoltre, la comunità locale ha fatto propri i risultati attivando uno sportello di agroecologia, punto di coordinamento e diffusione dei vari saperi. Tra le altre iniziative si segnala la fondazione di una scuola di potatura dell’olivo il cui obiettivo è divulgare un approccio semplificato alla potatura dell’olivo a fini produttivi. In conclusione, il bilancio di vent’anni di studio della fragilità del Monte Pisano mostrano che si tratta di un paesaggio terrazzato su cui si stratificano molteplici conoscenze: sociologiche, economiche, naturalistiche, agronomiche, formalizzate nel tempo da vari attori. Nel tempo è emersa con evidenza la centralità dell’implicazione attiva dei gestori reali degli oliveti per dare seguito efficace alle conoscenze teoriche. Il vero contributo alla tutela del paesaggio terrazzato - del Monte Pisano, così come di altre aree periurbane quali il biodistretto del Montalbano - risulta cioè dalla coniugazione di tecnica e pratica in una prospettiva di sistema socio-tecnico.
L’internet des objets connectés en agricultureDavide Rizzo
Un aperçu global présenté par la Chaire Agro-Machinisme et Nouvelles Technologies au 1er séminaire de la plate-forme régionale "agricultures du futur", organisé à Amiens le 05.02.2019 par la DRAAF Hauts-de-France. De l'internet-of-things (IoT) : pour quoi faire ? Une nouvelle frontière cyber-physique du capteur au cloud. L'exemple du bootcamp 2017, l'atelier intensif coordonné par AgriLab.
L’automation et la robotique interrogent le métier d’agriculteur. Des nouvell...Davide Rizzo
La ferme de demain : relever les enjeux réglementaires, économiques et agronomiques, grâce aux données, à la robotisation et à la diversification.
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Rendez-vous à Innov'Agri 2018, Outarville Jeudi 6 Sept 2018, allée centrale, 14h15 - 15h15, stand G38 pour cette table ronde animée par Benoit EGON
Ils participeront:
Éric Gauthrin, Directeur des métiers du conseil de CERFRANCE CNEIDF,
Eric Gelpe, Directeur Général de Groupama Paris Val de Loire,
Valérie LEROUX, Directeur Délégué d' UniLaSalle,
SALIMA TAIBI, Docteur HDR en modélisation statistiques, Responsable du Master of Science Agricultural Data Management & Decision Models, UniLaSalle,
et Davide Rizzo pour la #ChaireAMNT UniLaSalle,
et Alexandre TOLUB, Directeur de Péri-G,
Farmer-oriented innovation: outcomes from a first bootcampDavide Rizzo
An interdisciplinary team held a bootcamp to develop farmer-oriented innovation projects using open-source technologies like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Four projects were developed by farmers and students to monitor various agricultural data through IoT sensors and provide alerts or analyses to farmers. The bootcamp achieved its goals of enabling participants to innovate using affordable open-source tools and providing a model for future collaboration between farmers, students, and experts to develop precision agriculture solutions.
Innovation dans les agroéquipements : au carrefour entre agriculteurs, indust...Davide Rizzo
Fort du constat de la proximité entre les équipementiers, les agriculteurs et en établissement d’enseignement supérieur, c’est une évidence de travailler sur les AENT à UniLasalle, d’autant plus que à niveau des collectivités territoriale (agglomération du Beauvaisis et région Hauts-de-France) il y a une volonté de travailler sur les innovations dans ce secteur et de l’afficher comme spécificité du territoire.
De part de la culture de UniLaSalle, l’approche prise dans le cadre de la Chaire Agro-Machinisme et Nouvelles Technologies est de travailler ensemble et par association dans les innovations, en prenant comme acteurs la communauté des constructeurs, des agriculteurs avec les étudiants et les enseignants. Le poster développe cette approche : venez découvrir nos activités.
Par exemple le projet FARMING KNOWLEDGE, dont le but est d'orienter l'innovation dans les agroéquipements selons les besoins des agriculteurs.
MInndAgrM - Maîtriser l’Innovation de l’Agro-Machinisme. Solution présentée au 1er forum du contrat d'objectifs "Champs d'Innovation" (Caen, 1 déc 2017).
Factors influencing farmers’ preferences about agricultural equipment supplyDavide Rizzo
Poster on early results of the ongoing research, presented at the 1st Axema - EuAgEng Conference: “Intensive and environmentally friendly agriculture:
an opportunity for innovation in machinery and systems”. Villepinte (Paris) Feb. 25, 2017
Mapping fragility hotspots of a Mediterranean terraced systemDavide Rizzo
Mapping the fragility hotspots of a Mediterranean terraced system: a landscape agronomy approach based on GIS multi-criteria analysis. Rizzo D, Gennai-Schott S, Sabbatini T, Bonari E | #ITLA2016
The current management of Mediterranean terraced landscapes rises questions that go beyond the agricultural dynamics. Numerous studies addressed so far the terraced landscape management, encompassing various geographic locations and several disciplinary or integrative approaches. Yet, the observable current dynamics suggest instead that the major challenge for terraced landscape conservation is to capitalize past knowledge to provide a reliable support for the new land managers. Indeed, terraced landscapes have sometimes shifted toward neo-rurality and periurbanity, and farming is pursued just as part-time or hobby activity. Whereas the abandonment of the entire farming system implies the basic problem to conserve both soil and landscape cultural features, new management styles may imply a partial farming abandonment (i.e., just of the terrace management). Altogether, this claims for new landscape strategies to preserve the character of these traditional systems. Accordingly, we carried out a landscape agronomy assessment to support the management of a terraced system. This article aims to discuss a spatially explicit method combining natural and anthropic landscape features related the expected terrace degradation dynamics (i.e., fragility). Of note, we targeted the formalization of local expert knowledge as fundamental complement to existing and available maps. The method is a GIS based multi-criteria analysis (MCA) designed and implemented on the Monte Pisano (62 km², Tuscany, ITA) as illustrative of Mediterranean terraced landscapes. Schematically a MCA method is composed by three cognitive processes: the characterization of the decision-making situation, the modeling of the preferences, and the formulation of final recommendations. In our case-study these were articulated in a 6-steps method drawn upon the structure proposed by Malczewski (1999, GIS and multicriteria decision analysis. Wiley). First there was the definition of decision problem (1), then divided into operational objectives and associated to a set of criteria (2). The GIS environment added the need to identify the relevant spatial scale (3). These bases supported the selection and the elaboration of attributes (4), then aggregated according to the preferences expressed by the decision maker(s) (5). In this way, the terraced landscape was delimited into a set of ranked spatial alternatives responding to the initial decision problem. Finally, the assessment of the result reliability with field validation allowed formulating the final recommendations (6). The main results were the maps of local terraced landscape structural and overall fragility, classed into four levels ranging from weak to strong, i.e. where intensive management is required to mitigate/avoid expected degradation.
The document discusses the FREEWAT project, an open source modeling platform created to help simplify and improve the application of various European water directives. The project involves 19 partners across Europe and has conducted over 14 case studies and trained around 100 people. The goal of the FREEWAT platform is to provide a free and open source GIS-integrated modeling tool to support scientifically sound decision making for water resource management from small to large scales.
Agricoltura, risorse e paesaggio: come supportare il buon governo del territo...Davide Rizzo
Finalmente anche nel nostro Paese e, non senza una punta di orgoglio in Toscana in particolare, al centro del buon governo del territorio è stato messo il paesaggio. E’ stato infatti da noi approvato il Piano di Indirizzo Territoriale con valenza di Piano Paesaggistico e molti Comuni hanno già attivato, a dire il vero con impegno diverso, il proprio percorso per adeguare ad esso i propri strumenti urbanistici. C’è ora da definire cosa e come fare per conservare l’equilibrio della natura e in che maniera salvaguardare la memoria della nostra storia e delle nostre città. Questo implica di dover passare dalla logica del vincolo alla logica del piano e dunque non limitarsi ad un passivo controllo dei singoli beni o dei relativi progetti ma individuare, insieme alle eventuali prescrizioni, anche delle linee di indirizzo e degli obiettivi in chiave propositiva e gestionale. Questa presentazione per il convegno "Life 2020 - Il vecchio e il nuovo nel buon governo del territorio" introduce un punto di vista agronomico avvalendosi di approcci ed esempi italiani e internazionali.
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Les réseaux sociaux ont-ils quelques utilités pour les chercheurs ? C'est pour répondre à cette question que j'ai proposé à mes collègues de partager quelques astuces concernant la toile et la présence des scientifiques.
Même si on ne s'occupe pas de ça, sera la toile à s'occuper de nous, par exemple par des profils générés automatiquement ou via let tweets aux conférences. Il vaut mieux s'approprier des bases pour pouvoir orienter et exploiter ce moyen de communication.
Opportunities for scaling up research on agricultural dynamicsDavide Rizzo
>> PAPER http://bit.ly/FSD5_Rizzo_abstract <<
Use of crop sequences for data-mining of remotely sensed time series across multiple scales.
Several interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., landscape agronomy, land system science, ecoagriculture) urge agronomy to contextualize the characterization of agricultural activities within the land management system. This challenges the discipline to scale up the analysis of agricultural dynamics from farm to landscape levels, where conflicting choices may emerge about the management of natural resources. Shortcoming of data covering large areas, especially about farming practices and decision-making processes, is a major constraint. Nevertheless, we consider that segmenting the land according to the observed land cover sequences can eventually incorporate a relevant part of the farmers' medium-term decision-making processes, influenced for instance by climate changes or territorial conflicts related to local resources. Furthermore, focusing on land cover sequences may provide a consistent target of analysis across multiple scales. Our aim is to discuss the relevance of a data-mining method to handle remotely sensed data and analyze temporal and spatial agricultural dynamics in a landscape perspective. The method, originally developed to handle large and labor-demanding survey datasets, is based on the stochastic segmentation with Hidden Markov Models. It firstly identifies temporal regularities of the crop/grassland sequences, then use them to segment into homogeneous patches the study area (potentially ranging from farmland to region). Starting from a case study carried out on a 12-year time series of satellite images for the Yar watershed (Brittany, France) we address the potential contribution of this kind of approach to improve the dynamic analysis of farming systems. [...]
>> More info at http://bit.ly/FSD5_Rizzo_abstract
L’analisi agronomico-territoriale nella stima della fragilità agro-ambientale...Davide Rizzo
Riferirsi all’agronomia aggettivandola come “territoriale” intende confrontarsi con la sfida posta alla disciplina a sviluppare metodologie e conoscenze capaci di integrare le dinamiche della produzione con i processi decisionali derivanti dall’interazione di e con attori agricoli ed extra-agricoli. Un orientamento preciso è dato in tal senso dal crescente interesse dell’opinione pubblica alla tutela dei paesaggi agroforestali. Il focus di questo lavoro è stata la caratterizzazione delle “FRAGILITÀ” di un paesaggio, intesa come zonazione di un paesaggio agrario in funzione delle priorità di intervento per la conservazione.
Il metodo di stima della fragilità è stato definito tenendo conto dei tre elementi principali di un paesaggio agrario – struttura, attori e gestione – e dei metodi elaborati per valutazioni di problematiche parziali e specifiche dei sistemi terrazzati. Esso è stato sviluppato come ANALISI MULTICRITERIALE TERRITORIALE (AMT) strutturata in cinque fasi: (1) la definizione dell’obiettivo decisionale; (2) la scelta della scala spaziale di riferimento; (3) la selezione e l’elaborazione dei parametri di input; (4) la scelta e l’applicazione della “regola decisionale”; (5) l’analisi dei risultati e la valutazione della loro accuratezza. Ciascun parametro è stato valutato secondo un “INDICE DI FRAGILITÀ” che stima la distanza del valore di un dato parametro dallo stato funzionale ottimale.
La metodologia ha mostrato una pronta applicabilità e una buona affidabilità per un inquadramento fenomeno della fragilità a scala di sistema. Dal confronto con altre, rare, esperienze di caratterizzazione territoriale di sistemi terrazzati appare una sostanziale convergenza sulla scelta dei parametri.
In una prospettiva generale, il lavoro svolto apporta un contributo teorico dell’agronomia allo studio dell’evoluzione dei paesaggi agrari, con particolare riferimento alla valutazione degli effetti dei cambiamenti nelle pratiche (agricole), quale ad esempio l’abbandono. Si consideri, in conclusione che questa metodologia, sviluppata e testata per la caratterizzazione della fragilità dei sistemi terrazzati, potrebbe essere estesa sia per rispondere ad altre problematiche agro-ambientali sia per l’analisi di altri sistemi territoriali.
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Background concepts of landscape and territory agronomyDavide Rizzo
Agriculture faces big challenges, such as feeding a growing population and providing an increasing panel of ecosystem services. However, concurrent changes either of the land use (e.g., urban sprawl), of the land system structure (e.g., innovative crop-livestock integration) or of the production practices (e.g., the agroecology transition of production systems) occur unevenly in space and over time. Yet, land is a limited resource and agricultural seems to have attained the peak for major productions. Hence, neither the expansion nor the intensification of current production systems could answer the expectations, also because of the deprecated trade-offs on natural resources. Altogether, the development of smarter spatial configurations of agricultural activities appears to be the most effective way to address all of these rapid and wide dynamics. Accordingly, agronomy is urged to develop a landscape perspective to improve the understanding of farming evolutions and to inform future scenarios. In this lecture, we will describe the conceptual model proposed by “landscape agronomy” and how it can help to understand interactions between farming practices, landscape patterns and natural resources. In addition, we will compare it with the “territory” concept underpinning a participatory action science that addresses the relations between different land users and managers in the design of future rural land systems. Finally, we will apply the aforementioned concepts to the comparison of some land management units to stress the role of a landscape-oriented approach to farming system design.
Problematiche della gestione dei paesaggi terrazzati mediterranei: il ruolo d...Davide Rizzo
The Mediterranean terraced landscapes are largely shaped by the agrarian drainage systems, nowadays increasingly exposed to degradation due to changes in their management, diffusely neglected since the 1960s. The aim of this research is to characterize the slope lands drainage systems, at the landscape scale, in a hilly Mediterranean context, in order to define action priorities for their active conservation. The selected study area covers 62 km 2 on the southwest hillside of Monte Pisano (43°44' N, 10°32' E, NW Tuscany) mainly dedicated to the olive growing. The methodology is GIS-oriented and uses remote-sensing techniques; it is addressed to the landscape characterization, based on structural and agronomic parameters. The result is the drawing-up of some directions for the management of these rural landscapes, as a first step in the setting out of a framework to sustain their agro-environmental functionalities.
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citation: Rizzo D, GAlli M, Sabbatini T, Bonari E (2006). Problematiche della gestione dei paesaggi terrazzati mediterranei: il ruolo della agronomia territoriale. In : The new landscapes, atti del convegno SIEP-IALE. Gibelli G, Padoa-Schioppa E, Santolini R (éds.). Architettura del paesaggio, Pesaro (ITA), CD overview n.16. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3762.9767
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
(June 12, 2024) Webinar: Development of PET theranostics targeting the molecu...Scintica Instrumentation
Targeting Hsp90 and its pathogen Orthologs with Tethered Inhibitors as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategy for cancer and infectious diseases with Dr. Timothy Haystead.
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
ESA/ACT Science Coffee: Diego Blas - Gravitational wave detection with orbita...Advanced-Concepts-Team
Presentation in the Science Coffee of the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency on the 07.06.2024.
Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
Title: Gravitational wave detection with orbital motion of Moon and artificial
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some recent ideas to find gravitational waves from supermassive black holes or of primordial origin by studying their secular effect on the orbital motion of the Moon or satellites that are laser ranged.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
Travis Hills of MN is Making Clean Water Accessible to All Through High Flux ...Travis Hills MN
By harnessing the power of High Flux Vacuum Membrane Distillation, Travis Hills from MN envisions a future where clean and safe drinking water is accessible to all, regardless of geographical location or economic status.
Travis Hills of MN is Making Clean Water Accessible to All Through High Flux ...
Landscape Agronomy T0936 Rizzo etal IALE2019
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Bibliometric insights on key issues and background
topics of a conceptual framework
T0936 Symposium 30 – Mapping and monitoring farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services
10th IALE WORLD CONGRESS
Nature and society facing the Anthropocene
Challenges and perspectives for landscape ecology
July 1-5, 2019 Milano, Italy
University of Milano-Bicocca
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Davide RIZZO
InTerACT and Chair in Agricultural Machinery and New Technologies
Elisa MARRACCINI
InTerACT
Marc BENOIT
Aster
Sylvie LARDON
UMR Territoires
Claudine THENAIL
UMR BAGAP
#LandscapeAgronomy
@pievarino @unilasalle_fr
@inrasad
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Education and Research in Agronomy and more
A private higher education institute
(~3k students) with degree programs in Food & Health,
Geology & Environment, Agronomy
4 Academic and Industrial Chairs,
4 research groups and several facilities
Member of
IALU,
International
Association of
Lasallian
Universities
Based in France
INRA
is Europe’s top
agricultural
research institute
and the world’s
number two
center for the
agricultural
sciences. Its
scientists are
working towards
solutions for
society’s major
challenges.
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Landscape ecology
is the study of spatial
variation in
landscapes at a
variety of scales.
It includes the
biophysical and
societal causes and
consequences of
landscape
heterogeneity.
OUR FOCUS IS AGRICULTURE
as one of the major process that modify
landscapes and integrates biophysical
and societal patterns
THIS IS A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY
putting to the test the “landscape
agronomy” conceptual framework a few
years after the opinion papers.
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CONCEPTUAL
FRAMEWORK
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AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS
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Agronomy tackles different spatial and temporal issues
CHARACTERIZING
landscape patterns as a
result of farming practices
UNDERSTANDING how
farming practices both
integrate and shape natural
resources and landscape
patterns
IMPROVING tools to better
integrate farm management
and landscape design
Benoît and Rizzo et al. 2012
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BACKGROUND CONCEPTS
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Agricultural land uses
(crop, pasture)
time sequence
land cover ratio
Management system
farming style
land use intensity
cropping systems « field forces »
Land management issues
tenure
shape
accessibility
Environmental processes
morphology
climate
networks and flows
Sebillotte 1974, Rizzo et al. 2019 (Spatial driving factors) Deffontaines 2006
Ostrom 2009
xocio-technical & socio-ecological systems
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TWO SEMINAL PAPERS
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TO FRAME THE DEBATE AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Conceptual
framework
Methodological
framework
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MATERIALS & METHODS
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For the bibliometric insights on key issues and background topics
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CORTEXT v2 & SCOPUS
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BIBLIOMETRIC PLATFORM TO PROCESS TEXT CORPORA
Our use: lexical analysis of
keywords and other literature
metadata to compare landscape
ecology and landscape agronomy
TITLE-ABS-KEY 30.06.2019
C01 (LE) ( “landscape ecology" )
C03 (LA) ( "landscape agr*" OR
"landscape farm*" )
(Ruiz-Martinez et al., 2015; Tancoigne et al., 2014).
Keyword optimisation
Multiple combination and different databases:
Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus
Final research on Scopus
Stop at 2018 (included). English.
Wildcard for more flexibility
agr* agronomy, agroecology,
agroecosystem, …
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CORPORA DESCRIPTION
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Comparing 2 landscape disciplines (ecology and agronomy)
Up to 2018 C01 (LE) C03 (LA)
Oldest item 1971 1978
Number of items 8593 213
Nb of unique sources 1409 154
– including the 33% of the items 16 27
– with author(s) keywords 80% 73%
– country (affiliation) 95% 86%
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RESULTS (LE and LA)
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CO-CITATION L.Ecol (C01)
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TOP 50 CITED KEYWORDS (DETAIL 1)
FOCUS AREA
3 keywods make the link: Landscape change,
Spatial analysis and Biodiversity conservation
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FOCUS AREA
Restoration and conservation link
landscape ecology with agriculture
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C01 LE
Co-citation
map of top
50 cited
keywords.
Each cluster
has been
tagged with
the 3 most
publishing
journals.
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https://documents.cortext.net/3a35/3a356021961af1c76cdeb693183f7b6b/134306/vislda.html#topic=0&lambda=1&term=
Area
Land
Chang
Pattern
Model
Spatial
Scale
Fire
Develop
Manag
Plan
Urban
Speci
Forest
Fragment
Habitat
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FOCUS AREA
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Cropping system,
land use change and
data mining appear to
link LA and LE
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TOP 50 CITED KEYWORDS (DETAIL 2)
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FOCUS AREA
Agriculture is also addressed
for its sustainability, as
landscape and for habitat
description
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C03 LA
Co-citation
map of top
50 cited
keywords.
Each cluster
has been
tagged with
the 3 most
publishing
journals.
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TOPICS C03 LA
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Area
Urban
Land
Water
Farm
Farmer
System
Rural
Land
Model
Manage
Farm
Speci
Forest
Habitat
Veget
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How farmers are designing future agricultural landscapes?
Everyday farmers manage
and shape the interactions
between (a)biotic driving
forces and the landscape
(and resource) monitoring.
Landscape agronomy
provides a framework to
include the active role of
farming practices in
shaping patterns and
changing processes.
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How LA could contribute to LE
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PERSPECTIVES AND TOPICS
The complete
work will be
published as
introductory
chapter for the
upcoming
Springer Book
"Landscape
agronomy:
advances and
challenges of a
territorial
approach to
agricultural
issues”
Strengthen interfaces with disciplines of the
anthropic action (culture, economy, sociology)
Understanding and design the management of
landscape features related to biodiversity and of
water resources (quantity and quality)
Improving the landscape level approach in
agricultural educational programs
Describing and modelling the impact of new
farming practices and technologies on
agricultural landscapes
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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