Vulnerability assessment of agricultural production systems to drought stresses using robustness measures

AbstractIntensification of droughts in agricultural areas threaten global food security. The impacts of drought stresses vary widely across a region, not only due to climate variability but also due to heterogeneous soil and groundwater buffering capacities which protect against droughts. An innovative drought vulnerability index was developed by reconciling the negative effects of drought stresses against the robustness offered by hydrologic buffers. Indicators for climate stresses, soil and groundwater buffering capacities were defined using physical principles and integrated using a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) framework. The framework was applied to delineate drought vulnerability of agricultural production systems and evaluate current cropping choices across the High Plains region of the US that is underlain by the Ogallala Aquifer. Current crop growth choices appeared to be compatible with the intrinsic drought vulnerabilities with cotton and sorghum grown in higher vulnerability areas and corn and soybean produced in areas with lower vulnerability. Nearly 50% of the aquifer region fell in the transition zone exhibiting medium to high vulnerabilities warranting the need for better water management to adapt to a changing climate.

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FORAGES AND PASTURES SYMPOSIUM: Assessing drought vulnerability of agricultural production systems in context of the 2012 drought1,2

Journal of Animal Science ◽

10.2527/jas.2013-7496 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 92 (7) ◽

pp. 2811-2822 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

O. Kellner ◽

D. Niyogi

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Production Systems ◽

Drought Vulnerability ◽

Agricultural Production Systems

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Features and applications of haplotypes in crop breeding

Communications Biology ◽

10.1038/s42003-021-02782-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Javaid Akhter Bhat ◽

Deyue Yu ◽

Abhishek Bohra ◽

Showkat Ahmad Ganie ◽

Rajeev K. Varshney

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Large Scale ◽

Production Systems ◽

Complex Trait ◽

Disease Dynamics ◽

Crop Breeding ◽

Global Food Security ◽

Breeding Efficiency ◽

Global Food ◽

Agricultural Production Systems

AbstractClimate change with altered pest-disease dynamics and rising abiotic stresses threatens resource-constrained agricultural production systems worldwide. Genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) approaches have greatly contributed to enhancing crop breeding efficiency and delivering better varieties. Fast-growing capacity and affordability of DNA sequencing has motivated large-scale germplasm sequencing projects, thus opening exciting avenues for mining haplotypes for breeding applications. This review article highlights ways to mine haplotypes and apply them for complex trait dissection and in GAB approaches including haplotype-GWAS, haplotype-based breeding, haplotype-assisted genomic selection. Improvement strategies that efficiently deploy superior haplotypes to hasten breeding progress will be key to safeguarding global food security.

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Prospects for the development of agrarian production systems in in the Right Bank Polesie of Ukraine

Interdepartmental thematic scientific collection "Agriculture" ◽

10.31073/zem.95.69-72 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (95) ◽

pp. 69-72

Author(s):

Yu.A. Tarariko ◽

L.V. Datsko ◽

M.O. Datsko

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Production Systems ◽

Economic Feasibility ◽

Capital Investments ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Grain Processing ◽

Processing And Storage ◽

The Right ◽

And Storage ◽

Agricultural Production Systems

The aim of the work is to assess the existing and prospective models for the development of agricultural production in Central Polesie on the basis of economic feasibility and ecological balance. The evaluation of promising agricultural production systems was carried out with the help of simulation modeling of various infrastructure options at the levels of crop and multisectoral specialization of agroecosystems. The agro-resource potential of Central Polesie is better implemented in the rotation with lupine, corn and flax dolguntsem with well-developed infrastructure, including crop, livestock units, grain processing and storage systems, feed, finished products and waste processing in the bioenergetic station. The expected income for the formation of such an infrastructure is almost 8 thousand dollars. / with a payback period of capital investments of 2-3 years.

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Strategic deployment of riparian buffers and windbreaks in Europe can co-deliver biomass and environmental benefits

Communications Earth & Environment ◽

10.1038/s43247-021-00247-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Oskar Englund ◽

Pål Börjesson ◽

Blas Mola-Yudego ◽

Göran Berndes ◽

Ioannis Dimitriou ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Large Scale ◽

Production Systems ◽

Riparian Buffers ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

The European Union ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Nitrogen Emissions ◽

Environmental Objectives ◽

Eu Policies

AbstractWithin the scope of the new Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, in coherence with other EU policies, new incentives are developed for farmers to deploy practices that are beneficial for climate, water, soil, air, and biodiversity. Such practices include establishment of multifunctional biomass production systems, designed to reduce environmental impacts while providing biomass for food, feed, bioenergy, and other biobased products. Here, we model three scenarios of large-scale deployment for two such systems, riparian buffers and windbreaks, across over 81,000 landscapes in Europe, and quantify the corresponding areas, biomass output, and environmental benefits. The results show that these systems can effectively reduce nitrogen emissions to water and soil loss by wind erosion, while simultaneously providing substantial environmental co-benefits, having limited negative effects on current agricultural production. This kind of beneficial land-use change using strategic perennialization is important for meeting environmental objectives while advancing towards a sustainable bioeconomy.

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