In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies,
agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This has …

Environmental policy monitoring requires data with suitable spatial and temporal resolutions.
We present a new method of spatialising pesticide sales in France to monitor …

Farmers' use of fungicides and insecticides constitutes a major threat to biodiversity that is
also endangering agriculture itself. Landscapes could be designed to take advantage of the …

… 6) reveals good levels of correlation between areas derived from crop sequence types and
areas reported by Eurostat, with R 2 ranging from 0.71 for temporary grasslands to 0.98 for …

Legume crops have a number of advantages for dealing with current environmental and food
challenges. However, the area under grain and forage legumes has greatly decreased in …

Agricultural use of pesticides and nitrogen has negatively impacted drinking water quality.
In France, 1000 water catchments now face a legal obligation to develop and implement …

… Ballot R. Prise en compte des facteurs agronomiques dans les indicateurs de rentabilité
des successions culturales. Mémoire de fin d’études d’ingénieur, 2009, ESA, Angers 135. …

… 6) reveals good levels of correlation between areas derived from crop sequence types and
areas reported by Eurostat, with R 2 ranging from 0.71 for temporary grasslands to 0.98 for …

Producing biofuels from crops is controversial due to environmental issues and to food security
threats linked with the dedication of land to energy crops rather than to food production. …

… 5), with average R-RMSEP on mean yield of 15% for faba bean as well as for winter wheat.
This R-RMSEP was lower than those obtained for other crop models. For example, for wheat, …