Agriculture is highly impacted by different sources of risk. There a wide variety management instruments that farmers can use to cover these risks. The objective this article analyze the explanatory variables for simultaneous adoption large set risk instruments. main innovation methodological approach: first, we apply hierarchical cluster analysis identify groups whose correlated; second, multi...

According to the CORINE programme, Spain and Portugal are the Mediterranean countries in the European Union facing the greatest risk of erosion (Desir & Marín, 2007). In Portugal, areas at high risk of erosion cover almost one third of the country (Grimm et al., 2002). The main causes of soil erosion are inappropriate agricultural practices, land abandonment, deforestation, overgrazing, forest ...

Planning the adaptation of agriculture and forestry landscapes to climate change remains challenging due need for integrating substantial amounts information. This information ranges from scenarios, geographical site information, socio-economic data several possible measures. Thus, there is an urgent have a framework that capable organizing strategies measures in sectors Mediterranean climatic ...

Climatic extreme events, like droughts, heatwaves, and floods are becoming recurrent represent a threat to agriculture, lowering plant growth productivity. The Mediterranean region is climate-change hotspot, where traditional agricultural systems, olive groves, particularly challenged. Both the intensive systems of culture coexist in Mediterranean. differ their demands for water agrochemicals, ...

• We estimated greenhouse gas emissions and potential C sinks in the Mediterranean. The GHG budget from crop production was half of that livestock production. Research area is not focused on emission hotspots. should be redirected to less-studied areas, products, processes. Life-cycle assessment-based footprints based climate-specific data. Designing effective mitigation policies for (GHG) agri...

Environmental degradation and the decrease of ecosystem service provision are currently major concern, with current agricultural systems being a driver. To meet our future environmental sustainability targets transformation agro-food value chain crucial. One approach to redesign farming is concept biodiversity-based agriculture (BBA) which relies on sustainable diversification biological compon...

Abstract Small-grain farming systems in Mediterranean climatic regions are characterized by poor quality soils, high climate variability, and resulting heavy agrochemical reliance. The adoption of Conservation Agriculture, based on minimum tillage, permanent soil cover, crop rotations, has improved quality, enhanced productivity, help mitigate financial risk. However, emerging issues that threa...