Digital technologies are rapidly changing agricultural practices today. Farmers still struggle to adopt the technologies that are suitable for their specific practices, often due to high investment cost, both financially and in terms of skills. Specific evidence for all types of arable crops are...
Soil delivers fundamental ecosystem services that support human well-being. These include the provision of food, feed, fuel, fibre and genetic resources, the regulation of storage, filtration and cycling of nutrients and water, cultural (aesthetic, spiritual and recreational) values and supporti...
The ‘Study on Producer Organisations and their activities in the olive oil, beef and veal and arable crops sectors’ aims to deliver an analysis of producer organisations from these three sectors. The analysis is mainly based on a survey conducted for a representative sample of 203 POs and 23 APO...
This technical report describes the Water Satisfaction Index model that used in the ASAP (Anomaly hotSpots of Agricultural Production) early warning system....
For the purpose of reporting GHG emissions and removals from anthropogenic activities in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) under the UNFCCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines that it is good practice to use managed land as a ...
For the years 2013-2020 Decision 529/2013 extended for the Member States of the European Union mandatory accounting for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and removals to the activities Cropland Management (CM) and Grazing Land Management (GM). For the purpose of accounting GHG emissions and removal...
In 2002, the former Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and Environment prepared an Opinion on “The Member State Assessments of the Risk to Health and the Environment from Cadmium in Fertilizers” (CSTEE, 2002). Since then, new scientific information has become available. The Commissio...
This report presents an analysis of the trends in the spatial extent of ecosystems and in the supply and use of ecosystem services at the European scale between 2000 and 2010. In the EU urban land and forests increased while cropland, grassland and heathland decreased. Other ecosystem types unde...
The 2006 Annual Conference, jointly organised between the MARS PAC action of the Joint Research Centre in ISPRA and the new Agence Unique de Paiement, (AUP) of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, covered not only the Control with Remote sensing Activities but also technical aspects...
