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PUBLICATION | 2020

Innovative agrivoltaic systems to produce sustainable energy: An economic and environmental assessment

Agrivoltaic systems are photovoltaic (PV) technologies in which PV panels are mounted at a sufficient height from the ground to enable conventional cultivation practices underneath. Agrivoltaic...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs

Scenarios describe plausible and internally consistent views of the future. They can be used by scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to explore the challenges of global environmental change given...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Bridging the Gap Between Biofuels and Biodiversity Through Monetizing Environmental Services of Miscanthus Cultivation

Carbon neutrality in the transport sector is a key challenge for the growing bioeconomy as the share of biofuels has stagnated over the past decade. This can be attributed to basic economics...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Methodological overview on the calculation of air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities

Improving the estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions from agricultural activities is important not only in relation to the magnitude of the impact of these activities on air quality...

PUBLICATION | 2020

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020

This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets focuses on how markets can bring us closer to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. SOCO 2020 offers...

PUBLICATION | 2020

COVID-19 and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: implications of lockdown during agricultural planting seasons

COVID-19 pandemic movement restrictions as part of the control measures put in place by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has implications on food security, as movement restrictions coincided...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Summary of climate variability and extremes and their main impacts on agricultural production in 2019

This yearly summary reviews the main climate extremes described by the WMO state of the climate preliminary report for 2019 that had an impact on agricultural production according to JRC’s agricultural...

PUBLICATION | 2020

COVID-19 risks to global food security

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, trade-offs have emerged between the need to contain the virus and to avoid disastrous economic and food security crises that hurt the world's poor and hungry...

PUBLICATION | 2020

A spatially downscaled sun-induced fluorescence global product for enhanced monitoring of vegetation productivity

Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) retrieved from satellite spectrometers can be a highly valuable proxy for photosynthesis. The SIF signal is very small and notoriously difficult to measure...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian Wheat Belt

Forecasting crop yields is becoming increasingly important under the current context in which food security needs to be ensured despite the challenges brought by climate change...

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