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  • AGFORWARD Third Periodic Report: July 2016 to December 2017 
    Burgess, Paul; den Herder, M.; Dupraz, C.; Garnett, Kenisha; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Graves, Anil; Hermansen, J. E.; Kanzler, M.; Liagre, F.; Moreno, G.; Mosquera-Losada, M. R.; Palma, João H. N.; Pantera, A.; Plieninger, T. (Cranfield University, 2018-03-01)
    Project context The European Union has targets to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and forestry, whilst improving the environment and the quality of rural life. At the same time there is a need to ...
  • The Agile Supply Chain: Competing in Volatile Markets. 
    Christopher, Martin (Elsevier, 2000-01)
    Turbulent and volatile markets are becoming the norm as life cycles shorten and global economic and competitive forces create additional uncertainty. The risk attached to lengthy and slow-moving logistics “pipelines” has ...
  • Agile supply partnerships : the paradox of high-involvement and short-term supply relationships in the Macerata-Fermo footwear district 
    Cerruti, Corrado (Cranfield University, 2013-08)
    Despite a general consensus concerning the relevance of supply partnerships to agility, the literature reveals disagreements and contradictions regarding their characteristics and, in particular, their duration. This is, ...
  • Agility and flexibility: what's the difference? 
    Baker, John (1996)
    There is growing interest in the concept of “agile organisations” amongst management practitioners and academics. Early publications have been largely practitioner-oriented and have been at pains to claim that this is a ...
  • Aging detection capability for switch-mode power converters 
    Kaur Mann, Jaspreet; Perinpanayagam, Suresh; Jennions, Ian K. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-02-25)
    The detection of degradations and resulting failures in electronic components/systems is of paramount importance for complex industrial applications including nuclear power reactors, aerospace, automotive, and space ...
  • Agricultural challenges today and in the future: the beneficial role of agroecology 
    Keay, Gordon (Cranfield UniversitySAS, 2009-09)
    Interest in agroecology is growing as evidence mounts that conventional agricultural methods are unsustainable, degrading the resource base (e.g. soil, water, crop diversity, biodiversity etc.) on which they depend. ...
  • Agricultural decision-making under uncertainty: a loss function on the kriging variance from soil properties predicted by infrared and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy 
    Breure, Timo Samuel; Haefele, Stephan M.; Webster, Richard; Hannam, Jacqueline A.; Corstanje, Ronald; Milne, Alice E. (EGU: European Geophysical Union, 2021-04-30)
  • Agricultural development in Ecuador: A compromise between water and food security? 
    Salmoral, Gloria; Khatun, Kaysara; Llive, Freddy; Madrid Lopez, Cristina (Elsevier, 2018-08-01)
    Ecuador is facing several threats to its food and water security, with over a tenth of its population currently undernourished and living in poverty. As a response, its government is incorporating new patterns of land use ...
  • Agricultural Futures and Implications for the Environment. 
    Morris, Joe; Audsley, Eric; Wright, Iain A.; McLeod, Jim; Pearn, Kerry R.; Angus, Andrew; Rickard, Sean (2005-11-01)
    In this context, the overall aim of project is to explore possible long term futures for agriculture in England and Wales in order to inform decision-making on environmental policy and provide a 2 framework for Defra ...
  • Agricultural Load Modeling Based on Crop Evapotranspiration and Light Integration for Economic Operation of Greenhouse Power Systems 
    Li, Zeming; Liu, Junyong; Xiang, Yue; Zhang, Xin; Chai, Yanxin (Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE) in collaboration with CEPRI (China Electric Power Research Institute) and IEEE, 2019-12-07)
    The threat of environmental degradation attracts great attention to clean energy production and transportation. However, the limited scope of energy consumption causes large-scale of clean energy sources to be abandoned ...
  • Agricultural technology and land use futures: The UK case 
    Burgess, Paul J.; Morris, Joe (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2009-12-31)
    This paper explores how agricultural technology has interacted with recent land use in the UK and how it might do so in the next 50 years. From 1960 to 1985, farmers successfully used technology to increase the output ...
  • Agricultural tractor powertrains: Fundamental characteristics and opportunities for intelligent control 
    Sayer, David (Cranfield University, 2005-07-08)
    The use of microprocessor-based control systems on agricultural tractors has eased operator burden by allowing changes to tractor and implement settings to be made with little physical effort. However, maintaining the ...
  • Agricultural trade publications and the 2012 Midwestern U.S. drought: a missed opportunity for climate risk communication 
    Church, Sarah P.; Haigh, Tonya; Widhalm, Melissa; Garcia de Jalon, Silvestre; Babin, Nicholas; Carlton, J. Stuart; Dunn, Michael; Fagan, Katie; Knutson, Cody L.; Prokopy, Linda S. (Elsevier, 2016-11)
    The Midwestern United States experienced a devastating drought in 2012, leading to reduced corn and soybean yields and increased instances of pests and disease. Climate change induced weather variability and extremes are ...
  • Agriculture's contribution to climate change and role in mitigation is distinct from predominantly fossil CO2-emitting sectors 
    Lynch, John; Cain, Michelle; Frame, David; Pierrehumbert, Raymond (Frontiers, 2021-02-03)
    Agriculture is a significant contributor to anthropogenic global warming, and reducing agricultural emissions—largely methane and nitrous oxide—could play a significant role in climate change mitigation. However, there are ...
  • Agro-environmental sustainability and financial cost of reusing gasfield-produced water for agricultural irrigation 
    Alban, Echchelh; Hess, Tim M.; Sakrabani, Ruben (Elsevier, 2019-10-29)
    Produced water (PW) is the largest by-product generated from oil and gas extraction. Currently, half of the total PW volume is managed through environmentally-controverted and costly disposal practices. In dry regions, PW ...
  • Agroforestry as a sustainable land use option to reduce wildfires risk in European Mediterranean areas 
    Damianidis, Christos; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; den Herder, Michael; Burgess, Paul; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Graves, Anil; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Pisanelli, Andrea; Camilli, Francesca; Rois-Díaz, Mercedes; Kay, Sonja; Palma, João H. N.; Pantera, Anastasia (Springer, 2020-01-11)
    Wildfires have always been an integral part of the ecology of many terrestrial ecosystems, but their frequency is increasing in many parts of the world. Wildfires were once a natural phenomenon, but after humans learned ...
  • Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe 
    Sonja, Kay; Rega, Carlo; Moreno, Gerardo; den Herder, Michael; Palma, João H. N.; Borek, Robert; Crous-Duran, Josep; Freese, Dirk; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Graves, Anil; Jäger, Mareike; Lamersdorf, Norbert; Memedemin, Daniyar; Mosquera-Losada, Rosa; Pantera, Anastasia; Paracchini, Maria Luisa; Paris, Pierluigi; Roces-Díaz, José V.; Rolo, Victor; Rosati, Adolfo; Sandor, Mignon; Smith, Jo; Szerencsits, Erich; Varga, Anna; Viaud, Valérie; Wawer, Rafal; Burgess, Paul J.; Herzog, Felix (Elsevier, 2019-03-06)
    Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we ...
  • Agroforestry for healthy ecosystems: constraints, improvement strategies and extension in Pakistan 
    Baig, Mirza B.; Burgess, Paul J.; Fike, John H. (Springer Verlag, 2020-01-01)
    Globally, forest ecosystems are shrinking and their health is declining due to a range of biotic and abiotic factors. Forest ecosystems in Pakistan are no exception and the country faces a crisis as its growing population ...
  • Agroforestry for high value tree systems in Europe 
    Pantera, A.; Burgess, Paul J.; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Moreno, G.; López-Díaz, M. L.; Corroyer, N.; McAdam, Jim; Rosati, A.; Papadopoulos, A. M.; Graves, Anil; Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A.; Ferreiro-Domínguez, N.; Fernández-Lorenzo, J. L.; González-Hernández, M. P.; Papanastasis, Vasilios P.; Mantzanas, K.; van Lerberghe, Philippe; Malignier, N. (2018-01-06)
    Most farm-based agroforestry projects focus on the integration of trees on arable or livestock enterprises. This paper focuses on the integration of understorey crops and/or livestock within high value tree systems (e.g., ...
  • Agroforestry in the European common agricultural policy 
    Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; Pisanelli, A.; Rois-Díaz, M.; Smith, J.; den Herder, M.; Moreno, G.; Ferreiro-Domínguez, N.; Malignier, N.; Lamersdorf, N.; Balaguer, F.; Pantera, A.; Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A.; Aldrey, J. A.; González-Hernández, M. P.; Fernández-Lorenzo, J. L.; Romero-Franco, R.; Burgess, Paul John (Springer, 2018-06-26)
    Agroforestry is a sustainable land management system that should be more strongly promoted in Europe to ensure adequate ecosystem service provision in the old continent (Decision 529/2013) through the common agricultural ...