Agronomic Evaluation and Chemical Characterization of <i>Lavandula latifolia</i> Medik. under the Semiarid Conditions of the Spanish Southeast by Gustavo J. Cáceres-Cevallos, María Quílez, Gonzalo Ortiz de Elguea-Culebras, Enrique Melero-Bravo, Raúl Sánchez-Vioque, María J. Jordán

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Evaluation and identification of advanced lentil interspecific derivatives resulted in the development of early maturing, high yielding, and disease-resistant cultivars under India... by Mohar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Reena Mehra, Salej Sood, Nikhil Malhotra, Reena Sinha, Sonika Jamwal, Vikas Gupta

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Modernized Irrigation Technologies in West Africa by Hakan Büyükcangaz, Mohammed Alhassan, Jacqueline Nyenedio Harris

“…Crop production in West Africa is mostly dependent upon rainfed agriculture. Irrigation is a vital need due to uneven distribution of rainfall and seasonality of water resources. …”
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Prediction of Land Cover Changes in Horizon of 2028 through a Hybrid Model of Markov Chain and Cellular Automata;Catchment Area around Bazangan Lake Case Study by Marzieh Alikhah Asl, Farzaneh Rezvani

“…Methodology The classification of studied area was carried out based on five categories of irrigated agriculture, rainfed agriculture, rangeland, water zones and residential areas through TM, ETM and OLI sensors and utilization of independent component analysis (ICA) with an overall accuracy of 92.23% and kappa coefficient of 0.89% for the years of 1999, 2002 and 2015. …”
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The impact of deforestation on rainfall in Africa: a data-driven assessment by Confidence Duku, Lars Hein

“…Deforestation of remaining humid rainforest areas is thus likely to dramatically affect rainfed agriculture across the continent, in particular in the maize-based cropping systems north of the equator.…”
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Carbon stocks and dynamics of different land uses on the Cerrado agricultural frontier. by Emily Ane Dionizio, Fernando Martins Pimenta, Lucas Barbosa Lima, Marcos Heil Costa

“…By contrast, the conversion of pasture and rainfed agriculture to irrigated agriculture increased SCS100 by 34% (p = 0.034) and 26.5% (p = 0.022), respectively. …”
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Water loss associated with food loss and waste in Brazil by Eduardo Borges Cohim, Adriano Souza Leão, Hamilton de Araújo Silva Neto, Gilmar Souza Santos

“…Roughly 96% of water loss is attributed to the green water component, which highlights that attention must be paid to rainfed agriculture to ensure food and water for everyone. …”
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Sustainability Consequences of Making Land Change Decisions Based on Current Climatology in the Brazilian Cerrados by Daniel S. Silva, Eugenio Y. Arima

“…However, as areas with better soil and climate for agriculture become scarce, farmers have been advancing to the ecotone between the savanna and xeric shrubland, where precipitation is less reliable for rainfed agriculture. The expected increase in temperature will lead to extended drought periods, with negative consequences for surface and groundwater resources. …”
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Determination of rainfed wheat agriculture potential through assimilation of remote sensing data with SWAT model case study: ZarrinehRoud Basin, Iran by Amin Rostami, Mahmoud Raeini-Sarjaz, Jafar Chabokpour, Hazi Md Azamathulla, Sumit Kumar

“…Considering the importance of rainfed agriculture in adaptation to nature and long-term sustainability in the human food supply and livelihood of farmers, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the potential of rainfed agriculture in the Zarrinehroud basin as this basin is one of the most important sub-basins of Lake Urmia. …”
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Editorial: Metabolism of Fruit Volatile Organic Compounds by Jinhe Bai, María J. Jordán, Jian Li

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Evaluating Crop Area Mapping from MODIS Time-Series as an Assessment Tool for Zimbabwe's "Fast Track Land Reform Programme". by Konrad Hentze, Frank Thonfeld, Gunter Menz

“…Although general LULC patterns were depicted in classification results and an overall accuracy of over 80% was achieved, user accuracies for rainfed agriculture were limited to below 65%. We conclude that phenological analysis has to be treated with caution when rainfed agriculture and grassland in semi-humid tropical regions have to be separated based on MODIS spectral data and phenological parameters. …”
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Reconciling irrigated food production with environmental flows for Sustainable Development Goals implementation by Jonas Jägermeyr, Amandine Pastor, Hester Biemans, Dieter Gerten

“…Here, violations of global environmental flow requirements for rivers are quantified and related to reconciliation potentials in irrigated and rainfed agriculture.…”
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A GIS-based agroecological model for sustainable agricultural production in arid and semi-arid areas: The case of Kerman Province, Iran by Kamaleddin Aghaloo, Ayyoob Sharifi

“…Overlapping land suitability for rainfed agriculture and RWH systems highlights that only 4% of the study area can be cultivated. …”
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Adapting the land agricultural suitability assessment scheme for drylands edaphoclimatic conditions by José Alexsandro Guimarães Lima, Francisca Evelice Cardoso de Souza, Francisca Gleiciane da Silva, Fabrício da Silva Terra, Diana Ferreira de Freitas, Mirian Cristina Gomes Costa, Raul Shiso Toma

“…The results related to water availability were equivalent to those observed through the dynamic analysis of land-use and cover associated with the rainfall, which demonstrated an increase in the areas for rainfed agriculture and a reduction in fallow and pasture areas in the years with rainfall within the climatic normality. …”
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The Management Strategies of Pearl Millet Farmers to Cope with Seasonal Rainfall Variability in a Semi-Arid Agroclimate by Festo Richard Silungwe, Frieder Graef, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Siza Donald Tumbo, Frederick Cassian Kahimba, Marcos Alberto Lana

“…Rainfed agriculture constitutes around 80% of the world&#8217;s agricultural land, achieving the lowest on-farm crop yields and greatest on-farm water losses. …”
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Drought and Saving in West Africa: Are Livestock a Buffer Stock? by Fafchamps, M, Udry, C, Czukas, K

“…Households in the West African semi-arid tropics face substantial risk--an inevitable consequence of engaging in rainfed agriculture in a drought-prone environment. It has long been hypothesized that these households keep livestock as a buffer stock to insulate their consumption from income fluctuations. …”

Impact of green water anomalies on global rainfed crop yields by Edoardo Borgomeo, Hassaan F Khan, Matias Heino, Esha Zaveri, Matti Kummu, Casey Brown, Anders Jägerskog

“…The importance of green water (moisture from rain stored in soils) for global food and water security is widely recognized, with process-based simulation models and field-level studies demonstrating its role in supporting rainfed agriculture. Despite this evidence, the relationship between green water anomalies and rainfed agriculture has not yet been investigated using statistical models that identify a causal relationship between the variables. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance of <i>Campylobacter</i> <i>jejuni</i>, <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Enterococcus</i> <i>faecalis</i> Commensal Isolates from Laying Hen Farms in Spain by Jorge Rivera-Gomis, Pedro Marín, Cristina Martínez-Conesa, Julio Otal, María José Jordán, Elisa Escudero, María José Cubero

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Trend analysis of extreme precipitation in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia with a case study of Debre Markos by H. Shang, J. Yan, M. Gebremichael, S. M. Ayalew

“…Understanding extreme precipitation is very important for Ethiopia, which is heavily dependent on low-productivity rainfed agriculture but lacks structural and non-structural water regulating and storage mechanisms. …”
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Rainfall Variability and Trend Analysis over Lokoja, Nigeria by Animashaun I. M., Adeoye P. A. Otache, M. Y and Abatan, O. A.

“…Studies on rainfall variability and trends are of great importance, particularly to the nations where rainfed agriculture is predominant. This study used CRU data (CRU_TS 4.01) to examine the temporal variability of rainfall data over Lokoja. …”
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