e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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Title

Assessing the impact of soil degradation on food production

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Abstract

Continuing soil degradation remains a serious threat to future food security. Yet, global soil degradation assessments are based on qualitative expert judgments or remotely sensed quantitative proxy values that suffice to raise awareness but are too coarse to identify appropriate sustainable land management interventions. Studies in China and Sub Saharan Africa illustrate the considerable impact of degradation on crop production but also point to the need for solutions dependent on location specific agro-ecological conditions and farming systems. The development of a comprehensive approach should be feasible to better assess both extent and impact of soil degradation interlinking various scales, based on production ecological approaches and remote sensing to allow disentangling natural and human induced causes of degradation. A shared common knowledge base cataloguing hard-won location-specific interventions is needed for successfully preventing or mitigating degradation.

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Year
2012
en
Country
  • NL
  • AT
  • CN
  • ZA
  • CH
  • MW
  • IS
  • AU
Organization
  • Wageningen_Univ_and_Res_Ctr_WUR (NL)
  • CAAS_China_Acad_Agr_Sci (CN)
  • ETH_Zurich_Swiss_Fed_Inst_Technol_Zurich (CH)
  • Monash_Univ (AU)
  • PBL_Netherlands_Environm_Assessment_Agcy (NL)
  • NW_Univ (ZA)
Data keywords
  • knowledge
  • knowledge based
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Agriculture keywords
  • farming
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Data topic
  • information systems
  • decision support
  • sensors
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SO
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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Institutions 10 co-publis
  • Wageningen_Univ_and_Res_Ctr_WUR (NL)
  • CAAS_China_Acad_Agr_Sci (CN)
  • ETH_Zurich_Swiss_Fed_Inst_Technol_Zurich (CH)
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e-ROSA - e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730988.
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