The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given
future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme …

Detailed knowledge of energy and mass fluxes between land and the atmosphere are
necessary to monitor the climate of the land and effectively exploit it in growing agricultural …

The trend to localise food production promises reduced reliance on increasingly uncertain
global supply chains. Controlled-environment agriculture, in particular indoor vertical …

In agriculture, soilless crop** represents the most suitable cultivation technique apt to
achieve a theoretical 100% efficiency of water and nutrient use. This is possible through a …

Securing the growing populations' demand for food energy and water whilst adapting to
climate change is extremely challenging. In this regard, bioenergy coupled with carbon …

In Europe, most greenhouse vegetable crops are grown in soil. Where soilless systems are
used, apart from in The Netherlands, Belgium and France, they are mostly free-draining …

CONTEXT Process-based greenhouse climate models are valuable tools for the analysis
and design of greenhouse systems. A growing number of greenhouse models are published …

The changing dynamics, non-linearity of soil moisture content, as well as other weather and
plant variables requires real-time monitoring and accurate predictive model for effective …

Container farms (CFs), integrating plant factories into mobile prefabricated buildings, are
emerging as a novel decentralized food production system to fortify sustainable urban …

As water resources become scarce around the globe, a sustainable irrigation management
is essential for increasing the crop use efficiency. Crop EvapoTranspiration (ET) is …