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Mapping agriculture's impact by combining farm management handbooks, life-cycle assessment and search engine science
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posted on 2016-06-01, 00:00 authored by J Navarro, Brett BryanBrett Bryan, O Marinoni, S Eady, A HalogDespite great advancements in recent years, the availability of detailed and regionalised farm practice data at national scale remains an obstacle for spatially-detailed research on sustainable intensification. Parsing and information retrieval techniques were applied to 385 farm management handbooks to estimate farm practices (use of fertilisers, pesticides, water, fuel) of 72 commodities grown in 42 regions. Life-cycle inventories were used to derive GHG emissions and energy use from farm practice data. Practices and impacts were mapped at 1.1 km 2 resolution using agricultural census data and a remote-sensing-based land use map. Existing data was linearly extrapolated using a rule-based approach to fill spatial gaps. Estimates were, in aggregate, comparable to the best available data at national and local scales. Our method contributes to the push to create more spatially-detailed assessments of agricultural impacts at a national scale by focusing on the production of basic data at the farm level.
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Environmental modelling and softwareVolume
80Pagination
54 - 65Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Kidlington, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1364-8152eISSN
1873-6726Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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sustainable intensificationlife-cycle inventoriesagricultural knowledge systemsspatial modellinginformation retrievalfarm management handbooksScience & TechnologyTechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicinePhysical SciencesComputer Science, Interdisciplinary ApplicationsEngineering, EnvironmentalEnvironmental SciencesWater ResourcesComputer ScienceEngineeringEnvironmental Sciences & EcologyAUSTRALIASYSTEMSCLASSIFICATIONSCALEWHEAT
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