Water pricing and irrigation across Europe: opportunities and constraints for adopting irrigation scheduling decision support systems

Giannakis, Elias; Bruggeman, Adriana; Djuma, Hakan; Kozyra, Jerzy; Hammer, Jürg

doi:10.2166/ws.2015.136

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“…Weiss [20] investigated the off-farm labour market behaviour of Upper Austrian farm households, and found that the transition of a farm operator from the lowest to the next level of farm education decreases the likelihood of off-farm work by 1.65%. Farm training improves the knowledge and skills of farmers, fosters the adoption of new technologies, and positively contributes to the economic performance of the agricultural sector [36,37]. Our analysis shows that the size of the farm household positively affects the participation in off-farm work.…”

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confidence: 74%

Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

2018

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Off-farm employment is an important strategy for complementing farm household income and maintaining rural livelihoods. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the effect of farm-level and regional-level factors on off-farm employment in Cyprus during the recent economic crisis period. The performance of nonfarm sectors positively affects off-farm employment; a one-percent increase in the share of the secondary and tertiary sector employment increases the likelihood of off-farm work by 9.5 times. The importance of location was also identified. Farm households located in rural areas are 70% less likely to engage in off-farm work than households located in urban areas. The positive effect of educational attainment and the negative effect of farm training confirmed the importance of human capital characteristics on off-farm labour participation. Farm structural factors are also significant determinants of off-farm employment. A one-hectare increase in the farm size decreases the odds of off-farm labour participation by 50%. Operators of crop farming holdings are 4.2 times more likely to work off the farm than operators of livestock and mixed-farming holdings. The results reveal the importance of adopting a multilevel and integrated approach for the analysis of off-farm employment.

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Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

2018

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“…Most publicly available irrigation scheduling applications were initially developed under research grants, and need either continued grant funding or income generated from user subscriptions to support updating and maintenance costs. Several online irrigation scheduling services that were initially funded by the European Union became inactive after grants ended [83]. It may be cost-effective for institutions to collaborate on the development of software products that are sufficiently flexible to be customized for different growing regions and commodities.…”

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New Approaches to Irrigation Scheduling of Vegetables

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Johnson

2017

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Using evapotranspiration (ET) data for scheduling irrigations on vegetable farms is challenging due to imprecise crop coefficients, time consuming computations, and the need to simultaneously manage many fields. Meanwhile, the adoption of soil moisture monitoring in vegetables has historically been limited by sensor accuracy and cost, as well as labor required for installation, removal, and collection of readings. With recent improvements in sensor technology, public weather-station networks, satellite and aerial imaging, wireless communications, and cloud computing, many of the difficulties in using ET data and soil moisture sensors for irrigation scheduling of vegetables can now be addressed. Web and smartphone applications have been developed that automate many of the calculations involved in ET-based irrigation scheduling. Soil moisture sensor data can be collected through wireless networks and accessed using web browser or smartphone apps. Energy balance methods of crop ET estimation, such as eddy covariance and Bowen ratio, provide research options for further developing and evaluating crop coefficient guidelines of vegetables, while recent advancements in surface renewal instrumentation have led to a relatively low-cost tool for monitoring crop water requirement in commercial farms. Remote sensing of crops using satellite, manned aircraft, and UAV platforms may also provide useful tools for vegetable growers to evaluate crop development, plant stress, water consumption, and irrigation system performance.

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“…As a consequence of the project management activities and the results obtained and presented above, the new young researchers supported by the CPMTT projects, in the period of 2012-2016, have generated and applied over 500 new research, development, innovation and technology transfer projects (Romanian and European funding), proposing over 500 new products or services in all the agricultural fields in which they were trained. In this sense, the European Commission aims to improve the transfer of research knowledge and results in intended users in Horizon 2020 projects, by identifying the technology readiness level (TRL) towards commercial use of proposed research products [52].…”

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Building Sustainable Development through Technology Transfer in a Romanian University

Vac

Fiţiu

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:To improve university and commercial ties with industry, many universities operate a technology transfer office (TTO) as a vehicle to support the creation of spin-off companies. Run effectively, the TTO can define roles and responsibilities, structures and processes that support the creation and development of new ventures. The challenge for universities is to create TTOs with the right skill set. This paper aims to analyze the TTO activities to support transforming research outputs into commercialization in the context of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Cluj-Napoca, Romania (UASVMCN). Throughout this paper, different commercialization channels, the roles of technology transfer offices and multiple associative structures are further discussed with a special focus on agricultural open innovations and technologies. This study contributes to sustainable development of both Academia and agricultural Industry research, development and commercialization activities by illustrating current innovation and technology transfer activities produced by UASVMCN and its own TTO as a catalyst entity, a new model in Romania, so that the Academia-TTO-Economy partners association draw a functional and productive triple helix. In order to assess the sustainability of using the above-mentioned TTO, the methodological tools involving analysis are implemented. Finally, this paper states that correct operating of a university TTO is a real opportunity for technology transfer, both from the perspective of an alternative to research funding or entrepreneurship, and from the cultural perspective of the university correlation to the current trends in research, innovation and technology transfer, on a unique and entrepreneurial European market.

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Water pricing and irrigation across Europe: opportunities and constraints for adopting irrigation scheduling decision support systems

Cited by 60 publications

References 20 publications

Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

New Approaches to Irrigation Scheduling of Vegetables

Building Sustainable Development through Technology Transfer in a Romanian University

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