Objectives The authors performed a meta-analysis of case–control and cohort studies to
clarify the possible relationship between exposure to pesticides and childhood cancers …

Abstract The European Union is highly dependent on soybean imports from overseas to
meet its protein demands. Individual Member States have been quick to declare self …

Due to significant changes in agro-ecological contexts, farmers need new solutions to
produce goods. Modelling complements field experiments in the design of new farming …

Field-scale crop models are increasingly applied at spatio-temporal scales that range from
regions to the globe and from decades up to 100 years. Sufficiently detailed data to capture …

Empirical and process-based models are currently used to predict crop yield at field and
regional levels. A mechanistic model named STICS (Multidisciplinary Simulator for Standard …

Farming systems are complex structures with several dimensions interacting in a dynamic
and continuous manner around farmers' management strategies. This complexity peaks in …

To address new environmental and social issues, crop models need to widen their scope
and be linked to other tools. The crop model STICS was encapsulated in the modelling …

The complex problems that computational science addresses are more and more benefiting
from the progress of computing facilities (simulators, librairies, accessible languages,..) …

Farming systems are complex and have several dimensions that interact in a dynamic and
continuous manner depending on farmers' management strategies. This complexity peaks in …

Soil-crop models are used to simulate ecological processes from the field to the regional
scale. Main inputs are soil and climate data in order to simulate model response variables …