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Dr. Maroun El Moujabber
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM-IAMB), Via Ceglie 9, 70010 Valenzano (BA), Italy

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Published: 13 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Morocco belongs to the countries ranked at a high-risk level for entry, establishment, and spread of Xylella fastidiosa, which has recently re-emerged as a plant pathogen of global importance causing olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS). Symptomatic infection by X. fastidiosa leads to devastating diseases and important economic losses. To prevent such losses and damages, countries without current outbreaks like Morocco need to first understand their host plant responses to X. fastidiosa. The assessment of the macro and micro-elements content (ionome) in leaves can give basic and useful information along with being a powerful tool for the sustainable management of diseases caused by this devastating pathogen. Herein, we compare the leaf ionome of four important autochthonous Moroccan olive cultivars (‘Picholine Marocaine’, ‘Haouzia’, ‘Menara’, and ‘Meslalla’), and eight Mediterranean varieties introduced in Morocco (‘Arbequina’, ‘Arbosana’, ‘Leccino’, ‘Ogliarola salentina’, ‘Cellina di Nardo’, ‘Frantoio’, ‘Leucocarpa’, and ‘Picholine de Languedoc’), to develop hypotheses related to the resistance or susceptibility of the Moroccan olive trees to X. fastidiosa infection. Leaf ionomes, mainly Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, Zn, and P, were determined using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). These varieties were also screened for their total phenolics and flavonoids content. Data were then involved in a comparative scheme to determine the plasticity of the pathogen. Our results showed that the varieties ‘Leccino’, ’Arbosana’, ‘Arbequina’ consistently contained higher Mn, Cu, and Zn and lower Ca and Na levels compared with the higher pathogen-sensitive ‘Ogliarola salentina’ and ‘Cellina di Nardò’. Our findings suggest that ‘Arbozana’, ‘Arbiquina’, ‘Menara’, and ‘Haouzia’ may tolerate the infection by X. fastidiosa to varying degrees, provides additional support for ‘Leccino’ having resistance to X. fastidiosa, and suggests that both ‘Ogliarola salentina’ and ‘Cellina di Nardö’ are likely sensitive to X. fastidiosa infection.

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Kaoutar El Handi; Majida Hafidi; Khaoula Habbadi; Maroun El Moujabber; Mohamed Ouzine; Abdellatif Benbouazza; Miloud Sabri; El Achbani. Assessment of Ionomic, Phenolic and Flavonoid Compounds for a Sustainable Management of Xylella fastidiosa in Morocco. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7818 .

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Kaoutar El Handi, Majida Hafidi, Khaoula Habbadi, Maroun El Moujabber, Mohamed Ouzine, Abdellatif Benbouazza, Miloud Sabri, El Achbani. Assessment of Ionomic, Phenolic and Flavonoid Compounds for a Sustainable Management of Xylella fastidiosa in Morocco. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7818.

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Kaoutar El Handi; Majida Hafidi; Khaoula Habbadi; Maroun El Moujabber; Mohamed Ouzine; Abdellatif Benbouazza; Miloud Sabri; El Achbani. 2021. "Assessment of Ionomic, Phenolic and Flavonoid Compounds for a Sustainable Management of Xylella fastidiosa in Morocco." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7818.

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Published: 24 November 2020 in Annals of Agricultural Sciences
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This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) of the impacts of sugarcane production on different ecosystems employing the ecosystem services framework. The literature assessed showed that sugarcane, like all agro-systems, depends on practices and techniques to transform negative impacts into positive externalities on ecosystems. However, the literature studied failed to include the inter-linkage in the effects of sugarcane production and therefore, evaluate the ecosystem services and account for existing trade-offs.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. What are the impacts of sugarcane production on ecosystem services and human well-being? A review. Annals of Agricultural Sciences 2020, 65, 188 -199.

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Daniel El Chami, André Daccache, Maroun El Moujabber. What are the impacts of sugarcane production on ecosystem services and human well-being? A review. Annals of Agricultural Sciences. 2020; 65 (2):188-199.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. 2020. "What are the impacts of sugarcane production on ecosystem services and human well-being? A review." Annals of Agricultural Sciences 65, no. 2: 188-199.

Review
Published: 13 April 2020 in Sustainability
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In the last few decades, a great deal has been written on the use of sustainable agriculture to improve the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change. However, no tangible and systematic evidence exists on how this agriculture would participate in alleviating impacts on vulnerable rural communities. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) integrated with a bibliometric analysis and a concept network analysis to determine how, in this changing climate, sustainable agriculture can increase the resilience of agrosystems. Our search ranged from the date of the first relevant article until the end of 2018. The results generated demonstrated the following: (a) Only single practices and methods have been studied to assess the impacts on single ecosystem services; (b) Soil quality and health are considered a key indicator of sustainable agriculture; (c) Although the assessed practices and methods were shown to improve the biodiversity of agrosystems, which makes them more resilient to extreme climate events, we are still far from developing interdisciplinary and multidimensional agriculture that integrates all management aspects and generates a full range of ecosystem services. In conclusion, this study addressed the following recommendations for the scientific community and policymakers to orient future research strategies and efforts: (a) The integration of all agrosystem services into sustainable management using an ecosystem-based approach on a life-cycle basis using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method; (b) Improving the scientific understanding of traditional knowledge to facilitate greater synergy and further integration; (c) The unification of assessment methods and indicators for the quantification of impacts; (d) The creation of a platform to share, monitor, screen, and approve assessments and evaluations of sustainable agriculture by region.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. How Can Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3119 .

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Daniel El Chami, André Daccache, Maroun El Moujabber. How Can Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3119.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. 2020. "How Can Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3119.

Review
Published: 27 February 2020
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In the last few decades, a lot has been written on the use of sustainable agriculture to improve ecosystem services for resilience to climate change. However, no tangible and systematic evidence exists on how this would participate in alleviating impacts on vulnerable rural communities. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) integrated with a bibliometric analysis and a concept network analysis to understand how, in a changing climate, sustainable agriculture builds the resilience of agro-systems. The search was set from the date of the first relevant article until the end of 2018. Results generated have demonstrated that: a. Only single practices and methods have been studied to assess impacts on single ecosystem services. b. Soil quality and health are considered a key indicator of sustainable agriculture. c. Albeit the assessed practices and methods have shown to improve the biodiversity of agro-systems, which makes them more resilient to extreme climate events, we are still far from reaching interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional agriculture which integrates all management aspects and generates a full range of ecosystem services. In conclusion, the study addressed the following recommendations for the scientific community and for decision-makers to orient future research strategies and efforts: a. Integration of all agro-systems services into sustainable management using an ecosystem-based approach on a life-cycle basis using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method; b. Improving the scientific understanding of traditional knowledge for higher synergies and for further integration; c. Unification of assessment methods and indicators for the quantification of impacts; d. Creation of a platform to share, monitor, screen, and approve assessments and evaluations of sustainable agriculture by region.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. How Could Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review. 2020, 1 .

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Daniel El Chami, André Daccache, Maroun El Moujabber. How Could Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review. . 2020; ():1.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. 2020. "How Could Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review." , no. : 1.

Review
Published: 27 February 2020
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Since the 1950s sugarcane production has grown rapidly from less than 0.5 billion tonnes in the late 50s to reach over 1.9 billion tonnes in 2012 on about 27 million hectares of agricultural land. This expansion has been boosted by the high demand for bioethanol promoted as a sustainable bioenergy source which accounted in 2010 for the biggest share of the global biofuel market. Despite its benefits, the scientific debate on sugar is growing especially that counterarguments are so many, including negative impacts on different interacting ecosystems and human well-being, e.g. bigger stress on land and water resources, environmental externalities on air, a harmful impact on the biodiversity and endemic species, negative environmental externalities, health, and socio-economic aspects. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) of the impacts of sugarcane production on these different ecosystems employing the ecosystem services framework for its acceptance by policy-makers. The references included for the SR were 163 and results showed that the majority of the studies are from Brazil, Australia, South Africa and the USA (≈ 75% of the literature), most of them were from peer-reviewed journals (85%), and most of the case studies adopted a quantitative research approach (93%). The literature assessed showed that sugarcane, like all agro-systems, depends on the practices and techniques to transform negative impacts into positive externalities on ecosystems and human well-being. However, the literature studied failed to include the inter-linkage in sugarcane production impacts’ and therefore to evaluate the related ecosystem services with respect to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework to account for existing trade-offs. Therefore, the findings are addressed to the scientific community and decision-maker for an intensification of interdisciplinary and integrated research based on the MA framework to cover all ecosystem services, for sustainable development of the sugarcane sector.

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Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review. 2020, 1 .

AMA Style

Daniel El Chami, André Daccache, Maroun El Moujabber. What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review. . 2020; ():1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Daniel El Chami; André Daccache; Maroun El Moujabber. 2020. "What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review." , no. : 1.