Pasquale Nino

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• Agronomy Sciences
• Researcher at Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis

Italy is divided into 773 Agricultural Regions (ARs) based on shared physical and agronomic characteristics. These regions offer a valuable tool for analyzing various geographical, socio-economic, and environmental aspects of agriculture, including the climate. However, the ARs have lacked geospatial data, limiting their analytical potential. This...

In agriculture, nitrogen (N) is a key element in plant nutrition that affects, both positively and negatively, the productive and qualitative results of the crop. Accurate quantification of nitrogen levels is crucial for devising effective plant nutrition strategies. The objective of this study was to validate a novel method to estimate the N conte...

Abstract Sustainable agricultural soil management practices are key to restore, maintain and improve soil health. The European Joint Programme for SOIL (EJP SOIL) has identified twelve main soil challenges in Europe. To assess the potential and eventually increase the adoption of soil-improving management practices, it is necessary to know (i) the...

Sustainable agricultural soil management practices are key to restore, maintain and improve soil health. The European Joint Programme for SOIL (EJP SOIL) has identified twelve main soil challenges in Europe. To assess the potential and eventually increase the adoption of soil‐improving management practices, it is necessary to know (i) the current l...

This paper presents a comparison between the Sentinel-1 (S1)/Sentinel-2 (S2)-derived soil moisture products at plot scale (S²MP) and in situ soil moisture measurements at a 10 cm depth for several winter and summer crops. Specifically, the paper discusses the consistency between the in situ soil moisture measurements, usually performed at a 10 cm s...

he FaST Navigator study (Nutrient management Algorithms, Valorisation of Inputs and greenhouse gas (GHG) Assessment – Tool for Optimization of Resources) sought to address one of the main challenges for the implementation of the FaST: the availability of operational models that are necessary to provide standardised and consistent advice on the use...

Strengthening of Italian organic durum wheat production system: results of "BIODURUM" project. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the “BioDurum” project addressed different topics with the aim of defining innovative processes for organic farming systems focused on durum wheat. These processes are designed to ensure i) adequate income for organic...

Precision farming (PF) technologies can help to mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture by reducing fertiliser use and irrigation while saving cost for the farmer. However, these technologies are not widely adopted in Europe. We study farmers' willingness to adopt PF technologies based on a choice experiment. Among other determinants, we e...

In this paper we assess the sustainability of Variable Rate Technology (VRT) application for different wheat intensive agricultural areas in Europe. Within the H2020 FATIMA project we developed an analytical framework to assess the environmental and economic sustainability of nutrient management in two Case Studies in Greek and Czech Republic, impl...

Sustainable management of natural resources under economic, environmental and social perspective, needs to consider a fair balance between its uses and availability. Sustainable agriculture goal is to establish innovative and new farm tools and service capacities that help the intensive farm sector to optimize input management (energy, nutrients an...

The post-war agricultural revolution led to a significant intensification of European agriculture because of the development of mechanisation and the large-scale use of inputs [energy, water and agrochemical products (fertilizers, pesticides)], in line with the initial objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), laid down in Article 39 of t...

The occurrence of water shortages ascribed to projected climate change, especially in the Mediterranean region, fosters the interest in remote sensing (RS) applications to optimize water use in agriculture. Remote sensing evapotranspiration and water demand estimation over large cultivated areas were used to manage irrigation to minimize losses dur...

Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...

FATIMA project (FArming Tools for external nutrient Input and water MAnagement) addresses effective and efficient monitoring and management of agricultural resources to achieve optimum crop yield and quality in a sustainable environment. In this study we apply the FAO-56 PM model with crop parameters derived from satellite images. The main goal is...

Irrigated agriculture is a key activity for the long-term survival of human-environmental systems and the assessment of agricultural sustainability has been gaining increasing relevance. In spite of several proposals developed, there is not a holistic approach that can be generally applied to assess sustainability of irrigated agricultural areas. I...

Water Energy Food nexus is a conceptual approach to better understand the interactions between the natural environment and human activities. This planning and territorial approach has been implemented at farm level in H2020 FATIMA – FArming Tools for external nutrient Input and water Management, project, where, the input optimization (water and dir...

In the context of environmental sustainability there has been an increasing interest in bioenergy production from renewable resources, and is expected that European biofuel production from energy crops will increase as a consequence of the achievement of policy targets. The aim of this paper is to assess the agronomic feasibility of biomass crop cu...

Agriculture accounts between 2 and 3 percent of national energy consumption even if direct and indirect energy uses constitute an important part of farmer's costs. Furthermore, the considerable increase of energy prices in the past years, affected significantly farmers, generating disturbing effects on production costs. This paper present a novel a...

Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...

Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...

The Derivable 4.1.2 Baseline water-energy-food description in pilot areas aims to provide a basis of reference data on the main characteristics on the use of water and energy in the food production, using available information coming from WP 1-5 data integration (providing some basic information of the main crops present in each pilot areas, as sur...

This report constitutes Deliverable 4.1.3 of the FATIMA (Farming Tools for external nutrient inputs and water Management) project that aims to define guidelines for on-farm Water-Energy-Food audit to evaluate current level in management of water and energy (related to food production ) and to identify potential solutions to improve farm’s efficienc...

Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...

The sustainable management of water resources plays a key role in Mediterranean viticulture, characterized by scarcity and competition of available water. This study focuses on estimating the evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of table grapes vineyards trained on overhead " tendone " systems in the Apulia region (Italy). Maximum vineyard tran...

Application of good agricultural practices is one of the key factors for achieving the objective of good ecological status of European waters under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). In Greece and Italy, FAO’s Aquastat, recorded that more than 80% and 50% respectively, of the available freshwater resources are used for irrigation purposes. In Gre...

L'irrigazione ha rappresentato uno dei fattori fondamentali nello sviluppo dell’agricoltura negli ultimi decenni, non solo perché ha consentito di ottenere produzioni elevate e di qualità, ma soprattutto perché ha reso possibile una maggiore flessibilità nella scelta degli ordinamenti produttivi da parte degli imprenditori agricoli, svincolandoli d...

While Europe is by large considered as having adequate water resources, water scarcity and drought is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon in the European Union. The long term imbalance resulting from water demand exceeding available water resources is no longer uncommon (EU, 2012). Objective of this paper is to show how the tools, ba...

While Europe is by large considered as having adequate water resources, water scarcity and drought is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon in the European Union. The long term imbalance resulting from water demand exceeding available water resources is no longer uncommon (EU, 2012). Objective of this paper is to show how the tools, ba...

While Europe is by large considered as having adequate water resources, water scarcity and drought is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon in the European Union. The long term imbalance resulting from water demand exceeding available water resources is no longer uncommon (EU, 2012). Objective of this paper is to show how the tools, ba...

La stima dei consumi irrigui nell’annata agraria 2009-2010 delle aziende agricole che hanno dichiarato una superficie irrigua è stata effettuata mediante l’applicazione del modello MARSALa sviluppato dall’Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria (INEA) nell’ambito del progetto MARSALa (Modelling Approach for irrigation wateR eStimation at fArm Level)...

Agriculture is one of the largest “user” of water resources (WR) required for irrigation. According to the leading principles of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) 60/2000 and Climate Change (CC) policies, innovative approaches and methodologies are essential to obtain lower volumes and promote plural uses of water in agriculture, resulti...

Water scarcity is a growing concern for global agriculture, many irrigated areas have experienced in recent years a reduction in water availability due both to its decrease and an increase in demand for water for domestic and industrial use. Future scenarios, due to climate change could intensify the problems of water scarcity and irrigation requir...

Una procedura semplificata per la localizzazione geografica di aziende agricole - full text

L’obiettivo del presente contributo è quello di descrivere una metodologia per definire un modello di previsione dell’evapotraspirazione di riferimento (ET0), a breve medio e lungo termine, al fine di poter pervenire ad una stima dei fabbisogni irrigui futuri quale strumento di supporto alla pianificazione delle infrastrutture irrigue, utilizzando...

La disponibilità di dati di simulazione di cambiamento climatico pubblicati via web è cresciuta esponenzialmente grazie alle attività dell'IPCC e di diversi progetti di ricerca. Attualmente, i dati sono generalmente diffusi attraverso Data Portal e sono generati mediante modelli di circolazione globale e regionale con risoluzioni spaziali variabili...

The MARSALa (Modelling Approach for irrigation wateR eStimation at fArm Level) project has been realized in the framework of the Eurostat Grant Programme 2008 (Theme “Pilot studies for estimating the volume of water used for irrigation”) with the Grant Agreement awarded to the Italian Institute for Agricultural Economics (INEA). Aim of the project...

This paper reports the results of the project SIRIUS (Sustainable Irrigation water management and River-basin governance: Implementing User-driven Services) on applying Earth Observation data for assessing crop water requirements. SIRIUS is a research project funded by EU FP7 in the Copernicus/Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) f...

Within the project “Attività di assistenza tecnica e supporto agli Enti concessionari nel settore dell’uso irriguo delle risorse idriche" funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry – Commissario ad Acta ex Agensud activities – coordinated by the National Institute for Agricultural Economics (INEA), a methodology has been developed, in...

This paper reports the results of the project SIRIUS (Sustainable Irrigation water management and River-basin governance: Implementing User-driven Services) for the pilot area located in Southern Italy. SIRIUS is a research project funded by EU FP7 in the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) framework supporting the development of...

The SIRIUS (Sustainable Irrigation Water Management and River – basin Governance: implementing User - driven Services) project, funded by EC FP7, is developing new services for water managers and food producers, including maps detailing irrigation water requirements in different areas, crop water consumption estimates, and a range of add itional in...

This paper introduces the project NaPA (pilot studies on estimating the content of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Agricultural products), funded by Eurostat, for the development of a methodology for estimation of N and P contents in the main crop products in Italy. The methodology takes into account the dependency of crop nutrient contents on climate (...

La disponibilità di dati di simulazione di cambiamento climatico pubblicati via web è cresciuta esponenzialmente grazie alle attività dell'IPCC e di diversi progetti di ricerca. Attualmente, i dati sono generalmente diffusi attraverso Data Portal e sono generati mediante modelli di circolazione globale e regionale con risoluzioni spaziali variabili...

L'obiettivo del presente contributo è quello di descrivere una metodologia per definire un modello di previsione dell'evapotraspirazione di riferimento (ET0), a breve medio e lungo termine, al fine di poter pervenire ad una stima dei fabbisogni irrigui futuri quale strumento di supporto alla pianificazione delle infrastrutture irrigue, utilizzando...

Le applicazioni agrometeorologiche per la gestione delle colture in pieno campo e l’utilizzo di nuove tecnologie di monitoraggio sono sempre più diffuse e si concretizzano anche attraverso lo sviluppo di progetti di ricerca internazionali orientati all’implementazione di servizi operativi. Particolare rilevanza assume il programma Global Monitoring...

Agriculture is the largest user of water on the planet with a 70% of all freshwater withdrawals. Today the growing scarcity and competition for water among agricultural, industrial, commercial and residential sectors are pushing the water managers to allocate water more efficiently. In this scenario the use of methodologies and tools for better mon...

Project “Technical assistance activities and support to water institutions dealers in irrigation" led by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry – Commissario ad Acta ex Agensud activities - in collaboration with the National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA), is divided into various guidelines and measures. Line B - Action 6 "Contr...

The European Mediterranean countries have been under strong anthropogenic influence since historical times, in particular strong land-use changes have been occurred especially after the last World The actual land use/cover is the result of strong territorial dynamics started since after the Second World War. In addition typical Mediterranean climat...

In the European Union (EU) as whole, 24% of abstracted water is used in agriculture and, in some regions of Southern Europe, agriculture water consumption rises to more than 80% of the total national abstraction. Therefore agriculture can be considered unquestionably the main driving force in the water management. Overexploitation of water resource...

PLEIADeS (Participatory multi-Level EO-assisted tools for Irrigation water management and Agricultural Decision-Support) project (funded by European VI Framework Program) address to the improvement of water use and management in agriculture through the new Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and the most recent Earth Observation (EO) metho...

PLEIADeS (Participatory multi-Level EO-assisted tools for Irrigation water management and Agricultural Decision-Support) project (funded by European VI Framework Program) address to the improvement of water use and management in agriculture through the new Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and the most recent Earth Observation (EO) metho...

Grazie al progetto PLEIADeS – che prevede l’utilizzo sinergico delle moderne tecnologie di trasmissione dell’informazione, delle tecniche innovative di elaborazione di dati telerilevati da satelliti multispettrali e degli strumenti software Open Source – è stato realizzato un primo importante esempio di sistema di supporto alle decisioni per la ges...

The book reports the results obtained during the realization of the cartographic component of a GIS for irrigated agricultural areas not supplied by Land Reclamation Consortia inside Objective 1 Regions. The work belongs to the project “Attività di assistenza tecnica e supporto agli Enti concessionari nel settore dell’uso irriguo delle risorse idri...

Desertification is generally driven by both biophysical and human proximate causes, from which agricultural practices are not the least, and by more distant factors such as policies. In market economies, profit maximisation is a leading factor of farm-level production choices and land-use decisions, potentially leading to land degradation on the fa...

La valutazione delle performance dei sistemi di irrigazione è una delle componenti determinanti da tenere in considerazione nell’ambito della gestione delle risorse idriche in agricoltura. La problematica assume maggiore importanza per il decisore qualora voglia definire ed implementare strategie di gestione della risorsa in concomitanza della ridu...

This study presents the main results and the methodology used in the creation of the atlas of the risk of desertification in Italy. A desertified area was defined as an unproductive area for agricultural or forestry use, due to soil degradation processes. An area at risk of desertification was a tract of the earth's surface which is vulnerable or s...

The aim of this report is to define a methodology for geographic localisation of FADN data by defining homogeneous areas where socio-economics variable could be used with a spatial correlation analysis. The methodology is defined simplified since it doesn’t produce as result the exact location of the farm centre or the specific location of each far...

La localizzazione geografica delle aziende agricole è il passo preliminare per la realizzazione di analisi spaziali di dati socio-economici (es. RICA - Rete Informativa Contabile in Agricoltura) utili alla valutazione delle interazioni tra ambiente e pratiche agricole. In assenza di dati catastali una soluzione è rappresentata dalla geolocalizzazio...

La valutazione delle performance dei sistemi di irrigazione è una delle componenti determinanti da tenere in considerazione nell’ambito della gestione delle risorse idriche in agricoltura. La problematica assume maggiore importanza per il decisore qualora voglia definire ed implementare strategie di gestione della risorsa in concomitanza della ridu...

Desertification is usually considered as driven by both biophysical and human proximate causes and underlying factors. It is usually accepted that, in market economy of agricultural systems, profit optimization is a leading factor of farm-level production choices and land-use decisions, potentially leading to land degradation on the farm plots or o...

The paper reports the methodology used for the realisation of a GIS based model to estimate the value of water demand for irrigated agricultural areas in Italian southern regions. Aim of this study is to develop a GIS based system for supporting infrastructural works raising the improvement of water resources efficiency. The evaluation method requi...

Il contributo riporta i risultati dell’attività di realizzazione della componente cartografica di un Sistema Informativo Geografico sull’agricoltura irrigua nelle aree non servite dai Consorzi di Bonifica delle regioni Obiettivo 1. Il lavoro rientra nel progetto "Attività di assistenza tecnica e supporto agli Enti concessionari nel settore dell’uso...

DESURVEY (EC R&TD VI Framework Programme integrated research project), is focused on producing a set of integrated procedures for the surveillance and assessment of desertification status and land use system vulnerability. In this context the National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) is analyzing the effects of land-use/ cover change and...

In the irrigation planning, the calculation of crops water requirements (CWR) is a key element. The available algorithms and calculation models need of very detailed land use data, considering that CWR can change between different varieties of the same cultivation. Furthermore, due to the rotation/crop shifts, the irrigated land uses are significan...

Deliverable 1.5.2.3 deals with effects of land-use/cover change as well as with degradation status in the semi-natural to natural rangeland areas of the Province of Chieti, Abruzzi region.

The Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory has funded the implementation of a national atlas on areas with risk of desertification, in order to have a preliminary tool for the correct implementation of the National Action Plan (PAN) to combat drought and desertification.. The PAN has been adopted by the Italian government through the Nation...

Aim of this study is that to realize a GIS based land evaluation method for taking into specific consideration the interaction between irrigated land use, irrigation soil suitability and different irrigation techniques. This method will produce a final soil and irrigated land use sustainable map, to be used as Supporting Decision System for plannin...

INEA, as a part of the EU Operative Programme "Water resources", has developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) -SIGRIA (Geographic Information System for Water Resources Management in Agriculture) -on the whole irrigated surface of Southern Italian Regions. The GIS is implemented with several cartographic and alphanumeric information (land us...

La Commissione Europea, il Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici e il Ministero per le Politiche Agricole hanno posto l’esigenza di avviare un’indagine sull’uso irriguo della risorsa idrica nel Mezzogiorno per avere informazioni utili ai fini della programmazione degli interventi nel settore. Tale esigenza si è concretizzata nel Programma Operativo Ampliam...

The optimisation of water use in agriculture is a key factor in rural development and agri-environmental management. The full utilisation of the available water means the possibility of enlarging the irrigated areas and reducing the environmental impact of water use. The irrigation sustainability evaluation in Objective 1 Italian Regions, taking in...

In the framework of MONIDRI (Development of DSS on water use monitoring and optimizations, based on the integration of calculation and evaluation models) research project (financed on the basis of Italian research Ministry strategic program), the combined use of The Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI), and Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping (...

This paper presents an inventory of the water resources stored in reservoir in south Italy where drought phenomena and competition for water are more evident. Starting from this database, the PISA neural model was applied to estimate the annual loss of water storing capacity of all large dams located in Southern Italy. From this quantity, it was qu...

This paper presents an inventory of the water resources stored in reservoir in south Italy where drought phenomena and competition for water are more evident. Starting from this database, the neural model PISA was applied for estimating the annual loss of water storing capacity of all large dams presents in southern Italy. From this quantity, it wa...

In the framework of MONIDRI (Development of DSS on water use monitoring and optimisation, based on the integration of calculation and evaluation models) research project (financed on the basis of Italian research Ministry strategic program), the authors investigated the potentiality offered from the Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping (ALTM) to retrieve...

In the framework of MONIDRI (Development of DSS on water use monitoring and optimisation, based on the integration of calculation and evaluation models) research project (financed on the basis of Italian research Ministry strategic program), two Airborne remote sensing sensors have been experimented. The Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI...