Agrivoltaics as a Sustainable Strategy to Enhance Food Security Under Water Scarcity DOI Creative Commons
Aurelia Scarano, Lorenzo Maria Curci, Teodoro Semeraro

et al.

Horticulturae, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(4), P. 401 - 401

Published: April 10, 2025

Agrivoltaic offers a promising solution to integrate photovoltaic energy production with ongoing agricultural activities. This research investigates the impact of agrivoltaic on food security, using transdisciplinary approach study responses crop in terms biomass and quality produced. Mainly chicory plants were grown full sunlight (control plot) shade plots generated by potential panels. Two water regimes (high low supply) used analyze variations security both plots. The results showed that systems effectively mitigate stress caused high temperatures heat waves, improving increasing preserving quality. While previous has attributed benefits agrivoltaics primarily improved soil moisture, this demonstrates positive effects are driven differences light intensity air temperature between shaded control have strong implications for resource management, showing can reduce use approximately 50% compared traditional agroecosystems without compromising security. Agrivoltaics address challenges scarcity due declining rainfall costs associated use. Properly designed offer cleaner, more sustainable alternative practices, helping adapt agriculture climate change.

Language: Английский

Agrivoltaics as a Sustainable Strategy to Enhance Food Security Under Water Scarcity DOI Creative Commons
Aurelia Scarano, Lorenzo Maria Curci, Teodoro Semeraro

et al.

Horticulturae, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(4), P. 401 - 401

Published: April 10, 2025

Agrivoltaic offers a promising solution to integrate photovoltaic energy production with ongoing agricultural activities. This research investigates the impact of agrivoltaic on food security, using transdisciplinary approach study responses crop in terms biomass and quality produced. Mainly chicory plants were grown full sunlight (control plot) shade plots generated by potential panels. Two water regimes (high low supply) used analyze variations security both plots. The results showed that systems effectively mitigate stress caused high temperatures heat waves, improving increasing preserving quality. While previous has attributed benefits agrivoltaics primarily improved soil moisture, this demonstrates positive effects are driven differences light intensity air temperature between shaded control have strong implications for resource management, showing can reduce use approximately 50% compared traditional agroecosystems without compromising security. Agrivoltaics address challenges scarcity due declining rainfall costs associated use. Properly designed offer cleaner, more sustainable alternative practices, helping adapt agriculture climate change.

Language: Английский

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