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Hayo M.G. van der Werf is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to the study of sustainability in agriculture and its environmental impacts.

The main fields of their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, van der Werf's research engages various subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their scholarly output addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Van der Werf has published extensively in several journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Agronomy for Sustainable Development
  • Agricultural Systems
  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Data in Brief

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Towards better representation of organic agriculture in life cycle assessment," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review," 2023, Agronomy for Sustainable Development
  • "Integrating agri-environmental indicators, ecosystem services assessment, life cycle assessment and yield gap analysis to assess the environmental sustainability of agriculture," 2022, Ecological Indicators
  • "Beyond agroecology: Agricultural rewilding, a prospect for livestock systems," 2022, Agricultural Systems
  • "Conventionalised vs. agroecological practices on organic vegetable farms: Investigating the influence of farm structure in a bifurcation perspective," 2021, Agricultural Systems

Throughout their career, van der Werf has collaborated frequently with certain co-authors:

  • Christel Cederberg
  • Aymeric Mondière
  • Michael S. Corson
  • Marie Trydeman Knudsen
  • Antonin Pépin

Best Publications

  • Assessing the impact of pesticides on the environment

    Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • Evaluation of the environmental impact of agriculture at the farm level: a comparison and analysis of 12 indicator-based methods

    Hayo M.G van der Werf;Jean Petit

  • Scenario-based environmental assessment of farming systems: the case of pig production in France

    Claudine Basset-Mens;Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • Environmental impact assessment for a farming region: a review of methods

    Sylvain Payraudeau;Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • Indicators: Tools to Evaluate the Environmental Impacts of Farming Systems

    Philippe Girardin;Christian Bockstaller;Hayo Van der Werf

  • Towards better representation of organic agriculture in life cycle assessment

    Hayo M. G. van der Werf;Marie Trydeman Knudsen;Christel Cederberg

  • An indicator of pesticide environmental impact based on a fuzzy expert system

    Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Christophe Zimmer

  • Environmental Impact Assessment of Salmonid Feeds Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

    Elias Papatryphon;Jean Petit;Sadasivam J. Kaushik;Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • Variability in environmental impacts of Brazilian soybean according to crop production and transport scenarios.

    Vamilson Prudêncio da Silva;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Airton Spies;Sebastião Roberto Soares

  • An operational method for the evaluation of resource use and environmental impacts of dairy farms by life cycle assessment

    Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Claver Kanyarushoki;Michael S. Corson;Michael S. Corson

  • Environmental assessment tools for the evaluation and improvement of European livestock production systems

    Niels Halberg;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Claudine Basset-Mens;Randi Dalgaard

  • Soil quality in Life Cycle Assessment: Towards development of an indicator

    Emmanuelle Garrigues;Emmanuelle Garrigues;Michael S. Corson;Michael S. Corson;Denis A. Angers;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • The environmental impacts of the production of hemp and flax textile yarn

    Hayo van der Werf;Léa Pauliina Turunen

  • Environmental impacts of farm scenarios according to five assessment methods

    Hayo M.G. van der Werf;John Tzilivakis;Kathy Lewis;Claudine Basset-Mens

  • Environmental impacts of French and Brazilian broiler chicken production scenarios: an LCA approach.

    Vamilson Prudêncio da Silva;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Sebastião Roberto Soares;Michael S. Corson;Michael S. Corson

  • The environmental impacts of the production of concentrated feed: the case of pig feed in Bretagne

    Hayo M.G. van der Werf;Jean Petit;Joost Sanders

  • Assessment of potential impacts of agricultural practices on the environment

    Philippe Girardin;Christian Bockstaller;Hayo Van der Werf

  • Environmental impacts of plant-based salmonid diets at feed and farm scales

    Joachim Boissy;Joël Aubin;Abdeljalil Drissi;Hayo M.G. van der Werf

  • Life Cycle Assessment for environmentally sustainable aquaculture management: a case study of combined aquaculture systems for carp and tilapia

    Rattanawan Mungkung;Rattanawan Mungkung;Rattanawan Mungkung;Joël Aubin;Joël Aubin;Tri Heru Prihadi;Jacques Slembrouck

  • Life Cycle analysis of field production of fibre hemp, the effect of production practices on environmental impacts

    Hayo M. G. van der Werf

  • Environmental evaluation of transfer and treatment of excess pig slurry by life cycle assessment.

    Santiago Lopez-Ridaura;Santiago Lopez-Ridaura;Hayo M.G. Van Der Werf;Jean-Marie Paillat;Bertrand Le Bris

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Doreau
Michel Doreau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christian Walter
Christian Walter Institut Agro, France
Sadasivam Kaushik
Sadasivam Kaushik University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Patrick Durand
Patrick Durand Institut Agro, France
Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shabbir H. Gheewala
Shabbir H. Gheewala King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Luc Delaby
Luc Delaby Institut Agro, France
Maguy Eugène
Maguy Eugène INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bertrand Dumont
Bertrand Dumont University of Clermont Auvergne
Philippe Faverdin
Philippe Faverdin Institut Agro, France

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