Jagadeesh Yeluripati1, Roberto Ferrise2, Bhim Bahadur Ghaley3, Lorenzo Brilli4, Jørgen Eivind Olesen5, Kirsten Schelde6, John Roy Porter7, Daniele Antichi8, Francesco Morari9, Domenico Ventrella10, Marco Bindi2 and Peter Smith11, (1)Information and Computational Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (3)Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)School of Agriculture, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (5)Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, (6)Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, (7)Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Taastrup, DENMARK, (8)Centre for Agro-Environmental Research Enrico Avanzi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, (9)Viale dell'Universita 16, University of Padua, Legnaro (Padova), ITALY, (10)Cropping Systems in Dry Environments, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - CREA-SCA, Bari, Italy, (11)Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences,, University of Aberdeen,, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom