Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Agroecosystems: Challenges to Meet the 2030 Agenda

Dear Colleagues, 

Climate change, population growth, and the increasing demand for natural resources (food) have threatened the stability of agriculture and people's well-being. Phenomena such as rising temperatures, droughts, pests and diseases, and the impacts of extreme weather events have continuously decreased the resilience of agroecosystems. It is thus needed to strengthen a vision that promotes biodiversity conservation, ecological functions, and the multiple services agricultural landscapes provide.

It is urgent to speed up an effective agroecological transition and the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals as a whole, and SDG13 (climate action) in particular. This requires the engagement of different actors (e.g., farmers, scientists, entrepreneurs, managers, politicians, and other stakeholders) in the co-production of knowledge and co-design of sustainable solutions.

This Special Issue aims to provide reliable information from around the world on research, education, innovation, and management practices that encourage the transition to more sustainable and resilient agroecosystems in an increasingly critical climate change context.

Researchers are invited to submit papers on the following potential topics:

• Agroecology and sustainability;
• Ecosystem services;
• Barriers and enablers of agroecological transition (at the global, regional, and local scales);
• Biodiversity and ecological functions;
• Traditional and local knowledge/practices;
• Multi-actor approaches and participatory dynamics;
• Agroecosystems' adaptation to climate change;
• Water management in agricultural systems;
• Policies supporting the agroecological transition;
• Multifunctional agricultural landscapes.

Dr. Paula Castro
Prof. Dr. Helena Freitas
Dr. Joana Costa
Guest Editors

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• agroecological transition
• sustainability and resilience to climate change
• biodiversity conservation
• ecosystem services
• SDG goals