Agronomic Pathways for Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Agricultural Production and for Improving Food Security
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 12303
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food economics; food security; consumer choice and wellbeing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agronomic approaches are an important part of the toolkit of initiatives, such as the EU Green Deal and US Climate Intelligence Partnership designed for mitigating the negative impacts of agricultural production and for improving food security. Agronomic approaches can also help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contribute to the FAO-defined sustainable food system.
Effective agronomic approaches for achieving the above goals require accelerated efforts to develop and disseminate agronomic technologies and practices which can increase the productivity of agriculture while reducing its environmental footprint. Two main pathways are generally followed: i) precision (smart or digital) farming, advanced cropping systems and organic farming, the smart management of crop–livestock and crop–soil interactions (resulting in substantial savings on inputs), a reduction in farm-related GHG emissions, and improvements in yields and quality; and ii) the development and application of new genomic techniques, exploiting the potential of biotechnology.
Considering the complexities and challenges posed by the cost-effective production of agricultural, aquacultural, and forestry commodities employing climate-smart practices, interdisciplinary research papers with a clear agronomic focus and applicability are invited to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Marian Rizov
Dr. Ivelin Rizov
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- agronomy
- new genomic techniques
- precision (smart or digital) farming
- sustainable food systems
- food security
- environmental footprint
- farm-related GHG emissions
- crop–livestock interaction
- crop–soil interaction