Sustainable Agricultural Land Management towards a Net-Zero Pathway

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to introduce our forthcoming Special Issue of the Land journal, entitled "Sustainable Agricultural Land Management towards a Net-Zero Pathway". Agricultural land use systems play an important role in coping with climate change, ensuring nutrition and food security, providing key ecosystem services, and promoting environmentally sustainable development. Globally, agriculture and related land use change contributed approximately 17% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Among the large emerging economies (BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), agriculture alone contributes 18% of net greenhouse gas emissions. The world's major developed countries have realized the pressure and challenges that greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector bring to achieving global temperature control goals and have proposed Net-Zero plans. Rapid urbanization has accelerated the loss of agricultural land. Increasing crop yield is a crucial way to ensure food security when facing shrinking farmland and geopolitical situations. However, the increase in grain production relies heavily on the input of agricultural production materials such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which will intensify agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, exploring sustainable agricultural land management practices is significant in ensuring regional food security and achieving Net Zero.

This Special Issue aims to explore sustainable agricultural land management to achieve net-zero emissions and ensure food security, including related theories, methods, technologies, policies, and practices. We are also open to diverse methods (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed). The key thematic focus for submissions could include, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Sustainable agricultural land use;
• Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector;
• Agricultural land protection and management;
• Climate-smart agricultural policies;
• Agricultural land use efficiency;
• New technologies in agricultural systems for improving food security.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Ying Wang
Dr. Ou Wang
Dr. Xin Yang
Guest Editors

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• sustainable agricultural land use management
• greenhouse gas emissions mitigation
• food security
• climate change