Sustainable Agriculture with Innovative Technology and Equipment: Towards a Low-Carbon Era
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Bioenergy, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: life cycle assessment; remote sensing and GIS; carbon footprint; environmental impact assessment; agricultural low-carbon development; bioenergy
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Interests: agricultural robots; intelligent gardening robots
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Facing global warming and an increased demand for food supply, a sustainable agriculture system calls for innovative technologies. These advanced technologies meticulously monitor, report, and optimize energy usage, ensuring efficiency that minimizes environmental impact. At present, agricultural digitalization, intelligent agronomic robots, precise farming, and climate-smart farming aim towards resource utilization maximation and greenhouse gas emission reduction. To embrace a sustainable agriculture, we welcome papers on original studies, reviews, and case studies to address this issue. The submissions for this Special Issue on “Sustainable Agriculture with Innovative Technology and Equipment: Towards a Low-Carbon Era” thus include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Innovative technologies within agriculture/farming system;
- Robotics and drones for modern agriculture;
- Carbon footprint of agricultural system;
- Environmental service and impact assessments;
- Pathways to improve resource use efficiency;
- Scenarios modeling for sustainable agriculture/farming systems under climate change.
Dr. Xueqing Yang
Dr. Wei Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent agronomic equipment
- low-carbon and smart agriculture
- carbon footprint
- scenarios modelling
- sustainable agriculture
- agriculture/farming system
