Sustainable Crop Production Intensification
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2017) | Viewed by 109648
Special Issue Editor
Interests: abiotic and biotic plant stress; climate adaptation and mitigation; conservation agriculture; precision farming; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable agriculture integrates the concepts of continuing improvement in agriculture productivity, profitability, and competitiveness by sustainable management of natural resources. One the eve of declining natural resources, changing climate and increasing food demands, the shift from the existing intensive production system to a more sustainable system needs to be an evolving and continuing process. Intertwining challenges of climate change and competition for land, water and energy require attention in the following areas: bridging the gap between actual and potential productivity levels in the agriculture of developing countries; investing in agricultural innovation, broadly defined; and improving national and international research co-operation. For multi-objective optimization, a set of soil-crop-nutrient-water-landscape system management practices, known as Conservation Agriculture (CA), has the potential to achieve all of these goals. CA has the potential for managing decreasing soil productivity and improving the resource-use efficiency and the natural resources base. Hence, it adapts to and mitigates climate change and leads to a more efficient use of inputs to reduce production costs. The integrated approach to Sustainable Crop Production Intensification with adoption of Conservation Agriculture practices, represent a new conceptual issue on Ecosystem ‘Functions’ and ‘Services’ for the predominant sustainable farming systems.
Manuscripts (reviews, perspectives, or original articles) are invited, and may include, but are not limited to, these topics:
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the major challenges and developments in sustainable agriculture research;
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intensification crop production for sustainable agriculture;
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develop environmentally and profitable food production systems;
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ecological sustainability of farming systems;
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innovations for improving efficiency and rationale use of natural resources;
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technological options and new areas of research for Sustainable Crop Production Intensification;
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Conservation Agriculture practices for Ecosystem ‘Functions’ and ‘Services’.
Prof. Dr. Michele Pisante
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable agriculture research
- Crop Production Intensification
- Improving efficiency use of natural resource
- Adapting to climate change
- Soil-crop-nutrient-water-landscape management
- Conservation Agriculture
- Ecosystem Functions and Services
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