Advanced Research on Agroecological Weed Management

Dear Colleagues,

Agroecology is one of the most rapidly developing scientific disciplines worldwide. It has the potential to introduce sustainability and protect agroecosystems, local communities, and value chains from climate change, biodiversity loss, and biological invasions. Combined with the need to find alternatives for weed management, agroecological weed management is the vision for enhancing agroecological transitions, reducing chemical inputs, and protecting nature.

This Special Issue (SI) aims to gather reliable information and experiences from around the world on agroecological transitions and sustainable weed management based on agroecological approaches. The SI is open to research articles, opinions, reviews, and perspectives. 

Welcome topics include, but are not limited to, the following three pillars of agroecology:

Science

• Ecosystem services–climate change–biodiversity and agroecology;
• The future of weed science in an agroecological context;
• Improving AWM through robotics, UAV, deep learning, artificial intelligence, multispectral sensors, and decision support systems;
• The agroecological management of invasive alien plants and the impact of plant invasions on agroecological transitions.

Practice

• Validated agroecological weed management practices, methods, and strategies;
• Barriers and enablers of agroecological transition (at the farm, landscape, regional, country, and global scales);
• Novel approaches for the management of weeds (e.g., cultural practices, alternative weed management such as bioherbicides, new technologies, crop competitiveness);
• Crop diversification.

Movement

• Indigenous and local knowledge/practices;
• Policies supporting the agroecological transition;
• Agroecology in society and agri-food value chains;
• Grassroots movements and scientific projects on agroecology.

Dr. Alexandros Tataridas
Prof. Dr. Helena Freitas
Dr. Ilias Travlos
Guest Editors

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