Balancing Agriculture Production and Environmental Performance by Optimizing Cropping Patterns
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovative Cropping Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 November 2026 | Viewed by 198
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Interests: plant production; conservation agriculture; sustainable soil management; weed agroecology; cropping system ecology
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Interests: plant nutrition; fertilization; sustainable soil management; conservation agriculture; carbon sequestration
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Interests: soil pedology and fertility; crop nutrition and biofortification; sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture; intercropping systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture is currently focused on achieving a balance between sustainable productivity and environmental performance. Growing concerns about soil degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and resource use efficiency have increasingly highlighted the need for more sustainable approaches. Optimizing cropping patterns—including diversified rotations, cover crops, and conservation tillage—has become a key strategy for improving both productivity and environmental performance within modern agroecosystems.
This Special Issue aims to address innovative concepts and practices that support the balance between agricultural production and environmental sustainability. It focuses on the optimization of cropping systems as a pathway toward resilient, climate-smart, and resource-efficient agriculture.
We welcome interdisciplinary research focused on sustainable cropping systems, agroecology, and environmental performance assessment. Novel sustainable methodologies, modeling approaches, long-term experiments, and comprehensive analyses of cropping systems are particularly encouraged.
Original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, and case studies examining sustainable cropping practices, soil and ecosystem health, resource efficiency, and environmental impact assessment are invited.
Dr. Bojana Brozović
Prof. Dr. Boris Đurđević
Dr. Vladimir Zebec
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable agriculture
- cropping systems
- environmental performance
- cropping pattern optimization
- conservation agriculture
- climate-smart agriculture
- resource use efficiency
- sustainable productivity
- soil health
- crop rotations
- intercropping
- phytoremediation
- agricultural biodiversity
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