Building Synergistic Agricultural Systems Through Soil Health-Centered Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 214
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil; water; nutrient management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil health has emerged as a central framework for improving agricultural productivity while addressing environmental sustainability, climate resilience, and ecosystem services. This Special Issue, Building Synergistic Agricultural Systems through Soil Health-Centered Management, aims to highlight research and practice that integrate soil health principles into diverse cropping and farming systems to enhance system-level performance.
We invite contributions that explore how soil health–centered strategies—such as organic amendments, cover cropping, reduced tillage, crop diversification, biological inputs, integrated nutrient management, and integrated pest management (IPM)—can work together to create synergies among soil, plant, microbial, and environmental processes. Studies may address agronomic productivity, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, water dynamics, pest and disease regulation, and environmental outcomes, as well as economic and management implications for farmers.
This Special Issue welcomes field-based, laboratory, modeling, and participatory research, along with case studies and synthesis papers. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work that connects soil health indicators to crop performance, ecosystem services, and long-term system resilience. By bringing together research across scales and production systems, this Special Issue seeks to advance practical and science-based pathways for building resilient, productive, and environmentally responsible agricultural systems through soil health–centered management.
Dr. Jehangir Bhadha
Dr. Nan Xu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agronomy is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- soil health
- sustainable agriculture
- agroecosystem resilience
- nutrient cycling
- carbon sequestration
- integrated pest management (IPM)
- soil biology
- crop diversification
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue policies can be found here.
