Enhancing the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agricultural Soils for Achieving Carbon Neutrality

Dear Colleagues,

Agricultural soils can mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and enhance soil sustainability, carbon sequestration in agricultural soils is an important way to reduce carbon emissions, achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate global climate change. Enhancing soil carbon sequestration through environmentally sound land/agronomic management practices has been recognized as an avenue for climate change adaptation, GHG mitigation, and food security. A deeper understanding for promoting practices that enhance the carbon sequestration potential in agricultural soils is an urgent and timely need to mitigate GHGs and achieve carbon neutrality for the sustainable development of agriculture.  

This Special Issue will be dedicated to publishing papers on enhancing soil C sequestration and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils to achieve C neutrality. This topic is within the scope of Agronomy, which is suitable for publishing cross-disciplinary international academic papers on agronomy and agroecology.

For this Special Issue, we welcome original research and review articles that address the biogeochemical, environmental, agronomic management and climate impacts of agricultural systems, including but not limited to carbon sequestration, GHG mitigation and the assessment of soil carbon sequestration potential.

Dr. Hanqing Yu
Guest Editor

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