Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 35508
Special Issue Editor
Interests: irrigation and drainage engineering; agricultural drought and water resource management; drought monitoring, mitigation, planning, and policy; risk and vulnerability management; remote sensing for drought monitoring and management; soil moisture and hydrologic/watershed modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is a significant and growing threat to food security, already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries and expected to affect an ever-increasing number of people across more areas in the future unless immediate action is taken. Therefore, adaptation strategies need to be developed and tested to compensate for the negative impact of climate change on cropping systems.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines food security as a ‘‘situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life’’.
Climate change affects agriculture and food production in complex ways. It affects food production directly through changes in agroecological conditions and indirectly by affecting growth and distribution of incomes and, thus, demand for agricultural produce. Impacts have been quantified in numerous studies and under various sets of assumptions.
This Special Issue will focus on “Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security”. We welcome novel research, reviews and opinion pieces covering all related topics, including climate change and adaptation, mitigation, drought, evapotranspiration, crop water requirements, remote sensing, water use efficiency, soil moisture, crop yield gap and loss, management solutions, modeling, case-studies from the field, and policy positions.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Won-Ho Nam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change and adaptation
- Drought Evapotranspiration
- Crop water requirements
- Crop modeling
- Remote sensing
- Food security
- Water use efficiency
- Soil moisture
- Crop yield gap and loss
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