Strategizing Agricultural Management for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2022) | Viewed by 47144
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nitrogen diagnosis; soil health; plant and soil nutrient management; drought; nitrogen-water interactions; sustainable cropping system; food security; climate change
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Interests: biogeochemistry; GHGs; C-sequestration; stable isotopes; soil-microbial interactions; biochar; climate smart agriculture
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Interests: agroclimatology; climate change impact assessment; crop-environment interaction; agroecology; cropping system; plant nutrition; food security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last five decades, advancements in agriculture have made it possible to fulfill the global food, feed, and fiber demands of the highest ever world human population. However, maintaining the supply for the continuously increasing population is challenging due to extensive urbanization, drastic land degradation, and climate change. The latter is potentially the scariest threat of the 21st century for global food security, considering its detrimental effects on agricultural production. Global climate change has seriously affected agricultural production, while on the other hand, agriculture itself is continuously contributing to climate change through the increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases. The urge for new inventions in agricultural technologies and management was never before as it is today to balance agricultural production and associated climate effects. Hence, changes in agriculture management are essential to cope with the challenges of maintaining the continuous increase in agricultural production, enhancing the resilience of crop production to climate change, and ensuring progress in climate change mitigation. However, the success of agricultural management-based climate change adaptation and mitigation requires the development of simple, cost-effective, and broadly adaptable methods. Therefore, strategizing agricultural management is imperative for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
To understand how strategizing agricultural management can help in climate change adaptation and mitigating its effects on agricultural production, the significant increase in the contribution from the scientific community in this research arena would play a key role. This proposed Special Issue of Agronomy will raise awareness and stimulate research in this field, primarily focusing on how agricultural management could help in tackling climate change. In this issue, we welcome scientific work in all forms of articles (original research, method, opinion, and reviews) related to innovative and controversial technologies with the potential to initiate the debate among peers. Moreover, we particularly invite high-risk and novel methodologies-based studies that transcend disciplinary boundaries to capture the current advancements. The proposed Special Issue will foster an open discussion on the prospects of climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Papers are solicited on all areas directly related to these topics, including but not limited to:
- Improved crop management to increase soil carbon storage;
- Improved nitrogen fertilizer application techniques to reduce N2O emissions;
- Improved rice production technologies to reduce CH4 emissions;
- Improved manure management to reduce CH4 emissions;
- Improved irrigation and water-harvesting techniques;
- Improved crop varieties (early maturing, drought resistant, etc.);
- Changing planting dates;
- Incorporation of crop residues;
- Crop rotation;
- Mulch farming;
- Reduced or zero tillage;
- Use of cover crops;
- Intercropping with legumes;
- Appropriate use of plant nutrients;
- Restoration of degraded land;
- Promoting energy crops to replace fossil fuel use;
- Agroforestry;
- Recycling of bio-solids.
We hope you find the topic of this Special Issue interesting, and we look forward to your research contribution.
Dr. Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim
Dr. Saadatullah Malghani
Dr. Muhammad Ishaq Asif Rehmani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural management
- crop production
- cropping systems
- climate change
- climate-smart farming
- mitigation
- resilience
- adaptation
- greenhouse gas emissions
- synergies
- C-sequestration
- crop-environment interaction
- soil-microbial interactions
- agroclimatology
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