Sustainable Food Landscapes: Agricultural Practices and Consumer Awareness

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to introduce our forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Land, entitled "Sustainable food landscapes: agricultural practices and consumer awareness". Sustainable food production should take advantage of current studies to promote sustainable development; however, a lack of education and a disconnect between actions and behaviour inhibits sustainable practices and devalues sustainable agriculture farming. Consumers need to learn how to approach sustainability holistically and understand the connection between their daily actions, climate change and soil degradation.

Faced with this challenge, we encourage submissions that address sustainable agricultural methods coupled with land use transformation research that addresses the linkages between rural and urban areas, sustainable food production, the valorisation of natural and cultural agricultural heritage through sustainable rural tourism, and the adoption of innovative and educational activities that impact consumer behaviour with regard to the protection and conservation of water, energy, food, materials, and the ecological nexus, explored using a range of formal and informal educational resources.  This not only helps to further enhance the theoretical system of land use transformation based on sustainable food, but also provides a new line of research regarding the sustainable behaviour of consumers to valorise sustainable agriculture and envisage an approximation of society to food systems.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts (original research articles and review papers) that link the following themes:

• Food system adapted to the prevention and control of land degradation.
• Food landscapes that valorize water and soil resources from the perspective of the SDGs.
• Making cultural landscapes and agricultural systems compatible.
• Agritourism, ecotourism and educational activities to link consumers and farmers.
• The role of urban farms, community and education gardens in food systems transitions.
• Circular economy as input to improve sustainability and regional development.
• Linkages between urban citizens and rural areas.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Dora I. R. Ferreira
Dr. Adélia de Jesus Nobre Nunes
Prof. Dr. J. M. Sánchez-Martín
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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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.

• sustainable food system
• agricultural system
• sustainable rural development
• agritourism
• food system
• education and awareness for sustainability
• sustainable consumption
• urban–rural food systems