State of the Art in Agriculture in Rural Areas: For Sustainable Land Management, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 589
Special Issue Editors
Interests: farmland protection and food security; cultivated land fragmentation governance and land consolidation; rural land reform and rural revitalization
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Interests: sustainable land resource use; farmland protection and food security; land space governance and decision making
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Interests: integrated urban-rural development; rural sustainability and spatial governance; land use policy; land economics
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Interests: quality; supply chain; environment; technology; management science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Increasingly uncertain and complex political (geo-conflict), natural (climate warming), and public health (COVID-19) environments pose a series of severe challenges to global food security. Ensuring future food system stability and realizing sustainable agricultural resource utilization has become the top priority for survival and development. Rural areas shoulder important responsibilities for agricultural production, and the explosive growth of population and cities has seriously threatened production space. This has prompted scientists to actively call for coordinating man–land–food systems to improve agriculture resilience and achieve sustainable development in rural areas. Notably, agricultural land systems are still transitioning, and farmland form, structure, function, and management in countries/regions are all significantly different. There is an urgent need for a conceptual knowledge graph for solving agricultural land use issues to help scholars to understand rural revitalization and provide references for sustainable land management.
This Special Issue will collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that give insights about sustainable agriculture land management strategies in rural areas, as well as link land system science with interdisciplinary technical methods. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Rural development and agriculture land use policy;
- Farmland protection, utilization, and consolidation;
- Livelihood response to changes in planting structure;
- Sustainable livelihood and rural revitalization;
- Urbanization stress on rural agriculture;
- Rural land optimization constrained by food security;
- low-carbon farmland uses and modern agriculture;
- Resilience of rural and farmland systems.
The research topic is oriented towards the resilience improvement of rural land systems, involving macro policies, local evidence, environmental effects, social responses, etc. We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Bangbang Zhang
Dr. Xinyuan Liang
Dr. Lulu Qu
Prof. Dr. Christian Madu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- farmland
- intensification
- resilience
- rural
- livelihood
- policy
- optimization
- interdisciplinary
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