Sustainable Agricultural Land Management: Co-benefits and Challenges in 21st Century
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2022) | Viewed by 29073
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trans-disciplinary research in the land-based sector; role of regenerative agriculture in sustainable food supplies and reversing biodiversity decline, reducing meteorological risk and adapting to climate change; development and implementation of innovative rural development and agri-environment policy; nature of partnerships and knowledge exchange in landscape scale initiatives, shared resources, collective action and managing shared resources around the globe
Interests: sustainable production systems and the impact of environmental stresses on crop production; special focus on fertiliser use and efficiency in cropping systems; soil–crop interactions, including the role of soil organic matter and soil bacteria in improving the availability of soil nutrients to crops; multiple benefits of cropping and management options for sustaining yields and enhancing environmental sustainability
Interests: sustainable and resilient agricultural systems; use of modelling and data combination to improve holistic understanding of agricultural production and its environmental impacts; understanding trade-offs between different objectives in agricultural systems and how they can be reconciled to improve the sustainability and resilience of the sector; landscape-scale approaches to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems and mechanisms to stimulate, support and maintain such approaches
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture is a dominant land use in most countries, requiring and impacting on multiple natural resources (soil, biodiversity, water, etc.). New research and experimentation continues to reveal the level of integration and interconnections between agricultural management and the surrounding environment including effects on other land uses such as forestry, energy and urban development. A range of frameworks are being developed to include this new knowledge of interactions to assess agricultural sustainability more holistically. Yet it is clear that this is challenging due to the complexity of interconnections. The context and spatial scale of different agricultural systems also leads to contrasts that make a universal definition of sustainable agriculture challenging. Still, robust and consistent approaches would allow comparisons between systems and open up opportunities to improve sustainability at a larger scale. This special issue focuses on defining sustainable agricultural land management (SALM) in terms of its impact on multiple natural resources, taking account of context and spatial scale. The issue will identify best practice examples of SALM ready for upscaling; present new frameworks, methods and principles to evaluate SALM; and highlight key knowledge gaps and future research agendas.
Assoc. Prof. Chris Short
Prof. Dr. John Hammond
Dr. Lindsay Todman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable
- agriculture
- production
- climate change
- land management
- landscape
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