Agroforestry and Sustainable Agricultural Production

Dear Colleagues,

Our ability to feed the future world population with the current agriculture production practices is being questioned. Intensification has been the usual option of modern agriculture, but it still has a limited potential to meet the increasing food demand. In addition, it is known that the consequences of intensification are a loss of biodiversity, the decline of soil fertility, and the collapse of agroecosystem functions. There is a large consensus that innovative practices and more sustainable approaches of farming production are needed, but to what extent they have the potential to fill the yield gap is still unresolved.

This Special Issue aims to collect original contributions on innovative agroecological practices that seek to maximize productions as well as deliver multiple services to society, including biodiversity conservation. The issue places a special focus on agroforestry because of its known potential to deliver ecological benefits with a wide range of products and services. The themes of the Special Issue include monitoring of innovative systems, adoption of low-input technologies, restoration of soil productivity through enhanced water and nutrient efficiencies, farmers solutions to adopt agroecological changes, approaches to adapting and building resilience to climate change and application of ecological principles to agriculture.

Dr. Victor Rolo
Guest Editor

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