Advanced Research on Agriculture and Food Systems Landscape towards Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

The world’s challenges of population growth, climate change, natural resource degradation and food insecurity highlight an urgent to rethink agriculture and food systems to make them resilient and sustainable and to achieve equitable and inclusive development.  Therefore, strategies and trans-disciplinary and innovative actions have to adapt to improve agriculture and food systems, with the aim to contribute to sustainability goals such as social well-being, ecosystem health, and food and nutrition security.

This Special Issue of Sustainability will address topics relevant to the agri-food sector, from targeted measures in specific production chain processes to more integrated solutions aimed at organizational changes throughout the entire value chain. Articles that assess the sustainability implications (agronomic, environmental, nutritional, economic, and social impacts or benefits) of the implementation of such technologies and innovations are also encouraged.

The main research topics include:

• Sustainable agriculture and agroecology;
• Sustainable natural resource management;
• Sustainable food supply chain technologies or management;
• Environmental, social, and economic benefits;
• Landscape protection;
• Land use planning for sustainable agriculture;
• Planning for sustainable food systems;
• Sustainable food production and transformation;
• Artificial Intelligence and smart technologies in sustainable development;
• Bio-economy and circular economy;
• Bio-waste valorization, recovery, and reuse;
• Waste reduction strategies;
• Sustainable business model innovation;
• Agricultural policies;
• Rural development;
• Food security;
• Social well-being.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and review articles, as well as theoretical and experimental research articles.

Dr. Tiziana Amoriello
Guest Editor

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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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.