Sustainable Crop Systems and Agricultural Products for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable agricultural practices are crucial for targeting adaptation to climate change. The proposed solutions to climate change resilience currently include regenerative or organic farming and eco-innovations that enable us to address the challenges that arise in the agricultural sector and the food security system. These emerging environmental realities entail an urgent need for sustainably managing natural resources and optimizing the current models of agriculture. Considering the increasing unpredictability of crop yield, issues relevant to water resource management and effective wastewater treatment methods have also arisen.

Under the perspective of new agronomic and environmental challenges, new research trends are being developed that focus on innovative technologies and practices, as well as concepts that could change the current perception of agriculture. In this respect, questions around how to produce food by environmentally friendly, ethical, efficient, and climate-resilient methods should be addressed.

For this Special Issue, we welcome interdisciplinary research based on scientific approaches to the important problems of sustainable agriculture and plant science, in terms of global climate changing, including the following: laboratory experiments; new theories and methods within plant science and innovative products and technologies; designing and modeling processes for sustainable crop production; development and environment management; case studies; and field experiments that examine critical approaches to the sustainable valorization of eco-compatible products and methods.

This Special Issue aims to identify scientific approaches to the important problem of agriculture and environment sustainable development, which has a significant impact on the global population. We aim to identify both the benefits and the challenges of an agronomical, environmental, and ecological nature that determine the sustainable development of agriculture. Therefore, we encourage researchers dealing with natural, technical, or technological issues, as well as engineers, decision makers, and practitioners, to submit their work to this Special Issue.

Dr. Agnieszka Szparaga
Prof. Dr. Nedjoud Grara
Dr. Mahmood Ahmed
Dr. Sana Besnaci
Guest Editors

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