Transforming AgriFood Systems under a Changing Climate
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Biosystem and Biological Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 21756
Special Issue Editors
2. Institut National de Recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE), Villenave-d'Ornon, France
Interests: climate mitigation and adaptation; biogeochemical modeling; ecohydrological modeling; crop productivity and biophysical environment; remote sensing & geoinformatics
Interests: digital augmentation for sustainable intensification; excellence in agroforestry; agroecology; system approach for agri-food system transformation; green economic transition; functional agroecosystems; trees outside forests
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Global agriculture is highly vulnerable to a changing climate especially in resource-limited and climate-dependent (e.g. rainfed) contexts. Agriculture remains the livelihood of small holder farmers in most of the developing nations and the agri-food systems remain fragile. Climate change induced vulnerability on agrifood systems has a strong impact on increasing socio-economic challenges as well. Therefore, a radical agrifood transformation is necessary. A dedicated compendium of knowledge products focused on this domain is limited. This special issue of Agronomy is specifically dedicated to addressing transformational perspective of the agri-food systems in resource limited contexts under a changing climate. All the papers need to have that spirit rather than the routine type of study. Thus, the papers need to explicitly discuss how their research studies, tools, technology, etc. contribute or has potential to contribute to agri-food transformation under climate and land use changes. We invite contributions that address the topic at all scales (plot, farm, landscape, and regional). Some example topics are (but not limited to):
- Integrated and system level solutions for agronomic and agro-ecological gains.
- Studies on soil and water for sustainable intensification.
- Studies on enhancing land and crop water productivities.
- Systems modeling (agronomic gains, vulnerability assessment, identifying adaptation options, foresight breeding).
- Approaches to achieving climate smart agronomy (Bigdata, ICTs, enabling environments).
- Studies on digital advisories and early warning systems (digital augmentation, platforms and applications).
- Crop diversification and crop–livestock–tree mixture.
- Studies on reducing (or reversing) land degradation and desertification.
- Studies on spatial modeling and geospatial studies on agriculture.
- Studies on socioeconomic and ecological issues affecting agriculture.
We encourage all forms of knowledge contributions such as research articles, reviews, short communications, technical notes and opinion papers. We look forward to receiving your submissions to this special issue.
Dr. Ajit Govind
Dr. Chandrashekhar M. Biradar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate adaptation in agroecosystems by enhancing water productivity at all scales
- Decarbonization of agroecosystems (carbon sequestration and reducing GHG fluxes)
- Designing early warning systems and advisories towards enhancing climate smartness
- Development of digital tools (ICTs) in agricultural and AgriFood transformation and NRM
- Capacity development in climate adaptation and mitigation in global drylands
- Fostering multi-institutional dialogues in large climate initiatives
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: ‘Does the availability of specific agri-equipment influence cropping system design? Shifting the focus from crop to soil'
Author: Kefi
Highlights: -legume crops can provide best trade-off between crop diversification and reduction of energy consumption
-lack of suited implements can be a limiting factor for their cultivation
-by a key informant approach, we aimed at an overview of the different perspectives within the agricultural equipment sector
-soil conservation practices emerged as the real issue for agri-equipment development