Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture is the anthropogenic activity with the largest area impact. As the population grows, so does the pressure to convert natural habitats to agroecosystems and to intensify our own agricultural production. The environmental impacts of agriculture are thus increasingly becoming more obvious, and there is increasing emphasis on reducing them and finding environmentally friendly procedures aimed at the sustainability of agricultural production and thus ensuring food self-sufficiency of mankind. This direction is reflected, for instance, under the schemes of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CPA), but it is also evident worldwide. For the successful development of agriculture aimed towards sustainability while maintaining the required level of production capacity, it is necessary to properly map, describe, and understand its impacts on all components of the environment, and to subsequently propose effective steps and measures to reduce the negative ones. In this direction, a number of extensive research activities are taking place, from which new outputs are constantly arising and within which existing knowledge is being updated.

The main objective of the Special Issue is to publish original works, review papers, etc., focused on categories of the sustainable agriculture, agroecological procedures, and environmental impacts of agriculture, and thus contribute to informing about current events in terms of the issues, as well as subsequently promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly practices of agriculture and related sectors.

Assoc. Prof.  Jan Moudrý
Guest Editor

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• sustainable agriculture
• agroecology
• environmental impacts of agriculture
• organic farming