Agricultural Strategies for Food and Environmental Security
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2024 | Viewed by 465
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food security involves ensuring that there is enough affordable food available for everyone to maintain their health. Environmental security involves ensuring the safety of the environment in which people live in the context of sustainable development. In the whole world, particularly in developing countries like China, extensive agricultural practices have been harmful to both food and environmental security.
Thus, scientific and effective agricultural strategies are highly crucial for ensuring food and environmental security. In terms of a single country, agricultural strategies for food and environmental security could be analyzed with a focus on the issues of food policy, agricultural technology, and the application of new-type agricultural technologies (e.g., biotechnology, digital technology). From an international perspective, attention should be paid to the cooperation that promotes synergistic progress in international agricultural development and environmental conservation.
This Special Issue welcome submissions focusing on agricultural strategies used for food and environmental security in terms of food policy, agricultural technology extension, the adoption of biotechnology, digital and smart agriculture, and agrochemical reduction. The detailed topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Determinants, measures, and strategies for agrochemical reduction;
- Strategies for reforming agricultural extension systems and developing socialized agricultural services;
- Strategies for biotechnology development and adoption;
- Sustainability and strategies for effective land use;
- Food policy;
- Strategies for managing agricultural non-point source pollution;
- Strategies for digital and smart agriculture development;
- International cooperation for food and environmental security.
Dr. Chao Zhang
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- agrochemical
- agricultural extension
- biotechnology
- land use
- food policy
- non-point source pollution
- digital and smart agriculture
- international cooperation
