Soil and Water Management and Conservation in Regenerative Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Regenerative agriculture (RA) has increasingly emerged as a promising, pragmatic, and holistic approach aimed at regenerating, restoring, or safeguarding essential agricultural resources (i.e., soil, water, biota, humans, and energy) to achieve sustainable agriculture. Despite the fact that a variety of researchers and practitioners perceive the definitions and descriptions of RA differently, a majority of RA practices are proposed as a solution towards sustainable agricultural production systems, with a growing emphasis on agricultural soil and water management, under the premise that these practices will restore and maintain soil health and fertility, protect water resources, improve climate resilience, support biodiversity, and enhance ecological and economic resilience. Scientific progress continues to advance our understanding of various soil and water management and conservation principles and practices to address challenges in RA, including soil health, water security and quality, food security, rising climate instability, and environmental sustainability.

Broadly, this Special Issue intends to cover the recent scientific developments in RA. This Special Issue aims primarily to identify knowledge gaps and research challenges in various important and challenging issues in soil and water management and conservation in RA to achieve more efficient use of soil and water resources in agriculture, mitigate the environmental and biodiversity impacts of agriculture, and strengthen the resilience and adaptation to climate change in agriculture. All contributions and article types (original research, reviews, technical notes, and communication) providing recent discoveries and new insights into various aspects of soil and water management and conservation in RA are encouraged. Theoretical, methodological, meta-analysis, modeling, and case study papers are welcome.

Dr. Sanjit Deb
Guest Editor

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• sustainable agriculture
• conservation agriculture
• organic agriculture
• soil health
• soil water
• soil amendments
• irrigation and water management
• agrohydrology
• cover crops and crop rotation
• conservation tillage
• soil organic matter
• carbon sequestration
• agrobiodiversity
• agroecology
• agroforestry
• climate-smart agriculture