Land-Based Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification: Challenges, Assessment and Best Management Practices
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 November 2023) | Viewed by 2488
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate impact; agricultural sustainability; applied GIS and remote sensing; risk management; applied AI
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Interests: interdisciplinary sciences; biophysical modelling; food security; environmental sustainability; remote sensing applications in agriculture; data analytics
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Interests: applied AI and deep learning; irrigation water demand; hydrology
Interests: agricultural crop modelling; atmospheric and hydrology; renewable and sustainable energy resources
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rising global demand for agricultural commodities for food, feed and bioenergy under a more variable and changing climate, efficient cropland use and management strategies are needed to boost the natural resource efficiency of agriculture. Indeed, producing more food in the same or even smaller areas, and per litre of water, while safeguarding the environment, requires continuous efforts in the form of more detailed and spatially explicit analyses to determine the realistic potential for increasing cropping intensity at different scales.
This Special Issue intends to discuss the current and potential challenges to sustainably intensify agriculture, and explore innovative approaches to assess such sustainable intensification, as well as best management practices to adapt to climate variability and change. We invite academics and practitioners to contribute reviews, research articles, case studies, or perspectives to this Special Issue.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Soil conservation and regeneration
- Efficiency of applied soil conservation techniques
- Land-based strategies for closing crop yield gaps
- Use of remote sensing derived information and artificial intelligence for land suitability assessment
- Sustainable intensification in small-scale and water conservation systems
Dr. Thong Nguyen-Huy
Dr. Louis Kouadio
Dr. Abul Masrur Ahmed
Dr. Mumtaz Ali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil conservation
- land suitability
- crop yield gaps
- agriculture intensification
- remote sensing
- artificial intelligence