**About the Editors**

**Stefano Bocchi** is a Full Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems at the Department of Environment Science and Policy, State University of Milan, Italy. As a Visiting Scientist at the Agronomy Department University of California, Davis, IRRI – Philippines, and Wageningen University, he developed research projects on cereals, forage crops, agro-food systems analysis, and management. He is a teacher in several graduate and undergraduate courses of agronomy, agroecology, agro-food systems, foodshed management, landscape agronomy, tropical crops, and organic farming; member of the scientific board of the Ph.D. program in agro-ecology; director of the "Geomatic Lab for Agriculture and Environment" for agricultural and cropping system analysis, biodiversity, forest and pasture inventories, use and application of GIS tools for natural and agricultural resource analysis; Director of CICSAA Inter-University Centre for International Cooperation for Agro-food systems development; team research leader in several projects on farming system analysis and management, both at national and international level. He has been involved in several projects for international cooperation in Albania, Brasil, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leon, and Tanzania. He is the delegate of the Dean for sustainability. He is the author of more than 170 scientific papers and a Board Member of various scientific societies. He was the scientific curator of the Biodiversity Park in EXPO 2015.

**Francesca Orlando** was a researcher at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy (University of Milan) and then at the Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (University of Brescia). During her work, she addressed different aspects of the integrated assessment of sustainability in agriculture. She obtained her degree in Agricultural Science, and a Ph.D. in Climatology and Soil Science, from the University of Florence. She is an expert in agronomy and soil science, with a focus on the impacts and benefits of the agricultural practices belonging to conservative agriculture, precision farming, and organic farming. During her career, she studied the implications of different crop management methods and climate and micro-climate trends in chemical, physical, and biological soil fertility, as well as on the quality and quantity of the productions. She was involved in many national and international projects and was WP leader of 3 projects concerning precision farming and organic farming for rice. She has given numerous presentations at international conferences and published about 30 papers focused on the performance and efficacy of innovative techniques and tools in agriculture, aimed to optimize input use and reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture on natural resources, such as soil.
