Nano-Enabled Strategies for Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2024 | Viewed by 332
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is projected that global populations will further increase by one-third by 2050 and as such will require a 70% increase in food production compared to current output. Feeding so many people using limited natural resources (land, water, and soil), and in the face of declining soil quality, is a grand challenge that the agriculture sector today is facing. These challenges require an urgent alteration of the current agriculture. Sustainable agriculture helps the environment, but there are concerns about its efficiency. Various nano-enabled strategies are proposed to improve crop production and meet the growing global demands for food, feed, and fuel while practising sustainable agriculture. Therefore, nano-enabled agriculture is a potential efficient and sustainable agriculture. However, there is a general lack of understanding of the deep mechanisms behind nanomaterials that improve crop growth under biotic and abiotic stress or nanotechnology that helps agricultural and environmental sustainability. To explore this important topic, we are assembling a Special Issue of Agriculture to encourage researchers to publish their novel studies on the topic “Nano-Enabled Strategies for Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability”.
This Special Issue focuses on the role of nanotechnology in agricultural and environmental sustainability, which broadly includes (but is not limited to) nano-fertilizers and nano-pesticides/fungicides/herbicides that help crop growth, nanotechnology that assists agricultural waste treatment, nanomaterials for environmental remediation, and nano-biosensors for soil–plant systems. Original research articles, communications, and reviews are accepted.
Prof. Dr. Chun Song
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nano-fertilizers
- nano-pesticides
- nano-fungicides
- nano-biosensors
- sustainable agriculture
- environmental remediation
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