Sustainable Food and Energy Plant Production
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 369
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable plant production; environment protection; circular plant production; waste as fertilizers; macrophytes; algae
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the greatest problems in the world economy is increasing food and energy consumption, which in the face of insufficient conditions of changing climate and the need to limit the use of fossil fuels forces the development of new, high-performance technologies of sustainable production of plants convertible into food and energy. For this reason, research is necessary to select plants with high potential yield and to develop their production technologies, which will be friendly to environment. This applies to the production of arable plants, algae, and aquatic plants whose biomass can be an effective source in the food and energy industry. In the face of increasing environmental pollution, it is necessary to develop new guidelines for the sustainable and economic production of these plants and obtain food and energy from them in a closed system, using the resulting waste in the next cultivation cycle as an alternative to artificial fertilizers and chemical media.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the realization of sustainable production in the closed cycle of food and energy plants, algae, and macrophytes by increasing scientific and multidisciplinary knowledge and implementing it into practice to improve the efficiency of the food and energy economy and to protect the environment against global pollution. Therefore, we invite articles on innovative methods of sustainable and friendly to environment production of plants convertible into food and energy.
Dr. Zdzisława Romanowska-Duda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- closed cycle of food and energy production
- sustainable biomass production
- algae
- water macrophytes
- waste as fertilizers
- environment protection
- energy crops
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