Ensuring Food Security in a Changing World
A special issue of Crops (ISSN 2673-7655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 5833
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food production systems; food security; soil productivity; weed management; herbicide resistance; molecular biology tools
Interests: agroecology; weed biology and ecology; weed management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrial farming has resulted in some unintended consequences including loss of soil quality, and the onset of super weeds that evolved to combat continuous herbicide sprays overtime in this changed farming system. The soil quality loss has led to degraded soils, which have in turn changed the vegetation on farmlands that are known to support invasive weeds. Consequently, these invasions have promoted the extensive use of chemical herbicides. The soil quality loss has also caused reduction in nutritional value of the food produced therein. Recent advances in technologies have provided us with tools to understand these aspects better.
With this Special Issue, we aim to shed light on the interconnectedness of loss of soil quality, productivity, food production ability of soils, loss of food quality, weed invasions and onset of herbicide resistance.
Aiming to collect cutting-edge research covering the most recent advancements in this field, this Special Issue welcomes studies that investigate molecular tools that assist in overcoming herbicide resistance, crop responses to food quality, and technologies that detect the changes in the soil since the introduction of industrial farming, tools to better support our soils and farming systems and enhance our food security through increased food production.
For this Special Issue, we welcome papers investigating soil–weed–crop interactions, advanced technologies assisting with emerging issues such as soil quality loss, herbicide resistance, food quality loss due to excessive fertilizer application, herbicide resistance and food security.
Dr. Razia S. Shaik
Prof. Dr. David Clements
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil quality
- weed management
- molecular biology tools
- food security
- gene technologies
- agronomy
- plant breeding
- food security
- international trade
- water management
- trade wars
- global supply chain management
