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Editorial Board for section 'Sustainable Agriculture'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences—Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: standards for food chain; sustainability; technology for food assessment; food production plants; life cycle thinking approach; sustainability of new technology; foodservice technology; not destructive techniques for quality assessment

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Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: agriculture sustainability; effects of environmental changes on food production and quality; biotechnology; plant breeding

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Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: ruminant livestock production systems and value chains; responsible use of grazing livestock for resource management and poverty reduction; improved livelihoods through improved ruminant livestock production; conservation genetics of cattle and related species; holistic livestock breeding systems

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Department of Land, University of California, Davis, Berkeley, CA 95616, USA
Interests: irrigation water management; soil hydrology; soil physics; agricultural sustainability
Biogragh: Jan W. Hopmans is Professor of Vadose Zone Hydrology at the University of California, Davis. His research and teaching focuses on soil hydrology, irrigation water and nutrient management, and climate change impacts on California hydrology. He has about 200 peer-reviewed publications in soil science and water resources journals. He is Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was Chair of the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources and Chief Editor of Vadose Zone Journal. Since 2009, he is serving as Associate Dean for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), being Director of the CAES International Programs since 2015. He was the 2014 President of the Soil Science Society of America. He was Interim Associate Vice Provost of Global Affairs in 2015 and most recently served as the Interim Director of the UC Davis World Food Center in 2016. Since July 2018, he has retired from the University of California.
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Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: climate change adaptation, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, transformation, climate change governance, natural resource management

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Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Interests: redox sensitive metal chemistry in soil; remediation of metal contaminated soil; plant stress monitoring using plant electrical signal; sustainable agricultural practice

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Global Sustainability Institute, Faculty Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK
Interests: sustainability science, complexity, systems dynamics, food conflict, climate change, resilience, water-energy-food nexus
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Olive Cultivation Lab, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, (NAGREF), 73134 Chania, Greece
Interests: climate change; agricultural sustainability; circular economy; soil, water and biodiversity conservation; remote sensing; plant breeding; ecosystem services; olive growing
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Department of Agriculture, Section of Agronomy, Herbaceous Crops and Genetics, University of Sassari, Viale Italia n. 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: agroecosystems sustainability; water-food-energy nexus; precision agriculture; water management; organic agriculture; nutrient cycling and organic matter; ecosystem services

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Natural Resources Institute Finland, Latokartanonkaari 9, FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: environmental life cycle assessment; ecosystem ecology; global carbon dynamics; plant and animal ecophysiology; systems modelling
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College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
Interests: artificial intelligence; internet of things; smart agriculture; image processing; data quality assessment
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Department of Sustainability Science, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Mukkulankatu 19, 15210 Lahti, Finland
Interests: sustainability science; transition management; environmental economics and policy; sustainability assessment of food and energy systems

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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences - University of Torino Largo Braccini, 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
Interests: agricultural sustainability; food security; agronomy; arboriculture; agrobiodiversity conservation; sustainable rural developement
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Dean's Unit School of Science, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
Interests: water resources management; Irrigation; environmental sustainability; water security; water reuse; urban water
* Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/water_resources_management
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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Interests: agricultural mechanization; tractors; trialers; transportation; maize sowing machines; planters machines; forestry mechanization; cable crane; forestry winchs; hippers; biomass production; woodchip storage; energy evaluation; hourly costs; working times; working rate; working capacity; fuel consumption

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Biosecurity Group, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Interests: chemical ecology; behavioural ecology; integrated pest management; pest control; insect monitoring; semiochemicals; pollination; insect-plant interaction; biosecurity; surveillance
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Biosecurity Group, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Interests: chemical ecology; plant-insect-natural enemies interactions; climate change; insect sensing; biosecurity; integrated pest management
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209, USA
Interests: vegetable production (organic & conventional); sustainable horticulture; tropical fruits; roots & tubers; organic certification; micropropagation; international agriculture development

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Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway
Interests: animal nutrition; small ruminant production systems; animal husbandry

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School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 700, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: food systems sustainability; urban-rural links; bio-cultural diversity; transition movement; human-nature links

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DISTAL, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna University, Viale Fanin 44, Bologna, Italy
Interests: vegetable crops; vertical farming; rooftop farms; hydroponics; greenhouse crop management
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Aquaculture and Sea-Ranching, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Interests: aquaponics; polyponics; integrated aquaculture systems
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CREA Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Via Cavalleggeri, 25, 84098 Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; digital support systems for disease management; agroecology; biological control
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Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences, Università degli Studi di Torino, 10124 Torino, TO, Italy
Interests: sustainability assessment of food environmental and social sustainability; agroecology; biodiversity conservation; landscape conservation and development; circular economy; postharvest thecnologies; fruit quality
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Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: agricultural microbiology; sustainable agriculture; microbial inoculants; biostimulants; biocontrol agents; plant-microbe interactions; metabarcoding
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: soil fertility; agriculture environment; plant physiology; sustainable agriculture; biofortification; abiotic stresses; carbon sequestration; fruit quality
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Dip. di Scienze Agro-Ambientali e Territoriali (DiSAAT) Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” Via Giovanni Amendola, 165/A 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: agricultural economics and policy; food supply chains sustainability; consumer studies; circular economy
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