Sustainable Development of Tropical Agriculture
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 15244
Special Issue Editor
Interests: agroforestry; agroecology; domestication of tropical trees; multifunctional agriculture; tree biology; clonal selection; vegetative propagation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conventional approaches to modern agriculture have failed to deliver enough nutritious food for the populations of many tropical and sub-tropical countries, especially in Africa. Furthermore, in these countries tropical agriculture has failed to be the “engine of economic growth” in the way it has in Industrialized countries. Consequently, we have a divided and dysfunctional world of the very rich and the ultra-poor.
A socially-, economically-, and environmentally-sustainable approach to the achievement of food and nutritional security in the tropics and sub-tropics has eluded everyone for over 100 years, despite numerous global reports calling for new initiatives. Nevertheless, in recent years progress has been made, with the recognition that complex problems require holistic and multidisciplinary solutions that simultaneously embrace many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In recognition of these advances, this Special Issue on the “Sustainable Development of Tropical Agriculture” seeks papers providing:
- better understanding of the problem, especially the interactions between soil infertility, land degradation, the loss of biodiversity, the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, and climate change;
- practical solutions to address the key issues constraining land productivity, the well-being of farmers, and planetary processes;
- integrated approaches to rural development that minimise the trade-offs generally accepted as the inevitable consequence of agricultural intensification;
- ideas about how agriculture can become “an engine for economic growth” in the tropics and sub-tropics.
Prof. Roger Leakey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agroecological restoration
- biodiversity conservation
- climate change
- economic growth
- income generation
- land rehabilitation
- productivity
- well-being and livelihood
