Optimizing Crop Management Strategies for Climate Resilience Using Advanced Modeling Techniques
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: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 749
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; crop model; agroecology; groundwater; future climate scenario; extreme climate
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: climate; maize; model
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The climate is already changing and the likelihood of multiple climate-induced risks affecting agricultural production is expected to increase in the future. In the face of climate change with more frequent and severe extreme weather, the great challenge facing agriculture in the 21st century is to achieve food security for a growing world population. Whether and where we address agricultural challenges and how we manage agroecosystems will have a direct impact on several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Zero Hunger (SDG 2), No Poverty (SDG 1), Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3), and Climate Action (SDG 13). To address the multiple impacts of climate change, optimizing crop management can achieve similar or higher levels of crop productivity and economic efficiency than conventional crop management. Therefore, how to effectively propose and evaluate different management strategies to improve crop climate resilience is an important scientific issue at present. Modelling, as a more mechanistic understanding of climate impacts and management options for adaptation and mitigation, is a key tool for exploring agricultural awareness and adaptations to climate change.
This Special Issue focuses on linking experiments more closely with statistics and ecophysiological crop modelling for a more comprehensive and integrated assessment of agricultural impacts and adaptations to climate change. It also covers the optimization of crop management strategies for climate resilience, taking into account biophysical and socioeconomic factors. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Dengpan Xiao
Dr. Huizi Bai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaptation
- climate risk
- crop model
- extreme weather
- genotype
- field management
- optimizing
- crop systems
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