About this Research Topic
The goal of this Research Topic is to tackle two apparently contradictory worldviews, i.e., climate-smart agriculture on one hand and the issues of productivity and efficiency of agriculture on the other. This is because the pursuit of productivity and efficiency is considered to be the main realm of conventional and/or modern agriculture, which is resource intensive, fossil fuel hungry and which adversely affects the natural resource base. However, given the pressure to supply more food for the rising world population on a closing arable land frontier with increasing levels of urbanization, there is no guarantee that climate-smart agriculture will be productive and efficient enough to meet the challenge.
This Research Topic is aimed at soliciting original contributions from academics, researchers, practitioners, NGOs and other stakeholders providing theoretical insights and/or empirical analysis focusing on economic viability, productivity and efficiency of CSA technologies that can provide valuable lessons for the future. The Editors encourage submissions applying cross-disciplinary approaches and use of a variety of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies in social sciences. The scope of submission includes original research and review articles that address the issues raised above.
Keywords: CSA technologies, Productivity and efficiency of CSA, Sustainability of CSA, CSA and Food security, CSA and the rural economy, CSA and poverty/livelihoods
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