About this Research Topic
Global warming is widely recognized as one of the foremost challenges in maintaining global food security. This is largely explained by the sensitivity of crops to climate. Crop production is likely to be affected by climate change on a global, regional, and local level. Climate change can affect the availability, accessibility, and quality of food. For instance, a rise in temperatures, a change in precipitation patterns, an increase in extreme weather events, and depletion of water supplies, may affect agricultural productivity.
There is increasing urgency for a stronger focus on adapting cropping systems to future climate change. To achieve this, cutting-edge research is vital to providing insight into how our cropping systems can adapt to climate change. It should be highly emphasized that such adaptation strategies need to be environmentally friendly, sustainable, easily adoptable and economically viable. The adoption of such practices will allow producers to cushion and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to identify and collect information about practical methods that can be implemented in crop production to guide agricultural evolution toward better productivity, efficiency, and sustainability under climate change.
We are interested in receiving manuscripts around the following, but not limited to, topics:
• Water use and water productivity in cropping systems under climate change
• Development of climate resilience cultivars
• Use of technologies to “harvest” water and conserve soil moisture (e.g., crop residue retention)
• Tillage practices that improve soil sustainability and soil health (carbon, plant nutrients, physical and biological properties)
• Altering the timing or location of cropping activities under climate change scenarios
• Adaptation of cropping sequences to climate change
• Land and policy changes
There is increasing urgency for a stronger focus on adapting cropping systems to future climate change. To achieve this, cutting-edge research is vital to providing insight into how our cropping systems can adapt to climate change. It should be highly emphasized that such adaptation strategies need to be environmentally friendly, sustainable, easily adoptable and economically viable. The adoption of such practices will allow producers to cushion and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The main goal of this Research Topic is to identify and collect information about practical methods that can be implemented in crop production to guide agricultural evolution toward better productivity, efficiency, and sustainability under climate change.
We are interested in receiving manuscripts around the following, but not limited to, topics:
• Water use and water productivity in cropping systems under climate change
• Development of climate resilience cultivars
• Use of technologies to “harvest” water and conserve soil moisture (e.g., crop residue retention)
• Tillage practices that improve soil sustainability and soil health (carbon, plant nutrients, physical and biological properties)
• Altering the timing or location of cropping activities under climate change scenarios
• Adaptation of cropping sequences to climate change
• Land and policy changes
Keywords: cropping systems, climate change, tillage practices, water use efficiency, water productivity, climate resilience, crop yields, cropping patterns, technology, planting dates, land changes, policy changes, artificial intelligence, machine learning
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