About this Research Topic
Climate-smart agriculture, or CSA, is a multidimensional approach to transforming and reshaping agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. Global changes in rainfall and temperature patterns threaten agricultural production and increase the vulnerability of people dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, residing mostly in the world's developing countries. Climate change interrupts food markets and agro-economy, posing population-wide risks to the food supply. Threats can be minimized by increasing the resilience capacity of farmers through improving agricultural practices as well as enhancing flexibility and resource use efficiency in agricultural production systems.
In order to develop a sustainable climate-smart agriculture practice, the first step is to assess the impacts of environmental constricts followed by modeling-based approaches. At the same time, an evaluation of current practices in minimizing abiotic stress in field crops is unavoidable. An assessment of the efficacy of newly developed methodologies is also of prime interest. Improvements in yield stability alone cannot generate the desired growth in the agro-economic sector; slow but steady demand for the improved food quality is also high on the priority list. So “Quality with Desired Quantity” will be a prime focus in the coming years in the agriculture sector. Policies that can influence climate-smart agriculture in the future have also been given equal importance.
We welcome authors to submit manuscripts on the following themes:
• Application of molecular biology, OMICS, breeding (including speed breeding) techniques for conferring abiotic stress (salinity, submergence, drought, heavy metal stress, elevated O3, Co2, temperature, etc.) tolerance and yield stability in major field crops;
• Modulations of photosynthesis (chlorophyll fluorescence), redox homeostasis under climate change scenarios and their impact on crop growth and yield patterns;
• Crop modelling (APSIM. ANM, AMMI etc.) in assessing crop yield stability and enhancement under climate change conditions;
• Agronomic interventions in minimizing abiotic stress resilience in field crops;
• Soil degradation, NPK dynamics, GHG, groundwater pollution and their impact on global yield stability;
• Biofortification (micronutrients, vitamins, etc.) to minimize global hunger;
• Risk assessments (contaminants, emerging contaminants, etc.) in soil-water-crop agroecosystems;
• Assessments of the impact of climate change on agribusiness and subsequent policy design.
In order to develop a sustainable climate-smart agriculture practice, the first step is to assess the impacts of environmental constricts followed by modeling-based approaches. At the same time, an evaluation of current practices in minimizing abiotic stress in field crops is unavoidable. An assessment of the efficacy of newly developed methodologies is also of prime interest. Improvements in yield stability alone cannot generate the desired growth in the agro-economic sector; slow but steady demand for the improved food quality is also high on the priority list. So “Quality with Desired Quantity” will be a prime focus in the coming years in the agriculture sector. Policies that can influence climate-smart agriculture in the future have also been given equal importance.
We welcome authors to submit manuscripts on the following themes:
• Application of molecular biology, OMICS, breeding (including speed breeding) techniques for conferring abiotic stress (salinity, submergence, drought, heavy metal stress, elevated O3, Co2, temperature, etc.) tolerance and yield stability in major field crops;
• Modulations of photosynthesis (chlorophyll fluorescence), redox homeostasis under climate change scenarios and their impact on crop growth and yield patterns;
• Crop modelling (APSIM. ANM, AMMI etc.) in assessing crop yield stability and enhancement under climate change conditions;
• Agronomic interventions in minimizing abiotic stress resilience in field crops;
• Soil degradation, NPK dynamics, GHG, groundwater pollution and their impact on global yield stability;
• Biofortification (micronutrients, vitamins, etc.) to minimize global hunger;
• Risk assessments (contaminants, emerging contaminants, etc.) in soil-water-crop agroecosystems;
• Assessments of the impact of climate change on agribusiness and subsequent policy design.
Keywords: sustainable agriculture, abiotic stress, climate change, climate-smart strategies, climate-smart agronomy, heat stress, drought stress, biofortification
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