Farmers’ perception and management of water scarcity in irrigated rice-based systems in dry climatic zones of West Africa
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Agronomy for Sustainable Development (ASD) is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original experimental, empirical and theoretical research articles, review articles and meta-analyses leading to enhanced sustainability for agricultural and food systems. The journal’s objective is to interface agronomy, cropping and farming system researches with ecological, genetic, environmental, economic or social sciences.
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In this Virtual Issue of Agronomy for Sustainable Development (ASD), we want to explore the latest scientific advances providing insights and solutions to pave the way for an agriculture with much less chemical pesticides and ultimately with none at all. We will include articles on four main scientific domains:
Bio-inspired management of Crop HealthGenetics and breeding of new cultivars for new servicesCropping system and agrotechnologyAgri-food system transformation, societal adoption, and public policies.
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2022 | Expected 2023
This Virtual Issue will bring together state-of-the-art scientific evidence for the resilience of farming systems. We will include articles on:
- The conceptual framework of the resilience of agricultural systems, appropriate indicators and evaluation methods
- Empirical evidence from longterm agroforestry and mixed farming experiments on their resilience against climate change as compared to monocropping and pure livestock systems
- Modelling the resilience of agricultural systems against climate change: Model development, scenarios, biophysical and bio-economic evaluations.
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2023 | Expected 2023
On-Farm Experimentation (OFE) is a farmer-centric pathway for improvement in agri-food systems. Based on experiments designed with farmers, conducted by them, and for their interests first, OFE not only answers farmers’ own questions but also provides data for researchers to create more broadly valuable insights.
This Virtual Issue focuses on issues and recent advances relative to OFE with emphasis on enabling digital technologies.
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2022 | Expected 2022
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