Farming products are one of the most important categories in supermarkets. Large retail organizations are increasing their requirements concerning food safety and sustainability. The growing systems are characterized by an intensive and optimal use of land and water (agricultural exploitation is an industry itself). The common aim is increasing productivity and improving product quality.

In this context, a secure and environmental-friendly farming must be also part of this approach, the energy, water, nutrients and CO₂, related to intensive growing systems or extensive systems must be considered to be basic given that they are related to the needs of the agricultural products. This demand is determined by an elementary process of mass and heat transfer involving a complex of physical, chemical, and biological processes, taking place simultaneously, reacting to environmental factors with different response times and patterns, and characterized by multiple interactions, which have to be controlled to obtain the best results for the grower.

This special issue will include articles that analyze the CO₂ technologies applied to the agronomy from the economic, environmental and social points of view. Particular consideration is given (but not limited) to empirical articles that analyze the contribution to the vegetable production of new applications in market price analysis, studies of costs, economic, environmental and social considerations, efficiency, circular economy, precision agriculture, smart farming, automation, sensor technology, nutrients and waste management, life cycle analysis, production, storage and/or consumption of CO₂, renewable energy and bioenergy. Anyway, the use mathematical models and control approaches will be welcomed.

Papers included in this Special Issue will address the following areas:

• Smart farming and precision agriculture
• CO₂ storage, generation, uses, management and technologies
• Carbon cycle
• Life cycle analysis
• Cost Management
• On plant solutions
• On biotechnology solutions
• Automatic control
• Modelling
• Decision Support Systems, DSS
• Circular Economy
• Business models
• Renewable energy
• Residues management
• Waste management
• Sensor technology
• Nutrients management
• Value chain agri-food
• Carbon Footprint

Prof. Dr. Francisco Gabriel Acién Fernández
Dr. Jorge Antonio Sánchez-Molina
Guest Editors

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• Precision Farming
• CO₂
• Modeling
• Sensors
• Management
• Automatic Control
• FootPrint