Solving a Puzzling Node among Agricultural Productivity, Sustainability and Food Security
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 133
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Interests: socioeconomic resilience and sustainability of rural regions; performance management; consumer behavior; development of business in unfavorable conditions; shadow economy
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Interests: agriculture; common agricultural policy; resilience; sustainability; sustainable development; MCDM; subsidies; direct payments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The agricultural sector worldwide faces pressures to satisfy the increasing demands (and changing diet) of the world’s population, which, at the end of 2023, is approaching 8.1 billion. Agricultural intensification has appeared as a response to increasing demand, but this, coupled with an increased utilization of pesticides and fertilizers, has led to proliferating environmental pollution and land degradation. Agriculture is responsible for approximately 24% of the world‘s GHG emissions. This contributes to climate change, which, in turn, poses a risk to food security due to fluctuations or declines in yield.
Worldwide, agricultural productivity has surged in recent decades. However, certain concerns regarding food security persist due to the effects of climate change. The sustainability of agricultural activities requires improvements (e.g., curbing GHG emission) in order to ensure the mitigation of climate change. Furthermore, rural regions depend on the agricultural sector as a main factor of economic viability and determinant of sustainability. Therefore, new climate-neutral and climate-positive frameworks are required to better integrate agricultural productivity, sustainability and food security all over the world.
Dr. Mangirdas Morkunas
Dr. Artiom Volkov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agriculture
- productivity
- sustainability
- food security
- rural regions
