Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand
In the 21st century, global agriculture is facing two major competing issues, urgently calling for us to investigate the nexus of land–food–climate. First, food production will need to substantially increase to meet the growing demand of a larger and wealthier population. Moreover, climate change, u...
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| description | In the 21st century, global agriculture is facing two major competing issues, urgently calling for us to investigate the nexus of land–food–climate. First, food production will need to substantially increase to meet the growing demand of a larger and wealthier population. Moreover, climate change, urbanization, and several other drivers are posing challenges to food production. Farmers can increase food production either by expanding their land area or by raising existing agricultural land productivity. Given the limited cultivatable land, and high socio-economic and ecosystem costs of clearing more land for agriculture, the prospect of expanding agricultural land is almost non-existent. Therefore, it is vital to raise crop yields on existing farmlands by adopting sustainable land management practices. Several social, economic, demographic, and biophysical factors can affect the implementation of land management practices in different agricultural production systems. Consequently, the design and implementation of location-specific land management practices that can enhance crop yields while minimizing adverse environmental impacts are important and require further research and investigation. In this Special Issue, we invited manuscripts that address research issues including the following: Sustainable intensification of agricultural land; Modeling agricultural systems and food production; Design and implementation of land management practices; Economic analysis of agricultural interventions; Adoption and diffusion of agricultural technologies; Environmental benefits of land management practices. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1377302024-05-14T14:16:50Z Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand Khanal, Uttam Rahman, Sanzidur agricultural water use efficiency undesirable super-efficiency SBM model vector autoregression (VAR) Granger causality test social network analysis (SNA) spatial correlation network food waste norm activation model self-efficacy restaurant land carrying capacity load on land resources food supply–demand balance spatio-temporal patterns Tibet Färe–Primont TFP index technical-, scale- and mix-efficiency changes climate change socio-economic factors determinants multivariate Tobit model major grain-producing areas crop production food security China economic growth cultivated land pressure Kuznets curve agri-environmental indicators fertilizer use European Green Deal CAP 2023–2027 ecological agriculture sustainable development spatial distribution pattern and evolution Geodetector influencing mechanism livestock products gravity model virtual water virtual land economic distance close spatial distance long spatial distance clan network strength clan network density written contract oral contract farmland transfer distance to urban centers off-farm employment planting structure village-level data agricultural development financial support for agriculture agricultural subsidies land fragmentation agricultural total factor productivity farm typology fuzzy cognitive mapping network analysis resource trade-off technology upscaling Sundarbans zero-tillage potato thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues In the 21st century, global agriculture is facing two major competing issues, urgently calling for us to investigate the nexus of land–food–climate. First, food production will need to substantially increase to meet the growing demand of a larger and wealthier population. Moreover, climate change, urbanization, and several other drivers are posing challenges to food production. Farmers can increase food production either by expanding their land area or by raising existing agricultural land productivity. Given the limited cultivatable land, and high socio-economic and ecosystem costs of clearing more land for agriculture, the prospect of expanding agricultural land is almost non-existent. Therefore, it is vital to raise crop yields on existing farmlands by adopting sustainable land management practices. Several social, economic, demographic, and biophysical factors can affect the implementation of land management practices in different agricultural production systems. Consequently, the design and implementation of location-specific land management practices that can enhance crop yields while minimizing adverse environmental impacts are important and require further research and investigation. In this Special Issue, we invited manuscripts that address research issues including the following: Sustainable intensification of agricultural land; Modeling agricultural systems and food production; Design and implementation of land management practices; Economic analysis of agricultural interventions; Adoption and diffusion of agricultural technologies; Environmental benefits of land management practices. 2024-05-14T14:16:45Z 2024-05-14T14:16:45Z 2024 book ONIX_20240514_9783725805396_326 9783725805396 9783725805402 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/137730 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/8959 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/8959 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-0540-2 10.3390/books978-3-7258-0540-2 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725805396 9783725805402 266 open access |
| spellingShingle | agricultural water use efficiency undesirable super-efficiency SBM model vector autoregression (VAR) Granger causality test social network analysis (SNA) spatial correlation network food waste norm activation model self-efficacy restaurant land carrying capacity load on land resources food supply–demand balance spatio-temporal patterns Tibet Färe–Primont TFP index technical-, scale- and mix-efficiency changes climate change socio-economic factors determinants multivariate Tobit model major grain-producing areas crop production food security China economic growth cultivated land pressure Kuznets curve agri-environmental indicators fertilizer use European Green Deal CAP 2023–2027 ecological agriculture sustainable development spatial distribution pattern and evolution Geodetector influencing mechanism livestock products gravity model virtual water virtual land economic distance close spatial distance long spatial distance clan network strength clan network density written contract oral contract farmland transfer distance to urban centers off-farm employment planting structure village-level data agricultural development financial support for agriculture agricultural subsidies land fragmentation agricultural total factor productivity farm typology fuzzy cognitive mapping network analysis resource trade-off technology upscaling Sundarbans zero-tillage potato thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title | Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title_full | Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title_short | Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand |
| title_sort | agricultural land management to meet future global food demand |
| topic | agricultural water use efficiency undesirable super-efficiency SBM model vector autoregression (VAR) Granger causality test social network analysis (SNA) spatial correlation network food waste norm activation model self-efficacy restaurant land carrying capacity load on land resources food supply–demand balance spatio-temporal patterns Tibet Färe–Primont TFP index technical-, scale- and mix-efficiency changes climate change socio-economic factors determinants multivariate Tobit model major grain-producing areas crop production food security China economic growth cultivated land pressure Kuznets curve agri-environmental indicators fertilizer use European Green Deal CAP 2023–2027 ecological agriculture sustainable development spatial distribution pattern and evolution Geodetector influencing mechanism livestock products gravity model virtual water virtual land economic distance close spatial distance long spatial distance clan network strength clan network density written contract oral contract farmland transfer distance to urban centers off-farm employment planting structure village-level data agricultural development financial support for agriculture agricultural subsidies land fragmentation agricultural total factor productivity farm typology fuzzy cognitive mapping network analysis resource trade-off technology upscaling Sundarbans zero-tillage potato thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues |
| topic_facet | agricultural water use efficiency undesirable super-efficiency SBM model vector autoregression (VAR) Granger causality test social network analysis (SNA) spatial correlation network food waste norm activation model self-efficacy restaurant land carrying capacity load on land resources food supply–demand balance spatio-temporal patterns Tibet Färe–Primont TFP index technical-, scale- and mix-efficiency changes climate change socio-economic factors determinants multivariate Tobit model major grain-producing areas crop production food security China economic growth cultivated land pressure Kuznets curve agri-environmental indicators fertilizer use European Green Deal CAP 2023–2027 ecological agriculture sustainable development spatial distribution pattern and evolution Geodetector influencing mechanism livestock products gravity model virtual water virtual land economic distance close spatial distance long spatial distance clan network strength clan network density written contract oral contract farmland transfer distance to urban centers off-farm employment planting structure village-level data agricultural development financial support for agriculture agricultural subsidies land fragmentation agricultural total factor productivity farm typology fuzzy cognitive mapping network analysis resource trade-off technology upscaling Sundarbans zero-tillage potato thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues |
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