Promoting Intercropping Systems in Sustainable Agriculture—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovative Cropping Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 165
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cropping systems; intercropping; sustainable agriculture; ecological intensification; response of plants to abiotic stress; climate change; bioeconomy; sustainable utilization of resources; precision agriculture; phenotyping
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Dear Colleagues,
Intercropping is a system where two or more crop species or genotypes are grown in the same space at the same time. Intercropping is a system that promotes ecological intensification as it increases the biodiversity of cropping systems by increasing the number of cultivated species and, especially, by increasing the proportion of legumes. Thus, intercropping systems have received great attention over the last decade because of their advantages; however, they have significant disadvantages that make it difficult for them to be adapted by farmers.
This Special Issue aims to promote the use of intercropping in cropping systems and invites original research, reviews, and meta-analyses concerning all aspects of intercropping, such as agronomy, modeling, plant physiology, genetics, and plant breeding for intercropping, weed and pest management, bioeconomy and circular agriculture, agroecology, precision agriculture, phenotyping, etc.
Prof. Dr. Christos A. Dordas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- organic farming
- cropping systems
- conservation agriculture
- water management
- cover crops
- ecological intensification
- modeling
- climate change
- ecosystem services
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