Assessing Crop Yield and Risk for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 2912
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rural development; farm management; risk analysis; climate change and agriculture
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Interests: agrifood policy; agricultural economics; risk analysis in agriculture
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Interests: agricultural economics; management and policy; biosystem engineering; life cycle assessment; water resource management; environmental and natural resource economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, critical biodiversity losses, and water scarcity are among the largest challenges that humanity has been facing in recent years. Agricultural production, as the primary activity in provisioning human food, is both impacted by and contributes to these problems. The risks to which farm activities are subjected and which can compromise farmers’ income are different: (i) risks related to production, (ii) market risks, and (iii) risks linked to the price of production inputs. Crop modelling can help in identifying options by assessing trade-offs, as well as in quantifying their associated risks in the face of climate change from local to global scales. This Special Issue aims at exploring the role of crop modelling for risk and impact assessments of cropping systems. Expected contributions deal with advances in methods for risk, impact, and tradeoff analysis, including scenario design and model output analyses; advances in data aggregation and model upscaling methods; yield forecasting systems; and integrated assessment modelling. Contributions that address knowledge transfer from crop modeling to policy makers and other stakeholders are particularly welcome.
Prof. Fabian Capitanio
Prof. Felice Adinolfi
Prof. Pier Paolo Miglietta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop yield and risk modelling
- risk management
- strategic planning
- agriculture
- climate factors
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