Climate Change and Its Impacts on Agricultural Land and Water Resources

Climate change has increasingly caused the crop production system to become more uncertain. As agriculture is strongly dependent on weather, unpredictable extreme temperatures and rainfall become an ongoing threat to crop productivity. There is an urgency to advance measures to manage climate-related risks. These measures should be based on robust scientific evidence in managing agricultural and water resources. At the same time, mitigation actions need to be incorporated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and practices that can sequester carbon in the soil. These collective approaches will ensure agriculture sector becomes resilient and can achieve the net zero target.

This Research Topic aims to discuss agroclimatic constraints and the consequences of climate change on crop production, soil, and water resources. It will recommend adaptive measures proven or potentially implementable to dampen the negative impacts of climate change on crop yield and water quality. It will amass encouraging approaches or methods to ensure agricultural production becomes more resilient and share experiences on involving stakeholders to be more capable of choosing and applying the appropriate measures.

Following themes are invited, but are not limited to:

- Climate change impacts on water resources in agriculture production systems.
- The impact on agroclimatic patterns: Climate trends, seasonal shifts, extreme events.
- Strategies to increase agricultural resilience: planning, operation, monitoring and evaluation.
- Adaptive measures to anticipate more frequent and prolonged droughts and floods.
- Mitigation approaches in reducing greenhouse gases emissions
- Enhancing biomass production and accumulation for soil carbon sequestration
- Boosting farmers’ and other stakeholders' awareness and participation in mitigation and adaptive measures.
- Other mitigation and adaptation measures to enhance agriculture resilience.