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Agronomy for Sustainable Development (ASD) is a journal of the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). It welcomes multidisciplinary articles that bridge agronomy, cropping and farming system research with ecological, genetic, environmental, economical and social sciences. Systemic approaches at the livestock, field, farm, landscape, food systems and global scales, and participatory research are encouraged.
ASD does not publish:
· monodisciplinary articles in ecology, plant physiology, soil and environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology and entomology that do not explicitly consider crop production.
· monodisciplinary articles in economics and social sciences.
· studies that involve experiments mainly conducted in pots or disconnected from production conditions.
ASD publishes original articles, meta-analyses and review articles. Original articles should demonstrate a clear scientific breakthrough versus current knowledge. Contributions may be on either methodological approaches or approaches addressing major issues in the scope of the journal. Review articles report a critical evaluation of emerging topics. It covers the following topics:
1. Agriculture and climate change
1.1. Agroclimatology
1.2. Adaptation to climate change
1.3. Mitigation of greenhouse gases
1.4. Renewable energies and bioproducts
1.5. Carbon sequestration
2. Agroecology for ecological intensification and ecosystem services
2.1. Pest control and biopesticides, integrated pest management
2.2. Sustainable fertilization
2.3. Biodiversity management
2.4. Landscape management
2.5. Grassland and rangeland
2.6. Management of positive biological interactions
2.7. Trade-off between ecosystem services
3. Preservation of natural resources
3.1. Environmental impacts on soil, water, air and biodiversity
3.2. Pollutants in agrosystems, remediation
3.3. Water management
3.4. Soil management and land use
3.5. Waste use in agriculture
3.6. C, N, P recycling
4. Sustainable food systems
4.1. Cropping system
4.2. Livestock and crop - livestock systems
4.3. Value chain management
4.4. Geographical indications
4.5. Local food systems
4.6. Farming networks
4.7. Agroecological transition, lock-in effects
4.8. Food security
5. Innovative farming systems and techniques
5.1. Organic farming
5.2. Urban agriculture
5.3. Agroforestry
5.4. Conservation agriculture
5.5. Precision agriculture
5.6. New crops and cultivars
5.7. Decision support systems
5.8. Epidemiology and disease warning
5.9. Other innovative techniques
6. Sustainability assessment and design
6.1. Indicators, life cycle assessment
6.2. Integrated assessment
6.3. Policy analysis
6.4. Modelling of farming systems and agricultural landscape
6.5. Yield gap analysis, agronomic diagnosis
6.6. Design and co-design methods
6.7. Companion modelling for agriculture and natural resources management
Wide-ranging coverage of interactions between cropping systems and other activities
Covers topics from farming systems to agroclimatology, food safety to social issues

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Dr. Sylvie Recous
INRA - UMR0614 FARE
Centre de Recherche en Environnement et Agronomie
2 esplanade Roland Garros
BP 224
51686 REIMS CEDEX 2
FRANCE
Sylvie.Recous@inra.fr

Dr. Jacques Le Bot
UR1115 - PSH (Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles)
INRA Centre de Recherche PACA
228 route de l'Aérodrome
CS 40509
Domaine Saint Paul - Site Agroparc
84914 AVIGNON Cedex 9
FRANCE
jacques.lebot@inra.fr

Dr. Jean-Marc Meynard
INRA - UMR SAD APT
Bâtiment EGER, Campus de Grignon
78850 THIVERVAL-GRIGNON
FRANCE
Jean-Marc.Meynard@inra.fr
MANAGING EDITOR

Marjolaine Hamelin
Editorial Office of Agronomy for Sustainable Development
INRA, UR50
Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement
102 Avenue des Etangs
11100 Narbonne
France
e-mail: agrosustaindev@inrae.fr
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Dr. Sébastien Barot
Soil ecology, ecosystem ecology, agro-ecology, soil fauna, modelling, tropical ecology, nutrient cycling, soil organic matter
IEES-P, France
Dr. Gianni Bellocchi
Grasslands systems, modelling, vulnerability, climate, biogeochemical cycles
INRA, France
Dr. Tejendra Chapagain
Cropping Systems, Precision Agronomy, Cover Cropping, Soil Health, Dryland Agroecology, Intercrop Interactions, Food Security, Sustainable Food Production Systems, Sustainable Agriculture
Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Canada
Dr. Amélie Cantarel
Agroecology; grassland and cropland; ecosystem functioning; microbial ecology; nitrogen cycle; plant ecology; plant-soil-microorganisms interactions
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France
Dr. Victor Hugo Durán Zuazo
Soil and water conservation, soil erosion and degradation, water-use efficiency, plant-soil-atmosphere relationships in woody fruit crops, Mediterranean subtropical fruit trees
IFAPA Centro “Camino de Purchil”, Spain
Dr. Yvette Everingham
Seasonal climate forecasting, statistical climatology, near infrared spectroscopy, multivariate statistics, climate variability
James Cook University, Australia
Dr. Roberta Farina
Climate change adaptation on Mediterranean Regions, soil carbon sequestration, organic farming, conservation agriculture, use of biophysical model to simulate climate change effect on agricultural systems from filed to regional scale, Mediterranean dry-land agricultural system sustainability
CREA, Italy
Dr. Gérard Gaillard
LCA in agriculture, LCA for the food chain, agricultural environmental management, sustainability assessment
Agroscope, Switzerland
Dr. Antonio Gallo
Crop-livestock farming system, Animal Nutritional Management, System Dynamic Modelling, Multivariate Statistics, Linear programming, Multi-objective Optimization, Decision support systems
Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA); Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Prof. Yantai Gan
Dryland cropping systems, Legumes, Carbon footprint, Soil fertility management, Rhizosphere
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Prof. Bärbel Gerowitt
Weed Management, crop protection, farming systems, agrobiodiversity
Universität Rostock, Germany
Dr. Bruno Glaser
Biogeochemistry, stable isotope, global carbon cycle, soil organic matter, biomarkers, palaeoecology, quantitative climate reconstruction, sustainable land use
Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Dr. Katharina Helming
Sustainable land use, impact assessment of land use and agriculture, preservation of natural resources, landscape analysis and patterns, environmental impact on soil and water, environmental management
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany
Dr. Felix Herzog
Landscape ecology, biodiversity, watershed management, agro-ecology, landscape restoration, agri-environmental policy, policy evaluation
Agroscope, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Imre Holb
Epdemiology, disease warning and management, integrated and ecological plant protection
University of Debrecen, Hungary
Dr. Marney Isaac
Agroecology, Agroforestry, functional traits, plant nutrition, soil fertility, environmental and development, sustainable livelihoods
University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Dr. Erik Steen Jensen
Agroecology, cropping systems, crop diversification, intercropping, legumes, nitrogen cycling, symbiotic N2 fixation, cover cropping, sustainability assessment, stable isotopes
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Dr. Nicholas E. Korres
Weed science, herbicide resistance, weed control, integrated crop protection/production, sustainable food production
University of Arkansas, USA
Prof. Laurens Klerkx
Agricultural innovation, Sustainability transitions, Agricultural extension, System transformation, Transdisciplinary research
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Dr. Chantal Loyce
Winter wheat, multiresistant varieties, low-input crop management, integrated pest management, integrated production, cropping system; miscanthus; lucerne; lignocellulosic crops, biomass, biofuels
AgroParisTech, France
Dr. Amandine Lurette
Modelling, Livestock farming system, Agroecology, Impact of diversity, Crop-livestock farming system
INRA, France
Dr. Gilles Martel
Mixed farming systems ; Integrated farming systems ; Modelling of farming systems ; Landscape Modelling ; Livestock management
INRA, France
Dr. Francesco Montemurro
Agronomy; nutrient management; nitrogen dynamics, efficiency and balance; organic farming; composting process and compost application; organic fertilization; sustainable development; crop rotations and management; cropping system
C.R.A. - SSC, Italy
Prof. Miroslav Nikolić
Nutrient uptake and transport, micronutrient deficiency, metal toxicity, silicon in plants, root-soil interactions
University of Belgrade, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Serge Rambal
Plant drought responses, modelling and scaling
CEFE-CNRS, France
Prof. Diego Rubiales
Legumes, Disease resistance, Orobanche, Parasitic weeds, Rust, Ascochyta, Powdery mildew, cereals
The Institute For Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC
Dr. Götz Schroth
Tropical agroforestry, tree crops, tropical soil fertility, family agriculture, climate vulnerability of tropical agriculture, biodiversity of agricultural landscapes, root ecology
Brazil
Dr. Peter Thorburn
Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction, Agricultural Systems, Farming Systems, Carbon Sequestration, Simulation and Modelling, Fertilisers and Agrochemicals, Natural Resource Managemen
CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Australia
Dr. Pablo Tittonell
Agroecology, biodiversity, environment, social-ecological systems, soils
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina
Dr. Philippe Tixier
Agronomy, modelling, cropping systems, food web ecology, tropical agriculture, pest and diseases regulation, biological control
CIRAD, France
Dr. Guy Trebuil
Landscape agronomy, landscape management; farming systems analysis; land use change; modelling of farming systems and agricultural landscape; co-design methods in agriculture; companion modelling for agriculture and natural resource management; participatory approaches in agriculture; environmental impacts on soil, water and biodiversity; integrated assessment
CIRAD, France
Prof. Marco Trevisan
Dynamics of pollutants in agro-ecosystems: modelling, field and laboratory studies
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Dr. Alexander Wezel
Agroecology, agronomy, landscape ecology, management of agroecosystems, management of biodiversity, organic farming, low-input agricultural systems, homegardens, tropical agricultural systems, rescource conservation, semi-arid land use, natural landscape components/structures, fish ponds, nature conservation, soil erosion and degradation
ISARA, France
Dr. Gede Wibawa
Farming/cropping systems and development
LRPI, Indonesia
Dr. Hannah Wittman
Food security, food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, agroecology, organic certification, land reform, new farmer training and extension
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Miguel Quemada
Cover crops, fertilizers, nitrogen, water
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria Agronomica Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Spain