Towards Climate-Smart Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 565 - 565

Published: Feb. 25, 2025

Without transformative adaptation strategies, the impact of climate change is projected to reduce global crop yields and increase food insecurity, while rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions further exacerbate crisis. While agriculture a major contributor through unsustainable practices, it also offers significant opportunities mitigate these adoption sustainable practices. This review examines climate-smart (CSA) as key strategy for enhancing productivity, building resilience, reducing GHG emissions, emphasizing need strategic interventions accelerate its large-scale implementation improved security. The analysis revealed that nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has in developed countries, NUE remains at 55.47%, precision nutrient management integrated soil fertility strategies enhance productivity minimize environmental impacts. With 40% world’s agricultural land already degraded, sustainability alone insufficient, necessitating shift toward regenerative practices restore degraded water by improving health, biodiversity, increasing carbon sequestration, thus ensuring long-term resilience. CSA including agriculture, biochar application, agroforestry, improve security, emissions. However, result variability highlights site-specific optimize benefits. Integrating multiple enhances health more effectively than implementing single practice alone. Widespread faces socio-economic technological barriers, requiring supportive policies, financial incentives, capacity-building initiatives. By adopting technologies, can transition sustainability, securing systems addressing challenges.

Language: Английский

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The Importance of the Glomus Genus as a Potential Candidate for Sustainable Agriculture Under Arid Environments: A Review

International Journal of Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1), P. 32 - 32

Published: March 3, 2025

Drought and salinity are major factors that hinder crop cultivation significantly impair agricultural productivity, particularly in (semi)arid regions. These two abiotic constraints cause deterioration soil structure reduced fertility hamper plant growth by limiting access to mineral elements water, thereby threatening global food security. What’s more, the excessive, long-term use of chemical fertilizers boost productivity can disrupt balance ecosystems, health. Faced with these challenges, sustainable exploitation natural resources, particular rhizospheric microorganisms, is an environmentally friendly solution. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi play important role as biofertilizers due their symbiotic relationship roots nearly 80% plants. They promote not only host plants but also resistance stresses. Among fungi, Glomus genus stands out for its predominance plants’ rhizosphere thanks richness high-performance species ecological adaptability. This review highlights importance within this soils, terrestrial ecosystems subject (semi-)arid climates. Molecular mechanisms underlying tolerance drought salt stress symbiosis explored.

Language: Английский

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Heritage to Health: The Socio-Cultural and Health Impacts of Traditional Ethnic Foods in Saudi Arabian Society

Food Chemistry Advances, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100927 - 100927

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microbiome Engineering for Sustainable Rice Production: Strategies for Biofertilization, Stress Tolerance, and Climate Resilience

Microorganisms, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 233 - 233

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

The plant microbiome, found in the rhizosphere, phyllosphere, and endosphere, is essential for nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance, overall health of plants. This review aims to update our knowledge critically discuss diversity functional roles rice as well microbiome engineering strategies enhance biofertilization resilience. Rice hosts various microorganisms that affect cycling, growth promotion, resistance stresses. Microorganisms carry out these functions through nitrogen fixation, phytohormone metabolite production, enhanced solubilization uptake, regulation host gene expression. Recent research on molecular biology has elucidated complex interactions within microbiomes signalling mechanisms establish beneficial microbial communities, which are crucial sustainable production environmental health. Crucial factors successful commercialization agents include soil properties, practical field conditions, genotype. Advances engineering, from traditional inoculants synthetic biology, optimize availability resilience abiotic stresses like drought. Climate change intensifies challenges, but innovations microbiome-shaping genes (M genes) offer promising solutions crop also discusses agronomic implications emphasizing need further exploration M breeding disease traits. Ultimately, we provide an current findings rice, highlighting pathways productivity sustainably while minimizing impacts.

Language: Английский

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Factors Influencing Livestock Ownership and Intensity Among Smallholder Farmers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Heliyon, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(2), P. e41787 - e41787

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Assessing climate change risk and vulnerability among Bhil and Bhilala tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh, India: a multidimensional approach

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Climate change presents significant risks to marginalized communities, particularly in tribal groups like the Bhil and Bhilala communities of Madhya Pradesh, India. Limited empirical studies have focused on effects climate tribes This study aims assess risk vulnerability among employing modified Mann–Kendall (MMK) test identify trends, a assessment framework based Intergovernmental panel sixth report (IPCC-AR6), multiple linear regression (MLR). The MMK indicates an increasing trend rainfall (MMK = 1.099) temperature. However, household perceptions reveal high awareness climatic changes, with 97% respondents reporting irregularity 98% documenting increased summer hot days. shows that households face higher (0.107) than (0.068), which is determined by exposure sensitivity. MLR results further emphasize 12 23 indicators significantly affect (R-squared 0.698), events (β 0.015), housing structure 0.07), food security being key contributors. findings indicate long-term trends are already affecting livelihoods. It calls for targeted adaptation strategies, incorporating enhanced infrastructure, crop diversification, better access information government schemes.

Language: Английский

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Indices to Identify Historical and Future Periods of Drought for the Maize Crop (Zea mays L.) in Central Mexico

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(2), P. 460 - 460

Published: Feb. 13, 2025

Agricultural drought is a condition that threatens natural ecosystems, water security, and food security. The timely identification of an agricultural event essential to mitigating its effects. However, achieving reliable accurate assessment challenging due the interannual variability precipitation in region. Therefore, objective this study was identify months with during cycle maize crop (Zea mays L.) Atlacomulco Rural Development District (ARDD) as area using SPI SPEI indices their impact on each phenological stage. results show when analyzing historical period (1985–2017), ARDD region prone droughts duration one month. stages grain filling ripening were most vulnerable, since SPEI-1 quantify 25% 31% total occur those stages, respectively. Towards 2041–2080 horizon, MCG ACCESS-ESM1-5 SSP2-4.5 scenario identified occurrence dry periods 17% 20% by SPEI, respectively, while for SSP5-8.5, 22% number corresponded Greater recurrence will be observed future, specifically after year 2061, meaning increase frequency events region, causing difficult erratic productive conditions threatening sustainable development. it necessary take action mitigate effects climate change sector.

Language: Английский

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Green Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles Using Plant Extracts: Mechanisms, Advances, Challenges, and Applications

BioNanoScience, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(2)

Published: March 13, 2025

Language: Английский

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Beyond the Bloom: Invasive Seaweed Sargassum spp. as a Catalyst for Sustainable Agriculture and Blue Economy—A Multifaceted Approach to Biodegradable Films, Biostimulants, and Carbon Mitigation

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(8), P. 3498 - 3498

Published: April 14, 2025

The Anthropocene has ushered in unprecedented environmental challenges, with invasive seaweed blooms emerging as a critical yet understudied facet of climate change. These blooms, driven by nutrient runoff and oceanic alterations, disrupt ecosystems, threaten biodiversity, impose economic public health burdens on coastal communities. However, seaweeds also present an opportunity sustainable resource. This study explores the valorization Sargassum spp. for agricultural applications, focusing development biodegradable bioplastics biostimulants. Field trials demonstrated effectiveness Marine Symbiotic® Sargassum-derived biostimulant distinct contexts. In Dominican Republic, pepper crops showed significant improvements, including 33.26% increase fruit weight, 21.94% rise set percentage, 45% higher yield under high-stress conditions, 48.42% reduction rejection compared to control. Colombia, across four leafy green varieties revealed biomass increases up 360%, 50% synthetic input dependency, enhanced crop coloration, improving marketability. Additionally, Sargassum-based biofilms exhibited favorable mechanical properties biodegradability, offering alternative conventional plastics. Carbon credit quantification that valorizing could prevent 89,670 tons CO2-equivalent emissions annually using just one Littoral Collection Module® harvesting system, while application carbon sequestration crops. findings underscore potential address multiple from reducing plastic pollution GHG enhancing resilience, thereby contributing Blue Economy aligning global sustainability goals.

Language: Английский

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Integrating Biofertilizers with Organic Fertilizers Enhances Photosynthetic Efficiency and Upregulates Chlorophyll-Related Gene Expression in Rice

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(21), P. 9297 - 9297

Published: Oct. 25, 2024

Biofertilizers offer a sustainable method for improving rice growth and productivity, yet their effects on the interaction between plant growth, photosynthetic activity, gene expression remain under-researched. This study examines how biofertilizer influences physiology, focusing regulation of chlorophyll-related genes. Eight fertilizer treatments were applied: control (CNT), (BF), deactivated (DABF), straw (RS), with (RS+BF), organic (OF), (OF+BF), inorganic (IOF). Plant height, tiller number, SPAD, NDVI, chlorophyll content, photosynthesis rates measured, while analysis was conducted using RT-qPCR. The OF+BF treatment produced most significant results, leading to 31% increase in 135% 42% content (SPAD values) compared control. Additionally, enhanced efficiency by 74%, highest net rate 48.23 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1. Gene revealed that upregulated key photosynthesis-related genes, such as OsChlD OsCHLM, showing 70% 90% expression. These findings highlight potential integrating biofertilizers fertilizers sustainably boost contributing global food security climate change mitigation.

Language: Английский

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