Climate Changes and Energy Transitions
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Tolerance of plants and livestock to heat, flooding, drought, and saltwater intrusions
- Optimizing energy required for tillage and other farm operations
- Making soils a carbon-sink while maintaining fertility and use
- Preparing for new pest invasions as climates change
- Electrification of farm machinery
- Energy and water efficient innovations for Agri-food systems
- Reduce emission of greenhouse gases
- Emerging threat to sustainable agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture
- Circular Economy
- Zero input agriculture
- Pant-plant and plant-animal signaling
- Underground plant-plant communications
- Collective action and social innovation for transformation
- Breeding adaptation; tolerance systems
- Digital tools for sustainable agri-food systems
- Sustainable climate-smart agricultural practices and agri-food systems
- Climate smart organic farming
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Transitions to Resilient
- Agrifood Systems
- SDG2: End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Economic, environmental and social indicators of sustainability: Land productivity, Profitability, Resilience, Soil health, Water use, Fertilizer pollution risk, Pesticide risks, farm employment, Food security, Land tenure. Measuring Progress towards Productive and Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate change
- Climate change and industrial agriculture
- Integrated pest management
- Biotechnological interventions in agriculture
Biodiversity and Provision of Ecosystem Services Across Agricultural Landscapes
- Building and maintaining genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated, wild, farmed and domesticated plants and animals
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services role in agrifood systems.
- Meeting future conservation targets, and maintaining key services for humans and biodiversity
Future Forest Management: Towards Climate Resilience
- Climate Resilient Management Practices
- Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Climate Resilient Forest Management
- Climate resilient tree species
- Tree improvement techniques for mass seed production
- Urban tree plantations for minimizing the climate risks
- Climate change durable agro-forestry