Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is a scientist (Agronomy) at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Karnal, India. He is working on enhancing resource use efficiencies in conservation agriculture-based rice-wheat systems for sustainable crop production. He has published 8 books in Springer, Elsevier and national publishers as editor and author as well. He has edited several special issues in MDPI and Frontier having impact factors up to 5.0. Currently, he is an active reviewer of various highly reputed journals, e.g., Sustainability, Agriculture, Agricultural Water Management, Soil and Tillage, European Journal of Agronomy, Plant and Soil, PLOS One and many others. He has received numerous prestigious national awards, including Young Scientist, Best Paper Awards, Best Research Scholar, and Best Master’s Thesis awards. Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is an Agronomist working in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shri Prof. Rattan Lal, World Food Prize Laureate, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has completed 10 external funded projects including, MHRD, ICAR, DST, etc.

1. COP 26: A pivotal pledge to net zero emissions
2. Greenhouse gases emissions: Problem, global reality and future perspectives
3. Net zero emission: Progress, opportunities and challenges
4. Food losses and waste: Establishing a sustainable food supply chain to lower greenhouse gas emissions
5. Global Carbon Market: Policy Pathways for Low Carbon Emissions in the Agriculture Sector
6. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems to ensure zero carbon emission
7. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint
8. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture
9. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission
10. Agroforestry and Net-Zero in the European Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
11. Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy
12. Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture
13. Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector
14. Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency
15. Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions
16. Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future
17. Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production
18. Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector
19. Microbes for reducing greenhouse gases emission in agriculture for a sustainable future
20. Recent advancement in climate change projections and socio-economic scenarios used to evaluate climate impacts and adaptation measures