Conventional agricultural management practices often times adversely impact soil health, water quality, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Thus, sustainable, and organic agricultural practices are being implemented in order to sustain soil health, water, and air quality. Efforts are currently underway on practices such as no-tillage (NT), reduced tillage, cover cropping, composting, biochar addition, diversified crop rotation, and organic managements without usage of synthetic chemicals (fertilizer, herbicide) to improve environmental quality, sustain crop yield, and food security. A number of past studies indicate that soil health can be enhanced by sustainable, and organic management practices, however, data on water quality, and GHG emissions, especially under long-term studies, and in comparison to conventional managements are scarce. The special issue of \u201cSustainability\u201d aims to seek research, and review papers that demonstrate environmental (soil, water, air) impacts of various on-farm, and in-field sustainable in contrast to conventional management strategies across the globe.
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