Editorial: Water-smart crop farming: a holistic approach to its practice as a climate change adaptation strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

Editorial on the Research Topic Water-smart crop farming: a holistic approach to its practice as a climate change adaptation strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa Research Topic identified some water-smart farming technologies such as irrigation (including supplementary irrigation of rain-fed systems), glasshouse farming, use of water use-efficient technologies such as drought tolerant crop genotypes, remote sensing, weather forecast and moisture monitoring, crop diversification, biological and engineering bases soil, and water conservation measures. Objectives of the Research Topic and editorialThe Research Topic proposed a collection that centers around water-smart farming approaches for sustainable crop production. The Research Topic was expected to span papers in agricultural water management and conservation as well as ecological approaches for landscape management and aquifer recharge as well as on-farm