The cover image shows a beautiful agricultural landscape that has been integrated into the concept of green development. Agriculture Green Development (AGD) ultimately aims to achieve multiple societal goals, including food security, resource conservation, environmental sustainability, and social equity, thereby promoting rural revitalization and building a more beautiful countryside. To realize AGD in practice, there is a need for coupling the four subsystems of green crop production, green integrated crop-animal production, green food and industry, and green ecological environment and ecosystem services in order to develop a coherent whole food production-consumption chain. Some of the innovations may have to take place at these interlinkages of the aforementioned subsystems. There is also a need for interdisciplinary research and multi-stakeholder interactions as a key to bridge the gap between theory and practice, thus taking AGD from concept to action. The paradigm shift associated with AGD will be an example for other countries with similar status around the world to explore sustainable agricultural development.
(Jianbo SHEN, Qichao ZHU, Yong HOU, Wen-Feng CONG, Wen XU, Jiuliang XU, Zhichao AN, Xiaoqiang JIAO, Kai ZHANG, Tianxiang YU, Lin MA, Oene OENEMA, William J. DAVIES, Fusuo ZHANG. pp 5–19)
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