This editorial article provides a brief overview of various articles published in the Special Issue: Managing Agroecosystems for Food and Nutrition Security.

The paper presents an investigation of agroecosystem dynamics with an application to yield data from England over the period 1885-2012. The analysis relies on a Threshold Quantile Autoregressive (TQAR) model. The model allows for lag effects to vary across quantiles of the distribution as well as with the values taken by the lagged variables. While it includes as special case the quantile autor...

Irrigation water is a vital input for agricultural production. The supply of irrigation to crops enhances land productivity and affects the agroecosystem functioning. Agroecosystems co-provide wide range services disservices, which contribute positively negatively, respectively, human wellbeing. Therefore, irrigated agroecosystems produce several positive negative outcomes in relation society, ...