Call for full papers

Call for full papers

Submit your full paper

Contribution for full paper/book chapter

We are pleased to share that we aim to publish full papers/book chapter as a special issue with Springer publishers under eight different themes of the conference. Select papers based on the submitted abstracts will be invited to contribute book chapter.

Conference Themes:

1. Dryland Production Systems: Improving the Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers
2.  Seed Systems: Elevating Public Private Partnerships in Asia and Africa
3. Regenerative / Natural Farming Systems for Drylands
4. Managing Dryland Soil Health and Water Resources
5. Strengthening Nutri – Sensitive Food Systems for the Drylands
6. Improving Productivity, Climate Resilience and Nutrition in Drylands – Technologies and Approaches
7. Inclusive Demand Driven Value Chains for the Drylands
8. Integrating Gender Youth and Social Inclusion in Dryland Agri-Food Systems

You are welcome to associate with other colleague(s)/collaborator(s) from different countries to write the book chapter.

We very much hope that you should be able to accept our invitation by 5 February 2023 and share the full paper by 31 March 2023.

Instructions for the authors for developing full paper/Book Chapter 

• Chapter should be about 30-40 pages (Times New Roman, font 11, 1.5 spacing)
• Chapter should be written in Microsoft Word
• Figures should be provided as separate files, not embedded in the manuscript. Acceptable file types for artwork include .jpg, and .tif
• Equations, tables, and/or text boxes should be embedded in the text, not uploaded as separate files
• Chapter should have defined structure such as Abstract, Background, Detailed Content, Challenges and Opportunities. Springer Nature reference style needs to be followed.