Coronavirus pandemic has affected various sectors of life, including agriculture. The pandemic is growing uncertainty, economic losses for farmers and employees. This is a challenge for farmers, researchers and the government to create innovations for sustainable agricultural development. Problems during the pandemic and its impact that shook the world have emerged a difficulty in the realization of sustainable agricultural development. The world must rise together to find solutions to the problems facing the world. Restriction and isolation in many parts of the world encourage society to use local resources. Therefore, the 2nd International Seminar on Promoting Local Resources (Iseprolocal) in 2020 has the theme “Promoting Local Resources for Sustainable Agricultural Development”.

The 2nd Iseprolocal is a scientific meeting that aims to build worldwide networking among scientists and as an effective tool of sharing knowledge and ideas to address many agricultural development problems. This year, the 2nd Iseprolocal received ... scientific papers from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Turkey. The submitted articles went through a double-blind review process performed by scientific committee coming from different institutions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, The United States of America, Turkey, Australia and India. The number of accepted papers will be published in the Web of Science (WoS) for data sharing.

With best of wishes,
Agustin Zarkani, Ph.D