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Farming for Food and Water Security

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, Band 10

von: Eric Lichtfouse
CHF 177.00
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	30.06.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9789400745001
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	274

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Titelbeschreibung

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<p>Public goods and farming.- Pesticides and sustainable agriculture.- Nitrogen use efficiency by annual and perennial crops.- Microalgae for bioremediation of distillery effluent.- No-till direct seeding for energy-saving rice production in China.- Agricultural water poverty index for a sustainable world.- Participatory rural appraisal to solve irrigation issues.- Bioavailability of soil P for plant nutrition.-Animal manure for smallholder agriculture in South Africa.- Vermicompost and soil quality.</p>

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

Sonderbeitrag

Reports a novel tool to assess public goods of organic farming using a radar diagram Reports a list of advanced methods to remove water pesticides Participatory research shows that farmers perform better than extension officers Reports a list of criteria to select agroindicators