Farming for Food and Water Security. 1st ed. 2012

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edited by Eric Lichtfouse

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012

著者名:

• Lichtfouse, Eric.
• SpringerLink (Online service)

シリーズ名:

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews ; 10

ISBN:

9789400745001 [9400745001]    

注記:

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.
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

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