Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

Volume 13
Herausgegeben:Lichtfouse, Eric

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions.

Produktdetails

• Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 13
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-03372-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9783319033723
• ISBN-10: 3319033727
• Artikelnr.: 43903859

Autorenporträt

Eric Lichtfouse: PhD in organic geochemistry, INRA researcher in Dijon, France since 1992, he teaches scientific writing. He is also editor in chief of the INRA journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and founder and editor of the Springer journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.

Inhaltsangabe

Leaf-cutting ants, biology and control.- Impact of pesticide productivity on food security.- Farmland birds and arable farming, a meta-analysis.- Phytoremediation, transgenic plants and microbes.- Management of pathogens of stored cereal grains.- Allelopathy for pest control.- Rice bed planting and foliar fertilization.- Integrated nutrient management and postharvest of crops.- Intercropping taro and bambara groundnut.- Land productivity and food security in Zhangjiagang, China.