Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Negacz, Katarzyna; Elzenga, Theo; Choukr-Allah, Redouane; Barrett-Lennard, Edward; Vellinga, Pier

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Produktbeschreibung

Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world's attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available world-wide, fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 541
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000401141
• Artikelnr.: 61849285

Autorenporträt

Katarzyna Negacz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and cooperates with Wadden Academy. For more than 12 years she has been involved in research and practice related to sustainable development. After completing her studies in economics and law, Professor Negacz earned a doctoral degree in environmental economics at the Warsaw School of Economics for her research on the evolution of green consumption in Taiwan. She conducted research in Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Germany, and the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on the potential of saline degraded lands for sustainable food production and transnational biodiversity governance. Pier Vellinga earned a PhD in coastal protection at Delft Technical University. He has a chair on climate change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 1990. His teaching, research, and publications (about 200) focus on the implications of climate change regarding water, energy, and food. He joined Wageningen University in 2007 as a professor in climate change. Over the years he has fulfilled many different board positions in NGOs, research programs, and UN, EU, and governmental committees and financial institutions. For 30 years he has been advisor to the Venice Water Authorities on the protection of Venice and its lagoon, a work successfully completed in 2020. Edward Barrett-Lennard works in the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) of Western Australia, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia. For more than 35 years Professor Barrett-Lennard has been a passionate researcher and advocate of the need to develop saline agricultural farming systems in response to landscape salinization and climate change. His interests lie at the intersection between practical agriculture, agronomy, soil science, and ecophysiology. He is the author/editor of four books, more than 70 papers, and numerous other publications. Professor Barrett-Lennard has worked in Australia (mostly), Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Iraq, and Vietnam. Redouane Choukr-Allah is a horticultural, soil, and water environmental expert with more than 35 years of experience in the use of saline water and the use of pretreated sewage in Horticulture. He earned a PhD in environment horticulture at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA. He also served as a technical coordinator of a 12 million project, financed by USAID on the water resources sustainability in Morocco. He served as head of the Horticulture Department from 1983 to 1996 and as head of the salinity and plant nutrition laboratory since 1996. He served at ICBA as a senior fellow scientist in horticulture and a Section Head of Crop Diversification and Genetics. He has produced numerous publications, including edited books, research reports, articles in peer-reviewed international journals, and books in the field of nonconventional water. Theo Elzenga earned an MSc in biology at the University of Amsterdam and a PhD at Groningen on nutrient and CO2 acquisition by plants. After working as a postdoctoral student at Wageningen University and at the University of Washington in Seattle, he returned to Groningen, where he has held a chair in ecophysiology of plants since 2000. His teaching focuses on the adaptation and acclimation of plants to adverse conditions. He was Director of the Centre of Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Director of the Graduate School of Ecology and Evolution, and Director of the Undergraduate School of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He is on advisory panels on agricultural development and the safety of genetically engineered organisms.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Saline Agriculture: Global State of the Art and Strategies 1.
Saline Agriculture: A Call to Action 2. Achieving Multiple Sustainable
Development Goals through Saline Agriculture 3. Agriculture in Salinising
Landscapes in Southern Australia: Selected Research 'Snapshots' 4. Use and
Management of Saline Water for Irrigation in the Near East and North Africa
(NENA) Region 5. Salinization Threats to Agriculture across the North Sea
Region 6. Economic Impact of Soil Salinization and the Potential for Saline
Agriculture 7. Cost or Benefit? Estimating the Global Economic Potential of
Saline Agriculture 8. Challenges and Opportunities for Saline Agriculture
in Coastal Bangladesh 9. Innovations of the 21st Century in the Management
of Iranian Salt-Affected Lands 10 An Approach to Monitoring of
Salt-Affected Croplands Using Remote Sensing Data: The Case Study in the
Nukus District (Uzbekistan) 11. From Desert Farm to Fork: Value Chain
Development for Innovative Salicornia-Based Food Products in the United
Arab Emirates Section II: Biosaline Agriculture in Delta and Coastal
Environments 12. Saline Agriculture as a Way to Adapt to Sea Level Rise 13.
Stakeholder Perspectives on the Issue of Salinization in Agriculture in the
Netherlands 14. Mitigating and Adapting Agriculture of Coastal Areas in the
Netherlands Wadden Sea Region to Increasing Salinization: From a Vision
towards a Practical Implementation 15. Saline Farming in the Wadden Sea
Region of the Netherlands: Promising Initiatives for Salt-Tolerant Crops
and Saline Aquaculture 16. Viability of the Saline Farming of Quinoa and
Seed Potatoes in the Netherlands: An Assessment Supported by a Value Chain
Analysis of Both Products 17. Dynamics of Soil Salinity in Denmark 18.
Climate-Resilient Agricultural Practices in the Saline-Prone Areas of
Bangladesh 19. Salinity Dynamics and Water Availability in Water Bodies
over a Dry Season in the Ganges Delta: Implications for Cropping Systems
Intensification 20. The International Farmers' Café on Salinization and
Saline Agriculture: A Test Case for Participatory Research on Saline
Agriculture 21. Putting Saline Agriculture into Practice: A Case Study from
Bangladesh 22. Case Study - Stichting De Zilte Smaak: 'Discovering Saline
Farming Potential on Terschelling' Section III: Crop Salt Tolerance and
Microbiological Associations 23. Developments in Adaptation to Salinity at
the Crop Level 24. Salt Effects on Plants: An Overview 25. Global Analysis
of Differences in Plant Traits between Salt-Tolerant and Salt-Sensitive
Plants 26. Comparative Study on the Response of Several Tomato Rootstocks
to Drought and Salinity Stresses 27. Root Architecture and Productivity of
Three Grass Species under Salt Stress 28. Quinoa, a Promising Halophyte
with Modified Planting Date, and Minimum Water and Pesticide Requirements
for Fars Province, Iran 29. Response of Quinoa to High Salinity under Arid
Conditions 30. The Potential of Edible Halophytes as New Crops in Saline
Agriculture: The Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.) Case Study
31. Salicornia Species: Current Status and Future Potential 32. Plant
Growth-Promoting Bacteria as an Alternative Strategy for the Amelioration
of Salt-Stress Effects in Plants 33 Tolerance to Environmental Stresses: Do
Fungal Endophytes Mediate Plasticity in Solanum Dulcamara?