Improving Water and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rengel, Zed

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems provides professionals, students, and policy makers with an in-depth view of various aspects of water and nutrient us in crop production. The book covers topics related to global economic, political, and social issues related to food production and distribution, describes various strategies and mechanisms that increase water and nutrient use efficiency, and review te curren situation and potential improvements in major food-producing systems on each continent. The book also deals with problems experienced by developed countries separtaely from problems facing developing countries. Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency emphasizes judicious water and nutrient management which is aimed at maximising water and nutrient utilisation in the agricultural landscape, and minimising undesirable nutrient losses to the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118518007
• Artikelnr.: 37346723

Autorenporträt

Zed Rengel is Winthrop Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors vii
Preface xi
1 Current State and Future Potential of Global Food Production and
Consumption 3
Christine Heumesser, Simon Thaler, Martin Schönhart, and Erwin Schmid
2 Water Resources and Global Change 21
Martin Wegehenkel
3 Translating Water into Food: How Water Cycles in Natural and Agricultural
Landscapes 33
Andrzej K¿dziora and Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
4 Nutrients as Limited Resources: Global Trends in Fertilizer Production
and Use 57
Patrick Heffer and Michel Prud'homme
5 The Flow of Phosphorus in Food Production and Consumption Systems 79
Tina-Simone S. Neset, Dana Cordell, and Lotta Andersson
6 Matching Soil Nutrient Supply and Crop Demand during the Growing Season
93
Terry Rose and Bill Bowden
7 Physiology of Nitrogen-Use Efficiency 105
Al Imran Malik and Zed Rengel
8 Improving Crop Nitrogen Use in Dryland Farming: Interactions and
Potential Trade-offs between Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 123
Trevor P. Garnett and Greg J. Rebetzke
9 Breeding Approaches to Increasing Water-Use Efficiency 145
Lianne Merchuk and Yehoshua Saranga
10 Breeding Approaches to Increasing Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Examples from
Common Beans 161
Matthew W. Blair
11 Using Simulation Modeling of Root Growth and Function as an Aid in
Breeding for Increased Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 177
Art J. Diggle and Vanessa M. Dunbabin
12 Improving Crop Production in the Arid Mediterranean Climate 187
Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Christian Richardt Jensen, and Fulai Liu
13 Agronomic Principles of Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Case Studies
in Dryland Grain Production in Australia 211
John A. Kirkegaard and Michael J. Robertson
14 Use of Organic Fertilizers Alone or in Combination with Inorganic Ones:
Effects on Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Indian Farming Systems 235
Cherkumalli Srinivasarao, Bandi Venkateswarlu, Dattatreya Mahabaleswara
Hegde, K. Venkateswara Rao, and Sumanta Kundu
15 Current Status and Future Perspectives to Increase Nutrientand Water-Use
Efficiency in Food Production Systems in China 263
Mingsheng Fan, Xiying Zhang, Lixing Yuan, Weifeng Zhang, and Fusuo Zhang
16 Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production in South America
275
Nand K. Fageria and Luís F. Stone
Index 297