Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 53
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 53

Author: Mohammad Faizan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3030868761

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This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on stress tolerance. In particular, nanoparticles have the potential to provide effective solutions to the multiple agriculture-related problems. Nanoparticles present enhanced reactivity and thus better effectiveness when compared to their bulkier counterparts due to their higher surface-to-volume ratio.

Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Sustainable Agricultural Systems

Author: Edwards

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1990-06-01

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 9780935734218

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A unique look at how the adoption of sustainable farming methods is being pursued throughout the world. This comprehensive book provides clear insight into research and education needs and the many points of view that come to bear on the issue of sustainability. Essential for agricultural leaders in research, education, conservation, policy making, and anyone else interested in creating an economically and environmentally sustainable agriculture worldwide.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 39
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 39

Author: Eric Lichtfouse

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3030388816

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This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 56
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 56

Author: Ajay Rana

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3030844056

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This book reviews the sources, extraction, processing and applications of value-added compounds from agro-waste, with a focus on drug delivery, tea, apple pomace, lignin nanocomposites, bioethanol, fertilizers and sitosterol. Food residues provide bioactive molecules, enzymes, vitamins, antioxidants, and animal feed.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32

Author: Eric Lichtfouse

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3319989146

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This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture. In the near future, waste recycling will no longer be an option because natural resources become rare and costly, urbanisation is blooming and population is growing. In theory, most waste could be recycled. In practice, most waste is wasted. Remarkable aspects include the concepts of waste hierarchy eco-houses in smart cities, microbes and fungi for plant nutrition, and benefits of legume cultivation, biochar application and agropastoralism.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

Author: Eric Lichtfouse

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9400754493

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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. 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.

Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Mark E. Graham

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1606088068

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This book . . . is an invitation to all Christians to begin constructing a food ethics; to the academic Christian ethicist, it presents an opportunity to join a discussion on a topic relevant in so many ways to the life of every American; to the Christian for whom the spark of the divine is detectable in the everyday life, it is a chance to begin making ethical sense out of something done every day for the entirety of one's natural life-participating in agriculture. -from the Introduction In Sustainable Agriculture, Mark Graham joins the vibrant, substantive discussion about the moral issues in American agriculture by revealing what is going on in current agricultural practices and analyzing them in light of morality and sustainability. Graham's constructive proposal for change is based on a moral vision that identifies a group of core values around which our agricultural system should be developed, including: a) a consistent, safe food supply; b) vital, sustainable communities; and c) personal and environmental health.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33

Author: Eric Lichtfouse

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 3319990764

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This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Climate change affects agriculture through changes in average temperatures, rainfall and climate extremes; changes in pests and diseases; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods; and changes in sea level.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58

Author: Asif Iqbal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3031161556

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This book presents recently-developed crop, soil, and management practices that can be used to improve phosphorous use efficiency in agriculture. Food security highly depends on the availability of plant nutrients such as phosphorus, yet rock phosphate reserves are expected to be exhausted in the next 50–100 years. Moreover, about 80% of the phosphorous fertilizers applied to soils become unavailable to plants due to phosphorous fixation in iron and aluminum oxides in acidic soils and with carbonates in alkaline soils. As a consequence, only 10-15% of applied phosphorous is up taken by crops. Therefore, there is a need for advanced practices for improving phosphorus use efficiency.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 36
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 36

Author: Grégorio Crini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 3030165817

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This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in medicine and pharmacy, agriculture, food science and water treatment. Chitin and chitosan products are polysaccharides derived from food waste of crustaceans and fungi, and thus are cheap, abundant, sustainable, non-toxic, recyclable and biocompatible. Remarkable applications include food additives and preservation, packaging materials, biopesticides and fertilisers, drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioflocculation and dye removal.