Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

Volume 19

Buch | Hardcover

VI, 399 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-26776-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book features articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge. It also proposes novel, environmentally friendly solutions that are based on integrated information from such fields as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economics and the social sciences.Coverage examines ways to produce food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Inside, readers will find articles that explore climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach, which seeks to limit negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats challenges at their source. Because most societal issues are in fact intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions that have the potential to build a more peaceful world. This book will help scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians build safer agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

Chapter 1.Ecological intensification: local innovation to address global challenges.- Chapter2. The hidden and external costs of pesticide use.- Chapter 3. Cocoa inmonoculture and dynamic agroforestry.- Chapter 4. Cacao nutrition andfertilization.- Chapter 5. Agroecological principles from a bibliographicanalysis of the term Agroecology.- Chapter 6. Epichloë fungal endophytes forgrassland ecosystems.- Chapter 7. Nanofertilisers, nanopesticides, nanosensorsof pest and nanotoxicity in agriculture.- Chapter 8. Impact of fertilizers andpesticides on soil microflora in agriculture.- Chapter 9. Bambara groundnut forfood security in the changing African climate.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Zusatzinfo	VI, 399 p. 46 illus., 32 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Agriculture • Agroecology • agroforestry • Biomedical and Life Sciences • Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts • Climate change impacts • Ecosystems • Fertilization • Global Challenges • Nanofertilisers • Pesticide • sustainable development
ISBN-10	3-319-26776-0 / 3319267760
ISBN-13	978-3-319-26776-0 / 9783319267760
Zustand	Neuware