This book deals with 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.
Table of Content
Chapter 01: Water quality impacts on agricultural productivity and environment. – Chapter 02: Agro-ecosystem diversity in petroleum and natural gas explored sites in Assam State, North-Eastern India: socio-economic perspectives.- Chapter 03: Pest management in stored products: the case of the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae).- Chapter 04: Floriculture Sustainability Initiative: The Dawn of New Era.- Chapter 05: Ozone toxicity and remediation in crop plants.- Chapter 06: Amaranth and millet in the context of “silent hunger” and food distribution.- Chapter 07: Impact of Cyclodextrin in Drug Delivery System: Current Status and Future Perspective.- Chapter 08: Sustainable agriculture in the Republic of Korea.- Chapter 09: Crop productivity in changing climate.- Chapter 10: In vitro propagation of ornamentals for Maximising livelihood security.
About the author
Eric Lichtfouse, is a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). He has invented the 13C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of soil organic molecules, thus opening the field of molecular-level investigations of soil carbon sequestration. Chief Editor of the awarded journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, he has raised the journal rank from 29/53 in 2003, with an impact factor of 0.56, to 2/81 in 2014, with an impact factor of 3.99, in the Agronomy category. He is also Chief Editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. He is lecturing scientific writing and communication in universities worldwide. His publication assistance service at the INRA has founded the french-english newsletter Publier La Science. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journal. This textbook describes in particular the micro-article, a new tool to identify the novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, Linked In, Research Gate, Researcher ID and Orcid.
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