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.
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Chapter 01: Applications for rapid testing of plant and soil nutrients.- Chapter 02: World cultivation of genetically modified crops: opportunities and risks.- Chapter03: Food security in the arab gulf cooperation council states.- Chapter 04: Methods to Study Agricultural Systems.- Chapter 05:Comparison of methods to assess agricultural sustainability.- Chapter 06: Sustainable cultivation of saffron in Iran.- Chapter 07: Soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 08: Silicon in Agriculture.- Chapter 09: Long-term chemical fertilization in Tanzania.- Chapter 10: Interaction of mycorrhizal fungi and Azotobacter with root-knot nematodes and root-chewing insects.
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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 identifythe novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, Linked In, Research Gate, Researcher ID and Orcid.
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