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.
Daftar Isi
01 Seed legislation in Europe and crop genetic diversity.- 02 Postharvest management of fruits and vegetables storage.- 03 Herbicides: history, classification and genetic manipulation of plants for herbicide resistance.- 04 Nitrogen-fixing plant-microbe symbioses.- 05 Factors influencing farm profitability.- 06 Soil fertility and crop productivity in African sustainable agriculture.- 07 Drought stress tolerant Horse Gram for sustainable agriculture.- 08.- Essential oils for pest control in Agroecology.- 09 Organic potato farming adoption in Iran.- 10 Crop plant hormones and environmental stress.
Tentang Penulis
Eric Lichtfouse: Ph D in organic geochemistry, INRA researcher in Dijon, France since 1992, he teaches scientific writing. He is also editor in chief of the INRA journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and founder and editor of the Springer journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.
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