Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 13 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 13
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Sustainable Development.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-natio...

Table of Contents:

• Leaf-cutting ants, biology and control
• Impact of pesticide productivity on food security
• Farmland birds and arable farming, a meta-analysis
• Phytoremediation, transgenic plants and microbes
• Management of pathogens of stored cereal grains
• Allelopathy for pest control
• Rice bed planting and foliar fertilization
• Integrated nutrient management and postharvest of crops
• Intercropping taro and bambara groundnut
• Land productivity and food security in Zhangjiagang, China.