Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 15 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 15
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Soil Science & Conservation.

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:

• 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.