Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 17 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 17
• 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:

• Robust cropping strategies against evolving pests under climate change
• Phosphorus dynamics and management in forage systems with cow-calf operation
• Conservation tillage for soil management and crop production
• Salinity and crop productivity
• Vegetable breeding industry and property rights
• Local plants for rural food security
• Phytoremediation and biofuels
• Growth and defense metabolism of plants exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation
• Soil quality and plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere
• Vetiver production for small farmers in India. .