Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 25
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Ecosystems.; Plant science.; Botany.; Climate change.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Plant Sciences.; Climate Change.; Soil Science & Conservation.

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 such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.