Farming for Food and Water Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 10
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Environmental management.; Agriculture.; Life Sciences.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

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:

• Public goods and farming
• Pesticides and sustainable agriculture
• Nitrogen use efficiency by annual and perennial crops
• Microalgae for bioremediation of distillery effluent
• No-till direct seeding for energy-saving rice production in China
• Agricultural water poverty index for a sustainable world
• Participatory rural appraisal to solve irrigation issues
• Bioavailability of soil P for plant nutrition.-Animal manure for smallholder agriculture in South Africa
• Vermicompost and soil quality.