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  title info:
    title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
    sub title: Volume 12
  name:
    name part: Lichtfouse, Eric.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 371 p. 49 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.
  table of contents: Surprising facts about soils, students and teachers! A survey of educational research and resources -- Sustainable agriculture and climate changes in Egypt -- Adapting maize crop to diverse agro-ecosystems -- Intercropping.- Soil organic matter dynamics and structure -- Enhancing fertilizer efficiency in high input cropping systems in Florida -- Plant and animal breeding as starting points for sustainable agriculture -- Medicinal plant active compounds produced by UV-B exposure -- Benefits of compost for land determined by life cycle assessment -- Biocontrol of plant pathogens using plant growth promoting rhizobacteria.
  note: edited by Eric Lichtfouse.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 12
  identifier: 9789400759619
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5961-9
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    record creation date: 130217
    record change date: 20150519191357.0
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