Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 14

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Agroecology Theory, Controversy and Governance

   • Valérie Angeon, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer, Arnaud Larade

   Pages 1-22

3. Food and Energy Production from Biomass in an Integrated Farming System

   • Reg Preston, Lylian Rodríguez

   Pages 23-51

4. Ecological Intensification for Crop Protection

   • Alain Ratnadass, Marco Barzman

   Pages 53-81

5. Livestock Farming Systems and Agroecology in the Tropics

   • Gisèle Alexandre, Audrey Fanchone, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Jean-Louis Diman

   Pages 83-115

6. Cropping Systems to Improve Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: The Outlook and Lines of Research

   • Cathy Clermont-Dauphin, Eric Blanchart, Gladys Loranger-Merciris, Jean-Marc Meynard

   Pages 117-158

7. Agroecology and Grassland Intensification in the Caribbean

   • Maryline Boval, Stéphane Bellon, Gisele Alexandre

   Pages 159-184

8. Ecosystem Services of Multispecific and Multistratified Cropping Systems

   • Serge Valet, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine

   Pages 185-268

9. Agroecological Engineering to Biocontrol Soil Pests for Crop Health

   • Marie Chave, Marc Tchamitchian, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine

   Pages 269-297

10. Agroecological Resources for Sustainable Livestock Farming in the Humid Tropics

    • Harry Archimède, Gisèle Alexandre, Maurice Mahieu, Jérôme Fleury, Dalila Petro, Gary W. Garcia et al.

    Pages 299-330

11. Agroecology for Farmers: The Linguistic Issue

    • Diane Le Hénaff, Zeynel Cebeci

    Pages 331-343

12. Soil Quality and Plant Nutrition

    • Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, M. Amer, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.

    Pages 345-447

13. Plant Nutrition: From Liquid Medium to Micro-farm

    • Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, S. A. Shehata, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.

    Pages 449-508

14. Back Matter

    Pages 509-511

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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.

• Agroecology
• Climate Change
• Crop Protection

• UR1321, ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, INRA, Petit-Bourg, France

  Harry Ozier-Lafontaine

• HortSysResearch Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, CIRAD, Le Lamentin, France

  Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer

Eric Lichtfouse: PhD in organic geochemistry, INRA researcher in Dijon, France since 1992, he teaches scientific writing. He is also editor in chief of the INRA journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and founder and editor of the Springer journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.

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