Alternative Farming Systems, Biotechnology, Drought Stress and Ecological Fertilisation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Thinking by Connections and the Dynamics of Nature for Food Production

   • Clara Ceppa

   Pages 1-14

3. Transgenic Bt Corn Hybrids and Pest Management in the USA

   • Siddharth Tiwari, Roger R. Youngman

   Pages 15-37

4. Marker-Assisted Breeding in Higher Plants

   • Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Muhammmad Asif, Tayyaba Shaheen, Nabila Tabbasam, Yusuf Zafar, Andrew H. Paterson

   Pages 39-76

5. Phytoremediation Techniques for Pesticide Contaminations

   • Sophie Pascal-Lorber, François Laurent

   Pages 77-105

6. Sustainable Land Use and Agricultural Soil

   • Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo, Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo, Dennis Flanagan, Iván García Tejero, José Luis Muriel Fernández

   Pages 107-192

7. Drought Stress Effect on Crop Pollination, Seed Set, Yield and Quality

   • Ahmad M. Alqudah, Nezar H. Samarah, Russell E. Mullen

   Pages 193-213

8. Ecological Fertilization

   • György Füleky, Szilveszter Benedek

   Pages 215-243

9. Tropical Homegardens in Bangladesh: Characteristics and Sustainability

   • Mahbubul Alam

   Pages 245-262

10. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Rhizobium to Control Plant Fungal Diseases

    • Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Zaki. A. Siddiqui, Andres Wiemken

    Pages 263-292

11. Sustainable Crop Production using Saline and Sodic Irrigation Waters

    • Om Parkash Choudhary, Stephen Richards Grattan, Paramjit Singh Minhas

    Pages 293-318

12. Climate Change Impact on Forestry in India

    • Geetanjali Kaushik, M. A. Khalid

    Pages 319-344

13. Back Matter

    Pages 345-354

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues, and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

• Agriculture
• Agroecology
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Soil Science
• Entomology

From the reviews:

“This series of books collates review articles to provide scientists, policy makers and producers with a sound knowledge-base of current agricultural issues and to introduce novel, environmentally friendly solutions that pave the way for developing sustainable agricultural systems. … We found of most interest the review of sustainable land use and agricultural soils that considers the temporal and spatial scale. It postulates the importance of indicators of soil quality … .” (Susanne Padel and Jo Smith, Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 47 (4), 2011)

• INRA-CMSE-PME, Dijon, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

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