Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Methods for Rapid Testing of Plant and Soil Nutrients

   • Christian Dimkpa, Prem Bindraban, Joan E. McLean, Lydiah Gatere, Upendra Singh, Deborah Hellums

   Pages 1-43

3. World Cultivation of Genetically Modified Crops: Opportunities and Risks

   • Vartika Mathur, Lamis Javid, Samarth Kulshrestha, Aakash Mandal, Amarender A. Reddy

   Pages 45-87

4. Food Security in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council States

   • Abdirashid A. Elmi

   Pages 89-114

5. Methods to Study Agricultural Systems

   • Myrtille Lacoste, Roger Lawes, Olivier Ducourtieux, Ken Flower

   Pages 115-148

6. Comparison of Methods to Assess Agricultural Sustainability

   • Byomkesh Talukder, Alison Blay-Palmer

   Pages 149-168

7. Sustainable Cultivation of Saffron in Iran

   • Reza Ghorbani, Alireza Koocheki

   Pages 169-203

8. Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

   • Cargele Masso, Generose Nziguheba, James Mutegi, Corinne Galy-Lacaux, John Wendt, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl et al.

   Pages 205-231

9. Silicon in Agriculture

   • Rinny Swain, Gyan Ranjan Rout

   Pages 233-260

10. Long-Term Chemical Fertilization in Tanzania

    • Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda, Xinhua He

    Pages 261-276

11. Interaction of Mycorrhizal Fungi and Azotobacter with Root-Knot Nematodes and Root-Chewing Insects

    • Zehra Khan, Md. Aslam Khan, Wasim Ahmad, Sangeeta Paul

    Pages 277-302

12. Back Matter

    Pages 303-304

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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: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions.

• Sustainable Development
• Plant Sciences
• Climate Change
• Agroecology
• Soil Science

• Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois, CEREGE, Aix-Marseille Université, Coll de France, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

Eric Lichtfouse, is a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research  (INRA). He has invented the 13C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of soil organic molecules, thus opening the field of  molecular-level investigations of soil carbon sequestration. Chief Editor of the awarded journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, he has raised the journal rank from 29/53 in 2003, with an impact factor of 0.56, to 2/81 in 2014, with an impact factor of 3.99, in the Agronomy category. He is also Chief Editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. He is lecturing scientific writing and communication in universities worldwide. His publication assistance service at the INRA has founded the french-english newsletter Publier La Science. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journal. This textbook describes in particular the micro-article, a new tool to identifythe novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ResearcherID and Orcid.

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