Overview
- Editors:
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Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
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UR1321, ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, INRA, Petit-Bourg, France
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Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer
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HortSysResearch Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, CIRAD, Le Lamentin, France
- The book (and series) is a state of the art on the latest research in sustainable agriculture
- This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions
- Covering multidisciplinary topics it will help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Valérie Angeon, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer, Arnaud Larade
Pages 1-22
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- Reg Preston, Lylian Rodríguez
Pages 23-51
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- Alain Ratnadass, Marco Barzman
Pages 53-81
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- Gisèle Alexandre, Audrey Fanchone, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Jean-Louis Diman
Pages 83-115
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- Cathy Clermont-Dauphin, Eric Blanchart, Gladys Loranger-Merciris, Jean-Marc Meynard
Pages 117-158
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- Maryline Boval, Stéphane Bellon, Gisele Alexandre
Pages 159-184
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- Serge Valet, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
Pages 185-268
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- Marie Chave, Marc Tchamitchian, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
Pages 269-297
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- Harry Archimède, Gisèle Alexandre, Maurice Mahieu, Jérôme Fleury, Dalila Petro, Gary W. Garcia et al.
Pages 299-330
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- Diane Le Hénaff, Zeynel Cebeci
Pages 331-343
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- Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, M. Amer, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.
Pages 345-447
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- Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, S. A. Shehata, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.
Pages 449-508
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Back Matter
Pages 509-511
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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UR1321, ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, INRA, Petit-Bourg, France
Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
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HortSysResearch Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, CIRAD, Le Lamentin, France
Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer
About the editors
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.