Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Research and Development Priorities in the Face of Climate Change and Rapidly Evolving Pests

   • Marco Barzman, Jay Ram Lamichhane, Kees Booij, Piet Boonekamp, Nicolas Desneux, Laurent Huber et al.

   Pages 1-27

3. Phosphorus Dynamics and Management in Forage Systems with Cow-Calf Operation

   • Gilbert C. Sigua

   Pages 29-60

4. Conservation Tillage for Soil Management and Crop Production

   • Surjeet S. Manhas, Ajab S. Sidhu, Khuswinder S. Brar

   Pages 61-87

5. Salinity and Crop Productivity

   • Alfred Oghode M. Okorogbona, Lavhelesani R. Managa, Patrick O. Adebola, Hanyeleni M. Ngobeni, Tsunduka B. Khosa

   Pages 89-120

6. Vegetable Breeding Industry and Property Rights

   • João Silva Dias, Rodomiro Ortiz

   Pages 121-139

7. Local Plants for Rural Food Security

   • Ruparao T. Gahukar

   Pages 141-158

8. Phytoremediation Crops and Biofuels

   • M. N. V. Prasad

   Pages 159-261

9. Growth and Defense Metabolism of Plants Exposed to Ultraviolet-B Radiation

   • Rima Kumari, M. N. V. Prasad, S. B. Agrawal

   Pages 263-305

10. Soil Quality and Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere

    • Debarati Bhaduri, Sharmistha Pal, T. J. Purakayastha, K. Chakraborty, R. S. Yadav, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar

    Pages 307-335

11. Vetiver Production for Small Farmers in India

    • E. V. S. Prakasa Rao, Srinivas Akshata, C. T. Gopinath, N. S. Ravindra, Aparna Hebbar, Nagendra Prasad

    Pages 337-355

12. Back Matter

    Pages 357-366

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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.

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

• INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie, Dijon, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

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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