Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Nutrient Recycling: Waste Hierarchy, Recycling Cities and Eco-houses

   • Jan-Olof Drangert

   Pages 1-17

3. Reducing Food Losses and Waste in the Food Supply Chain

   • Gao Liwei, Zhang Yongen, Xu Shiwei, Xu Zengrang, Cheng Shengkui, Wang Yu et al.

   Pages 19-51

4. Beneficial Microorganisms for the Management of Soil Phosphorus

   • Ioannis Ipsilantis, Mina Karamesouti, Dionisios Gasparatos

   Pages 53-75

5. New Insights into the Yields of Underexploited Grain Legume Species

   • C. Cernay, D. Makowski, E. Pelzer

   Pages 77-103

6. Grain Legumes for the Sustainability of European Farming Systems

   • Faisal Mahmood, Tanvir Shahzad, Sabir Hussain, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Azeem, Jacques Wery

   Pages 105-133

7. Nitrogen Management in the Rice–Wheat System of China and South Asia

   • Yingliang Yu, Linzhang Yang, Pengfu Hou, Lihong Xue, Alfred Oduor Odindo

   Pages 135-167

8. Oilseed Rape Crop Residues: Decomposition, Properties and Allelopathic Effects

   • Zita Kriaučiūnienė, Rita Čepulienė, Rimantas Velička, Aušra Marcinkevičienė, Kristina Lekavičienė, Egidijus Šarauskis

   Pages 169-205

9. Biochar Amendment to Soil for Sustainable Agriculture

   • Vipin Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rishikesh Singh

   Pages 207-227

10. Soil Quality and Agricultural Sustainability in Semi-arid Areas

    • Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda, Xinhua He

    Pages 229-246

11. Organic Agriculture for Food Security in Pakistan

    • Amir Raza, Saeed A. Asad, Wisal Mohammad

    Pages 247-269

12. Impact of Recombinant DNA Technology and Nanotechnology on Agriculture

    • Praveen Guleria, Vineet Kumar

    Pages 271-292

13. Back Matter

    Pages 293-297

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This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture. In the near future, waste recycling will no longer be an option because natural resources become rare and costly, urbanisation is blooming and population is growing. In theory, most waste could be recycled. In practice, most waste is wasted. Remarkable aspects include the concepts of waste hierarchy eco-houses in smart cities, microbes and fungi for plant nutrition, and benefits of legume cultivation, biochar application and agropastoralism.

• Nutrient Recycling
• Food Supply Chain
• Microorganisms
• Soil Phosphorous
• Grain Legume Species
• Rice
• Wheat
• Biochar
• Organic Agriculture
• Nanotechnology

• CEREGE, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, Aix-en-Provence, 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 identify the novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ResearcherID and Orcid.

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