Farming for Food and Water Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Public Goods and Farming

   • Catherine L. Gerrard, L. G. Smith, B. Pearce, S. Padel, R. Hitchings, M. Measures et al.

   Pages 1-22

3. Pesticides and Sustainable Agriculture

   • Patrick Drogui, Pierre Lafrance

   Pages 23-55

4. Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Annual and Perennial Crops

   • Corina Carranca

   Pages 57-82

5. Microalgae for Bioremediation of Distillery Effluent

   • Nirbhay K. Singh, D. B. Patel

   Pages 83-109

6. No-Till Direct Seeding for Energy-Saving Rice Production in China

   • Min Huang, Bing Xia, Yingbin Zou, Peng Jiang, Yuehua Feng, Zhaowei Cheng et al.

   Pages 111-126

7. Agricultural Water Poverty Index for a Sustainable World

   • Masoumeh Forouzani, Ezatollah Karami, Mansour Zibaei, Gh. Hossein Zamani

   Pages 127-155

8. Participatory Rural Appraisal to Solve Irrigation Issues

   • Albert T. Modi

   Pages 157-176

9. Bioavailability of Soil P for Plant Nutrition

   • R. S. Yadav, S. C. Meena, S. I. Patel, K. I. Patel, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, B. K. Yadav et al.

   Pages 177-200

10. Animal Manure for Smallholder Agriculture in South Africa

    • Alfred Oghode Misaiti Okorogbona, Lasisi Olaosebikan Adebisi

    Pages 201-242

11. Vermicompost and Soil Quality

    • Supradip Saha, Debashis Dutta, Deb Prasad Ray, Rajib Karmakar

    Pages 243-264

12. Back Matter

    Pages 265-274

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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.

• Agroindicators
• Food Security
• Organic Farming
• Pesticides
• Water Security
• water policy

• INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie, Dijon, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

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