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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

Volume 15

  • 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
  • It covers multidisciplinary topics and therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (SARV, volume 15)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables Storage

    • Hassan R. El-Ramady, Éva Domokos-Szabolcsy, Neama A. Abdalla, Hussein S. Taha, Miklós Fári
    Pages 65-152
  3. Nitrogen-Fixing Plant-Microbe Symbioses

    • M. Harun-or Rashid, Martin Krehenbrink, Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar
    Pages 193-234
  4. Factors Influencing Farm Profitability

    • Yeong Sheng Tey, Mark Brindal
    Pages 235-255
  5. Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity in African Sustainable Agriculture

    • Alfred Oghode Misaiti Okorogbona, Patrick Olusanmi Adebola
    Pages 257-291
  6. Drought Stress Tolerant Horse Gram for Sustainable Agriculture

    • Jyoti Bhardwaj, Sudesh Kumar Yadav
    Pages 293-328
  7. Essential Oils for Pest Control in Agroecology

    • Bhawana Srivastava, Anand Sagar, Nawal Kishore Dubey, Lipika Sharma
    Pages 329-352
  8. Organic Potato Farming Adoption in Iran

    • Seyed Alireza Ghadimi, Hossien Shabanali Fami, Ali Asadi
    Pages 353-370
  9. Crop Plant Hormones and Environmental Stress

    • Shah Fahad, Lixiao Nie, Yutiao Chen, Chao Wu, Dongliang Xiong, Shah Saud et al.
    Pages 371-400
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 401-407

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. 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie, Dijon, France

    Eric Lichtfouse

About the editor

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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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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