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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Eric Lichtfouse

    1. Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois, CEREGE, Aix-Marseille Université, Coll de France, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (SARV, volume 25)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Methods for Rapid Testing of Plant and Soil Nutrients

    • Christian Dimkpa, Prem Bindraban, Joan E. McLean, Lydiah Gatere, Upendra Singh, Deborah Hellums
    Pages 1-43

  3. World Cultivation of Genetically Modified Crops: Opportunities and Risks

    • Vartika Mathur, Lamis Javid, Samarth Kulshrestha, Aakash Mandal, Amarender A. Reddy
    Pages 45-87

  4. Food Security in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council States

    • Abdirashid A. Elmi
    Pages 89-114

  5. Methods to Study Agricultural Systems

    • Myrtille Lacoste, Roger Lawes, Olivier Ducourtieux, Ken Flower
    Pages 115-148

  6. Comparison of Methods to Assess Agricultural Sustainability

    • Byomkesh Talukder, Alison Blay-Palmer
    Pages 149-168

  7. Sustainable Cultivation of Saffron in Iran

    • Reza Ghorbani, Alireza Koocheki
    Pages 169-203

  8. Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Cargele Masso, Generose Nziguheba, James Mutegi, Corinne Galy-Lacaux, John Wendt, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl et al.
    Pages 205-231

  9. Silicon in Agriculture

    • Rinny Swain, Gyan Ranjan Rout
    Pages 233-260

  10. Long-Term Chemical Fertilization in Tanzania

    • Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda, Xinhua He
    Pages 261-276

  11. Interaction of Mycorrhizal Fungi and Azotobacter with Root-Knot Nematodes and Root-Chewing Insects

    • Zehra Khan, Md. Aslam Khan, Wasim Ahmad, Sangeeta Paul
    Pages 277-302

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 303-304
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About this book

This book deals with 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

  • Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois, CEREGE, Aix-Marseille Université, Coll de France, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France

    Eric Lichtfouse

About the editor

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 identifythe novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ResearcherID and Orcid.

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