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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 14

Agroecology and Global Change

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Editors:
  1. Harry Ozier-Lafontaine

    1. UR1321, ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, INRA, Petit-Bourg, France

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  2. Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer

    1. HortSysResearch Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, CIRAD, Le Lamentin, 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
  • Covering multidisciplinary topics it will 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 14)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Agroecology Theory, Controversy and Governance

    • Valérie Angeon, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer, Arnaud Larade
    Pages 1-22

  3. Food and Energy Production from Biomass in an Integrated Farming System

    • Reg Preston, Lylian Rodríguez
    Pages 23-51

  4. Ecological Intensification for Crop Protection

    • Alain Ratnadass, Marco Barzman
    Pages 53-81

  5. Livestock Farming Systems and Agroecology in the Tropics

    • Gisèle Alexandre, Audrey Fanchone, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Jean-Louis Diman
    Pages 83-115

  6. Cropping Systems to Improve Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: The Outlook and Lines of Research

    • Cathy Clermont-Dauphin, Eric Blanchart, Gladys Loranger-Merciris, Jean-Marc Meynard
    Pages 117-158

  7. Agroecology and Grassland Intensification in the Caribbean

    • Maryline Boval, Stéphane Bellon, Gisele Alexandre
    Pages 159-184

  8. Ecosystem Services of Multispecific and Multistratified Cropping Systems

    • Serge Valet, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
    Pages 185-268

  9. Agroecological Engineering to Biocontrol Soil Pests for Crop Health

    • Marie Chave, Marc Tchamitchian, Harry Ozier-Lafontaine
    Pages 269-297

  10. Agroecological Resources for Sustainable Livestock Farming in the Humid Tropics

    • Harry Archimède, Gisèle Alexandre, Maurice Mahieu, Jérôme Fleury, Dalila Petro, Gary W. Garcia et al.
    Pages 299-330

  11. Agroecology for Farmers: The Linguistic Issue

    • Diane Le Hénaff, Zeynel Cebeci
    Pages 331-343

  12. Soil Quality and Plant Nutrition

    • Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, M. Amer, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.
    Pages 345-447

  13. Plant Nutrition: From Liquid Medium to Micro-farm

    • Hassan R. El-Ramady, T. A. Alshaal, S. A. Shehata, É. Domokos-Szabolcsy, N. Elhawat, J. Prokisch et al.
    Pages 449-508

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 509-511
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Keywords

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. 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • UR1321, ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux, INRA, Petit-Bourg, France

    Harry Ozier-Lafontaine

  • HortSysResearch Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, CIRAD, Le Lamentin, France

    Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 14

  • Book Subtitle: Agroecology and Global Change

  • Editors: Harry Ozier-Lafontaine, Magalie Lesueur-Jannoyer

  • Series Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06016-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06015-6Published: 16 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35411-8Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06016-3Published: 03 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2210-4410

  • Series E-ISSN: 2210-4429

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 511

  • Number of Illustrations: 181 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Agriculture

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