Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Surprising Facts About Soils, Students and Teachers! A Survey of Educational Research and Resources

   • Douglas Hayhoe

   Pages 1-40

3. Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Changes in Egypt

   • Hassan R. El-Ramady, Samia M. El-Marsafawy, Lowell N. Lewis

   Pages 41-95

4. Adapting Maize Crop to Diverse Agro-Ecosystems

   • Ioannis S. Tokatlidis

   Pages 97-117

5. Intercropping

   • Ehsan Neamatollahi, Mohammad Reza Jahansuz, Dariush Mazaheri, Mohammad Bannayan

   Pages 119-142

6. Enhancing Fertilizer Efficiency in High Input Cropping Systems in Florida

   • Johannes M. S. Scholberg, Lincoln Zotarelli, Michael D. Dukes, Monica Ozores-Hampton, Guodong Liu, Pablo Tittonell

   Pages 143-174

7. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Structure

   • Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis, G. Bidoglio

   Pages 175-199

8. Plant and Animal Breeding as Starting Points for Sustainable Agriculture

   • Gerhard Flachowsky, Ulrich Meyer, Manfred Gruen

   Pages 201-224

9. Medicinal Plant Active Compounds Produced by UV-B Exposure

   • Rima Kumari, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

   Pages 225-254

10. Assessing the Environmental Benefits of Compost Use-on-Land through an LCA Perspective

    • Julia Martínez-Blanco, Cristina Lazcano, Alessio Boldrin, Pere Muñoz, Joan Rieradevall, Jacob Møller et al.

    Pages 255-318

11. Biocontrol of Plant Pathogens Using Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

    • Pratibha Prashar, Neera Kapoor, Sarita Sachdeva

    Pages 319-360

12. Back Matter

    Pages 361-371

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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 solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. Because actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

• biocontrol
• crops systems
• soil organic matter

• INRA-CMSE-PME, Dijon, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

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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