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- This book includes recent technologies for studying the role of management on soil biodiversity, health restoration, a function for food and nutritional security
- Incorporation of chapters covering the context of differences among the entire SOM-based agricultural approaches available for crop productivity and soil sustainability
- Chapters describing soil health restoration approaches for environmental friendly agriculture
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Meeting the food requirements of an ever-increasing population is a pressing challenge for every country around the globe. Soil degradation has a negative impact on food security by reducing the cultivated land areas, while at the same time the world population is predicted to increase to 9.2 billion in 2050. Soil degradation adversely affects soil function and productivity and degraded soils now amount to 6 billion ha worldwide. The major factors are salinization, erosion, depletion of nutrients due to exhaustive agricultural practices and contamination with toxic metal ions and agrochemicals, which reduces the activity of soil microbe. In addition, poor soil management also decreases fertility.
As such, measures are required to restore the soil health and productivity: organic matter, beneficial microorganisms and nutrient dynamics can all improve the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil. Understanding the role of soil health restoration and management in sustainability and nutritional security calls for a holistic approach to assess soil functions and examine the contributions of a particular management system within a defined timescale. Further, best management practices in cropping systems are important in ensuring sustainability and food and nutritional security without compromising the soil quality and productivity poÂtential. Rational soil management practices must allow environmentally and economically sustainÂable yields and restoration of soil health.
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Book Title: Soil Health Restoration and Management
Editors: Ram Swaroop Meena
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8570-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8569-8Published: 04 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8572-8Published: 04 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8570-4Published: 23 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 89 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Biodiversity