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Harnessing Microbial Solutions for Sustainable Food and Environmental Security

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How to sustainably provide food and fodder to a mounting worldwide resident is a perquisite interrogation which is still lacking a response from the scientific world. Additional difficulties are due to industrial development and other human actions are responsible for upsurging the dissimilar contaminants, which gather in soils and marine ecosystems. Which leads not only the social security at danger, but then again also a major threat to ecological healthiness. For sustainable remedies for different environmental issues there are a numerous methods and tactics which are different industries and NGOs are using to reduce contamination from the environments, but the only techniques which we can use reduce pollutants without conciliatory environmental healthiness and well-beings are microbial products. Microbial methods can efficaciously be castoff for sustainable farming expansion. Additionally, these microbial solutions have positive touches on the treatment of bioaugmentation, solid waste managements, remediation of environmental pollutants, and detoxification of heavy metals. Microorganism are a gem in itself, if they uncertainty oppressed sensibly, they can subsidize to the sustainable development. In the current scenario the foremost tribunals are climate change, food safety, and increase in pollutants, and microbes are effectively sufficient in solving out these encounters alone. Microbes are ubiquitous and repeatedly in actual great figures. Therefore, microbes can be utilized for solving and resolving the numerous environmental issues in the world which needs a sustainable approach to minimize pollutants in the ecosystems.

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Authors are grateful to Centre for GMP Extraction Facility (Department of Biotechnology) NIPER Guwahati, Assam-India, and NMHS (National Mission on Himalayan Studies) Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India, New Delhi for support.

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  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Al Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, Jordan

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  4. Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

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Adhikari, P., Thathola, P., Joshi, K., Mohammad Said Al-Tawaha, A.R., Al-Tawaha, A.R.M. (2024). Harnessing Microbial Solutions for Sustainable Food and Environmental Security. In: Karnwal, A., Mohammad Said Al-Tawaha, A.R. (eds) Microbial Applications for Environmental Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0676-1_2

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