Sustainable agriculture reviews

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 such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
SeriesSustainable agriculture reviews ; v. 25.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319586793
9783319586786
ISSN2210-4429 ;
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 304 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Applications for rapid testing of plant and soil nutrients
  • World cultivation of genetically modified crops: opportunities and risks
  • Food security in the arab gulf cooperation council states
  • Methods to Study Agricultural Systems
  • Comparison of methods to assess agricultural sustainability
  • Sustainable cultivation of saffron in Iran
  • Soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Silicon in Agriculture
  • Long-term chemical fertilization in Tanzania
  • Interaction of mycorrhizal fungi and Azotobacter with root-knot nematodes and root-chewing insects.