Long-term Farming Systems Research: Ensuring Food Security in Changing Climate

Long-term Farming Systems Research: Ensuring Global Food Supply presents the legacy and heritage of Long-Term Experiments (LTEs) in Agriculture while addressing the challenges and potential solutions to them. This book discusses how LTEs form an important asset in understanding agriculture's significant influence on life on earth. As global governments and development agencies pursue to achieve the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, this book's content provides insight into the interactions of agricultural production with ecological, economic and societal aspects is of unprecedented importance. In this regard, Long-term Farming Systems Research: Ensuring Global Food Supply offers a thorough resource of information based on experiences from various LTEs ongoing in different parts of the world for different durations and addressing different key objectives. The contextual variety and geographic diversity presented in this book makes it useful for agricultural and environmental scientists, as well as students and educators in such fields. Provides a comprehensive resource of information generated in various LTEs across the globe with focus on various aspects of farming systems, crop management practices, plant, soil and human nutrition and a holistic view on interactions of agricultural production with environment and societyIdentifies challenges and lessons learnt from different LTEs and recommendations for potential solutionsPresents unique challenges and potential solutions for different agricultural production systems as well as ecological, economic and agronomic consequences of prolonged use of certain management practices or inputs INDICE: Part 1: Unique Contribution of LTEs to agricultural science 1. Unique value of long-term farming systems research for sustainable farming systems 2. Legacy of the Soviet era LTEs in Russian Agriculture 3. LTEs in tropics: contribution of SysCom program to knowledge on sustainable intensification Part 2: How to take maximum benefit out of the massive data generated in LTEs 4. Global Long-Term Experiments Network (GLTEN) 5. BonaRes Repository 6. Improved methods for statistical analysis of LTE data 7. RothC model: 40 years in making Part 3: Management challenges of LTEs 8. Russell Ranch: a place to study the impacts of farming systems and inputs on agricultural sustainability 9. How to decide about shutting down an LTE 10. Why the LTEs in Asia remain underrepresented 11. LTEs for education: experiences from France and Spain 12. LTE as platform for innovation development

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818186-7
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 212
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés