Sustainable agriculture reviews: organic farming, pest control and remediation of soil pollutants

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, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to addressscientific, economic and social issues. First book on sustainable agricultureSustainable agriculture is the sole science to solve global society issues Addesses issues from the molecular to the global level, using integrated knowledge from agronomy, biology, gelology, ecology, chemistry, environmental, socialand economic sciences and political disciplines Sustainable agriculture provides healthy food INDICE: From the contents Preface: Sustainable agriculture as a central science to solve global society issues - Eric LichtfouseForeword: Mother of necessity: the soil - Rattan Lal1. Introductory article: Technology without wisdom- Rattan Lal.- 2. Transgenic cotton for sustainable pest management - Jorge B. Torres.- 3. Conservation Agriculture, a different approach for crop production through sustainable soil and water management - Fabio Stagnari.- 3. Recurrent mass selection for routine improvement of common wheat - GF Marais.- 4. Rotation design: a critical factor for sustainable crop production in a semiarid climate - Randy L. Anderson.- 5. Parasitic plants in agriculture: chemical ecology of germination and host-plant location as targets for sustainable control- Consuelo M. De Moraes.- 6. Rice seed invigoration - Muhammad Farooq.- 7. Soil management for sustainable crop disease control - Reza Ghorbani.- 8. Soil protection through organic farming - Eva Erhart.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9653-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés