Sustainable Agriculture Reviews - Volume 11

Sustainable agriculture is 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: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions.

List of contents

Agroecology scaling up for food sovereignty and resiliency.- The art and science of transformation for sustainability.- Organic bread wheat production and market in Europe.- Organic farming of vegetables.- Biomass gasification crops for the climatic range of New Zealand.- Biodiesel production for sustainable agriculture.- Forage legume intercropping in temperate regions: models and ideotypes.- Endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria as biofertilizer.

About the author

Eric Lichtfouse: PhD in organic geochemistry, INRA researcher in Dijon, France since 1992, he teaches scientific writing. He is also editor in chief of the INRA journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and founder and editor of the Springer journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.

Summary

Sustainable agriculture is 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: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eri Lichtfouse (Editor), Eric Lichtfouse (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2012
• EAN: 9789400754485
• ISBN: 978-94-0-075448-5
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 243 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Illustrations: VI, 270 p.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews; Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; B, Sustainability, Life Sciences, Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Environmental Social Sciences, Life sciences: general issues, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general, agroecology;bionenergy;organic farming