Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2 - Practice and Benefits

Volume 2 reviews ways of optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits. The first group of chapters cover research on optimising soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, as well as weed, insect pest and disease management. The second part of the book reviews ways of optimising the environmental and social benefits of adopting CA practices. Chapters discuss carbon and biodiversity management, the ways CA can promote ecosystem services as well as the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to monitor and improve CA. There are also chapters on improving the economic and broader social benefits of CA for farming communities. With its distinguished editor and team of expert contributors, this will be a standard reference on improving Conservation Agriculture practice. The book is accompanied by a companion volume on the key components which define CA.

Summary

Volume 2 reviews research on optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits. Chapters cover soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, pest and disease management, as well as broader issues such as managing carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Product details

• Assisted by: Amir Kassam (Editor), Prof Amir Kassam (Editor)
• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781786762689
• ISBN: 978-1-78676-268-9
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 160 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 878 g
• Illustrations: Color tables, photos and figures
• Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agric; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agric; Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Sc
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Ackerbau und landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Technology & Industrial Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science