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This volume is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of recent innovations related to the study of agricultural and environmental management for sustainable development. The book clearly identifies why the fight to achieve sustainable development in agricultural production must be fought along a broad multidisciplinary front to overcome issues such as soil erosion, poor water quality, pesticide contamination, and food insecurity. Readers are given a broad exposition of the trends and current practices of basic principles on sustainable agriculture, along with a detailed understanding of the use of sustainable agriculture to develop environmentally sustainable food production systems. The chapters describe the ecological sustainability of agricultural systems, current innovations to improve efficiency in the use of resources for sustainable agriculture, and the proposal for technological options and new areas of research in this very significant field ofagriculture. The authors aim to provide readers with a good subject understanding which will assist in the identification of agricultural development, environmental risk, sustainable resource management and design of appropriate responses. This book will be very helpful for students, researchers and practitioners interested in the fields of agriculture, environment and sustainable development.
Contents
Part 1: Global warming and Climate Change: Vulnerability in Agricultural Sectors.- Chapter 1: Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development: An Overview.- Chapter 2: Economic Evaluation and Assessment of Modern Apple varieties in Kashmir valley (Ex-post) though Propensity Score Matching Methods.- Chapter 3: The Intensification of Shifting Cultivation in Tanzania: Effects on Soil and Vegetation.- Chapter 4: Impact of plant health on global food security: A holistic view.- Chapter 5: Crop Diversification as a Measure of Sustainable Agriculture and Production Growth.- Part 2: Water, Environment and Agriculture Sustainability.- Chapter 6: Spatiotemporal Analysis of built-up Area Expansion on Agricultural Land in Mousuni Island of Indian Sundarban.- Chapter 7: Levels of agriculture development and Crop Diversification: A District-wise panel data analysis in West Bengal.- Chapter 8: Engineering interventions tomitigate the agricultural waste in India.- Chapter 9: The study of red onion (Allium cepa) on growth and yield parameters in response to plant spacing in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka.- Chapter 10: Soil Potential Erosion Risk Calculation Assessment Using Geospatial Technique in Keonjhar District, Odisha, India.- Part 3: Agriculture Sustainability and Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.- Chapter 11: Organic Farming Sector of India- A Statistical Review and Recommendations.- Chapter 12: The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics Via, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).- Chapter 13: Soil community composition and ecosystem processes.- Chapter 14: Household Access to Actual Food Intake and Fertility Level of Muslim population: A Study from Rural West Bengal.- Chapter 15: Livelihood, Food Security and Sustainability in Murshidabad District.
