Full Description
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.
Contents
Leaf-cutting ants, biology and control.- Impact of pesticide productivity on food security.- Farmland birds and arable farming, a meta-analysis.- Phytoremediation, transgenic plants and microbes.- Management of pathogens of stored cereal grains.- Allelopathy for pest control.- Rice bed planting and foliar fertilization.- Integrated nutrient management and postharvest of crops.- Intercropping taro and bambara groundnut.- Land productivity and food security in Zhangjiagang, China.
