Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 2012
Volume 11
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Series, Vol. 11

Coordinator: Lichtfouse Eric

Language: English

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270 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm

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.

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.

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.
The book (and series) is a state of the art on the latest research in sustainable agriculture This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions It covers multidisciplinary topics and therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations