Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 1st ed. 2017
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Series, Vol. 25

Coordinator: Lichtfouse Eric

Language: English
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This book deals with 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.

Chapter 01: Applications for rapid testing of plant and soil nutrients.- Chapter 02: World cultivation of genetically modified crops: opportunities and risks.- Chapter03: Food security in the arab gulf cooperation council states.- Chapter 04: Methods to Study Agricultural Systems.- Chapter 05:Comparison of methods to assess agricultural sustainability.- Chapter 06: Sustainable cultivation of saffron in Iran.- Chapter 07: Soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 08: Silicon in Agriculture.- Chapter 09: Long-term chemical fertilization in Tanzania.- Chapter 10: Interaction of mycorrhizal fungi and Azotobacter with root-knot nematodes and root-chewing insects.

Eric Lichtfouse, is a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research  (INRA). He has invented the 13C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of soil organic molecules, thus opening the field of  molecular-level investigations of soil carbon sequestration. Chief Editor of the awarded journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, he has raised the journal rank from 29/53 in 2003, with an impact factor of 0.56, to 2/81 in 2014, with an impact factor of 3.99, in the Agronomy category. He is also Chief Editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. He is lecturing scientific writing and communication in universities worldwide. His publication assistance service at the INRA has founded the french-english newsletter Publier La Science. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journal. This textbook describes in particular the micro-article, a new tool to identifythe novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ResearcherID and Orcid.

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