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Enables readers to strengthen existing agricultural strategies to sustainably solve contemporary problems like food supply chain gaps and food scarcity
Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management explains strategies to check the deterioration of soil quality, irrigation water quality, reuse of wastewaters in agriculture after treatment, organic fertigation, and corporate fertigation, to transform current agriculture into sustainable agriculture, and demonstrates cost effective technologies for sustainable development of site-specific ecosystems. Techniques to eradicate malnutrition, such as enhanced biofortification, are also covered.
Sample topics covered in Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management include:
Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management is a comprehensive and authoritative resource on the subject, making it a must-have resource for scientists working in agrobiodiversity, agroecology, bioscience, restoration ecology, soil science, and sustainable science, along with postgraduate students in ecology, environmental sciences, and environmental economics.
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is an Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. He has published over 219 papers and edited 34 books. He received a Doctorate in Botany from Lucknow University, India in 1979. Based on an independent study by Stanford University scientists, he figured in the top 2% of scientists from India consecutively in 2020, 2021 and 2022, ranked number 1 in Environmental Sciences, India in 2020 and 2021. Recipient of Pitamber Pant National Environment Fellowship for the year 2007, awarded by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India; Excellent Scholar Award of the XIX Int. Bot. Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China.
Dr. Chitranjan Kumar (MSc Gold Medallist, NET, D.Phil.) is a faculty member of Amity University and a well-known international soil scientist in the field of phyto-bio-remediation/management of sewage-irrigated soils/organic fertigation. He is the recipient of the Associate Editor Recognition of Excellence by the American Society of Agronomy, USA, continuously serving Agronomy Journal for the last 10 years. He has published 45 papers, edited 12-Annual Reports of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), edited >1060 Springer articles, 24-Wiley articles, 12-Year Books of NASI as Technical Editor, reviewed > 240 international articles from 40 international journals.
Preface
notes on contributors
1 Soil Degradation: A Major Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
Cláudia Cseko Nolasco de Carvalho, Lander de Jesus Alves, Fábio Carvalho Nunes, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
2 Degradation of Agriculture Systems by Invasive Alien Plants and Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Restoration
Prabhat Kumar Rai
3 Soil Management for Carbon Sequestration
Yassine Aallam, Soumia Amir, Wassila Bouta, Mohamed Farissi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Hanane Hamdali, Ayoub Haouas, Ahmed El Moukhtari, Abdallah Oukarroum, Taoufik El Rasafi, Anas Tallou
4 Soil Degradation, Resilience, Restoration, and Sustainable Use
Diana Cota-Ungson, Yolanda González-García, Antonio Juárez-Maldonado
5 Organic Farming—a Sustainable Option to Reduce Soil Degradation
A. V. Dordio, Jorge M. S. Faria, A. J. Palace Carvalho, Ana Paula Pinto
6 Ecological Restoration of Degraded Soils Through Protective Afforestation
Marek Pająk, Marcin Pietrzykowski, Bartłomiej Woś
7 Biochar Applications for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
8 Restoring Ecosystems: Guidance from Agroecology for Sustainability in Thailand
Woranan Nakbanpote, Pranee Srihaban, Wutthisat Chokkuea, Winya Dungkaew, Uraiwan Taya, Piyanutt Khanema, Munjit Ruttanakorn, Jitto Ponlakit, Piyapatr Busababodhin, Surasak Khankhum, Khanitta Somtrakoon, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
9 Emergy Approach to the Sustainable Use of Ecosystems toward Better Land Management
Ana Ana Fonseca, Joana Joana Marinheiro, Cláudia Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil, João Serra
10 Agroecological Transformation for Sustainable Food Systems
Soumia Amir, Taoufik El Rasafi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Ayoub Haouas, Abdallah Oukarroum, Anas Tallou
11 Alternative Production Systems (“Roof-Top,” Vertical, Hydroponic, and Aeroponic Farming)
Ágnes Szepesi
12 Regaining the Essential Ecosystem Services in Degraded Lands
V. Girijaveni, K. Sammi Reddy, J. V. N. S. Prasad, V. K. Singh, Chitranjan Kumar
13 Phytochemicals as an Eco-Friendly Source for Sustainable Management of Soil-Borne Plant Pathogens in Soil Ecosystem
Nawal Kishore Dubey, Chitranjan Kumar, Shikha Tiwari
14 Restoration of Saline Soils for Sustainable Crop Production
Bülent OKUR, Nur OKUR, Nesrin ÖRÇEN
15 Conservation Agriculture as Sustainable and Smart Soil Management: When Food Systems Meet Sustainability
Rachid Mrabet, Tarun Sharma, Akashdeep Singh
16 The Ecology of Intercropping Systems, Tree-Cover Dynamics of Grazing Lands, and Cover Crops for Soil Management
David E. Clay, Deepak R. Joshi, Chitranjan Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh
17 Strategies for Restoration and Utilization of Degraded Lands for Sustainable Oil Palm Plantation and Industry
Sanggono Adisasmito, Antonius Indarto, Daniel Pramudita, Ronny Purwadi
18 Reclaiming Urban Brownfields and Industrial Areas–Potentials for Agroecology
Tino Fauk, Florin-Constantin Mihai, Petra Schneider
19 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Sustaining Saline and Metal Contaminated Soils
Chitranjan Kumar, Sangeeta Pandey, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Ajay Tomar
20 Internet of Things (IoT) in Soil Management for Achieving Smart Agriculture
Hossein Beyrami, Mehdi Mahbod, Chanchal K. Mitra, Amir Parnian, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
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