Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9783030231712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 627 str.

Muhammad Farooq; Michele Pisante

Spis treści

Foreword; Rattan Lal
Preface; Muhammad Farooq, Michele Pisante
PART I INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security; Muhammad Farooq, Abdul Rehman and Michele Pisante
PART II ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 2 Integrating Conservation and Agriculture; Amir Kassam
Chapter 3 Microbial Applications for Sustainable Agriculture; Aftab Afzal and Saeed A. Asad
Chapter 4 Innovation System Approach for Urban Agriculture; Hans Dieleman
PART III RESOURCES USE EFFICIENCY FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Chapter 5 Sustainable Soil Management; Fabio Stagnari, Angelica Galieni, Sara D’Egidio, Giancarlo Pagnani and Michele Pisante
Chapter 6 Sustainable Water Management; Marcello Mastrorilli and Raffaella Zucaro
Chapter 7 Sustainable Nutrient Management; Abdul Rehman, Aman Ullah, Faisal Nadeem and Muhammad Farooq
Chapter 8 Alternative Fertilizers and Sustainable Agriculture; Muhammad Zahir Aziz, Muhammad Naveed, Tanveer Abbas, Sulman Siddique and Muhammad Yaseen
PART IV SUSTAINABLE PEST MANAGEMENT
Chapter 9 Sustainable Weed Management; Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Muhammad Jamal Khan, Prasanta Bhowmik, Michael Walsh and Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
Chapter 10 Sustainable Management of Insect-Pests; Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Sufyan, Muhammad Dildar Gogi and Muhammad Wajid Javed
Chapter 11 Sustainable Management of Pathogens and Diseases; Davide Spadaro and Maria Lodovica Gullino
PART V GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP IMPROVEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Chapter 12 Conservation of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources; Mehmet Karaca and Ayse Gul Ince
Chapter 13 New Breeding Techniques for Sustainable Agriculture; Alessandra Gentile and Stefano La Malfa
PART VI AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN CHANGING CLIMATE
Chapter 14 Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change; Liyong Xie, Fengzhe Zhang, Liping Guo and Erda Lin
Chapter 15 Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Agriculture; Muhammad Sanaullah, Tahseen Afzal, Tanvir Shahzad and Abdul Wakeel
Chapter 16 Use of Biochar for Sustainable Agriculture; Nirmali Gogoi, Banashree Sarma, Subham C. Mondal, Rupam Kataki and Ankit Garg
Chapter 17 Managing Drylands for Sustainable Agriculture; JL Arrúe, J Álvaro-Fuentes, D Plaza-Bonilla, D Villegas and C Cantero-Martínez
Chapter 18 Crop-Livestock Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture; Paul Kayode Baiyeri, Harriet Ndofor Foleng, Ndubuisi Samuel Machebe, and Cynthia Ebere Nwobodo
PART VII USE OF IT TOOLS AND MODELLING FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Chapter 19 Information Technology for Sustainable Agriculture; Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema and Azeem Khan
Chapter 20 Spatializing Crop Models for Sustainable Agriculture; Fabrizio Ginaldi, Sofia Bajocco, Simone Bregaglio and Giovanni Cappelli
Subject index

O autorze

Muhammad Farooq, Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Michele Pisante, Professor Chair, Agronomy and Crop Sciences Research and Education Center
Faculty of Biosciences and Agro-Food and Environmental Technology
University of Teramo, Italy

Blurb

This volume is a ready reference on sustainable agriculture and reinforce the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It describes ecological sustainability of farming systems, present innovations for improving efficiency in the use of resources for sustainable agriculture and propose technological options and new areas of research in this very important area of agriculture. 

Sustainable agriculture integrates the concept of continuing improvement in agriculture productivity, profitability and competitiveness by sustainable management of natural resources. One the eve of declining natural resources, changing climate and increasing food demands, the shift from the existing intensive production system to a more sustainable system needs to be an evolving and continuing process. Within these two books, leading researchers in the field describe the principles, and synthesize recent advances and developments in sustainable agriculture research.