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Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and
Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current
state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and
intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood
of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic
overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development
and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in
research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and
usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well
documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most
essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on
agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on
opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms.
Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on
various innovations in agriculture spanning the different
agricultural gamut.
This book provides state of the art description of various
approaches, techniques and some basic fundamentals of
bioremediation to manage a variety of organic and inorganic wastes
and pollutants present in our environment. A comprehensive overview
of recent advances and new development in the field of
bioremediation research are provided within relevant theoretical
framework to improve our understanding for the cleaning up of
polluted water and contaminated land. The book is easy to read and
language can be readily comprehended by aspiring newcomer,
students, researchers and anyone else interested in this field.
Renowned scientists around the world working on the above topics
have contributed chapters. In this edited book, we have addressed
the scope of the inexpensive and energy neutral bioremediation
technologies. The scope of the book extends to
environmental/agricultural scientists, students, consultants, site
owners, industrial stakeholders, regulators and policy makers.
This book focuses on the pros and cons of amendment materials to
restore the functioning of soil resources. It presents a holistic
overview on affected land revitalization, clean up and revegetation
using these amendments that could be implemented in the long term
management of the soil-plant-atmosphereanimal continuum.
This compilation has been designed to provide a comprehensive
source of theoretical and practical update for scientists working
in the broad field of soil science. The book explores all possible
mechanisms and means to improve nutrient use efficiencies involving
developing and testing of nanofertilizers, developing consortia
based microbial formulations for mobilization of soil nutrients,
and engineering of nutrient efficient crops using molecular biology
and biotechnological tools. This is an all-inclusive collection of
information about soil science. This book is of interest to
teachers, researchers, soil scientists, capacity builders and
policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material
for undergraduate and graduate students of soil science,
quantitative ecology, earth sciences, GIS and geodetic sciences, as
well as geologists, geomorphologists, hydrologists and landscape
ecology. National and international agriculture and soil
scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.
This compilation has been designed to provide a comprehensive
source of theoretical and practical update for scientists working
in the broad field of soil science. The book explores all possible
mechanisms and means to improve nutrient use efficiencies involving
developing and testing of nanofertilizers, developing consortia
based microbial formulations for mobilization of soil nutrients,
and engineering of nutrient efficient crops using molecular biology
and biotechnological tools. This is an all-inclusive collection of
information about soil science. This book is of interest to
teachers, researchers, soil scientists, capacity builders and
policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material
for undergraduate and graduate students of soil science,
quantitative ecology, earth sciences, GIS and geodetic sciences, as
well as geologists, geomorphologists, hydrologists and landscape
ecology. National and international agriculture and soil
scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.
Agricultural Soil Sustainability and Carbon Management presents
long-term research in the field of sustainable soil use and
management to guide in the prioritizing the multifunctional value
of soil health and addressing interdisciplinary links between major
issues such as biodiversity and climate change. As soil is the
largest terrestrial carbon pool, as well as a significant
contributor of greenhouse gases, much progress can be made toward
curtailing the climate crisis by sustainable soil management
practices.The book provides valuable insight into the soil and
carbon management, the research gaps and the methodological
challenges for research into soil carbon management will be include
over the decades.
This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting
nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant
interactions with environmental variables and combine
physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects.
Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark the
development of new cultivars and strains to induce NUE, coupled
with best management practices that will immensely benefit
agricultural systems, safeguarding their soil, water, and air
quality. Written by recognized experts in the field, the book is
intended to provide students, scientists and policymakers with
essential insights into holistic approaches to NUE, as well as an
overview of some successful case studies. In the present
understanding of agriculture, NUE represents a question of process
optimization in response to the increasing fragility of our natural
resources base and threats to food grain security across the globe.
Further improving nutrient use efficiency is a prerequisite to
reducing production costs, expanding crop acreage into
non-competitive marginal lands with low nutrient resources, and
preventing environmental contamination. The nutrients most commonly
limiting plant growth are N, P, K, S and micronutrients like Fe,
Zn, B and Mo. NUE depends on the ability to efficiently take up the
nutrient from the soil, but also on transport, storage,
mobilization, usage within the plant and the environment. A number
of approaches can help us to understand NUE as a whole. One
involves adopting best crop management practices that take into
account root-induced rhizosphere processes, which play a pivotal
role in controlling nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere
continuum. New technologies, from basic tools like leaf color
charts to sophisticated sensor-based systems and laser land
leveling, can reduce the dependency on laboratory assistance and
manual labor. Another approach concerns the development of crop
plants through genetic manipulations that allow them to take up and
assimilate nutrients more efficiently, as well as identifying
processes of plant responses to nutrient deficiency stress and
exploring natural genetic variation. Though only recently
introduced, the ability of microbial inoculants to induce NUE is
gaining in importance, as the loss, immobilization, release and
availability of nutrients are mediated by soil microbial processes.
Biopesticide: Volume Two, the latest release in the Advances in
Bioinoculant series, provides an updated overview on the active
substances utilized in current bioinsecticides, along with
information on which of them can be used for integrated pest
management programs in agro-ecosystems. The book presents a
comprehensive look at the development of novel solutions against
new targets, also introducing new technologies that enhance the
efficacy of already available active substances. Finally, readers
will find insights into the advanced molecular studies on insect
microbial community diversity that are opening new frontiers in the
development of innovative pest management strategies. This book
will be valuable to those prioritizing agro biodiversity management
to address optimal productizing and enhanced food security.
Advances in Organic Farming: Agronomic Soil Management Practices
focuses on the integrated interactions between
soil-plant-microbe-environment elements in a functioning ecosystem.
It explains sustainable nutrient management under organic farming
and agriculture, with chapters focusing on the role of nutrient
management in sustaining global ecosystems, the remediation of
polluted soils, conservation practices, degradation of pollutants,
biofertilizers and biopesticides, critical biogeochemical cycles,
potential responses for current and impending environmental change,
and other critical factors. Organic farming is both challenging and
exciting, as its practice of "feeding the soil, not the plant"
provides opportunity to better understand why some growing methods
are preferred over others. In the simplest terms, organic growing
is based on maintaining a living soil with a diverse population of
micro and macro soil organisms. Organic matter (OM) is maintained
in the soil through the addition of compost, animal manure, green
manures and the avoidance of excess mechanization.
Biofertilizers, Volume One: Advances in Bio-inoculants provides
state-of-the-art descriptions of various approaches, techniques and
basic fundamentals of BI used in crop fertilization practices. The
book presents research within a relevant theoretical framework to
improve our understanding of core issues as applied to natural
resource management. Authored by renowned scientists actively
working on bio-inoculant, biofertilizer and bio-stimulant sciences,
the book addresses the scope of inexpensive and energy neutral
bio-inoculant technologies and the impact regulation has on
biofertilizer utilization. This book is a valuable reference for
agricultural/environmental scientists in academic and corporate
environments, graduate and post-graduate students, regulators and
policymakers.
This book is a compilation of latest work in the field of urban
soil management. It explores the global status of urban soils and
puts forwards methods for sustainable utilization of urban soils
and green spaces.Urban soil study is a new frontier of soil
science. Urban soils research is challenging due to complexity of
classification, spatial-temporal variability, exposure to pollution
and the predominant effect of the anthropogenic factor on soil
formation. Management of urban soils and green spaces is an
important aspect for developing sustainable spaces. This is a
comprehensive collection of information for the students,
researchers, landscape architects understanding and maximizing the
benefits of soils in urban ecosystems.
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