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Conservation agriculture-consisting of four components including
permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, diversified crop
rotations and integrated weed management-is considered the
principal pathway to sustainable agriculture and the conservation
of natural resources and the environment. Leading researchers in
the field describe the basic principles of conservation
agriculture, and synthesize recent advances and developments in
conservation agriculture research. This book is a ready reference
on conservation agriculture and reinforces the understanding for
its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and
profitable food production systems. The book describes various
elements of conservation agriculture; highlights the associated
breeding and modeling efforts; analyses the experiences and
challenges in conservation agriculture in different regions of the
world; and proposes some pragmatic options and new areas of
research in this very important area of agriculture.
This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including
negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing
global climate. It discusses the role of various subject
disciplines ranging from plant breeding, genetics, plant
physiology, molecular biology, and genomics to high-throughput
phenotyping and other emerging technologies for sustaining global
grain and fodder legume production to alleviate impending global
food crises. The book offers strategies to ensure plant-based
dietary protein security across the globe. It covers all major
commercial legume crops used as food, feed and fodder. This book is
targeted to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers,
progressive farmers and policymakers to inform them of the
importance of cultivating grain and fodder legumes for future
global food and nutritional security and for maintaining
sustainable ecosystem.
Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores
future food crops with climate resilience potential. Sections cover
their botany, nutritional significance, global distribution,
production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
of neglected and underutilized crops. By simply changing species in
a crop rotation system, the cycle of some pests and diseases is
disrupted and probabilities of infestations are reduced. Finally,
the book provides case studies that highlight where the adaptation
of crops to local environments, especially with regard to climate
change, have been successful. These crops can help make
agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change.
Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are
available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop
husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.
This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including
negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing
global climate. It discusses the role of various subject
disciplines ranging from plant breeding, genetics, plant
physiology, molecular biology, and genomics to high-throughput
phenotyping and other emerging technologies for sustaining global
grain and fodder legume production to alleviate impending global
food crises. The book offers strategies to ensure plant-based
dietary protein security across the globe. It covers all major
commercial legume crops used as food, feed and fodder. This book is
targeted to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers,
progressive farmers and policymakers to inform them of the
importance of cultivating grain and fodder legumes for future
global food and nutritional security and for maintaining
sustainable ecosystem.
"What Dr Samuel Johnson did for English, Professor Amir Kassam has
done for Conservation Agriculture (CA). He is eminently well
qualified and has enlisted more than a hundred battle-hardened
champions to contribute 26 chapters amounting to over a thousand
scholarly pages. The content is formidable. Volume one, Systems and
Science, embraces: the need for CA; global developments; soil
health and landscape management; the roles of minimum soil
disturbance, mulch and cover crops; crops and cropping systems,
vegetable systems, perennial systems; integration of cropping and
livestock; mechanization; certification; institutional and policy
support. Volume two, Practice and Benefits, includes management of
crops and cropping systems, soil, weeds, insect pests and disease,
nutrients, carbon, and biodiversity; climate change mitigation and
adaptation; benefits to farmers and society; ecosystem services;
and rehabilitation of degraded farmland...This book can change the
future."review by David Dent in International Journal of
Environmental Studies This collection reviews ways of optimising
Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits.
Chapters summarise research on optimising soil management, crop
nutrition and irrigation, as well as weed, insect pest and disease
management. The book also reviews ways of optimising the
environmental and social benefits of adopting CA practices.
Chapters discuss carbon and biodiversity management, the ways CA
can promote ecosystem services as well as the use of life cycle
assessment (LCA) techniques to monitor and improve CA. There are
also chapters on improving the economic and broader social benefits
of CA for farming communities.
This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on phosphorus
uptake and use in crops. The first chapter summarises the progress
in research on root traits associated with phosphorus acquisition,
including root morphology, architecture, biochemistry, colonisation
by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and fine root endophytes. The
chapter also reviews the recent advances in breeding programmes to
improve phosphorus acquisition efficiency. The second chapter
discusses interactions between phosphorus management (phosphorus
rate, source timing, and placement) and diverse cropping systems
and climate and how these interactions are essential to efficient
utilization of phosphorus resources. The third chapter assesses the
key soil, root and microbial processes that influence phosphorus
acquisition with a focus on factors that can be managed to ensure
optimal use of fertiliser and development of root systems for
improved phosphorus acquisition. A case study from Australia is
used to demonstrate how phosphorus efficiency of grasslands can be
improved. The final chapter reviews the environmental effects of
phosphorus fertilisation in agriculture, primarily its impact on
water quality. The chapter considers how future water quality
issues can be mitigated and also examines the cycling, fate and
transport of phosphorus in agriculture.
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