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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment describes the
relationship of agriculture, society, nature and the environment,
sustainable agriculture and sustainable development goals,
management of biophysical resources for sustainable food and
environment, traditional knowledge and innovative options, and
social and policy aspects of sustainable agriculture. The book
presents both environmental and economic principles, helping
readers in the development and application of robust policy and
good institutional systems that execute on sustainable agriculture
practices for a healthy environment and to combat climate
resilience.
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.
Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon by which plants release
organic chemicals (allelochemicals) into the environment
influencing the growth and survival of other organisms. In this
book, leading scientists in the field synthesize latest
developments in allelopathy research with a special emphasis on its
application in sustainable agriculture. The following topics are
highlighted: Ecological implications, such as the role of
allelopathy during the invasion of alien plant species; regional
experiences with the application of allelopathy in agricultural
systems and pest management; the use of microscopy for modeling
allelopathy; allelopathy and abiotic stress tolerance; host
allelopathy and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; allelopathic
interaction with plant nutrition; and the molecular mechanisms of
allelopathy. This book is an invaluable source of information for
scientists, teachers and advanced students in the fields of plant
physiology, agriculture, ecology, environmental sciences, and
molecular biology.
Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon by which plants release
organic chemicals (allelochemicals) into the environment
influencing the growth and survival of other organisms. In this
book, leading scientists in the field synthesize latest
developments in allelopathy research with a special emphasis on its
application in sustainable agriculture. The following topics are
highlighted: Ecological implications, such as the role of
allelopathy during the invasion of alien plant species; regional
experiences with the application of allelopathy in agricultural
systems and pest management; the use of microscopy for modeling
allelopathy; allelopathy and abiotic stress tolerance; host
allelopathy and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; allelopathic
interaction with plant nutrition; and the molecular mechanisms of
allelopathy. This book is an invaluable source of information for
scientists, teachers and advanced students in the fields of plant
physiology, agriculture, ecology, environmental sciences, and
molecular biology.
"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.
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.
Careless and indiscriminate use of pesticides to control different
pests has distressed the natural balance between pests and
biological control agents, along with the difficulty of
environmental pollution. In the present changing situation of the
world, role of the biological control agents cannot be ignored. The
potential role of biological control agents in IPM has attracted
the concentration of scientists to discover and manipulate the
natural enemies instead of conventional control methods, which are
mainly dependent on chemical pesticides. Between different
biological control agents, mites are well-recognized predators
among which the genus Agistemus occupies a significant
place.Agistemus mites (Stigmaeidae) are successful predators of
destructive mites and other soft-bodied insects.They often
establish on plants and can prey on different kinds of harmful
mites.Stigmaeidae is a potential significant predatory mite group
found throughout the world and among this group, same species might
have a very important role in biological control of phytophagous
mites and scale insects.
Stored grain mites are critically dangerous for future concern, in
this regard studies were carried out to check the efficacy of
aqueous extracts of locally available botanicals (Gardenia
jasminoides) and Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, ) and selective
pesticides (azocyclotin and chlorfenapyr against stored grain mites
under CRD. The LC 50 value of gallop showed that gallop killed most
mite population and was highly toxic after 14 days of application
while azocyclotin (Gallop) was least toxic after 28 days of
replication while the EC50 (Effective Concentration) value of
chlorfenapyr (Vibrent) showed that chlorfenapyr killed most mite
population and was highly toxic after 21 days of application while
chlorfenapyr was least toxic after 28 days of replication. In case
of gardenia, the LC 50 value showed that gardenia killed most mite
population and was highly toxic after 28 days of application while
gardenia was least toxic after 7 days of application. LC 50 value
of tobacco showed that tobacco killed most mite population and was
highly toxic after 7 days of application while tobacco was least
toxic after 14 days of application
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