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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.
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.
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