Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Book 8)

Annotation Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations Front Matter....Pages i-vi Agroecology, a Tool for the Realization of the Right to Food....Pages 1-16 Agroecology and the Food System....Pages 17-33 Development of a Sustainably-Competitive Agriculture....Pages 35-65 Emissions of Ammonia, Nitrous Oxide and Methane During the Management of Solid Manures....Pages 67-107 Communication in the Rhizosphere, a Target for Pest Management....Pages 109-133 A Novel Land-Energy Use Indicator for Energy Crops....Pages 135-147 Conventional, Organic and Conservation Agriculture: Production and Environmental Impact....Pages 149-165 Improving Water Use Efficiency for Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 167-211 Genetic Mechanisms of Drought Stress Tolerance, Implications of Transgenic Crops for Agriculture....Pages 213-235 Plant Parasitic Nematode Diversity in Pome, Stone and Nut Fruits....Pages 237-268 Fly Ash for Agriculture: Implications for Soil Properties, Nutrients, Heavy Metals, Plant Growth and Pest Control....Pages 269-286 Organic Farming History and Techniques....Pages 287-328 Back Matter....Pages 329-335