Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 15 (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 15)

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions. 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-ix Seed Legislation in Europe and Crop Genetic Diversity....Pages 1-64 Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables Storage....Pages 65-152 Herbicides: History, Classification and Genetic Manipulation of Plants for Herbicide Resistance....Pages 153-192 Nitrogen-Fixing Plant-Microbe Symbioses....Pages 193-234 Factors Influencing Farm Profitability....Pages 235-255 Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity in African Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 257-291 Drought Stress Tolerant Horse Gram for Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 293-328 Essential Oils for Pest Control in Agroecology....Pages 329-352 Organic Potato Farming Adoption in Iran....Pages 353-370 Crop Plant Hormones and Environmental Stress....Pages 371-400 Back Matter....Pages 401-407