Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Eric Lichtfouse, Mireille Navarrete, Philippe Debaeke, Souchere Véronique
ISBN: 9789048126651
Pages: 919
Format: 20 Χ 26
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2009

Contents

Agronomy for Sustainable Agriculture; Laws of Sustainable Soil Management
Section 1. CLIMATE CHANGE
Soils and sustainable agriculture; Soils and food sufficiency; Denitrification in cropping systems at sub-zero soil temperatures; Re-thinking the conservation of carbon, water and soil: a different perspective; Cropping systems, carbon sequestration and erosion in Brazil; Influence of land use on carbon sequestration and erosion in Mexico; Rhizodeposition of organic C by plants: mechanisms and controls; Environmental costs and benefits of transportation biofuel production from food- and lignocellulose-based energy crops; Grasslands for bioenergy production; Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management
Section 2. GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
Pharmaceutical crops in California, benefits and risks; Coexistence of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in the European Union; Agro-environmental effects due to altered cultivation practices with genetically modified herbicidetolerant oilseed rape and implications for monitoring; Bacillus thuringiensis: applications in agriculture and insect resistance management; Genetically modified glyphosate-tolerant soybean in the USA: adoption factors, impacts and prospects
Section 3. BIODIVERSITY
Small eats big: ecology and diversity of Bdellovibrio and like organisms, and their dynamics in predatorprey interactions; Identification of traits implicated in the rhizosphere competence of fluorescent pseudomonads: description of a strategy based on population and model strain studies; Progress in Mechanisms of Mutual Effect between Plants and the Environment; Biodiversity: function and assessment in agricultural areas; Mixing plant species in cropping systems: concepts, tools and models; Saffron, an alternative crop for sustainable agricultural systems; Digital imaging information technology applied to seed germination testing;
Section 4. ALTERNATIVE CONTROL
Managing weeds with a dualistic approach of prevention and control; Mechanical destruction of weeds; Sustainable pest management for cotton production; Role of nutrients in controlling plant diseases in sustainable agriculture; Crop protection, biological control, habitat management and integrated farming; Using grassed strips to limit pesticide transfer to surface water;
Section 5. ALTERNATIVE FERTILISATION
Recycling biosolids and lake-dredged materials to pasture-based animal agriculture: alternative nutrient sources for forage productivity and sustainability; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legume nodules: process and signaling; Factors Responsible for Nitrate Accumulation; Role of phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms in sustainable agriculture; Iron and zinc biofortification strategies in dicot plants by intercropping with gramineous species; Soil exploration and resource acquisition by plant roots: an architectural and modelling point of view; Methods for studying root colonization by introduced beneficial bacteria;
Section 6. NEW FARMING SYSTEMS
Sustainable urban agriculture in developing countries; Nitrogen, sustainable agriculture and food security; Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences; Triggering transitions towards sustainable development of the Dutch agricultural sector: TransForum’s approach; Spatialising crop models; Iterative design and evaluation of rule-based cropping systems: methodology and case studies; Agri-environmental indicators to assess cropping and farming systems; Methodological progress in on-farm regional agronomic diagnosis; Ex ante assessment of the sustainability of alternative cropping systems: implications for using multicriteria decision-aid methods; Comparison of methods to assess the sustainability of agricultural systems; Soil-erosion and runoff prevention by plant covers; Integration of soil structure variations with time and space into models for crop management; Management of grazing systems: from decision and biophysical models to principles for action
Section 7. POLLUTANTS IN AGROSYSTEMS
Cadmium in soils and cereal grains after sewage-sludge application on French soils; Mobility, turnover and storage of pollutants in soils, sediments and waters: achievements and results of he EU project Aqua Terra; Effect of metal toxicity on plant growth and metabolism: I. Zinc; Phytoremediation of organic pollutants using mycorrhizal plants: a new aspect of rhizosphere interactions