ISBN : 9780323905008
Author : Muhammad Farooq
Publisher : Academic Press
Year : 2023
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Table of contents Cover image Title page Table of Contents Copyright Contributors Foreword Preface Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Sustainability, sustainable agriculture, and the environment 1. Introduction 2. Sustainability 3. Agriculture and environment 4. Possible actions toward a more sustainable agriculture 5. Conclusion Chapter 2. Sustainable agriculture for food and nutritional security 1. Introduction 2. Sustainability and land challenges 3. Food and nutrition security: changing concept and development 4. Sustainable agriculture and food systems: historical development and shift in paradigms 5. Rebuilding traditional farming systems: bridging yield gaps 6. Rangelands, grasslands, and livestock-based farming 7. Tree-based farming systems or agroforestry: conciliation among productive and environmental functions 8. Creating and developing streams within sustainable agriculture 9. Emerging farming systems 10. Innovation and technological development for accelerating agricultural sustainability 11. Demand-side measures for sustaining agriculture 12. Development policies: spotlights on stimulating food system transformation and governance 13. Rural community and gender strengthening: unlocking transformation and driving action 14. Strengthened approaches to information, communication and implementation 15. Conclusion: promoting global transition and stepping up actions Chapter 3. Sustainable agriculture and sustainable developmental goals: a case study of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa 1. Introduction 2. Sustainable agriculture 3. Background to the role of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa 4. Difficulties faced by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa 5. The state of hunger and food security in sub-Saharan Africa 6. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in small-scale farming 7. Realizing SDG 2 targets through CSA among smallholder farmers 8. Conclusion Part II. Management of biophysical resources for sustainable food and environment Chapter 4. Soil microbial diversity, soil health and agricultural sustainability 1. Introduction 2. Soil health for agricultural sustainability 3. Soil microbial diversity and agricultural sustainability 4. Soil organic matter and soil biological quality 5. Microbial biodiversity and soil functions 6. Microbial biodiversity and climate resilience 7. Conclusion and future perspectives Chapter 5. Water harvesting and management for sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. Freshwater: a major concern for global community 3. Water management in tea agriculture: a case study 4. Water management in seasonal vegetable cultivation: a case study 5. Conclusion Chapter 6. Carbon management and sequestration for sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. Climate change effect 3. Agricultural management strategies and C storage 4. Conclusions and future research needs Chapter 7. Management of agricultural insect pests for sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. IPM approaches 3. New concepts of pest management for sustainable agriculture and environment 4. Revisit of IPM model 5. Policy action 6. Conclusion 7. Way forward Chapter 8. Revisiting sustainable systems and methods in agriculture 1. Introduction 2. Agriculture 3. Concluding remarks Chapter 9. Abundance, variety, and scope of value-added utilization of agricultural crop residue: emphasizing potential of anaerobic digestion and digestate recycling 1. Introduction 2. Variation in digestate characteristics with respect to different crop residues 3. Effect of digestate application on soil fertility 4. Effect of digestate application on crop growth and nutrient uptake 5. Use of digestate for vermicompost production 6. Use of digestate in algal cultivation 7. Conclusion Part III. Traditional knowledge and innovative options Chapter 10. Traditional ecological knowledge towards natural resource management: perspective and challenges in North East India 1. Introduction 2. Faces of TEK 3. TEK and its importance in natural resource management 4. North East India: storehouse of natural resources and TEK 5. Drawbacks of TEK and practices 6. Future recommendations 7. Conclusion Chapter 11. Designing farming systems for a sustainable agriculture 1. Introduction 2. Sustainable farming systems, the ecologization of agriculture 3. Conceptual framework for the design process of sustainable farming systems 4. Designing sustainable farming systems: methods and practices 5. Conditions for designing sustainable farming systems 6. Conclusion Chapter 12. Urban agriculture and the perspective of fulfilling land's socio-environmental function—a case study of Brazilian Cerrado cities 1. Introduction 2. Adaptation to global climatic changes and urban agriculture 3. Goiânia and the city's adaptation strategies within the global climatic changes context 4. Urban agriculture as possibility to fulfill urban property's socio-environmental function to right to the city 5. Conclusion Chapter 13. Livestock—crop interaction for sustainability of agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. Crop production systems 3. Livestock production systems 4. Livestock–crop integration systems 5. Agricultural production (drivers and recipients of environmental changes) 6. Concept of sustainability and system intensification in agroecological system 7. Livestock–crop interaction for a sustainable environment 8. Sustainable Livestock–Crop production systems in developing countries for enhanced ecological balance and safety 9. Ethical framework for sustainable livestock–crop production system 10. Prospects of sustainability practices for livestock–crop interaction Chapter 14. Spatial applications of crop models in the Indian context and sustainability 1. Introduction 2. Crop modeling 3. Spatialization of crop models 4. Applications of crop models in Indian context 5. Sustainability in Indian agriculture 6. Tools for sustainable transition in spatial crop modeling 7. Concluding remarks Chapter 15. Spatializing crop models for sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Crop simulation model (numerical crop model) 2. Spatializing crop models 3. MDS for NCMs 4. Calibration and validation of model 5. Challenges 6. Conclusion Part IV. Social and policy aspects of sustainable agriculture and environment Chapter 16. The social, political, and institutional context of sustainability: a study of Indian agriculture 1. Introduction 2. The social context of sustainability 3. Politics of transformations to sustainability 4. Governing transformations to sustainability and development 5. The social pillars of sustainability: community participation and sustenance 6. Constructing social sustainability: social, political, and institutional challenges in sustainability 7. Conclusions and future thrusts Chapter 17. Agricultural policies and sustainable agriculture in EU countries 1. Introduction 2. The historical evolution of the CAP 3. Methods 4. Data 5. Results 6. Discussions 7. Conclusions Chapter 18. Challenges, constraints, and opportunities in sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. Challenges of sustainable agriculture 3. Constraints of sustainable agriculture 4. Opportunities 5. Conclusion Chapter 19. Education and information dissemination for sustainable agriculture and environment 1. Introduction 2. Importance of sustainable agriculture 3. Higher education institutions and responsibilities 4. Bridging the gap between science and practice 5. Information dissemination 6. Digital education and its importance 7. Constraints and challenges 8. Recommendations 9. Concluding remarks Chapter 20. Role and diversity of microbes in agriculture: sustainable practices to promote diversity and crop productivity 1. Microbial communities and ecosystem function 2. Microbial diversity in agricultural ecosystems 3. Microbial functions in agroecosystems 4. Exploring microbial diversity 5. Methods of exploring of microbial communities/diversity 6. Other prospective molecular methods 7. Exploring microbial function 8. Practices that influence microbial communities 9. Practices that enhance soil biological activity 10. Conclusion Index