Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems
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Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems

  1. 568 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems

About this book

With the use of high-level soil management technology, Africa could feed several billion people, yet food production has generally stagnated since the 1960s. No matter how powerful the seed technology, the seedling emerging from it can flourish only in a healthy soil. Accordingly, crop yields in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean could be double

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Yes, you can access Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems by Rattan Lal, B.A. Stewart, Rattan Lal,B.A. Stewart in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781466513464
eBook ISBN
9781466513471
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Editors
  5. Contributors
  6. Chapter 1 - Principles of Soil Management
  7. Chapter 2 - Marginality Principle
  8. Chapter 3 - Principles of Soil Management in Neotropical Savannas: The Brazilian Cerrado
  9. Chapter 4 - Facts and Myths of Feeding the World with Organic Farming Methods
  10. Chapter 5 - Building upon Traditional Knowledge to Enhance Resilience of Soils in Sub-Saharan Africa
  11. Chapter 6 - Soil Fertility as a Contingent Rather than Inherent Characteristic:: Considering the Contributions of Crop-Symbiotic Soil Microbiota
  12. Chapter 7 - Human Dimensions That Drive Soil Degradation
  13. Chapter 8 - Managing Soil Organic Carbon Concentration by Cropping Systems and Fertilizers in the North China Plain
  14. Chapter 9 - Global Extent of Land Degradation and Its Human Dimension
  15. Chapter 10 - Cost–Benefit Analysis of Soil Degradation and Restoration
  16. Chapter 11 - Spiritual Aspects of Sustainable Soil Management
  17. Chapter 12 - Theological and Religious Approaches to Soil Stewardship
  18. Chapter 13 - Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Soils
  19. Chapter 14 - Sustainable Soil Management Is More than What and How Crops Are Grown
  20. Chapter 15 - Mining of Nutrients in African Soils Due to Agricultural Intensification
  21. Chapter 16 - Carbon Sink Capacity and Agronomic Productivity of Soils of Semiarid Regions of India
  22. Chapter 17 - Soil Renewal and Sustainability
  23. Chapter 18 - Organic Carbon Sequestration Potential and the Co-Benefits in China’s Cropland
  24. Chapter 19 - Soil Management for Sustaining Ecosystem Services
  25. Index
  26. Back Cover