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Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil
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Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil
About this book
Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil
A far-reaching survey showcasing the improvements made to soil health in Brazil
The maintenance of healthy soil resources provides the foundations for an array of global efforts and initiatives that affect humanity. Researchers, consultants, and farmers must be able to correctly examine and understand the complex nature of this essential, fragile resource. Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil provides a highly readable overview of the major cropping systems and management practices adopted in Brazil to improve soil health and sustain agricultural/forest production systems.
Key Features
- Evolution of soil health concepts applied to modern agricultural systems in Brazil.
- Overview of the major cropping systems and management practices adopted in Brazil to improve soil health (SH) and sustainability of agricultural production.
- Challenges to manage soil health in new agricultural frontiers.
- Presentation of SoilBio Technology: inclusion of soil enzymes as part of routine soil analyses (SoilBio Technology) and calculation of Soil Quality Indexes (SQI)
- Public policies and initiatives to promote SH and carbon sequestration in Brazil.
Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil is ideal for soil scientists, agronomists, and any other researchers in both academia and industry interested in building a sustainable future.
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Yes, you can access Soil Health and Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil by Ieda Carvalho Mendes,Mauricio Roberto Cherubin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Agronomy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Our Journey Continues
- An Ode to Brazilian Soil Health
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Soil Health and Modern Brazilian Agriculture
- 2 Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry Systems for Improved Soil Health, Environmental Benefits, and Sustainable Production
- 3 Soil Organic Carbon Restoration as the Key Driver to Promote Soil Health in No-till Systems of the Tropics
- 4 Cover Crops and Soil Health in Brazilian Agricultural Systems
- 5 Soil Health in Sugarcane Production Systems
- 6 Soil Health under Arabica Coffee Plantations in the Cerrado Biome
- 7 Soil Health in No-tillage Vegetable Production Systems—SPDH
- 8 Family Farming and Conservation Agriculture: Lessons from a Long-term Experiment on a Sandy Soil in Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil
- 9 Soil Health in Brazilian Forestry Systems
- 10 Soil Bioanalysis (SoilBio): A Sensitive, Calibrated, and Simple Assessment of Soil Health for Brazil
- 11 Challenges to Managing Soil Health in the Newest Agricultural Frontier in Brazil
- 12 Public Policies and Initiatives to Promote Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in Brazil
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