Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming

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.

First book on Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture is the sole science to solve global society issues Addesses issues from the molecular to the global level, using integrated knowledge from agronomy, biology, gelology, ecology, chemistry, environmental, social and economic sciences and political disciplines Sustainable Agriculture provides healthy food Sustainable Agriculture provides safe food and energy for all humans leaving a safe world to our children

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Dr. ERIC LICHTFOUSE, born April 2, 1960, completed his Ph.D. in organic geochemistry in 1989 at Strasbourg University. After post-doctoral fellowships at Indiana University, USA and the KFA research center in Jülich, Germany, he became engaged as a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in 1992. His study on soil organic matter and pollutants led in particular to the first determination of the dynamics of soil organic molecules in long-term maize field experiments using 13C labeling at natural abundance. In 2000 he founded the European Association of Environmental Chemistry (ACE) and in 2003 the Journal Environmental Chemistry Letters. He has co-edited the book Environmental Chemistry (Springer, 2005). He is currently working in Dijon for the INRA Department of Environment and Agronomy as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development. He is growing fruit trees and vegetables in his home backyard and travelling from home to work by bicycle. Eric Lichtfouse is also finisher of 10 ironman competitions, including the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii in 2006.

Inhalt
Avidin and Plant Biotechnology to Control Pests.- Cover Crops for Sustainable Agrosystems in the Americas.- Cover Crops in Agrosystems: Innovations and Applications.- Improving Bioavailability of Phosphate Rock for Organic Farming.- Mixed Cropping and Suppression of Soilborne Diseases.- Decreasing Nitrate Leaching in Vegetable Crops with Better N Management.- Manure Spills and Remediation Methods to Improve Water Quality.- Cropping Systems Management, Soil Microbial Communities, and Soil Biological Fertility.- Cyanobacterial Reclamation of Salt-Affected Soil.- Measuring Environmental Sustainability of Intensive Poultry-Rearing System.- Compost Use in Organic Farming.- Beneficial Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture.- Foliar Fertilization for Sustainable Crop Production.