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Farming for Food and Water Security

Lichtfouse, Eric(Edited by)
Part of the Sustainable Agriculture Reviews series
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion.

Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences.

As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.

This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

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Product Details
Springer
9400744994 / 9789400744998
Hardback
338.1
01/07/2012
Netherlands
English
394 p. : ill. (some col.)
24 cm