Food security and soil quality
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press ,
c2010
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| Series: | Advances in soil sciences
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: food security and soil quality
- 2. Managing soils too address global issues of the twenty-first century
- 3. Farming systems and food security in sub-Saharan Africa
- 4. Assessment of land degradation, its possible causes and threat to food security in sub-Saharan Africa
- 5. Crop productivity, fertilizer use, and soil quality in China
- 6. The role of fertilizers in food production
- 7. Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems?
- 8. Soil quality management in Brazil
- 9. Organic matter knowledge and management in soils of the tropics related to ecosystem services
- 10. Temporal changes in productivity of agriculture systems in Punjab, India and Ohio, USA
- 11. Soil quality and ethics: the human dimension
- 12. Comprehensive management of nutrients in dry land soils of China for sustainable agriculture