Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment

1st Edition - April 14, 2023
Editors: Muhammad Farooq, Nirmali Gogoi, Michele Pisante
Language: English
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Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment describes the relationship of agriculture, society, nature and the environment, sustainable agriculture and sustainable development goals, management of biophysical resources for sustainable food and environment, traditional knowledge and innovative options, and social and policy aspects of sustainable agriculture. The book presents both environmental and economic principles, helping readers in the development and application of robust policy and good institutional systems that execute on sustainable agriculture practices for a healthy environment and to combat climate resilience.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Sustainability, sustainable agriculture, and the environment
1. Introduction
2. Sustainability
3. Agriculture and environment
4. Possible actions toward a more sustainable agriculture
5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Sustainable agriculture for food and nutritional security
1. Introduction
2. Sustainability and land challenges
3. Food and nutrition security: changing concept and development
4. Sustainable agriculture and food systems: historical development and shift in paradigms
5. Rebuilding traditional farming systems: bridging yield gaps
6. Rangelands, grasslands, and livestock-based farming
7. Tree-based farming systems or agroforestry: conciliation among productive and environmental functions
8. Creating and developing streams within sustainable agriculture
9. Emerging farming systems
10. Innovation and technological development for accelerating agricultural sustainability
11. Demand-side measures for sustaining agriculture
12. Development policies: spotlights on stimulating food system transformation and governance
13. Rural community and gender strengthening: unlocking transformation and driving action
14. Strengthened approaches to information, communication and implementation
15. Conclusion: promoting global transition and stepping up actions
Chapter 3. Sustainable agriculture and sustainable developmental goals: a case study of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
1. Introduction
2. Sustainable agriculture
3. Background to the role of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
4. Difficulties faced by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
5. The state of hunger and food security in sub-Saharan Africa
6. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in small-scale farming
7. Realizing SDG 2 targets through CSA among smallholder farmers
8. Conclusion
Part II. Management of biophysical resources for sustainable food and environment
Chapter 4. Soil microbial diversity, soil health and agricultural sustainability
1. Introduction
2. Soil health for agricultural sustainability
3. Soil microbial diversity and agricultural sustainability
4. Soil organic matter and soil biological quality
5. Microbial biodiversity and soil functions
6. Microbial biodiversity and climate resilience
7. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 5. Water harvesting and management for sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. Freshwater: a major concern for global community
3. Water management in tea agriculture: a case study
4. Water management in seasonal vegetable cultivation: a case study
5. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Carbon management and sequestration for sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. Climate change effect
3. Agricultural management strategies and C storage
4. Conclusions and future research needs
Chapter 7. Management of agricultural insect pests for sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. IPM approaches
3. New concepts of pest management for sustainable agriculture and environment
4. Revisit of IPM model
5. Policy action
6. Conclusion
7. Way forward
Chapter 8. Revisiting sustainable systems and methods in agriculture
1. Introduction
2. Agriculture
3. Concluding remarks
Chapter 9. Abundance, variety, and scope of value-added utilization of agricultural crop residue: emphasizing potential of anaerobic digestion and digestate recycling
1. Introduction
2. Variation in digestate characteristics with respect to different crop residues
3. Effect of digestate application on soil fertility
4. Effect of digestate application on crop growth and nutrient uptake
5. Use of digestate for vermicompost production
6. Use of digestate in algal cultivation
7. Conclusion
Part III. Traditional knowledge and innovative options
Chapter 10. Traditional ecological knowledge towards natural resource management: perspective and challenges in North East India
1. Introduction
2. Faces of TEK
3. TEK and its importance in natural resource management
4. North East India: storehouse of natural resources and TEK
5. Drawbacks of TEK and practices
6. Future recommendations
7. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Designing farming systems for a sustainable agriculture
1. Introduction
2. Sustainable farming systems, the ecologization of agriculture
3. Conceptual framework for the design process of sustainable farming systems
4. Designing sustainable farming systems: methods and practices
5. Conditions for designing sustainable farming systems
6. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Urban agriculture and the perspective of fulfilling land's socio-environmental function—a case study of Brazilian Cerrado cities
1. Introduction
2. Adaptation to global climatic changes and urban agriculture
3. Goiânia and the city's adaptation strategies within the global climatic changes context
4. Urban agriculture as possibility to fulfill urban property's socio-environmental function to right to the city
5. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Livestock—crop interaction for sustainability of agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. Crop production systems
3. Livestock production systems
4. Livestock–crop integration systems
5. Agricultural production (drivers and recipients of environmental changes)
6. Concept of sustainability and system intensification in agroecological system
7. Livestock–crop interaction for a sustainable environment
8. Sustainable Livestock–Crop production systems in developing countries for enhanced ecological balance and safety
9. Ethical framework for sustainable livestock–crop production system
10. Prospects of sustainability practices for livestock–crop interaction
Chapter 14. Spatial applications of crop models in the Indian context and sustainability
1. Introduction
2. Crop modeling
3. Spatialization of crop models
4. Applications of crop models in Indian context
5. Sustainability in Indian agriculture
6. Tools for sustainable transition in spatial crop modeling
7. Concluding remarks
Chapter 15. Spatializing crop models for sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Crop simulation model (numerical crop model)
2. Spatializing crop models
3. MDS for NCMs
4. Calibration and validation of model
5. Challenges
6. Conclusion
Part IV. Social and policy aspects of sustainable agriculture and environment
Chapter 16. The social, political, and institutional context of sustainability: a study of Indian agriculture
1. Introduction
2. The social context of sustainability
3. Politics of transformations to sustainability
4. Governing transformations to sustainability and development
5. The social pillars of sustainability: community participation and sustenance
6. Constructing social sustainability: social, political, and institutional challenges in sustainability
7. Conclusions and future thrusts
Chapter 17. Agricultural policies and sustainable agriculture in EU countries
1. Introduction
2. The historical evolution of the CAP
3. Methods
4. Data
5. Results
6. Discussions
7. Conclusions
Chapter 18. Challenges, constraints, and opportunities in sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. Challenges of sustainable agriculture
3. Constraints of sustainable agriculture
4. Opportunities
5. Conclusion
Chapter 19. Education and information dissemination for sustainable agriculture and environment
1. Introduction
2. Importance of sustainable agriculture
3. Higher education institutions and responsibilities
4. Bridging the gap between science and practice
5. Information dissemination
6. Digital education and its importance
7. Constraints and challenges
8. Recommendations
9. Concluding remarks
Chapter 20. Role and diversity of microbes in agriculture: sustainable practices to promote diversity and crop productivity
1. Microbial communities and ecosystem function
2. Microbial diversity in agricultural ecosystems
3. Microbial functions in agroecosystems
4. Exploring microbial diversity
5. Methods of exploring of microbial communities/diversity
6. Other prospective molecular methods
7. Exploring microbial function
8. Practices that influence microbial communities
9. Practices that enhance soil biological activity
10. Conclusion
Index

Muhammad Farooq

Muhammad Farooq is Associate Professor at the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds the positions of Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Dankook University, Korea. He was also Young Affiliate fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2015-2019) and is member of Global Young Academy and Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received ‘Best Young Research Scholar Award’ from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (2013 and 2014). He was honored with the COMSTECH Award for Excellence in Research (2016) by Organization of Islamic Conference and Gold Medal (2017) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received the Best University Teacher Award (2018) from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and was named as Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science (2018 and 2019). He received the distinguished researcher award (2020) from the Sultan Qaboos University. He has edited and co-edited eight books, and authored and co-authored more than 380 research articles and 49 book chapters. His citations, on google scholar, exceed 22,000 with h-index of 72.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Nirmali Gogoi

Nirmali Gogoi has received her Ph.D. degree form Dibrugarh University,Dibrugarh. Her Thesis title was "METHANE EMISSION ESTIMATION FROM DIFFERENT RICE AGROECOSYSTEMS OF ASSAM". She is a active reviewer for different journals such as Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change, African Journal of Biotechnology, African Journal of Microbial Research and Cogent Food and Agriculture (Taylor and Frencise). She has 56 Original Research Papers, 3 Chapters/Reviews and 1 Papers in proceedings of Conferences. Her research interests include environmental physiology of plants, carbon sequestration in agricultural ecosystems, and greenhouse gas emission from agricultural ecosystems.

Affiliations and expertise

Tezpur University, Assaam, India

Michele Pisante

Michele Pisanteis Professor of Agronomy, Faculty of Biosciences and Agro-Food and Environmental Technology, University of Teramo and member at PhD Course in Crop Science, University of Padova, Italy. Research activity is focused on Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production, soil and water conservation, decision-making tools for digital agriculture for improving national and international cooperation for sustainable agriculture growth and natural resource management. Scientific Director of the Edagricole "University and Education" editorial book series. He is author of books and publications, of which 58 on International Journals (Scopus: h-index 17; T-citations 1416); Guest editor of a Special issue of AIMS “Agriculture and Food” international Open Access journal on topic “Sustainable Crop Production Intensification”; "Conservation Agriculture for Ecosystem Services" of the journal Agriculture and Research Topic (article collection) “Digital imaging of plants” of the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Co-inventor of European patent “Method for increasing the content of useful components in edible plants”.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor of Agronomy, Faculty of Biosciences and Agro-Food and Environmental Technology, University of Teramo, Italy