Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
This volume is a ready reference on sustainable agriculture and reinforce the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It describes ecological sustainability of farming systems, prese
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Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Muhammad Farooq • Michele Pisante Editors
Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Editors Muhammad Farooq Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences Sultan Qaboos University Al-Khoud, Oman
Michele Pisante Agronomy and Crop Sciences Research and Education Center University of Teramo Teramo, Italy
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Foreword
The term “sustainable agriculture” implies multidimensional approach to managing agroecosystems encompassing (i) environmental, (ii) economic, and (iii) social components of sustainability. This book edited by Prof. Muhammad Farooq and Prof. Michele Pisante is a comprehensive treaty on this timely theme of global significance. In addition, this book also addresses several related and pertinent issues such as resource-use efficiency, water and nutrient management, pest management, genetic resources and biodiversity, and climate change. It is indeed a comprehensive treatise of the subject, based on synthesis of the existing knowledge by authors who are extremely about this important topic. The “sustainability” issue has been a popular theme ever since publication of the 1987 report by the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland (former Prime Minister of Norway): Our Common Future. This report was also the basis of the Agenda 21 and of the “Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.” The thematic focus has attracted attention of the scientists, policy
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