Safflower: A Multipurpose Crop for the Marginal Lands
Both soil and water salinity reduce the crop productivity in agricultural lands throughout the world. To cope with this scourge, we need crops that can be cultivated successfully in the marginal lands with salt problem. To explore salinity tolerance in sa
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Abdelaziz Hirich · Redouane ChoukrAllah · Ragab Ragab Editors
Emerging Research in Alternative Crops
ENVIRONMENT & POLICY VOLUME 58
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Abdelaziz Hirich • Redouane Choukr-Allah • Ragab Ragab Editors
Emerging Research in Alternative Crops
Editors Abdelaziz Hirich Mohammed VI Polytechnic University African Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute Laayoune, Morocco
Redouane Choukr-Allah Institute of Agronomy & Veterinary Hassan II Rabat, Morocco
Ragab Ragab Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Foreword
The global population is expected to increase to 9.7 billion in 2050, and there are concerns about the capacity of agriculture to produce enough food for the growing population. By some estimates, food production will need to go up by about 60% either through increase in crop yields per unit area or expansion in the arable land by 2050 to meet the demand (World Population Prospects—the 2008 Revision, UN, 2009). Furthermore, several regions already suffering from malnutrition, water scarcity, and soil degradation have been forecast to have a large population growth which raises serious concerns about whether traditional agricultural methods and crop species will have the capacity to sustain global food production targets. Major cereal crops like wheat, rice, barley, and corn are progressively failing to withstand increasing salinity and s
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