Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 28 Ecology for Agriculture

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food. Major topics include ecosystem services biological pest control, conservation agriculture, drought stress, a

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 28 Ecology for Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 28

Series editor Eric Lichtfouse, Aix-Marseille Univ, CEREGE, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois, Avenue Louis Philibert, Aix en Provence, France

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8380

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Editors Sabrina Gaba UMR Agroécologie INRA Dijon France

Eric Lichtfouse Aix-Marseille Univ, CEREGE, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois Avenue Louis Philibert, Aix en Provence France

Barbara Smith Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience Coventry University Coventry UK

ISSN 2210-4410 ISSN 2210-4429 (electronic) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-90308-8 ISBN 978-3-319-90309-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90309-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018938773 © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physi