This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Climate change affects agriculture through changes in average temperatures, rainfall and climate extremes; changes in pests and diseases; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods; and changes in sea level.
Table of Content
Preface.- 01 Impact of human activity, climate and other factors on nitrogen in agriculture.- 02 Impact of tillage methods on environment, energy and economy.- 03 Coffee production and climate change impact In Ethiopia.- 04 Impact of climate on coastal agro-ecosystems.- 05 Methanogenesis and methane emission in rice paddy fields.- 06 Physical and biological processes controlling soil C dynamics.- 07 Halophilic microbial ecology for agricultural production in salt affected lands.- 08 Groundwater and agriculture evolution in Central Punjab, Pakistan.- 09 Bioindicators of degraded soils.- 10 Closed and semi-closed systems in agriculture.- 11 Bioenergy and sustainable agriculture.
About the author
Eric Lichtfouse, is a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). He has invented the 13C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of soil organic molecules, thus opening the field of molecular-level investigations of soil carbon sequestration. Chief Editor of the awarded journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, he has raised the journal rank from 29/53 in 2003, with an impact factor of 0.56, to 2/81 in 2014, with an impact factor of 3.99, in the Agronomy category. He is also Chief Editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. He is lecturing scientific writing and communication in universities worldwide. His publication assistance service at the INRA has founded the french-english newsletter Publier La Science. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journal. This textbook describes in particular the micro-article, a new tool to identify the novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, Linked In, Research Gate, Researcher ID and Orcid.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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