عنوان

Food security and soil quality

02BL16889

Food security and soil quality

edited by Rattan Lal and B.A. Stewart.

Boca Raton, FL

CRC Press

c2010

xiii, 416 p., ]2[ p. of plates ill., maps )some col.( 25 cm

Advances in soil sciences

Food security

Soils--Quality

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : food security and soil quality / R. Lal and B.A. Stewart -- Managing soils to address global issues of the twenty-first century / R. Lal -- Farming systems and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa / W.A. Payne -- Assessment of land degradation, its possible causes and threat to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa / P.L.G. Vlek, Q.B. Le, and L. Tamene -- Crop productivity, fertilizer use, and soil quality in China / M. Fan ... ]et al.[ -- The role of fertilizers in food production / A. Roy -- Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems? / N. Verhulst ... ]et al.[ -- Soil quality management in Brazil / C.E. Cerri ... ]et al.[ -- Organic matter knowledge and management in soils of the tropics related to ecosystem services / C. Feller ... ]et al.[ -- Temporal changes in productivity of agricultural systems in Punjab, India and Ohio, USA / A. Dubey and R. Lal -- Soil quality and ethics : the human dimension / R. Lal -- Comprehensive management of nutrients in dryland soils of China for sustainable agriculture / S.-X. Li and Z.-H. Wang.

Lal, R

Stewart, B. A.