Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 2013 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Series, Vol. 12

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 solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. Because 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.

Surprising facts about soils, students and teachers! A survey of educational research and resources.- Sustainable agriculture and climate changes in Egypt.- Adapting maize crop to diverse agro-ecosystems.- Intercropping.- Soil organic matter dynamics and structure.- Enhancing fertilizer efficiency in high input cropping systems in Florida.- Plant and animal breeding as starting points for sustainable agriculture.- Medicinal plant active compounds produced by UV-B exposure.- Benefits of compost for land determined by life cycle assessment.- Biocontrol of plant pathogens using plant growth promoting rhizobacteria.