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Soils and food security /
Soil is essential to agriculture and a resource that cannot be replaced easily. Nevertheless, its importance to food production and the threats to its sustainability are ofter overlooked.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Royal Society of Chemistry,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Issues in environmental science and technology ;
35. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Soils and food security: challenges and opportunities / Peter J. Gregory
- Global soils: preserving the capacity for food production / Luca Montanarella
- Soil natural capital and ecosystem service delivery in a world of global soil change / David A. Robinson [and others]
- The evaluation and reporting of soils in sustainable agriculture and food systems / Alfred E. Hartemink, Amanda L. Raster and Molly J. Jahn
- Agrobiodiversity and potential use for enhancing soil health in tropical soils of Africa / Fredrick O. Ayuke [and others]
- Organic matter availability and management in the context of integrated soil fertility management in sub-Saharan Africa / B. Vanlauwe
- Climate change and forest dynamics: a soils perspective / Wendy Peterman and Dominique Bachelet
- Plant nutrients / David A.C. Manning
- Soil physical degradation: threats and opportunities to food security / Paul D. Hallet, Kenneth W. Loades and Julia Krümmelbein.