Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management

Enables readers to strengthen existing agricultural strategies to sustainably solve contemporary problems like food supply chain gaps and food scarcity

Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management explains strategies to check the deterioration of soil quality, irrigation water quality, reuse of wastewaters in agriculture after treatment, organic fertigation, and corporate fertigation, to transform current agriculture into sustainable agriculture, and demonstrates cost effective technologies for sustainable development of site-specific ecosystems. Techniques to eradicate malnutrition, such as enhanced biofortification, are also covered.

Sample topics covered in Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management include:

• Foremost developments in the restoration and utilization of degraded lands through organic farming, precision agriculture, climate-resilient fodder/forage cultivation, and livestock management
• Promotion of agro-forestry-based apiculture, silviculture, and sericulture, and corporate fertigation, and reclaiming urban brownfields and industrial areas
• Development of diverse products, including biofuel, fiber, fodder, timber, and herbal products leading to the generation of social capitals
• Ecology of intercropping systems, tree-cover dynamics of grazing lands, and cover crops for soil management

Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Soil Management is a comprehensive and authoritative resource on the subject, making it a must-have resource for scientists working in agrobiodiversity, agroecology, bioscience, restoration ecology, soil science, and sustainable science, along with postgraduate students in ecology, environmental sciences, and environmental economics.

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is an Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. He has published over 219 papers and edited 34 books. He received a Doctorate in Botany from Lucknow University, India in 1979. Based on an independent study by Stanford University scientists, he figured in the top 2% of scientists from India consecutively in 2020, 2021 and 2022, ranked number 1 in Environmental Sciences, India in 2020 and 2021. Recipient of Pitamber Pant National Environment Fellowship for the year 2007, awarded by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India; Excellent Scholar Award of the XIX Int. Bot. Congress, July 23-29, 2017, Shenzhen, China.

Dr. Chitranjan Kumar (MSc Gold Medallist, NET, D.Phil.) is a faculty member of Amity University and a well-known international soil scientist in the field of phyto-bio-remediation/management of sewage-irrigated soils/organic fertigation. He is the recipient of the Associate Editor Recognition of Excellence by the American Society of Agronomy, USA, continuously serving Agronomy Journal for the last 10 years. He has published 45 papers, edited 12-Annual Reports of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), edited >1060 Springer articles, 24-Wiley articles, 12-Year Books of NASI as Technical Editor, reviewed > 240 international articles from 40 international journals.

Preface

notes on contributors

1 Soil Degradation: A Major Challenge in the Twenty-First Century

Cláudia Cseko Nolasco de Carvalho, Lander de Jesus Alves, Fábio Carvalho Nunes, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

2 Degradation of Agriculture Systems by Invasive Alien Plants and Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Restoration

Prabhat Kumar Rai

3 Soil Management for Carbon Sequestration

Yassine Aallam, Soumia Amir, Wassila Bouta, Mohamed Farissi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Hanane Hamdali, Ayoub Haouas, Ahmed El Moukhtari, Abdallah Oukarroum, Taoufik El Rasafi, Anas Tallou

4 Soil Degradation, Resilience, Restoration, and Sustainable Use

Diana Cota-Ungson, Yolanda González-García, Antonio Juárez-Maldonado

5 Organic Farming—a Sustainable Option to Reduce Soil Degradation

A. V. Dordio, Jorge M. S. Faria, A. J. Palace Carvalho, Ana Paula Pinto

6 Ecological Restoration of Degraded Soils Through Protective Afforestation

Marek Pająk, Marcin Pietrzykowski, Bartłomiej Woś

7 Biochar Applications for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

8 Restoring Ecosystems: Guidance from Agroecology for Sustainability in Thailand

Woranan Nakbanpote, Pranee Srihaban, Wutthisat Chokkuea, Winya Dungkaew, Uraiwan Taya, Piyanutt Khanema, Munjit Ruttanakorn, Jitto Ponlakit, Piyapatr Busababodhin, Surasak Khankhum, Khanitta Somtrakoon, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

9 Emergy Approach to the Sustainable Use of Ecosystems toward Better Land Management

Ana Ana Fonseca, Joana Joana Marinheiro, Cláudia Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil, João Serra

10 Agroecological Transformation for Sustainable Food Systems

Soumia Amir, Taoufik El Rasafi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Ayoub Haouas, Abdallah Oukarroum, Anas Tallou

11 Alternative Production Systems (“Roof-Top,” Vertical, Hydroponic, and Aeroponic Farming)

Ágnes Szepesi

12 Regaining the Essential Ecosystem Services in Degraded Lands

V. Girijaveni, K. Sammi Reddy, J. V. N. S. Prasad, V. K. Singh, Chitranjan Kumar

13 Phytochemicals as an Eco-Friendly Source for Sustainable Management of Soil-Borne Plant Pathogens in Soil Ecosystem

Nawal Kishore Dubey, Chitranjan Kumar, Shikha Tiwari

14 Restoration of Saline Soils for Sustainable Crop Production

Bülent OKUR, Nur OKUR, Nesrin ÖRÇEN

15 Conservation Agriculture as Sustainable and Smart Soil Management: When Food Systems Meet Sustainability

Rachid Mrabet, Tarun Sharma, Akashdeep Singh

16 The Ecology of Intercropping Systems, Tree-Cover Dynamics of Grazing Lands, and Cover Crops for Soil Management

David E. Clay, Deepak R. Joshi, Chitranjan Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh

17 Strategies for Restoration and Utilization of Degraded Lands for Sustainable Oil Palm Plantation and Industry

Sanggono Adisasmito, Antonius Indarto, Daniel Pramudita, Ronny Purwadi

18 Reclaiming Urban Brownfields and Industrial Areas–Potentials for Agroecology

Tino Fauk, Florin-Constantin Mihai, Petra Schneider

19 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Sustaining Saline and Metal Contaminated Soils

Chitranjan Kumar, Sangeeta Pandey, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Ajay Tomar

20 Internet of Things (IoT) in Soil Management for Achieving Smart Agriculture

Hossein Beyrami, Mehdi Mahbod, Chanchal K. Mitra, Amir Parnian, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

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