Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions
- 1st Edition - March 27, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Sandeep Kumar, Ram Swaroop Meena
- Language: English
Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions explores how agriculture has historically contributed to carbon emissions and then takes the reader forward, offering insights into an integr… Read more
Description
Description
Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions explores how agriculture has historically contributed to carbon emissions and then takes the reader forward, offering insights into an integrated approach to reducing those emissions toward the COP26 goal. The dual challenge of increasing production to meet population and nutrition food demands while reducing the traditional emissions generated by production practices is significant. It requires understanding the foundation of current practices and then revising those underlying principles to reflect the resources and greater insights of today.
This book provides an overview of the current state of the science, explores the development of policies and plans to improve carbon management, and provides examples of technology and agroecosystem management practices. It includes the latest updates in carbon neutral farming, carbon and energy management, and addresses the knowledge gap between input management, livestock management and agroecosystem management.
Advancing agroecosystem science through a roadmap for improving capacity, Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions is a valuable resource for those seeking to develop and apply new agricultural best practices.
This book provides an overview of the current state of the science, explores the development of policies and plans to improve carbon management, and provides examples of technology and agroecosystem management practices. It includes the latest updates in carbon neutral farming, carbon and energy management, and addresses the knowledge gap between input management, livestock management and agroecosystem management.
Advancing agroecosystem science through a roadmap for improving capacity, Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions is a valuable resource for those seeking to develop and apply new agricultural best practices.
Key features
Key features
- Provides insights into agriculture’s role in reaching Sustainable Development Goals through improved practices
- Includes diverse agroecosystems for broad and translational insights and applications
- Promotes transition to cleaner energy sources, including the role of regulation
Readership
Readership
Agricultural scientists, researchers and post-graduate students in agriculture, horticulture, plant biology, Researchers and post-graduate students in environmental science
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. COP 26: A pivotal pledge to net zero emissions
2. Greenhouse gases emissions: Problem, global reality and future perspectives
3. Net zero emission: Progress, opportunities and challenges
4. Food losses and waste: Establishing a sustainable food supply chain to lower greenhouse gas emissions
5. Global Carbon Market: Policy Pathways for Low Carbon Emissions in the Agriculture Sector
6. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems to ensure zero carbon emission
7. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint
8. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture
9. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission
10. Agroforestry and Net-Zero in the European Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
11. Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy
12. Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture
13. Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector
14. Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency
15. Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions
16. Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future
17. Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production
18. Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector
19. Microbes for reducing greenhouse gases emission in agriculture for a sustainable future
20. Recent advancement in climate change projections and socio‐economic scenarios used to evaluate climate impacts and adaptation measures
2. Greenhouse gases emissions: Problem, global reality and future perspectives
3. Net zero emission: Progress, opportunities and challenges
4. Food losses and waste: Establishing a sustainable food supply chain to lower greenhouse gas emissions
5. Global Carbon Market: Policy Pathways for Low Carbon Emissions in the Agriculture Sector
6. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems to ensure zero carbon emission
7. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint
8. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture
9. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission
10. Agroforestry and Net-Zero in the European Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
11. Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy
12. Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture
13. Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector
14. Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency
15. Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions
16. Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future
17. Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production
18. Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector
19. Microbes for reducing greenhouse gases emission in agriculture for a sustainable future
20. Recent advancement in climate change projections and socio‐economic scenarios used to evaluate climate impacts and adaptation measures
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 9, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Sandeep Kumar
Dr. Sandeep Kumar was born into a farming family in the village of Jaswantpura, Rajgarh (Churu), Rajasthan, India. He joined the Agricultural Research Services (ARS) in 2020 at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Regional Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Currently, he is a scientist (agronomy) at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Regional Station, Karnal, Haryana, India. Dr. Kumar completed his schooling in his native village and earned his bachelor’s degree in agriculture (Hons.) in 2013 from the College of Agriculture, Lalsot, SKRAU, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. He completed his master’s degree from BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and his PhD in agronomy from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India, with a specialization in nutrient management in grain legumes. Throughout his academic career, he secured first division and qualified for the ICAR-NET three times, in addition to receiving prestigious SRF fellowships from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. His areas of expertise include improving resource-use efficiency in conservation agriculture-based rice–wheat systems, cropping system diversification, carbon sequestration, and carbon credits for sustainable crop production. A prolific author and editor, Dr. Kumar has received several accolades, including the Land 2020 Best Paper Award from MDPI and Wiley’s Top Cited Article Award for 2022–2023. He was also honored with the Best Young Scientist Award (Regional Station) for 2024–2025 by ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. Dr. Kumar is actively engaged in teaching postgraduate and PhD students at the IARI–IIWBR Mega Hub, Karnal, Haryana, India. He also plays a key role in institutional development and resource generation initiatives. His future research goals focus on soil carbon sequestration, climate change adaptation, carbon credit generation, regenerative agriculture, and low-emission technologies in a systems-based approach.
Affiliations and expertise
Scientist (Agronomy), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Karnal, Haryana, IndiaRM
Ram Swaroop Meena
Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena was born into a farming family and is working in the Department of Agronomy at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. With an excellent academic background, he has been elected a fellow of several academies, including the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS), the Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA), and the Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research (SRMR). The Ministry of Education has also awarded him the Raman Fellowship for the USA under World Food Prize Laureate Prof. Rattan Lal, and he was an INSA visiting scientist at ISARC-IRRI (IRRI South Asia Regional Center-The International Rice Research Institute). Additionally, he has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists for his research impact. He has guided PhD and master’s students and completed 10 externally funded projects from IRRI, The ‘Institute of Eminence’ (IoE)-Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Department of Science and Technology (DST), The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Education (MOE), The Government of India (GOI). He has published books, at an international level (Springer, Elsevier, etc.). He has made significant research contributions to natural resource management and to farm and industrial waste recycling for soil health. Dr. Meena's research evaluates energy flow, atmospheric CO₂ capture, carbon credit and auditing, and eco-friendly techniques for a sustainable food system and soil regeneration, as evidenced by high-impact publications and extension work at the farmer level. His work is crucial for understanding the long-term stability of soil carbon, which enhances soil microbial and nutrient dynamics in rice-based diversified cropping systems. He trained farmers from the Deep Forest Tribe to adopt climate-smart practices to secure their livelihoods under the DST-SEED grant project. Dr. Meena has also contributed to agricultural extension activities in villages designated under the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India's initiative. His future work aims to reduce soil organic carbon oxidation and enhance its stability in agroecosystems, enabling farmers to benefit from carbon credits and generate additional income.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaView book on ScienceDirect
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