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Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security
- 1st Edition, Volume 9 - August 16, 2024
- Editors: Ashita Sharma, Manish Kumar, Puneet Sharma
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 0 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 9 0 8 - 5
Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security, Volume Nine in the Advances in Food Security and Sustainability series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEnvironmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security, Volume Nine in the Advances in Food Security and Sustainability series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapter on important topics such as Exacerbation of Food Insecurity in Africa: A Consequence of the Dual Threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis; Rising Environmental Issues: A hindrance to food security; Microplastics in Soil and Water: Unveiling Environmental Risks and Implications; Emerging Contaminants – Categorization, Effect and Treatment; The Potential Impact on Pesticides on Insect Pollinators and Their Ecological Implications, and much more.
Additional chapters cover Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity; Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safety; Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediation; Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly management; Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant Growth; Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity; Decrease in Arable Land and Water; and Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends; Monoculture Of Crops.
Additional chapters cover Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity; Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safety; Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediation; Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly management; Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant Growth; Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity; Decrease in Arable Land and Water; and Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends; Monoculture Of Crops.
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Advances in Food Security and Sustainability series
Researchers in life sciences and social sciences as well as policymakers, food industry professionals, advisers, and more
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Emerging contaminants: Categorization, effect, and treatment
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Movement in the water cycle: emerging contaminants
- 3 Categorization and effect: water, soil, and humans
- 4 Treatment technologies used for EC removal in WWTPs
- 5 Transmission of emerging contaminants
- 6 Challenges to attaining food security
- 7 Conclusion and future scope
- References
- Chapter Two: Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview of crop productivity
- 3 Factors influencing geo-environmental conditions—impacting crop productivity
- 4 Adaptation strategies for sustainable crop productivity
- 5 Future outlook
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Three: Pesticides in agriculture: Food security vs. food safety
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Role of pesticides in food security
- 3 Types of pesticides
- 4 Fate of pesticides in the environment
- 5 Effects of pesticides on health of humans and other organisms
- 6 Remedial measures
- 7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: Microplastics in soil and water: Unveiling environmental risks and implications
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview on microplastics
- 3 Occurrence and effects of microplastics in soil
- 4 Occurrence and effects of microplastics in water
- 5 Effects of emerging contaminants on ecosystem
- 6 Types of microplastics
- 7 Remediation of microplastics
- 8 Other strategies adopted to combat microplastic pollution
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Five: Salinity stress in crop plants: Effects and eco-friendly management
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Types of salinity
- 3 Salinity and soil health
- 4 Response towards salinity
- 5 ROS metabolism under salinity
- 6 Effect of salinity on osmolytes
- 7 Role of osmolytes in salinity stress tolerance
- 8 Eco-friendly management of soil salinity
- 9 Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- Chapter Six: Salinity stress: Impact on plant growth
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Management strategies
- 3 Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter Seven: Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Description of important micronutrients
- 3 Sources of soil contamination
- 4 Effects of micronutrient toxicity on the development and growth of plants
- 5 Mechanism of transport of micronutrients in plants
- 6 Strategies for mitigating micronutrient toxicity
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Eight: Monoculture of crops: A challenge in attaining food security
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Beneficial effects of monoculture farming on obtaining food security
- 3 Negative impact of monoculture farming in obtaining food security
- 4 Difficulties in the management of pest through monoculture farming
- 5 Increase in the use of pesticides by monoculturing
- 6 Monoculture farming causes fertility loss and soil degradation
- 7 Monoculture promotes higher use of fertilizers
- 8 Monoculturing leads to enhancement in the use of water
- 9 Monoculture farming causes decrease in biodiversity
- 10 Effect of monoculturing on pollinator
- 11 Monoculture farming leads to economic risk
- 12 Environmental impact of monoculture
- 13 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter Nine: Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends
- Abstract
- Highlights
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Collaboration patterns
- 6 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Ten: Exacerbation of food insecurity in Africa: A consequence of the dual threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Impact of COVID-19 on food security in Africa
- 3 Impact of the Russia-Ukraine crisis on food security in Africa
- 4 The implications of migration and environmental degradation stemming from the Russia-Ukraine crisis on food security in Africa
- 5 Correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine crisis, and food insecurity in Africa
- 6 Efforts to curb food insecurity in Africa
- 7 Recommendations
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 9
- Published: August 16, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443219078
- eBook ISBN: 9780443219085
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Ashita Sharma
Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India.MK
Manish Kumar
Department of Botany, SD College, Barnala, Punjab, India
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Botany, SD College, Barnala, Punjab, IndiaPS
Puneet Sharma
Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India, 140413
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, IndiaRead Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security on ScienceDirect