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    • Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Indrajeet Kumar + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management: Advantages, Challenges and Further Improvement offers a compelling and comprehensive exploration of sustainable agricultural waste management. Each chapter delves into crucial aspects of organic waste, ranging from its ecological impacts to innovative solutions and policy considerations with the goal of providing both currently actionable insights and inspiring additional research and development. Including diverse perspectives throughout, the book leads the reader from understanding the ecological dynamics of agricultural waste to exploring circular economy tactics and technological innovations, offering a well-rounded view of the field. The inclusion of topics such as bioactive compounds, biochar solutions, clean energy production, and nanotechnology applications provides practical insights and potential avenues for addressing agricultural waste challenges in agricultural waste management. Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management caters to advanced students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and environmental advocates working in sustainable waste management.

    • Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Katarzyna Chojnacka + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Mixed crop-livestock systems offer promising strategies for sustainable farming. Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture: From Lab to Farm to Table details solutions for mitigating agricultural waste, such as carbon emissions and chemical runoff, and creating a circular economy on mixed farms. In addition to covering potential solutions, the book will analyze the effectiveness of each strategy in protecting the environment from harm. Notable topics covered include manure management, agricultural waste valorization, wastewater and resource recovery, and even dairy cow feed for lowering methane production.While the book is based primarily on the climates and farming systems of Europe, the climactic diversity of the continent will make this a useful resource for many other parts of the world with similar climates, including North America and portions of South America, Asia, and Oceana. Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture: From Lab to Farm to Table offers practical strategies and solutions to readers and will benefit audience members ranging from students and researchers to farmers and agricultural stakeholders.

    • Technology-Driven Emerging -Omics and Sustainable Agriculture

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Geerten W. Vuister + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 0 3 1 6 3
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      Technology-driven Emerging -Omics and Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the transformative potential of advanced tools such as AI, genomics and proteomics to ensure future agricultural production. The integration of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics has advanced the understanding of plant and microbial systems and the application of this knowledge has enabled precision farming, optimizing crop yield, and minimizing environmental impact. There are unprecedented opportunities to enhance crop yields, improve pest and disease management, to optimize resource utilization, and to mitigate environmental impacts. Through the use of advanced data analytics, machine learning, and predictive modeling, researchers can decipher complex biological processes and develop innovative solutions for agricultural challenges. Technology-driven Emerging -Omics and Sustainable Agriculture explores the advancements in AI-driven omics technologies, such as genome editing, transcriptomics, and phenomics, and their applications in crop improvement, soil health monitoring, and precision agriculture.

    • Climate Smart Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Vimal Chandra Pandey + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation is a comprehensive overview of modern technologies and strategies to improve plants in terms of food, feed, fodder, fibre and fuel production for human well-being in the face of climate change. With focus on the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing, it demonstrates how genomics-assisted strategies can be utilized to produce improved plants with climate-smart traits. Significant successes in the areas of molecular breeding, transgenics and genomics have contributed to revolutionary modifications in cereal-vegetable-fru... crop-improvement strategies and methods, but there is still work to be done. Understanding the strategies and approaches that are most appropriate for enhancing production is key to effective, efficient, and timely advancement of further crop yield quality and quantity through crop genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy, agriculture, agroforestry, horticulture and phytoremediation. Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation provides an excellent basis for current state of the science for climate smart crops as well as and inspiring future research.

    • Agroforestry Solutions for Soil Restoration and Sustainable Land Management

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Ram Yadav + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Agroforestry Solutions for Soil Restoration and Sustainable Land Management, a volume in the Agricultural Soil Degradation and Restoration series, provides insights into the role of agroforestry in sustainable food production around the globe. Focusing on the multi-disciplinary nature of agricultural soil science, this volume highlights the current challenges, solution options and future research options. Agroforestry encompasses a variety of systems with a global presence, positively impacting people's livelihoods and resilience to climate change. Economically and ecologically commendable, agroforestry enhances agricultural and environmental sustainability by promoting soil nutrient cycling, increasing crop productivity, and improving food quality. The integrated cultivation of trees and crops in interactive combinations, known as agroforestry, is globally recognized as a sustainable land-use practice. Agroforestry Solutions for Soil Restoration and Sustainable Land Management is a state-of-the-art synthesis of research findings and evaluations related to Land Degradation Neutrality and Soil Restoration, with a particular focus on the agricultural production, livelihood and climate change dimensions of agroforestry. This volume will be useful to scientists, academicians, and students of agroforestry, land use system, natural resources management, cropping systems and other related subjects.

    • Aflatoxin Management in Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Sajad Majeed Zargar + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Aflatoxin Management in Crops: Challenges and Opportunities provides a comprehensive look at current insights into aflatoxin contamination in agricultural crops and its effect on human health on global level. With insights from around the globe, it presents the latest advances in the understanding of the contamination and management strategies for aflatoxins in cereals, millets, oilseed, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. Aflatoxin contamination in crops is a global threat that compromises the safety of food, feed, and also influence the agricultural economy and crop-dependent small scale industries. Crops can be contaminated during the process of harvesting, storing, and transporting by the fungi and leads to the productions of several mycotoxins. Aflatoxin can be extremely harmful if consumed, being linked to cancer-, immune-, and nutritionally related diseases. Aflatoxin Management in Crops: Challenges and Opportunities includes the biology of fungi and the chemistry behind the toxicity level of different aflatoxin strains as well as advances in detection techniques and management strategies. It concludes by exploring the different effects of aflatoxin on human health and regulatory laws to control its contamination.

    • Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Tarek Ben Hassen + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems offers a comprehensive review of digital technology's role in supporting sustainable agriculture and food systems. The book explores how digital technologies like precision agriculture, robots, artificial intelligence, and blockchain may boost agricultural output and efficiency while lowering environmental impact. It also investigates how these technologies might assist farmers in connecting with markets, increasing supply chain traceability, and boosting food safety and quality. Serving as a comprehensive guide, this book educates and helps farmers, policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and other value chain actors in leveraging digital innovations. It also address the pressing challenges faced by the agri-food sector, such as food insecurity, environmental degradation, natural resources depletion, and climate change.

    • Plant Polyphenols in the Food and Cosmetic Industries

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • José Manuel Lorenzo + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Plant Polyphenols in the Food and Cosmetic Industries: Extraction and Applications explores the use of polyphenols in food and cosmetics. Broken into three parts, the book begins with coverage of extraction and purification processes before delving into specific food and cosmetic applications. Plant Polyphenols in the Food and Cosmetic Industries: Extraction and Applications provides nutrition researchers, food scientists, and plant scientists an opportunity to better understand the use of polyphenols in their industries.

    • Agricultural Water Management in Africa

      • 1st Edition
      • January 15, 2026
      • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Agricultural Water Management in Africa: Lessons Learned and Future Directions provides an overview of the status of irrigation development and AWM practices and technologies in Africa and the global south, and provides guidelines, scenarios, and investment plans to guide the prioritization and operationalization of irrigation development and AWM under climate change. The African Union (AU) is driving investment and improvement in agricultural water management and transformation in Africa through the operationalization of the AU Irrigation Development and Agricultural Water Management in Africa (AU-IDAWM). The AU-IDAWM provides a framework that identifies four development pathways for enhanced agricultural water management practices across Africa. The pathways are as follows: (1) Improved water control and watershed management in rain-fed farming, (2) Farmer-led Irrigation Development (FLID), (3) Irrigation scheme development and modernisation, and (4) Unconventional water use for irrigation.This book explores the status of AWM at a continental scale as guided by the AU-IDAWM pathways. It also incorporates case studies from the global South (Asia and Latin America) to foster south-south knowledge sharing. The book considers cross-cutting issues such as the water-energy-food nexus and circular economy within the context of sustainable AWM development.

    • Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Habib Ali + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      In recent years, the agricultural industry has faced mounting challenges in pest control due to the widespread use of chemical pesticides. These conventional methods, while effective in the short term, have led to unintended consequences, including the decline of pollinator populations and negative impacts on their ecosystems. To address these concerns, Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM) has emerged as a holistic approach to sustainable agriculture. The first scientific book of its kind, Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management, explores the delicate balance of agricultural productivity and ecosystem health. It delves into the intertwined relationship between pests and pollinators, offering practical strategies for managing pests while safeguarding the well-being of vital pollinators. Drawing on cutting-edge research and practical case studies, Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management outlines the principles and methodologies of IPPM and introduces innovative techniques such as biological control, crop rotation, habitat manipulation, and the use of pest-resistant crop varieties. From stakeholders in agricultural systems to researchers and students working in the field, Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management is a must-have resource.

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