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 often overlooked. This book, the 35th volume of Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, examines the current status of soils across the globe and their potential for food production to meet the needs of the World's population in the 21st Century. Threats, such as the degradation, pollution and erosion of soil are discus…
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- Full title :Soils and Food Security.
Summary
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 often overlooked. This book, the 35th volume of Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, examines the current status of soils across the globe and their potential for food production to meet the needs of the World's population in the 21st Century. Threats, such as the degradation, pollution and erosion of soil are discussed, along with the possible consequences of climate change for soil and food production. As an ecosy.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Royal Society of Chemistry
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Soil Physical Degradation: Threats and Opportunities to Food Security.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (250 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1849734267, 9781849734264, 1849735433, 9781849735438
- oclc:ocn990462268
- LC Classification:S591 S676 2012
- Dewey Decimal:631.4
Table of Contents
Editors; List of Contributors; Soils and Food Security: Challenges and Opportunities; Abstract; 1 The Role of Soils in Food Security; 2 Key Soil Constraints to Crop and Fodder Production; 3 Contributions to Recent Increases in Crop Production; 4 Opportunities for Sustainable Increases of Yield; 5 Concluding Remarks; References; Global Soils: Preserving the Capacity for Food Production; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Global Distribution of Soil Resources versus FoodProduction; 3 Towards Global Governance of Soil Resources; 4 Towards Zero Net Soil Degradation; 5 Conclusions; References.
Soil Natural Capital and Ecosystem Service Delivery in a World of GlobalSoil ChangeAbstract; 1 Overview of Soil Ecosystem Services; 2 Drivers of Global Soil Change; 3 National Soil Change, the Countryside Survey of Great Britain; 4 Approaches to Ecosystem Service Valuation; Acknowledgements; References; The Evaluation and Reporting of Soils in Sustainable Agriculture and FoodSystems; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Measurement Tools; 3 Sustainability Schemes in the USA; 4 Global Sustainability Schemes; 5 Discussion and Conclusions; References.
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