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Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture
This book will not serve as the "encyclopedia of cover crop management," but it’s close.The benefits of a wide range of individual cover crops and blends/mixes for specific agronomic crop rotations and geographic locations are included.Descriptions, photographs, and illustrations show how cover crops look in the field, including plant height, leaf architecture, and rooting patterns.Long term benefits are described for soil health, soil structure, water quality, nutrient contributions, soil biodiversity, air quality and climate change.In addition to the "whys" of cover crop use, the book includes details on the "hows:" how to choose cover crops for specific applications and locations; how (and when) to plant; how to manage and maintain the cover for maximum benefit; and how and when to terminate.Planting options include: drilling/planting between rows of an agronomic crop at planting time, or when the crop is short (i.e. corn in early June); "aerial" seeding with an airplane or high-clearance machine shortly before the crop reaches maturity; and drilling/planting immediately after harvest of the agronomic crop.Selected cover crops (blends) can help with pest and disease management.Cover crops are an economic input with an expected return on investment, similar to pesticides and fertilizer.As part of a continuous no-till system, cover crops provide long-term biological, chemical and structural benefits.The resulting increase in soil organic matter means the agronomic crop yields benefit from better water infiltration and water holding capacity, greater availability of nitrogen and other nutrients, deeper rooting, and increased soil microbial activity in the root zone.
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Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture : Governance, Inclusion, and Innovation
With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture.Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture.In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices.Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector.This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazil’s potential role in confronting environmental problems.More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production.
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Precision Agriculture for Sustainability: Second Edition
By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture (PA) can make agriculture more productive and sustainable. This new edition of Precision agriculture for sustainability provides a comprehensive review of the key components of PA, from information gathering to delivery systems, as well as the wide range of applications from precision tillage and seeding to site-specific irrigation and nutrition, as well as crop protection and weed management.The book also considers the emergence of new approaches and technologies, including multi-sensor fusion, artificial intelligence and big data.
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Organic Agriculture
Organic crop production is the science and art of growing field crops, fruits, vegetables, and flowers by adopting the essential principles of organic agriculture in soil building and conservation, pest management, and heirloom variety conservation.This book provides detailed insights into organic farming in agriculture, biological efficacy in the management of plant diseases, organic nutrient management, socio-economic dimensions of adoption of conservation practices, nonchemical weed control, plant growth promoting fungi for phytostimulation, nanotechnological approaches, and finally vermicomposting.The book primarily focuses on research and development based organic agriculture and horticulture production technologies, and has attempted to abridge information on organic crop production of the major food grain crops.The book also contains comprehensive information on the various related dimensions of organic crop production.
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Cultivated farming advice. Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234–149 BC) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose.His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various subjects, and his great historical work on Rome and Italy are lost.But we have his De Agricultura; terse, severely wise, grimly humorous, it gives rules in various aspects of a farmer’s economy, including even medical and cooking recipes, and reveals interesting details of domestic life. Varro (M. Terentius) of Reate (116–27 BC), renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet.He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library.Of Varro’s more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only one on agriculture and country affairs (Rerum Rusticarum) and part of his work on the Latin language (De Lingua Latina; LCL 333, 334), though we know much about his Satires.Each of the three books on country affairs begins with an effective mise en scene and uses dialogue.The first book deals with agriculture and farm management, the second with sheep and oxen, the third with poultry and the keeping of other animals large and small, including bees and fish ponds.There are lively interludes and a graphic background of political events.
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Intelligent Designs, Innovations and Sustainability in Agriculture 4.0
Feeding an expanding population in light of environmental preservation and keeping production lean is a considerable challenge.Sustainable and Precise Agriculture relying on Industry 4.0 (Agri4) points toward creating strategic collaborations, innovations, and alternative approaches to old concerns, and incorporating solutions from other expertise domains.It requires intensive efforts from governments, investors, investigators, and developers.These initiatives address many problems while connecting more agrarians and their communities.Agri4 entails key agribusiness developments, viz. precision agriculture, biotech, IoT, and Big Data, to augment efficiency in dealing with growing population and climate change.Agri4 is likely to yield improvements such as sustainable practices education, environmental residue reduction, seed improvement, and traditional agricultural knowledge usage, among others.It promotes sustainable food production, community development, and scientific literacy by fostering effective natural resource administration. This book explores the transformative impact of Agriculture 4.0, guiding readers through the integration of digital technologies and sustainable practices into modern farming.It discusses how innovations like AI and the IoT are revolutionizing agriculture, enhancing connectivity, precision, and ecological awareness.The intended readers of the book include agricultural professionals, researchers, tech innovators, policymakers, and students.It caters to those interested in the convergence of modern technology and farming, particularly in advancing sustainable practices and understanding the future of agriculture in the digital age.
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Managing Risk in Agriculture : A Development Perspective
The book addresses and documents farmers' risks in developing and emerging economies.It draws lessons from experimental economics on measuring risk preferences, attitudes, gender differences in managing risks, and risk management strategies in countries across Africa and Asia.It argues policy makers, especially in emerging economies, need a better understanding of farmers' attitudes toward risk and choices of risk management strategies when designing policies to support production agriculture.The book includes chapters on three themes: understanding risk attitudes and preferences; using experimental economics to measure risk, preferences, and risk management strategies; and understanding climate change, risk, and risk management.The book critically examines the currently held beliefs about risk preference, attitudes, and empirical estimation of risk management strategies, emphasizing developing and emerging economies (DEE). "The agricultural development space is an inherently risky one and this welcome collection belatedly helps to plug an important hole." Jock R. Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of New England, Armidale, Australia "Over time, agricultural production practices have evolved, as have the markets and value chains for food and agricultural products.A constant consideration, however, and one that continues to define agriculture worldwide, is risk.The risks that impinge on agriculture come in all shapes and sizes.Of course, production risks are ubiquitous. But so are market risks. And the same is true for macroeconomic and financial risks and the risks associated with an evolving climate.This book will be a valuable, comprehensive resource for any applied economist desiring to understand the risk management principles relevant to modern food and agricultural systems." Matthew Holt, Prof. and head of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
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Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture : Could Agriculture Prevent Further Pandemics?
Pathogens repeatedly are emerging from a global agrifood system rooted in inequality, labor exploitation, and unfettered extractivism by which communities are robbed of their natural and social resources.A crisis-prone economic system that prioritizes production for profit over meeting human needs and ecological preservation is organized around intense monocultural production that, along the way, allows the deadliest of diseases to emerge.The PReP Agroecologies working group focuses on how agriculture might be reimagined as the kind of community-wide intervention that could stop coronaviruses and other pathogens from emerging in the first place.We address how mainstream science supports the same political and economic systems that helped produce the pandemic.Then we introduce agroecology, an environmentalism of the peasantry, the poor, and indigenous, long in practice, that treats agriculture as a part of the ecology out of which humanity grows its food.Agroecology-a science, movement, and practice-combines ecological science, indigenous and peasant knowledges, and social movements for food and territorial sovereignty to achieve environmentally just food systems. Peasant- and indigenous-led agroecology is uniquely positioned to limit the spread of zoonotic viruses: Post-capitalist agroecology champions the indigenous and smallholders who protect agricultural biodiversity.A diverse agroecological matrix of farm plots, agroforestry, and grazing lands all embedded within a forest can conserve animal biodiversity in the landscape.Agricultural biodiversity can make it more difficult for zoonotic diseases to prevail.Such a mode of conservation also takes into account the economic and social conditions of people currently tending the land, rather than a conservation that uproots people to foster the private accumulation of capital.
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