Conservation Agriculture: Environment, Farmers Experiences, Innovations, Socio-Economy, Policy - Taschenbuch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789048162116
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9048162114
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Herausgeber: Springer
536 Seiten
Gewicht: 0,803 kg
Sprache: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9789048162116

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90-481-6211-4, 978-90-481-6211-6
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Autor des Buches: garcia torres, martinez, armando torres, cabrera, cabre, garcia marti
Titel des Buches: conservation environment, economy experiences

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Autor/in: L. García-Torres; J. Benites; A. Martínez-Vilela; A. Holgado-Cabrera
Titel: Conservation Agriculture - Environment, Farmers Experiences, Innovations, Socio-economy, Policy
Verlag: Springer; Springer Netherland
516 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010-12-01
Dordrecht; NL
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Niederlande.
Sprache: Englisch
213,99 € (DE)
219,99 € (AT)
236,00 CHF (CH)
POD
XVIII, 516 p. 85 illus.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Biologie/Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau, Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung; Agrarwissenschaften; Verstehen; Erosion; FAO; Oxide; Soil fertility; Sustainable Agriculture; Tillage; biodiversity; biomass; emissions; environment; residue; residues; soil; temperature; Agriculture; Soil Science; Sedimentology; Agricultural Economics; Bodenkunde und Bodenmanagement; Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie; Agrarwirtschaft und primärer Sektor; BB; EA

I. Conservation agriculture global improvements.- Conservation agriculture: global environmental benefits of soil carbon management.- Factors affecting the uptake of no-tillage in Australia, Asia and New Zealand..- Conservation agriculture and the rural women. Breaking barriers for a new horizon.- Agriculture and natural resource management. The role of conservation agriculture.- II. Farmer experiences with conservation agriculture.- No till, the stubble and the soil nutrition.- Argentine agriculture: an innovative experience.- The soil, agriculture and I.- Farmers’ and experts’ opinion on no-tillage in Western Europe and Nebraska (USA).- Experiences with farmer clubs in dissemination of zero tillage in Tropical Brazil.- III. International networks for conservation agriculture.- Conservation agriculture in Europe: current status and perspectives.- Direct seeding on plant cover: sustainable cultivation of our planet’s soils.- Survival farming.- Latin American conservation agriculture network — RELACO.- The african conservation tillage network enhancing conservation tillage in Africa.- Need for establishment of South Asian conservation agriculture network.- A strategy for soil conservation farming in Northern Kazakhstan.- FAO’s Role in promoting conservation agriculture.- Western Australian no-tillage farmers association.- A world of conservation agriculture.- ICARDA’s network on conservation agriculture in Central Asia.- Conservation agriculture for the rice-wheat systems of the indogangetic plains of South Asia: A case study from India.- Zero tillage in Switzerland: the bernese incentive program.- IV. Recent innovations on conservation agriculture.- Conservation tillage, no-tillage and related technologies.- Cover crop management.- Weeds and conservationagriculture.- Non-inversion tillage in integrated farming concepts: prospects and constraints of cropping systems in the southwest of Germany.- Conflicts between conservation agriculture and livestock over the utilisation of crop residues.- “Improved cereal production technology” FAO project on conservation agriculture in Mongolia.- Development of an animal drawn zero tillage seeder for small grains.- No-till management intensity zones for Pennsylvania.- V. Adaptation of the agricultural industry to conservation agriculture.- Farm machines for large-scale conservation agriculture.- No-tillage equipment for small farms in Brazil.- Integrated pest management for conservation agriculture.- Perspectives of precision agriculture in conservation agriculture.- VI. Influence of conservation agriculture on environment.- Tillage-induced CO2 emissions and carbon sequestration: effect of secondary tillage and compaction.- Long-term effects of agricultural practices on microbial community.- Tillage and soil compaction.- Soil moisture conservation.- No-tillage visions — protection of soil, water and climate and influence on management and farm income.- Environmental impacts of zero tillage in Brazil — a first approximation.- Watershed conservation farming “a friendly solution to soils degradation”.- Carbon dioxide fluxes from arable soils as affected by temperature and moisture.- The role of draft animal power in soil and water conservation.- The use of powerful machines in different soil tillage systems.- A rapid, immediate, farmer-usable method of assessing soil structure condition to support conservation agriculture.- Soil conservation options for olive orchards on sloping land.- Development of the biological activity in different tillage systems.- Adaptation ofsowing techniques to maintain important lumbricid biomasses in the hydromorphic soils of Normandy.- Soil management systems to support soil microbial biomass in vineyards.- Conservation agriculture as a tool to reduce emission of greenhouse gasses. A case from southern Brazil.- Agrochemical leaching and water contamination.- VII. Socio-economic perspectives and policy implications for development.- Economic globalisation and conservation agriculture: the case of Mercosur.- Strategies for international cooperation.- Investing in conservation agriculture.- Win-win options for food security: conservation agriculture soil fertility, soil biodiversity and carbon sequestration nexus.- Conservation farming among small-holder farmers in E. Africa: adapting and adopting innovative land management options.- Land use planning: a key to sustainable agriculture.- The development and transfer of a new no-tillage technology.- Conservation tillage options for the poor, small landholders in South Asia.- An innovative approach to develop conservation agriculture programs and funding.- Adoption of no-till by small farmers: understanding the generation of complex technologies.- Developing soil protection in the EU.- Author Index.