书目名称 | Legumes for Soil Health and Sustainable Management |
编辑 | Ram Swaroop Meena,Anup Das,Rattan Lal |
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概述 | Presents the role of legumes on soil diversity and health restoration - a function for food and nutritional security.Explains the differences among the entire legume-based agricultural technologies av |
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描述 | .Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21.st. century. Feeding roughly 8 billion people with an environmentally sustainable production system is a major challenge, especially considering the fact that 10% of the world’s population at risk of hunger and 25% at risk of malnutrition. Accordingly, the 68th United Nations (UN) general assembly declared 2016 the “International Year of Pulses” to raise awareness and to celebrate the role of pulses in human nutrition and welfare. Likewise, the assembly declared the year 2015 as the “International Year of Soils” to promote awareness of the role of “healthy soils for a healthy life” and the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) has declared 2015-2024 as the International Decade of Soils. .Including legumes in cropping systems is an important toward advancing soil sustainability, food and nutritional security without compromising soil quality or its production potential. Several textbooksand edited volumes are currently available on general soil fertility or on legumes but‚ to date‚ none have been dedicated to the study of .“Legumes for Soil Health and Sustainable Management”.. This is important aspect, as t |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Legume productivity; Sustainable agriculture; Soil restoration; Nutritional security; Agroecosystem |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0253-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-4371-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-0253-4 |
copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 |