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Improving Water and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems - Hardcover

 
9780813819891: Improving Water and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 081381989X ISBN 13: 9780813819891
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems provides professionals, students, and policy makers with an in-depth view of various aspects of water and nutrient us in crop production. The book covers topics related to global economic, political, and social issues related to food production and distribution, describes various strategies and mechanisms that increase water and nutrient use efficiency, and review te curren situation and potential improvements in major food-producing systems on each continent. The book also deals with problems experienced by developed countries separtaely from problems facing developing countries.

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency emphasizes judicious water and nutrient management which is aimed at maximising water and nutrient utilisation in the agricultural landscape, and minimising undesirable nutrient losses to the environment.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Zed Rengel is Winthrop Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia.

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Agricultural food production is facing a great challenge with both unprecedented population growth and dramatic increases in demands for land, water, and nutrient sources. The key to sustainable agriculture will be to better understand the way crops use water and nutrients and improve crop species to be more efficient in using these vital resources. Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems is a timely resource providing scientists, industry personnel, and advanced studies with an up-to -date overview of the food.

Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems follows a logical progression providing the reader with appropriate context of the issue and efforts being put in place to ensure agricultural sustainability. The first five chapters provide the reader with a global context for the need for efficient use of resources in food production. The following chapters look at various agronomic means, with emphasis on genetics and breeding, by which enhanced water and nutrients-use efficiently can be achieved. The final chapters in the volume cover various efforts in increasing water and nutrient-use in food production systems currently in practice in a range of countries, including China and India as the world's two most populous.

A timely volume, Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems, fully explores avenues by which we can successfully meet the imperative need of improving water and nutrient use in food production.

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Agricultural food production is facing a great challenge with both unprecedented population growth and dramatic increases in demands for land, water, and nutrient sources. The key to sustainable agriculture will be to better understand the way crops use water and nutrients and improve crop species to be more efficient in using these vital resources. Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems is a timely resource providing scientists, industry personnel, and advanced studies with an up-to -date overview of the food.

Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems follows a logical progression providing the reader with appropriate context of the issue and efforts being put in place to ensure agricultural sustainability. The first five chapters provide the reader with a global context for the need for efficient use of resources in food production. The following chapters look at various agronomic means, with emphasis on genetics and breeding, by which enhanced water and nutrients-use efficiently can be achieved. The final chapters in the volume cover various efforts in increasing water and nutrient-use in food production systems currently in practice in a range of countries, including China and India as the world's two most populous.

A timely volume, Improving Water and Nutrients-Use Efficiently in Food Production Systems, fully explores avenues by which we can successfully meet the imperative need of improving water and nutrient use in food production.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081381989X
ISBN 13 
9780813819891
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Rengel Zed
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