Author: Michel Griffon Publisher: Editions Quae ISBN: 2759218961 Category : Agricultural ecology Languages : fr Pages : 226
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"Un développement agricole durable, écologique, plus productif et équitable peut voir le jour. Conduire une production agricole abondante tout en améliorant la qualité de l'environnement est désormais possible ... Héritier d'une longue histoire de pensées et de recherche, le terme "agriculture écologiquement intensive" définit une agriculture qui utilise intensivement les fonctionnalités des systèmes productifs. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur nous démontre que la combinaison et l'amplification de fonctionnalités écologiques peuvent créer des synergies productives tout en réduisant les atteintes à l'environnement."--Editeur.
Author: Michel GRIFFON Publisher: Editions de l'Aube ISBN: 2815903210 Category : Business & Economics Languages : fr Pages : 97
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L'agriculture doit effectuer une véritable révolution technologique, et celle-ci doit être accompagnée de politiques agricoles nouvelles. [...] Partout dans le monde s'installe une nouvelle équation, en termes de besoins alimentaires, de besoins en terre, de rareté économique et de nouvelle technologie, qui débouche sur une nécessaire mutation. Ce livre tente de démontrer que cette nouvelle technologie devra être fondée sur l'écologie scientifique, et qu'elle nécessitera une politique agricole qui fera des agriculteurs les gestionnaires à la fois de la production et des écosystèmes. » Michel Griffon
Author: Carole Bedos Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9402420584 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 340
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This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers. It provides the keys to understand natural and anthropogenic mechanisms governing emission and deposition of pollutants produced by and/or impacting agricultural activities It identifies how management practices can help mitigating emissions and how public policies on air pollution progressively addressed the agricultural sector This book was written for students, researchers and agriculture actors as well as for public decision-makers
Author: Emmanuel Torquebiau Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9401774625 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 355
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In recent years, especially with the approach of the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in late 2015, the number of publications, conferences and meetings on climate change has been growing exponentially. Yet uncertainties remain concerning rural tropical areas where models are forecasting the onset of multiple disorders and trends are unclear. Meanwhile, the impact of climate change on the poorest communities is regularly documented, often prompting alarmist reactions. How can food security be achieved while adapting to and mitigating climate change? What are the main threats to agriculture in developing countries? How do farmers in these countries cope with the threats? What does agricultural research propose? What options have yet to be investigated? A broad scope of scientific research is underway to address these challenges. Diverse solutions are available, including new agricultural practices, water management, agricultural waste recycling, diagnosis of emerging diseases, payment for ecosystem services, etc. Gaining insight into the financial and political mechanisms that underlie international climate negotiations is also essential to design practical ways to deal with climate issues and meet sustainable development requirements in collaboration with farmers. This book pools the wealth of experience of dozens of researchers and development officers from a range of disciplines. We have focused on making it detailed, accurate and hopefully easy to read for researchers, students and all other informed readers.
Author: Eric Lichtfouse Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030388816 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 208
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This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.
Author: Augustin Berque Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429521596 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 214
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Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles. Augustin Berque rejects the separation of nature and culture which he believes lies at the root of the environmental crisis. This book proposes a three stage process of "re-worlding" (moving away from the individualized self to become a part of the common world), "re-concretizing" (understanding the meaning and historical development of words and things) and "re-engaging" (reconsidering the relationship between history and subjectivity at every level of being) in order to bring western thought on nature and culture into sustainable harmony and alignment. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental philosophy, Asian studies and the natural sciences.
Author: Michel Griffon Publisher: Buchet Chastel ISBN: 2283031095 Category : Nature Languages : fr Pages : 192
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Réchauffement climatique, pollution, érosion de la biodiversité, épuisement des ressources, explosion des maladies liées à l’environnement... notre planète est aujourd’hui en danger. Et l’accroissement de la population mondiale n’arrange pas les choses !Pourtant, la Terre pourra demain nourrir tous ses habitants sans poursuivre sa course folle aux engrais, aux pesticides, à la déforestation et au défrichement. Comment ? En s’inspirant du vivant, en intensifiant les processus naturels. Il s’agit, par exemple, de stimuler l’activité biologique du sol en associant des variétés complémentaires et en recyclant systématiquement les débris végétaux, de lutter contre les ravageurs en accentuant la lutte biologique et la lutte intégrée. Il est possible de produire plus et mieux avec moins : un développement agricole plus productif tout en étant écologique et équitable peut voir le jour si l’on s’inspire de la nature et de son fonctionnement.Au-delà des techniques, il s’agit finalement de promouvoir une agriculture durable, dans un cadre d’écosystèmes eux aussi durables, pour des sociétés économiquement et socialement viables. Michel Griffon est à la fois ingénieur agronome et économiste. Chercheur reconnu sur le plan international, il défend l’idée qu’un développement agricole écologique et plus productif peut exister.
Author: P. Parvatha Reddy Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811043256 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 343
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This book outlines a new paradigm, “Agro-ecological Intensification of Crop Protection”, which reduces negative impacts on the environment and enhances the provision of ecosystem services. It discusses the use of ecologically based management strategies to increase the sustainability of agricultural production while reducing off-site consequences, highlighting the underlying principles and outlining some of the key management practices and technologies required to implement agro-ecological pest management. It also comprehensively explores important topics like stimulo-deterrent diversion strategy, precision agriculture, plant breeding, nutrient management, habitat management, cultural approaches, cultivar mixtures/multiline cultivars, crop rotation, crop residue management, crop diversity, cover crops, conservation tillage, biofumigation, agro-forestry, and addition of organic matter. This timely book promotes the rapid implementation of this technology in farming community around the globe. It is a valuable resource for the scientific community involved in teaching, research and extension activities related to agro-ecological pest management as well as policymakers and practicing farmers. It can also be used for teaching post-graduate courses.
Author: Barbara Gemmill-Herren Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317445686 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 310
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It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated. At the same time, the alarming collapse in populations of bees and other pollinators has highlighted the urgency of addressing this issue. This book focuses on the specific measures and practices that the emerging science of pollination ecology is identifying to conserve and promote animal pollinators in agroecosystems. It reviews the expanding knowledge base on pollination services, providing evidence to document the status, trends and importance of pollinators to sustainable agricultural production. It provides practical and specific measures that land managers can undertake to ensure that agroecosystems are supportive and friendly to pollinators. It draws on the Global Pollination Project, supported by UNEP/GEF and implemented by FAO and seven partner countries (Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa), which serve to provide "lessons from the field".
Author: Harry Ozier-Lafontaine Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319060163 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 520
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.
Author: Michel Griffon
Author: Michel GRIFFON
Author: Carole Bedos
Author: Emmanuel Torquebiau
Author: Eric Lichtfouse
Author: Augustin Berque
Author: Michel Griffon
Author: P. Parvatha Reddy
Author: Barbara Gemmill-Herren
Author: Harry Ozier-Lafontaine