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September 2010 - September 2018
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- Sustainable sustainability Environmental Science Climate Change Agronomy Natural resources use efficiency
September 2010 - October 2017
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Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions explores how agriculture has historically contributed to carbon emissions and then takes the reader forward, offering insights into an integrated approach to reducing those emissions toward the COP26 goal. The dual challenge of increasing production to meet population and nutrition food demands while reducing t...
This chapter explores decarbonization pathways, including regenerative farming, agroecology, efficient resource management, and renewable energy. It highlights socio-economic barriers, policy gaps, and the need for global cooperation, investment, and support for smallholder farmers. International organizations like FAO and IPCC are vital in mobiliz...
Nitrogen (N) is essential for sustaining soil productivity and fertility, but its misuse and overconsumption can result in adverse environmental consequences and financial setbacks. Therefore, the study’s objective was to review the role of biologically fixed green N consumption in sustainable agricultural systems for efficient use. Biologically fi...
Agriculture provides essential food, fiber, and other resources needed for survival. It faces multiple challenges because of overpopulation and climate change. It is crucial to maintain agricultural sustainability for the continuous growth of civilization. The current high-input envisioned agriculture is vulnerable to land degradation, threat to la...
The research purpose is to document and synthesize the advancements in Digital Soil Mapping (DSM), emphasizing its potential to improve soil property predictions and support global soil monitoring efforts. The advanced methodologies and applications of DSM in modern soil science have been discussed. DSM integrates numerical models, field and labora...
The potential of Indian agriculture in atmospheric CO2 capture and its role in enabling farmers to monetize C credits is critical to climate change mitigation strategies. This potential is especially significant given the vast and diverse agricultural landscapes across India, which inherently possess the capacity for considerable C sequestration. T...
Food demand for the ever-increasing population creates a huge pressure on the land. At the same time, the availability of cultivation land decreases due to urbanization. It emphasizes the vertical intensification of crop production with more production per unit of land per unit of time by using intensive agricultural practices like high-yielding va...
Focuses on regenerative agriculture for long-term sustainability and managing climate change.
Highlights soil-plant-atmosphere-agroecological nexus for sustainable food systems.
Discusses research plans and policies on technological advancement for regenerative agriculture.
The potential of Indian agriculture in atmospheric CO 2 capture and its role in enabling farmers to monetize C credits is critical to climate change mitigation strategies. This potential is especially significant given the vast and diverse agricultural landscapes across India, which inherently possess the capacity for considerable C se-questration....
Biochar is a potentially valuable soil amendment that can improve soil quality and mitigate climate change through the sequestration of carbon in the soil. It is a carbon-rich and fine-grained material that is produced by allowing organic matter to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay among so...
This study aimed to know the potential of different cropping modules (CMs) that started on the degraded land representing 4450 km 2 of the Vindhyan region of India. The objective of the study was to know (i) the higher carbon dioxide (CO 2) bioseques-tration, (ii) enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions, and (iii) generate carbon (C) credit to...
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Biochar Production for Green Economy: Agricultural and Environmental Perspectives addresses the advancements and developments for the efficient diversification of biochar toward achieving improved agricultural and environmental benefits. This comprehensive and cohesive volume is the first to address the potential multi-and transdiscip...
Drought Proofing by improving water storage in rest zone with enhanced soil organic matter is dealt in this chapter
Worldwide, there is an urgent need to develop energy-cum-carbon smart and cost-effective rice production systems for farmer's adoption. Data were collected from 280 farmer's fields representing the South Asia rice production system. Out of these 75 fields following transplanted rice (TPR), 55 fields of wet direct seeded rice (WDSR), 60 fields of dr...
Introduction : The agriculture sector is a crucial driver of global economic growth, especially in the face of the increasing demand for food production to sustain a growing population. Traditional farming methods fall short of meeting these demands sustainably. Context: In recent years, artifi cial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have...
Environmental health is a major concern around the world due to the exponential increase in pollutant discharges into the environment from industrial and agricultural activities. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a broad category of natural or synthetic substances with properties that may cause endocrine disruption in an intact organism, it...
This study aimed to know the potential of different cropping modules (CMs) that started on the degraded land representing 4450 km 2 of the Vindhyan region of India. The objective of the study was to know (i) the higher carbon dioxide (CO 2) bioseques-tration, (ii) enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions, and (iii) generate carbon (C) credit to...
There are limited reports about the impacts of long-term rice wheat cropping system (RWCS) on soil properties and nutrient stocks under smallholder farmer’s conditions in developing counties. The study was carried out in RWCS in Haryana (10 districts) of North-West India in order to map out some soil properties and assess their variability within t...
Water storage in soil with improving soil organic carbon under rainfed dryland ecosystems are presented; Critical in crop management during mid season droughts or intermittent droughts periods.
This experiment aimed to look at active and passive soil organic carbon percentages during composting different agricultural wastes at different temperatures. It is essential to understand how various agricultural wastes composting oxidase the carbon (C) during decomposition at various temperatures. The highest C content in the crop residce was rec...
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Very few studies have been done on the long-term effect of one time biochar application on soil physical and hydrological properties. The current investigation aims to know the alterations in infiltration rate (IR), soil water content (SWC) at different potential, water stability of aggregates, etc. caused after 6 years of application of oa...
Soil quality and environmental protection necessitate ground-level policy and legal frameworks, followed by strict and appropriate planning, execution, and regulatory reforms on a time-to-time basis, in accordance with the requirements and situations for soil management. Soil quality and protection of the environment have received international rec...
This experiment aimed to understand the recycled industrial biocompost interaction with fertilizers doses on soil nutrient dynamics, soil organic carbon (SOC) fraction indexes, microbial population, positive ecosystem services, carbon dioxide (CO2) societal values and economy in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-rice (Oryza sativa L.) production. Based...
Agroforestry for Carbon and Ecosystem Management is a comprehensive overview of current research, issues, challenges, and case studies in the area of agroforestry. The book focuses specifically on carbon source-sink relationship and management through agroforestry practices with a goal of improving overall environmental sustainability. Through expe...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential part of the soil that influences its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. It significantly aids in its healthy operation, essential to human societies. Advantages of SOC include enhancement of soil quality through higher retention of water and nutrients, resulting in greater production of pla...
The study aimed to manage industrial wastes and create a module for using compost from waste for crops cultivation to conserve energy, reduce fertilizer use and Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and improve the atmospheric CO2 capturing in agriculture for a green economy. In the main-plot, the experiment's results using NS3 found 50.1 and 41.8 % more...
production system (WRPS). The study was conducted in the split-plot design (SPD). In this study's results were presented as the 2018-2021 average of the WRPS. As compared to zero fertilization in the main-plot, the applied treatment recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF) 100% + 5 kg zinc (Zn) + 5 kg iron (Fe) increased grain and straw-based ESs by 50...
In Paris Climate Agreement (COP 21) in December 2015, India committed to cut its carbon (C) emissions by 30-35% of its GDP (gross domestic product) and attain 40% of installed energy from renewables by 2030. In the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP 26), an agreement developed at COP26 of UNFCCC in November 2021, India committed to enhancing its renewable e...
The objectives of this experiment were i) garbage composting to improve the soil organic carbon (SOC) pools (active and passive), ii) work out the carbon (C) budgeting, and iii) cut off C footprints (CFs) in the rice (Oryza sativa L.)-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) farming to achieve the long-term sustainability in sandy loam soil. The main plots sho...
Purpose
Very few studies have been done on the effect of one time biochar application on soil physical and hydrological properties after long time lag. The current investigation aims to know the alterations in infiltration rate, soil water content at different potential, water stability of aggregates etc. caused after six years of application of oa...
Various faulty farming practices and low-performance cultivars selection are reducing crop yields, factor productivity, and soil fertility. Therefore, there is an urgent need to achieve better nutrient dynamics and sustainable production by selecting more nutrient-responsive cultivars using efficient nutrient management. The present experiment aime...
Pulses are an important source of energy and protein, essential amino acids, dietary fibers, minerals, and vitamins, and play a significant role in addressing global nutritional security. The global pulse area, production, and average productivity increased from 1961 to 2020 (60 years). Pulses are usually grown under rainfed, highly unstable, and c...
The forests are a key player in maintaining ecological balance on the earth. They not only conserve biodiversity, reduce soil erosion, and protect watersheds but also promote the above and below-ground ecosystem services. Forests are known as air cleaners on the planet and play a significant role in mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into th...
Almost one-fourth of the global population live in South Asia (SA) countries with 14% of cultivable land. Most of the countries in the South Asian region are facing multiple challenges like high population growth, declining farm land area, and low productivity in primary and secondary sectors leading to limited employment opportunities. Consequentl...
The carbon (C) problem and its impact on climate have been attracting attention for
many decades. The last few decades have seen tremendous changes in agriculture
and the world’s food chain. New and modern agriculture techniques result in more
depletion of C from the soil and cause a remarkable increase in C concentration in
the atmosphere. Increas...
The importance of soil health and balanced fertilizer application based on soil test results must be taken into account in various agricultural community programmes and initiatives. In India, a programme on soil health management, integrated nutrient management and organic farming has been launched to improve soil carbon (C) management by incorpora...
Crop management practices largely govern the complex process of carbon (C) sequestration in agricultural soils. In rice-based systems, small alterations in cultivation practices can lead to increased soil organic carbon (SOC) contents in soil and reduced GHG emissions, thereby complementing the C sequestration. Due to enormous complexity of C seque...
Environmental management and its sustainability are a key concern today. Anthropogenic CO2 emission and its related negative consequences on environment were observed due to industrial development, mining, deforestation, and intensive agricultural practices. This unstoppable rising CO2 concentration impairs key environmental services and its sustai...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a vital factor that positively affects soil fertility, agricultural production, and food security. However, current farming practices, intensive tillage, increasing global warming, and climate change have created a risk of losses of SOC, affecting food supply. Therefore, various management strategies to build soil carbo...
Soil degradation is a major issue through various countries across the globe. During the present century, it was observed that land degradation has become a predominant phenomenon among different environmental perturbation. As per one estimate, 3 billion people (1/3) across the globe are suffering crisis situation in terms of land degradation. Anth...
In all wheat growing regions of the world, water constraint and weed infestation are the main biological obstacles to increased wheat productivityy. This study may assist to enhance recommendations for controlling weeds in wheat and act as a guide for Northern Indian irrigated wheat. Therefore, four irrigation levels and eight weed management pract...
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices are becoming increasingly important due to their better adaptability to harsh climatic conditions (in general) and the unpredictability of monsoons in India (in particular). Conventional rice cultivation (e.g., PTR) involves intensive tilling followed by intensive puddling in standing water that destroys th...
The rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping system (RWCS) feeds more than 6 billion people in South Asia and across the world. In developing countries, almost 2 billion individuals are suffering from Zn and Fe micronutrient deficiency. This study aimed to adopt genetically enriched varieties of rice and wheat to manage the Zn a...
The cereal-based intensive cropping practices have posed the yield at a plateau and reduced the energy use efficiency (EUE) of the cropping systems in the Indo-genetic plains (IGPs). The long-term cropping systems experimentations with 4 diversified legumes and cereal cropping systems and a grassland fallow system were studied for >10 years represe...
The cereal-based intensive cropping practices have posed the yield at a plateau and reduced the energy use efficiency (EUE) of the cropping systems in the Indo-genetic plains (IGPs). The long-term cropping systems experimentations with 4 diversified legumes and cereal cropping systems and a grassland fallow system were studied for >10 years represe...
Malnutrition is a major challenge for the world to develop a think-tank to alleviate and provide the right access to food globally and also secure them nutritionally. Among various factors, these micronutrients, namely, zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), iodine (I), and selenium (Se) played important role in human health which is most deficient in the diet in d...
Food and nutritional security, environmental sustainability, mitigating climatic vulnerability, shifting of weed flora, weed developed resistance against the herbicide, high capital investment through manual weed management, and increasing the requirement for energy input in the agriculture sector are the major issues in crop production in the comi...
Advances in Legumes for Sustainable Intensification explores current research and future strategies for ensuring capacity growth and socioeconomic improvement through the utilization of legume crop cultivation and production in the achievement of sustainability development goals (SDGs). Sections cover the role of legumes in addressing issues of foo...
The availability of freshwater is limited for agriculture systems across the globe. A fast-growing population demands need to enhance the food grain production from a limited natural resources. Therefore, researchers and policymakers have been emphasized on the production potential of agricultural crops in a sustainable manner. On the challenging s...
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)—a set of best management practices, is mostly based to achieve three major objectives sustainably enhance productivity and income in agriculture, building resilience and bolstering the adoptive capacity of system to climate change and minimize the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission from agriculture production system wi...
Assessment of diverse tillage system with mulching for water-cum-energy efficiency and soil carbon stabilization in maize (Zea mays L.)-rapeseed (Brassica campestris L.) system ABSTRACT A combination of intensive soil manipulation, low water and input efficiencies has resulted in declining soil and crop productivity, and a worsening soil organic ca...
Around 2 billion people are suffering from chronic malnutrition or “hidden hunger”, which is the result of many diseases and disorders, including cognitive degeneration, stunting growth, and mortality. Thus, biofortification of staple food crops enriched with micronutrients is a more sustainable option for providing nutritional supplements and mana...
Plans outlined in the conference of parties (COP) 26 included the restoration of degraded lands as one of the targets for achieving long-term food sustainability under climate change. The experiment aimed to assess carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration and improvement in soil physicochemical properties of agriculture ecosystem models. The results of t...
A score of pedo-environmental factors serves as limiting elements for the biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) process in root nodules of leguminous plants. Since the advent of the green revolution, pesticides have been considered indispensable for keeping crop pests below the economic threshold level to ensure sustainable production of field crops f...
Legumes are covering ∼14 percent of cultivated land on global level. They are the primary source of edible and vegetable proteins, non-edible oils, micronutrients, minerals, and fiber for both human and livestock utilization. Nitrogen (N)-fixing bacteria, also called as Rhizobium, have a unique symbiotic relationship with leguminous plants. Legumes...
Enhancing nutrient use efficiencies (NUEs) is an important factor in achieving the long-term sustainability of a production system. Our two-year experiment was aimed at accessing the NUEs of the integration of macro- and micronutrient fertilization responses of three lentil (Lens culinaris) cultivars. Three cultivars were planted in the main plots,...
The world’s population is expected to increase to ~9 billion by 2050, and feeding such a large population from available resources is not an easy task with shrinking resources. Due to the rapid increase in the price of farm inputs, it is critical to achieve high levels of efficiency in their use in order to increase output and profit. To double agr...
The degradation of agricultural land, both chemical and biological, is a big concern all over the world. Crop cultivation practices that are distinctive to each location have negative consequences for agricultural production. Therefore, there is an urgent need for better crop and soil management techniques. This experiment was conducted for 5 years...
In agriculture, the exceptional significance of micronutrient is unavoidable, as plant relies primarily on micronutrient. Although required in small amounts of micronutrients, viz., B, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, they have a prominent role to play in improving yield potentials under stressed conditions. There is a large number of elements in nature out of whic...
Agricultural growth affects the economic growth of a country through the supply of food and other raw materials to nonagricultural sectors, and it is quite obvious that agricultural productivity through judicious use of inputs could play a vital role in structural change in the economy. But the indiscriminate use, rather misuse of chemical inputs i...
Global population is escalating at a faster rate that could reach to 9 billion up to the 2050, and to feed such a higher population in a sustainable way from the limited resources of land and water is not an easy task. Popular conventional crop establishment techniques among the farmers are energy, water, labor, and capital intensive have higher ca...
Carbon (C) is a key product of forests, but not widely studied for available C stock, and biomass of tree species in typical forest ecosystems of India. Therefore, it is useful to estimate C stock at national and regional levels for establishing forest-based policies and developing roadmap for long-term plans and strategies to reduce the rate of in...
Growing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food, as well as the commitment to preserve biodiversity and other resources, represents a tremendous challenge to agriculture, which is already under threat from climate change. A diverse and healthy plant-based diets may greatly reduce these diet-related diseases and other health-related issues. As...
In recent years, the increased pressure of food and nutritional insecurity, land degradation, climate change, continuous declining soil fertility, and low and stagnant crop productivity has derived the attention of many environmental, agricultural, and ecological researchers toward inter-cropping for sustaining soil, plant, and environmental health...
Among food grains, pulses are the main sources of proteins, minerals and vitamins for a large section of the population. They play an important role in global food security through providing nutritious food, animal feed, source of income and various employment opportunities. Pulses are mainly cultivated by small and marginal farmers with poor resou...
A number of challenges will face the world in the years to come, including food security, climate change risks, and increasing demand for energy. Therefore, agriculture and food systems are increasingly focused on producing sustainably. By delivering multiple services in line with sustainability principles, legume crops could play a significant rol...
Several estimations projected that the population across the globe is an approach to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, which will create great challenges particularly food security under the situation of climate change; ultimately lead to influence greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission as a result of intensive farming systems with traditional technologies. Leg...
Resource degradation, climate change, and population pressure are a threat to the food production system. Legumes-based SI of cropping systems could also meet current challenges of food security and environmental sustainability. Sustainability implies producing sufficient food without ecological collapse while minimizing off-farm use of synthetic i...
Legumes are one of the important components in human/animal diets and cropping systems with major positive impacts on soil health, sustainable agriculture, and the environment, globally. With the urgency to meet grain legumes demand, it is important to emphasize the adoption of novel breeding and agronomic technological interventions for their gene...
Increase agricultural productivity and mitigate the demand of food security of the rapidly flourishing population the primary nutrient element nitrogen (N) has been playing a paramount role in the crop production system. The denitrification losses N in the form of nitrous oxide (N2O) are very much harmful to the environment because it causes global...
Increasing demand for nutritious, safe, healthy food, and energy demands for escalating population, and the commitment to protect biodiversity and other natural resources, represent a tremendous challenge to agriculture under the worsening situation of climate change. Thus, food and nutritional demands must be met while protecting the environment,...
Ending hunger, achieving food security and promoting sustainable development are at the top of the list of United Nations (UN) sustainable global development priorities. In the times of high population growth and increasing pressure of agricultural systems, efficiency in use of natural resources has been at the epicenter of sustainable agricultural...
High energy consumption and carbon emission are the major components of environmental pollution. Reducing carbon-footprints and improving energy use efficiency in rice (Oryza sativa L.) - fallow production systems of South Asia is a great challenge. The present experiment was conducted for five consecutive years (2016–2020) with an aim to design th...
Groundwater and soil potassium deficiencies are present in northern India. Sugarcane is a vital crop in the Indian Punjab; it is grown on approximately 91,000 hectares with an average yield of 80 tonnes ha⁻¹ and a sugar recovery rate of 9.59%. The role of potassium (K) fertilizer under both sufficient and deficient irrigation in ratoon sugarcane cr...
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