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This page collects resources focused on Sustainable Crops. Below, you will find a curated selection of recommended books and e-books covering a wide range of sustainable crops related topics, as well as links to valuable data and statistics related to the field.
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Recommended Books & eBooks
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Agroecology
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780367319229Publication Date: 2019This book incorporates new insights and concepts to help deepen the understanding of the ecology of agricultural systems that will open the doors to new management options with the objectives of sustainable agriculture. -
Sustainable Agriculture under Drought Stress
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780443239564Publication Date: 2024This book provides a cohesive and comprehensive understanding of both the current landscape and future prospects of sustainable agriculture. It aims to equip readers with the knowledge and strategies required to manage soil nutrients and water effectively, ensuring the health of both soil and plants, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, where solutions are urgently needed. -
Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781119808565Publication Date: 2022This text details sustainable technologies in sustainable agriculture, including classification and change detection of cultivated land, sensing mechanisms and platforms, and decision support systems for precision agriculture. -
Sustainable Agriculture
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781771888530Publication Date: 2020This text discusses some of the important ideas, practices, and policies that are essential to an effective sustainable agriculture strategy. Topics include ecofriendly plant protection measures, climate change and natural resource management, tools to mitigate the effect of extreme weather events, agrochemical research and regulation, soil carbon sequestration, water and nutrient management in agricultural systems, and more.
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Vegetable Crops
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781839699481Publication Date: 2022This book explains the health benefits of vegetable crops, organic vegetable growing, greenhouse management, and principles of irrigation management for vegetable crops. -
Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780323972147Publication Date: 2023This text provides a comprehensive overview of important food crops whose vitamin and mineral enhancement can contribute significantly to improved food and nutrition security. Each chapter focuses on a specific food crop and the unique opportunities offered by each through breeding practices. -
Sustainable Fruit Growing: From Orchard to Table
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9783036530215Publication Date: 2022This book provides some answers about the sustainability of fruit production and the fruit industry as a whole. It discusses the need for sustainable production of nutritious food and how it is critical for human and environmental health.
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Sustainable Crop Productivity and Quality under Climate Change
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Call Number: Carothers Library Stacks S494.5.S86 S877 2022ISBN: 9780323854498Publication Date: 2022This text explores the physiological, biochemical, and molecular basis of the responses of major crop plants to a range of climate change scenarios. From the development of climate-resilient crop varieties which lead to enhanced crop productivity and quality to better utilization of natural resources to ensure food security through modern breeding techniques, it presents insights into improving yield while securing the environment. -
Orphan Crops for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
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Call Number: Carothers Library Stacks SB175 .O77 2021ISBN: 9781000450361Publication Date: 2021This book discusses the issues, challenges, needs and opportunities related to the promotion of orphan crops, known also as neglected and underutilized species (NUS). It covers the following themes: introduction to NUS, approaches, methods and tools for the use enhancement of NUS, integrated conservation and use of minor millets, nutritional and food security roles of minor millets, stakeholders and global champions, and, building an enabling environment. -
Safe and Sustainable Crop Protection
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780841235519Publication Date: 2021This text contains select innovations and advances in crop protection technology from the ACS Division of Agrochemicals. The chapters focus on biochemistry, like microbiomes and antibiotics, and workflows, like separation, characterization, and analysis.
Online Resources
Here are some freely available websites relating to sustainable crops.
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Alternative Farming Systems Information CenterThe Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) provides research-based resources for nontraditional food-production and crop-management practices to support a sustainable future and agricultural economic viability for farmers worldwide.
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The Land InstituteThe Land Institute is committed to researching and developing food production methods that sustain the land and soil, a precious resource in an increasingly precarious state around the globe.
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Organic Farming Research FoundationThe Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) works to foster the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems. OFRF cultivates organic research, education, and federal policies that bring more farmers and acreage into organic production.
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Leopold Center for Sustainable AgricultureThe Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University was created through the 1987 Iowa Groundwater Protection Act. The Center's goals are to identify and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources as well as reducing negative environmental and social impacts.
