Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidlygrowing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainableway for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is adiscipline that addresses current issues such as climate change,increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nationobesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control,and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutionsare proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverseas agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology,ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed,sustainable agriculturedecipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular levelto the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging fromseconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approachthat involves studying components and interactions of a whole systemto address scientific, economic and social issues. In thatrespect,sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science.Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approachthat treats only negative impacts,sustainable agriculture treatsproblem sources. Because most actual society issues are nowintertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculturewill bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathersreview articles that analyze current agricultural issues andknowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore helpall scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicianswho wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system forfuture generations.