Table Of ContentSustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 6
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Eric Lichtfouse
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Other books by Dr. Eric Lichtfouse
Sustainable Agriculture
Volume 1, 2009
Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Volume 1, 2009
Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control, and Beneficial Microorganisms
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Volume 2, 2010
Sociology, Organic Farming, Climate Change and Soil Science
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Volume 3, 2010
Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Volume 4, 2010
Environmental Chemistry
Volume 1, 2005
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Alternative Farming
Systems, Biotechnology,
Drought Stress and
Ecological Fertilisation
Editor
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse
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ISBN 978-94-007-0185-4 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0186-1
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0186-1
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Contents
Thinking by Connections and the Dynamics
of Nature for Food Production ....................................................................... 1
Clara Ceppa
Transgenic Bt Corn Hybrids and Pest Management in the USA ............... 15
Siddharth Tiwari and Roger R. Youngman
Marker-Assisted Breeding in Higher Plants ................................................. 39
Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Muhammmad Asif, Tayyaba Shaheen, Nabila Tabbasam,
Yusuf Zafar, and Andrew H. Paterson
Phytoremediation Techniques for Pesticide Contaminations ..................... 77
Sophie Pascal-Lorber and François Laurent
Sustainable Land Use and Agricultural Soil ................................................ 107
Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo, Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo,
Dennis Flanagan, Iván García Tejero, and José Luis Muriel Fernández
Drought Stress Effect on Crop Pollination,
Seed Set, Yield and Quality ............................................................................ 193
Ahmad M. Alqudah, Nezar H. Samarah, and Russell E. Mullen
Ecological Fertilization ................................................................................... 215
György Füleky and Szilveszter Benedek
Tropical Homegardens in Bangladesh:
Characteristics and Sustainability................................................................. 245
Mahbubul Alam
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Rhizobium
to Control Plant Fungal Diseases ................................................................... 263
Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar, Zaki. A. Siddiqui, and Andres Wiemken
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Sustainable Crop Production using Saline
and Sodic Irrigation Waters ........................................................................... 293
Om Parkash Choudhary, Stephen Richards Grattan, and Paramjit Singh Minhas
Climate Change Impact on Forestry in India .............................................. 319
Geetanjali Kaushik and M.A. Khalid
Index ................................................................................................................. 345
Contributors
Dr. Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, UP India
[email protected]
Dr. Mahbubul Alam
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University,
Matsuyama, Japan
[email protected]
Dr. Ahmad M. Alqudah
Department of Crop Production, Jordan University of Science and Technology,
3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan
[email protected]
Dr. Muhammmad Asif
Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Dr. Szilveszter Benedek
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Environmental
Sciences, Szent István University, Páter K. utca 1., 2103, Gödöllö, Hungary
Dr. Clara Ceppa
DIPRADI – Department of Architectural and Industrial Design,
Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
[email protected]
Dr. Om Parkash Choudhary
Department of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141 004, India
[email protected]
Dr. José Luis Muriel Fernández
IFAPA Centro Las Torres-Tomejil, Crtra. Sevilla-Cazalla, km 12.2,
41200 Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain
[email protected]
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viii Contributors
Dr. Dennis Flanagan
National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, USDA-Agricultural Research Service,
275 S. Russell Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2077, USA
[email protected]
Dr. György Füleky
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Environmental
Sciences, Szent István University, Páter K. utca 1., 2103, Gödöllö, Hungary
[email protected]
Dr. Stephen Richards Grattan
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California,
Davis, USA
Dr. Geetanjali Kaushik
Centre for Rural Development & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
[email protected]
Dr. M.A. Khalid
Earthwatch Institute, Mayfield House, 256 Banbury Road,
Oxford OX2 7DE, UK
Dr. François Laurent
INRA, UMR1089 Xénobiotiques, 180 Chemin de Tournefeuille, BP 93173,
31027, Toulouse Cedex 3, France
[email protected]
Dr. Paramjit Singh Minhas
Directorate of Research, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141 004, India
Dr. Russell E. Mullen
Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA
Dr. Sophie Pascal-Lorber
INRA, UMR1089 Xénobiotiques, 180 Chemin de Tournefeuille, BP 93173,
31027, Toulouse Cedex 3, France
[email protected]
Dr. Andrew H. Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602,
GA, USA
Dr. Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo
IFAPA Centro Las Torres-Tomejil, Crtra. Sevilla-Cazalla, km 12.2,
41200 Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain
[email protected]
Contributors ix
Dr. Mehboob-ur-Rahman
Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
[email protected]
Dr. Nezar H. Samarah
Department of Crop Production, Jordan University of Science and Technology,
3030, 22110 Irbid, Jordan
Dr. Tayyaba Shaheen
Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Dr. Zaki A. Siddiqui
Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, UP, India
Dr. Nabila Tabbasam
Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Dr. Iván García Tejero
IFAPA Centro Las Torres-Tomejil, Crtra. Sevilla-Cazalla, km 12.2,
41200 Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain
[email protected]
Dr. Siddharth Tiwari
Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center,
University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
[email protected]
Dr. Andres Wiemken
Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, Basel,
CH -4056, Switzerland
Dr. Roger R. Youngman
Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
[email protected]
Dr. Yusuf Zafar
Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Dr. Victor Hugo Durán Zuazo
IFAPA Centro Las Torres-Tomejil, Crtra. Sevilla-Cazalla, km 12.2,
41200 Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain
[email protected]
Thinking by Connections and the Dynamics
of Nature for Food Production
Clara Ceppa
Abstract So far human development has been based on the accelerated exploitation
of resources such as air, water, and earth, from which most human resources derive.
Until recently those global commons were considered valueless and were therefore
exploited in the belief of unlimited availability. Recently, the accumulation of major
environmental issues has challenged this behaviour. On one hand we are witnessing
the continuous rise in the price of raw materials and a strong demand for recyclable
materials, while on the other hand we are producing more waste. Hence we should
not expect Earth to produce more but we should do more with what Earth produces,
and adopt a sustainable waste management. We must wake up to the fact that
the growing mass of waste generated by industrial activities is becoming critical
because it causes serious damage to human health and the environment. We must
start to consider wastes like resources and be inspired by Nature, where surpluses
are metabolized by the system itself. If we adopt this principle in production, it will
favor the development of zero-emission production, because the waste – or output
– of one process is used as a resource – or input – for another production process.
This leads us to a change of perspective that goes in the direction of thinking by
connections. Thinking by connections means for instance that industries organize
themselves into local sustainable networks. In such networks waste products from
one industry is sold as a resource to another industry, and thus benefits both of
them. In these systems the flows of material and energy generate internal con-
nections. Waste enriched with new values becomes a resource and is available for
producing new products strictly connected to the local know-how. By applying the
systemic approach the cultural identity of the territory where the crops are grown is
reinforced, the biodiversity is conserved and the quality of the products generated is
improved. This concept of thinking by connections therefore creates positive effects
on the territory in both environmental and economic terms.
C. Ceppa (*)
DIPRADI – Department of Architectural and Industrial Design,
Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
E. Lichtfouse (ed.), Alternative Farming Systems, Biotechnology, Drought Stress 1
and Ecological Fertilisation, Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 6,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0186-1_1, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
