Improving Water and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rengel, Zed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems provides professionals, students, and policy makers with an in-depth view of various aspects of water and nutrient us in crop production. The book covers topics related to global economic, political, and social issues related to food production and distribution, describes various strategies and mechanisms that increase water and nutrient use efficiency, and review te curren situation and potential improvements in major food-producing systems on each continent. The book also deals with problems experienced by developed countries separtaely from problems facing developing countries. Improving Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency emphasizes judicious water and nutrient management which is aimed at maximising water and nutrient utilisation in the agricultural landscape, and minimising undesirable nutrient losses to the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118517987
• Artikelnr.: 37337851

Autorenporträt

Zed Rengel is Winthrop Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors vii Preface xi 1 Current State and Future Potential of Global
Food Production and Consumption 3 Christine Heumesser, Simon Thaler, Martin
Schönhart, and Erwin Schmid 2 Water Resources and Global Change 21 Martin
Wegehenkel 3 Translating Water into Food: How Water Cycles in Natural and
Agricultural Landscapes 33 Andrzej Kêdziora and Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz 4
Nutrients as Limited Resources: Global Trends in Fertilizer Production and
Use 57 Patrick Heffer and Michel Prud'homme 5 The Flow of Phosphorus in
Food Production and Consumption Systems 79 Tina-Simone S. Neset, Dana
Cordell, and Lotta Andersson 6 Matching Soil Nutrient Supply and Crop
Demand during the Growing Season 93 Terry Rose and Bill Bowden 7 Physiology
of Nitrogen-Use Efficiency 105 Al Imran Malik and Zed Rengel 8 Improving
Crop Nitrogen Use in Dryland Farming: Interactions and Potential Trade-offs
between Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 123 Trevor P. Garnett and Greg
J. Rebetzke 9 Breeding Approaches to Increasing Water-Use Efficiency 145
Lianne Merchuk and Yehoshua Saranga 10 Breeding Approaches to Increasing
Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Examples from Common Beans 161 Matthew W. Blair 11
Using Simulation Modeling of Root Growth and Function as an Aid in Breeding
for Increased Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 177 Art J. Diggle and
Vanessa M. Dunbabin 12 Improving Crop Production in the Arid Mediterranean
Climate 187 Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Christian Richardt Jensen, and Fulai Liu 13
Agronomic Principles of Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Case Studies in
Dryland Grain Production in Australia 211 John A. Kirkegaard and Michael J.
Robertson 14 Use of Organic Fertilizers Alone or in Combination with
Inorganic Ones: Effects on Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Indian
Farming Systems 235 Cherkumalli Srinivasarao, Bandi Venkateswarlu,
Dattatreya Mahabaleswara Hegde, K. Venkateswara Rao, and Sumanta Kundu 15
Current Status and Future Perspectives to Increase Nutrientand Water-Use
Efficiency in Food Production Systems in China 263 Mingsheng Fan, Xiying
Zhang, Lixing Yuan, Weifeng Zhang, and Fusuo Zhang 16 Water-and
Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production in South America 275 Nand K.
Fageria and Luís F. Stone Index 297 Color plate section is located between
pages 180 and 181.