This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

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Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.

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Chapter 1. Crop protection for agricultural intensification systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Alain Ratnadass

Chapter 2. Coffee diversity and conservation in Ethiopia

Kifle Zerga and Birhanu Tsegaye

Chapter 3. Phytochemistry, toxicity and pharmacology of Pistacia lentiscus, Artemisia herba-alba and Citrullus colocynthis

Mohamed Amine Gacem, Aminata Ould El Hadj-Khelil, Badreddine Boudjemaa and Hiba Gacem

Chapter 4. Role of osmolytes in the mechanisms of antioxidant defense of plants

Shah Fahad, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Aamir Nawaz, Safina Naz, Sajjad Hussain and Shakeel Ahmad

Chapter 5. Basmati rice production and research in Pakistan Muhammad Akhter and Zulqarnain Haider

Chapter 6. Site-specific fertilizer nitrogen management in cereals in South Asia

Bijay-Singh, Varinderpal-Signh and Ali M. Ali

Chapter 7. Materials and methods for biodiesel production

Soham Chattopadhyay and Ramkrishna Sen