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

This book is a state of the art on the latest research in sustainable agriculture A volume with relevant topics in agriculture This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sustainable agriculture

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Mycotoxins occurrence, toxicity and detection methods.- Chapter 2. Nanopesticides for pest control.- Chapter 3. Synthesis of nanofertilizers by planetary ball milling.- Chapter 4. Materials and technologies for the removal of chromium from aqueous systems.- Chapter 5. Water quality assessment techniques.- Chapter 6. Effect of Emerging Contaminants on Crops and Mechanism of Toxicity.