Strategies for Improving Crops` Use-Efficiencies of Fertilizer Nutrients in Sustainable Agricultural Systems

Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

In this review, we present the recent developments and future prospects of improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in crops using various complementary approaches. These include conventional breeding and molecular genetics, in addition to alternative farming techniques based on no-till continuous cover cropping cultures and/or organic nitrogen (N) nutrition. Whatever the mode of N fertilization...

Conserving agricultural biodiversity for use in sustainable food systems Conservation

Strategies for Improving Water Productivity and Quality of Agricultural Crops in an Era of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most serious problems facing the world today. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports confirmed that climate change will have a significant impact on global surface temperature. The projections of IPCC are that the rise of the mean temperature will be as high as 6.4oC by 2100, while the concentration of CO2 will be 1.3 times higher than it was 2...

Explaining Sustainable Development Strategies for Agricultural Entrepreneurship Activities in Kermanshah Province, Iran

The high capacity of the agricultural sector in Kermanshah Province needs more attention for some reasons including weather and climate conditions, access to fertile lands, and ready-made labor force. The current research seeks to achieve a major strategy for the development of entrepreneurship activities in the agricultural sector of Kermanshah Province. To reach end a mixed research method wa...

-Sustainable Management Strategies to Minimize Cadmium in Soils and Crops

Supervisor Gunnar Svensson ConsuIting Professor Department of Crop Science Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences P.O Box 44, SE 23053 Alnarp, Sweden Phone: + 46-40-41 51 66 Fax: + 46-40-4621 66 E-mail: [email protected] Co-supervisor Christer Nilsson Senior Research Officer Department of Crop Science Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences P.O Box 44, SE 23053 Alnarp, Sweden P...