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Soil Fertility book presents nine chapters written by renowned soil fertility experts from Africa, Asia and South America. The book is divided into two sections. Section 1, Biological Processes and Integration of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers for Soil Fertility Improvement, examines biological processes that can enhance the soil fertility. It discusses the use of both organic and inorganic fertilizers and their integration in improving soil fertility. The second section, Improving Fertilizer Recommendation and Efficiency, looks at the state-of-the-art in leaf sampling and analysis. Proper leaf sampling and standardized methods of analysis are important steps in providing good recommendations.

Soil fertility. --- Soils --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Fertilization --- Fertilizer movement --- Soil science, sedimentology

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Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators, Mechanisms and Modeling takes a novel approach to the issue of soil carbon storage by considering soil C sequestration as a function of the interaction between biotic (e.g. microbes and plants) and abiotic (climate, soil types, management practices) modulators as a key driver of soil C. These modulators are central to C balance through their processing of C from both plant inputs and native soil organic matter. This book considers this concept in the light of state-of-the-art methodologies that elucidate these interactions and increase our understanding of a vitally important, but poorly characterized component of the global C cycle. The book provides soil scientists with a comprehensive, mechanistic, quantitative and predictive understanding of soil carbon storage. It presents a new framework that can be included in predictive models and management practices for better prediction and enhanced C storage in soils.

Soils --- Carbon sequestration. --- Soil fertility. --- Carbon content. --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Carbon capture and storage --- Carbon dioxide sequestration --- CCS (Carbon sequestration) --- Sequestration (Chemistry) --- Carbon --- Fertilization --- Fertilizer movement

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A major challenge of the twenty-first century will be to ensure sufficient global food production to cope with the burgeoning world population. Soils, Land and Food is a short text aimed at undergraduates, graduates, agricultural scientists and policy makers which describes how the use of technology in soil management can increase and sustain agricultural production. The book leads the reader through the development of techniques of land management and discusses reasons why some agricultural projects have succeeded while others have failed. It shows how surveying and protecting soils before new land is brought into cultivation, raising soil fertility, increasing inputs and improving economic conditions can all help to increase food production. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for both economic change and technological intervention in developing countries where, in many cases, food production will need to more than double in the next fifty years.

Soil management. --- Soil fertility. --- Land use --- Food supply. --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Soils --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Soil science --- Agronomy --- Management. --- Fertilization --- Fertilizer movement --- Management

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Carbon sequestration. --- Energy crops. --- Forest biomass. --- Soil fertility. --- Soils --- Carbon --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Biomass --- Forests and forestry --- Biomass crops --- Biomass energy crops --- Energy farming --- Fuel crops --- Agriculture --- Agriculture and energy --- Crops --- Field crops --- Fuel --- Biomass energy --- Carbon capture and storage --- Carbon dioxide sequestration --- CCS (Carbon sequestration) --- Sequestration (Chemistry) --- Carbon content. --- Fertilization --- Fertilizer movement

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The book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa. The book, an output of a series of 3 workshops, provides examples of the application of DSSAT models to simulate nitrogen applications, soil and water conservation practices including effects of zai technology, phosphorus and maize productivity, generation of genetic coefficients, long-term soil fertility management technologies in the drylands, microdosing, optimization of nitrogen x germplasms x water, spatial analysis of water and nutrient use efficiencies and, tradeoff analysis. The minimum dataset requirements for DSSAT is discussed. This book arises from attempts to address the limited use of models in decision support by African agricultural (both soil scientist and agronomists) scientists.

Agriculture. --- Computer simulation. --- Crops -- Growth -- Computer simulation. --- Decision support systems. --- Soil fertility -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Soil fertility --- Crops and soils --- Crops --- Field crops --- Soils and crops --- Soils --- Fertilization --- Life sciences. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Plant-soil relationships --- Fallowing --- Fertilizers --- Soil productivity --- Fertilizer movement --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Earth sciences