Advances in Legumes for Sustainable Intensification
- 1st Edition - June 29, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ram Swaroop Meena, Sandeep Kumar
- Language: English
Advances in Legume-based Agroecoystem for Sustainable Intensification explores current research and future strategies for ensuring capacity growth and socioeconomic improveme… Read more
Description
Description
Advances in Legume-based Agroecoystem for Sustainable Intensification explores current research and future strategies for ensuring capacity growth and socioeconomic improvement through the utilization of legume crop cultivation and production in the achievement of sustainability development goals (SDGs). Sections cover the role of legumes in addressing issues of food security, improving nitrogen in the environment, environmental sustainability, economic-environmentally optimized systems, the importance and impact of nitrogen, organic production, and biomass potential, legume production, biology, breeding improvement, cropping systems, and the use of legumes for eco-friendly weed management.
This book is an important resource for scientists, researchers and advanced students interested in championing the effective utilization of legumes for agronomic and ecological benefit.
Key features
Key features
- Focuses on opportunities for agricultural impact and sustainability
- Presents insights into both agricultural sustainability and eco-intensification
- Includes the impact of legume production on societal impacts such as health and wealth management
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section-I: Legumes for sustainable crop intensification
1. Legume-Based Agroecosystem for Sustainable Intensification: An overview
2. Scope for production of pulses in rice fallow lands in South Asia
3. Sustainable intensification in cropping systems through inclusion of legumes
4. Legumes for efficient utilization of summer fallow
5. Efficient utilization of rice fallow through pulse cultivation
6. Legumes for nutrient management in the cropping system
7. Residual nitrogen for succeeding crops in legume-based cropping system
8. Legumes for eco-friendly weed management in agroecosystem
Section-II: Human and animal Health
9. Grain legumes: A diversified diet for sustainable livelihood, food and nutritional security
10. Recent strategies for pulse biofortification to combat human malnutrition
11. Forage legumes for human, animals and environment
12. Legumes for animal nutrition and dietary energy
Section-III: Soil health management
13. Legumes protect the soil erosion and ecosystem services
14. Sustainable management of land degradation through legume-based cropping system
15. Legumes effect on nitrogen mineralization and microbial biomass potential in organic farming
16. Legume based inter-cropping to achieve the crop, soil and environmental health security
17. Soil carbon and legumes
18. Role of legumes in phytoremediation of heavy metals
Section-IV: Agroecosystems Management
19. Legumes for Agroecosystem Services and Sustainability
20. Potential of legume-based cropping systems for climate change adaptation and mitigation
21. Legumes to reduce ecological footprints for climate-smart cropping systems
22. Environmental footprints of legumes-based agroecosystems for sustainable development
23. Legumes for efficient utilization of summer fallow
24. Potential of tree legumes in agroforestry systems and soil conservation
25. Leguminous trees for sustainable tropical agroforestry
Section-V: Crop Improvement
26. Grain legumes: Recent advances and technological interventions
27. Current trends in genetic enhancement of legumes in the genomics era for a sustainable future
28. Conventional, genomics and post-genomics era of pulses breeding: Current Status and prospects
29. Participatory breeding for improving legume landraces in small-scale farming
30. Prospects for genome-wide selection for quantitative traits in legumes
Section-VI: Economic importance
31. Effect of legumes on nitrogen economy and budgeting in South Asia
32. Pulses production, trade and policy imperatives: A global perspective
33. Multiple pathways of legume-based systems towards environmental, social and economic sustainability in smallholder systems
34. Legumes for improving socio-economic conditions of farmers in rainfed agroecosystem
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 29, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Ram Swaroop Meena
Dr. Meena was born into a farming family and is working in the Department of Agronomy at IAS, BHU, Varanasi. With an excellent academic background, he has been elected a fellow of several academies, including the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS), the Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA), and the Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research (SRMR). The Ministry of Education has also awarded him the Raman Fellowship for the USA under World Food Prize Laureate Prof. Rattan Lal, and he was an INSA visiting scientist at ISARC-IRRI. Additionally, he has been listed among the world's 2% of scientists for his career. He guided 8 PhD, 29 master’s and completed 10 externally funded projects from IRRI, IoE-BHU, SERB-DST, ICAR, MOE, and GOI. Dr. He has made significant research contributions to natural resource management and to farm and industrial waste recycling for soil health. Dr. Meena evaluates energy flow, atmospheric CO2 capture, carbon credit and auditing, and eco-friendly techniques for a sustainable food system and soil regeneration, as evidenced by high-impact publications and extension work at the farmer level. He has published extensively, with an H-index of 76, an I-10 index of 222, and 17,250 citations. His work is crucial for understanding the long-term stability of soil carbon, which enhances soil microbial and nutrient dynamics in rice-based diversified cropping systems. He trained farmers from the Deep Forest Tribe to adopt climate-smart practices to secure their livelihoods under the DST-SEED grant project. Dr. Meena has also contributed to the agricultural extension activities in the “Honourable Prime Minister of India” villages. His future work aims to reduce soil organic carbon oxidation and enhance its stability in agroecosystems, enabling farmers to benefit from carbon credits and generate additional income.
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