Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32: Waste Recycling and Fertilisation

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This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture. In the near future, waste recycling will no longer be an option because natural resources become rare and costly, urbanisation is blooming and population is growing. In theory, most waste could be recycled. In practice, most waste is wasted. Remarkable aspects include the concepts of waste hierarchy eco-houses in smart cities, microbes and fungi for plant nutrition, and benefits of legume cultivation, biochar application and agropastoralism. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Nutrient Recycling: Waste Hierarchy, Recycling Cities and Eco-houses (Jan-Olof Drangert)....Pages 1-17 Reducing Food Losses and Waste in the Food Supply Chain (Gao Liwei, Zhang Yongen, Xu Shiwei, Xu Zengrang, Cheng Shengkui, Wang Yu et al.)....Pages 19-51 Beneficial Microorganisms for the Management of Soil Phosphorus (Ioannis Ipsilantis, Mina Karamesouti, Dionisios Gasparatos)....Pages 53-75 New Insights into the Yields of Underexploited Grain Legume Species (C. Cernay, D. Makowski, E. Pelzer)....Pages 77-103 Grain Legumes for the Sustainability of European Farming Systems (Faisal Mahmood, Tanvir Shahzad, Sabir Hussain, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Azeem, Jacques Wery)....Pages 105-133 Nitrogen Management in the Rice–Wheat System of China and South Asia (Yingliang Yu, Linzhang Yang, Pengfu Hou, Lihong Xue, Alfred Oduor Odindo)....Pages 135-167 Oilseed Rape Crop Residues: Decomposition, Properties and Allelopathic Effects (Zita Kriaučiūnienė, Rita Čepulienė, Rimantas Velička, Aušra Marcinkevičienė, Kristina Lekavičienė, Egidijus Šarauskis)....Pages 169-205 Biochar Amendment to Soil for Sustainable Agriculture (Vipin Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rishikesh Singh)....Pages 207-227 Soil Quality and Agricultural Sustainability in Semi-arid Areas (Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda, Xinhua He)....Pages 229-246 Organic Agriculture for Food Security in Pakistan (Amir Raza, Saeed A. Asad, Wisal Mohammad)....Pages 247-269 Impact of Recombinant DNA Technology and Nanotechnology on Agriculture (Praveen Guleria, Vineet Kumar)....Pages 271-292 Back Matter ....Pages 293-297