Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32: Waste Recycling and Fertilisation

298 Pages·2018·8.25 MB·English

by  Eric Lichtfouse

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32
Eric Lichtfouse E ditor
Sustainable
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Waste Recycling and Fertilisation
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a
sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that
addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation
starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and
biodiversity depletion.
Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge
from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology,
ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms
of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at
time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach
that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific,
economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow
science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only
negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources.
Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing,
sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers
review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose
alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers
and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future
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Eric Lichtfouse
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Sustainable Agriculture
Reviews 32
Waste Recycling and Fertilisation
Editor
Eric Lichtfouse
CEREGE, Aix Marseille Univ
CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France
Aix-en-Provence, France
ISSN 2210-4410 ISSN 2210-4429 (electronic)
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
ISBN 978-3-319-98913-6 ISBN 978-3-319-98914-3 (eBook)
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Preface
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 grow-
ing. In theory, most waste could be recycled efficiently. In practice, most waste is
wasted, notably in rich countries where most people have somehow forgotten that
food production by agriculture is simply vital. In other words, without food we die,
to put it bluntly. For food security we need both more funds for agricultural research,
and more ideas and inventions to produce food using waste. This book presents
advanced research in fertilisation and recycling.
Spring pea field in Burgundy, France. Cernay et al. Chap. 4
In the first chapter, Drangert applies systems thinking to develop the concept of
waste hierarchy, which is at the basis of improving waste recycling in smart cities
and eco-houses. He shows that more than 50% of mined phosphorus (P) actually
used for fertilisation can be replaced by phosphorus from waste. Liwei et al. review
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food losses and waste in the Chinese food systems, and found that the loss ratio dur-
ing harvest could be reduced by 62%, in Chap. 2. Ipsilantis et al. review the role of
mycorrhizal fungi and P-mobilising bacteria to improve plant nutrition, in Chap. 3.
A meta-analysis of the yield of world grain legumes shows that soybean, narrowleaf
lupin and faba bean are interesting alternatives to pea in Europe, as explained in
Chap. 4 by Cernay et al. In the same vein, in Chap. 5, Mahmoud et al. recommend
to foster legume cultivation in Europe because grain legumes occupy only 1.8% of
arable lands.
Yu et al. explain that less than 40% of applied nitrogen (N) fertiliser is used by
crops ; they thus give management guidelines for fertilisation in rice-wheat systems
in Chap. 6. Benefits and drawbacks of using oilseed rape residues for fertilisation
are presented by Kriauciuniene et al. in Chap. 7. The production of biochar from
organic wastes, and the use of biochar to fertilise and improve soils are reviewed by
Singh et al. in Chap. 8. Mkonda and He discuss fertilisation and agropastoralism in
semi-arid areas, and conclude that the use of organic manure and waste has increased
crop yields from 0.8 to 18 tons per hectare, in Chap. 9. In Chap. 10, Raza et al.
decribe the impact of climate change on agriculture in Pakistan, and the potential
benefits of organic farming. Guleria and Kumar discuss the effect of transgenes and
nanoparticles on plants and soil microbes in the last chapter.
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Contents
1 Nutrient Recycling: Waste Hierarchy, Recycling Cities
and Eco-houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jan-Olof Drangert
2 Reducing Food Losses and Waste in the Food Supply Chain . . . . . . . 19
Gao Liwei, Zhang Yongen, Xu Shiwei, Xu Zengrang,
Cheng Shengkui, Wang Yu, and Muhammad Luqman
3 Beneficial Microorganisms for the Management
of Soil Phosphorus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Ioannis Ipsilantis, Mina Karamesouti, and Dionisios Gasparatos
4 New Insights into the Yields of Underexploited
Grain Legume Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
C. Cernay, D. Makowski, and E. Pelzer
5 Grain Legumes for the Sustainability of European
Farming Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Faisal Mahmood, Tanvir Shahzad, Sabir Hussain,
Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Azeem, and Jacques Wery
6 Nitrogen Management in the Rice–Wheat System
of China and South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Yingliang Yu, Linzhang Yang, Pengfu Hou, Lihong Xue,
and Alfred Oduor Odindo
7 Oilseed Rape Crop Residues: Decomposition, Properties
and Allelopathic Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Zita Kriaučiūnienė, Rita Čepulienė, Rimantas Velička,
Aušra Marcinkevičienė, Kristina Lekavičienė,
and Egidijus Šarauskis
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8 Biochar Amendment to Soil for Sustainable Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . 207
Vipin Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar, and Rishikesh Singh
9 Soil Quality and Agricultural Sustainability
in Semi-arid Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda and Xinhua He
10 Organic Agriculture for Food Security in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Amir Raza, Saeed A. Asad, and Wisal Mohammad
11 Impact of Recombinant DNA Technology
and Nanotechnology on Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Praveen Guleria and Vineet Kumar
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
About the Editor
Eric Lichtfouse, PhD, born in 1960, is an environmen-

tal chemist working at the University of Aix-Marseille,
France. He has invented carbon-13 dating, a method
allowing to measure the relative age and turnover of
molecular organic compounds occurring in different
temporal pools of any complex media. He is teaching
scientific writing and communication and has published
the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals,
which includes a new tool – the Micro-Article – to iden-
tify the novelty of research results. He is founder and
chief editor of scientific journals and series in environ-
mental chemistry and agriculture. He got the Analytical
Chemistry Prize by the French Chemical Society, the
Grand Prize of the Universities of Nancy and Metz, and
a Journal Citation Award by the Essential Indicators.
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