Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions

Auteur
Dr. Sandeep Kumar is a scientist (Agronomy) at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Karnal, India. He is working on enhancing resource use efficiencies in conservation agriculture-based rice-wheat systems for sustainable crop production. He has published 8 books in Springer, Elsevier and national publishers as editor and author as well. He has edited several special issues in MDPI and Frontier having impact factors up to 5.0. Currently, he is an active reviewer of various highly reputed journals, e.g., Sustainability, Agriculture, Agricultural Water Management, Soil and Tillage, European Journal of Agronomy, Plant and Soil, PLOS One and many others. He has received numerous prestigious national awards, including Young Scientist, Best Paper Awards, Best Research Scholar, and Best Master's Thesis awards. Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is an Agronomist working in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shri Prof. Rattan Lal, World Food Prize Laureate, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has completed 10 external funded projects including, MHRD, ICAR, DST, etc.

Texte du rabat
Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions explores how agriculture has historically contributed to carbon emissions and then takes the reader forward, offering insights into an integrated approach to reducing those emissions toward the COP26 goal. The dual challenge of increasing production to meet population and nutrition food demands while reducing the traditional emissions generated by production practices is significant. It requires understanding the foundation of current practices and then revising those underlying principles to reflect the resources and greater insights of today.

Presented in three parts, this book provides an overview of the current state of the science, explores the development of policies and plans to improve carbon management, and provides examples of technology and agroecosystem management practices. It includes the latest updates in carbon neutral farming, carbon and energy management, and addresses the knowledge gap between input management, livestock management and agroecosystem management.

Advancing agroecosystem science through a roadmap for improving capacity, Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions is a valuable resource for those seeking to develop and apply new agricultural best practices.

Contenu

1. COP 26: A pivotal pledge to net zero emissions
   
   2. Greenhouse gases emissions: Problem, global reality and future perspectives
   3. Net zero emission: Progress, opportunities and challenges
   4. Food losses and waste: Establishing a sustainable food supply chain to lower greenhouse gas emissions
   5. Global Carbon Market: Policy Pathways for Low Carbon Emissions in the Agriculture Sector
   6. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems to ensure zero carbon emission
   7. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint
   8. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture
   9. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission
   10. Agroforestry and Net-Zero in the European Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
   11. Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy
   12. Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture
   13. Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector
   14. Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency
   15. Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions
   16. Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future
   17. Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production
   18. Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector
   19. Microbes for reducing greenhouse gases emission in agriculture for a sustainable future
   20. Recent advancement in climate change projections and sociöeconomic scenarios used to evaluate climate impacts and adaptation measures