relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/7608/
title: Conservation agriculture for sustainable and resilient agriculture: global status, prospects and challenges
creator: Jat, R A
creator: Sahrawat, K L
creator: Kassam, A H
creator: Friedrich, T
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Climate Change
description: This chapter discusses the following topics: conservation agriculture as the way forward for sustainable agricultural production; definition and concept of conservation agriculture; and the global history, current status and prospects of conservation agriculture. The chapter also includes reports of research studies conducted on: soil and water conservation; soil quality; rainwater use efficiency; nutrient use efficiency; input use efficiency; insect-pest, disease and weed dynamics; crop productivity; climate change mitigation and adaptation; benefits at ecosystem level; and farm profitability
publisher: CABI
contributor: Jat, R A
contributor: Sahrawat, K L
contributor: Kassam, A H
date: 2013
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/7608/1/Conservation_Agriculture_Global_Prospects_and_Challenges.pdf
identifier:   Jat, R A and Sahrawat, K L and Kassam, A H and Friedrich, T  (2013) Conservation agriculture for sustainable and resilient agriculture: global status, prospects and challenges.   In:  Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture: Global Status,Prospects and Challenges,.   CABI, Boston, pp. 1-25.  ISBN 9781780642598     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781780642598.0001