Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability
Considerations for the Future

Topics in Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future include: sustainability of agriculture issues, such as economic returns, environmental preservation, and enhancing quality of life opportunities for alleviating poverty and stopping land degradation through agroforestry management principles to improve and restore soil whole-system modeling approach to work for sustainable agricultural systems global wheat mega-environments and sustainability enhancing the productivity and sustainability of the rice-wheat cropping system overcoming the use of the outmoded plow holistic model systems to help farm families become more food secure the economic impact of bacterial wilt and drought stresses in banana production the sale of environmentally friendly products in developed countries Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future is an essential resource for crop breeders, geneticists, agronomists and horticulturists, educators, and students and belongs in every agricultural university library.

Foreword (M. S. Swaminathan)
Preface
Sustainability of Agriculture: Issues, Observations, and Outlook (C. Jerry Nelson)
Agroforestry for Sustainability of Lower-Input Land-Use Systems (P. K. Ramachandran Nair)
Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change (R. Lal)
Whole-System Integration and Modeling Essential to Agricultural Science and Technology for the 21st Century (L. R. Ahuja, A. A. Andales, L. Ma, and S. A. Saseendran)
Sustainability Considerations in Wheat Improvement and Production (S. Rajaram, K. D. Sayre, J. Diekmann, R. Gupta, and W. Erskine)
Sustainability of the Rice-Wheat Cropping System: Issues, Constraints, and Remedial Options (J. K. Ladha, H. Pathak, and R. K. Gupta)
Tailoring Conservation Agriculture to the Needs of Small Farmers in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Issues (Patrick C. Wall)
Improved Cowpea-Cereals-Based Cropping Systems for Household Food Security and Poverty Reduction in West Africa (B. B. Singh and H. Ajeigbe)
Bacterial Wilt and Drought Stresses in Banana Production and Their Impact on Economic Welfare in Uganda: Implications for Banana Research in East African Highlands (S. Abele and M. Pillay)
Greening of Agriculture: Is It All a Greenwash of the Globalized Economy
(Charles Francis, Roger Elmore, John Ikerd, and Mike Duffy)
Index
Reference Notes Included