Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-443-21907-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security, Volume Nine in the Advances in Food Security and Sustainability series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapter on important topics such as Exacerbation of Food Insecurity in Africa: A Consequence of the Dual Threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis; Rising Environmental Issues: A hindrance to food security; Microplastics in Soil and Water: Unveiling Environmental Risks and Implications; Emerging Contaminants - Categorization, Effect and Treatment; The Potential Impact on Pesticides on Insect Pollinators and Their Ecological Implications, and much more.

Additional chapters cover Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity; Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safety; Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediation; Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly management; Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant Growth; Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity; Decrease in Arable Land and Water; and Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends; Monoculture Of Crops.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sharma, Ashita

Kumar, Manish

Sharma, Puneet

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Lebensmittelsicherheit und -versorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Exacerbation of Food Insecurity in Africa: A Consequence of the Dual Threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
Shuaibu Saidu Musa, Don-Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, Isaac Olushola Ogunkola, Oyinloye Emmanuel Abiodun, Innocent Chimaobi Umeh, Mfoniso Tom-James, Babatunde Ismail Bale, Emmanuel Ebuka Elebesunu and Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
2. Rising Environmental Issues: A hindrance to food security
Ashita Sharma
3. Microplastics in Soil and Water: Unveiling Environmental Risks and Implications
Jatinder Kaur Katnoria, Surbhi Sharma, Priyanka Sharma, Ankita Sharma, Mahima Sharma, Priyanka Atri and Shalini Bahel
4. Emerging Contaminants - Categorization, Effect and Treatment
Gaurav Saini and Anupriya Verma
5. The Potential Impact on Pesticides on Insect Pollinators and Their Ecological Implications
Mandeep Kaur
6. Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity
Puneet Sharma
7. Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safety
Avinash Kaur Nagpal, Sakshi Sharma and Inderpreet Kaur
8. Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediation
Avinash Kaur Nagpal, Megha Latwal, Akanksha Bakshi, Sonali, Nitika Sharma, Anamika Sharma, Inderpreet Kaur and Jatinder Kaur Katnoria
9. Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly management
Ashutosh Sharma, Indu Sharma, Rahul Kumar, Sonika Sharma, Harjot Singh, Vasudha Maurya and Narayan Singh
10. Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant Growth
Kritika Pandit, Chandni, Simrandeep Kaur, Manish Kumar, Renu Bhardwaj and Satwinderjeet Kaur
11. Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity
Ashun Chaudhary, Ruchika Kumari, Vidhi S, Niharika Shekhawat and Dinesh Pathak
12. Decrease in Arable Land and Water
Kanwarpreet Singh
13. Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends
Anu Kalia and Prateek Kalia
14. Monoculture Of Crops
Sandeep Kaur, Harpal Singh, Simran Singh, Gulshan Bhagat, Navdeep Kour, Manish Kumar, Ravinder Kumar and Astha Bhatia

Über Autor(innen)

Sharma, Puneet
Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India, 140413

Sharma, Ashita
Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India.

Kumar, Manish
Department of Botany, SD College, Barnala, Punjab, India