Advances in Organic Farming

Advances in Organic Farming: Agronomic Soil Management Practices is the first book to focus on the integrated interactions between soil-plant-microbe-environment elements considering the ecosystem function. There are many concerns about the sustainability of using current conventional methods as continued chemical use degrades the soil and the environment. This book addresses the question by exploring critical biogeochemical cycles, and their potential responses to current and impending environmental change as well as highlighting the factors that determine this nexus in space and time for sustainable crop production--Back cover.