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.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Preface - p. iii 7. Chapter One: Emerging contaminants: Categorization, effect, and treatment - p. 2 8. Chapter Two: Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity - p. 34 9. Chapter Three: Pesticides in agriculture: Food security vs. food safety - p. 60 10. Chapter Four: Microplastics in soil and water: Unveiling environmental risks and implications - p. 76 11. Chapter Five: Salinity stress in crop plants: Effects and eco-friendly management - p. 104 12. Chapter Six: Salinity stress: Impact on plant growth - p. 146 13. Chapter Seven: Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity - p. 163 14. Chapter Eight: Monoculture of crops: A challenge in attaining food security - p. 198 15. Chapter Nine: Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends - p. 216 16. Chapter Ten: Exacerbation of food insecurity in Africa: A consequence of the dual threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis - p. 241
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.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Preface - p. iii 7. Chapter One: Emerging contaminants: Categorization, effect, and treatment - p. 2 8. Chapter Two: Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity - p. 34 9. Chapter Three: Pesticides in agriculture: Food security vs. food safety - p. 60 10. Chapter Four: Microplastics in soil and water: Unveiling environmental risks and implications - p. 76 11. Chapter Five: Salinity stress in crop plants: Effects and eco-friendly management - p. 104 12. Chapter Six: Salinity stress: Impact on plant growth - p. 146 13. Chapter Seven: Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity - p. 163 14. Chapter Eight: Monoculture of crops: A challenge in attaining food security - p. 198 15. Chapter Nine: Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends - p. 216 16. Chapter Ten: Exacerbation of food insecurity in Africa: A consequence of the dual threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis - p. 241
