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This book is part of a series that gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions. It will aid all those who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

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Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then proposes alternative solutions.

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Agroecology scaling up for food sovereignty and resiliency ; Miguel A Altieri
The art and science of transformation for sustainability ; Harold Schroeder
Organic bread wheat production and market in Europe ; Chistophe David
Organic farming of vegetables ; Margit Olle
Biomass gasification crops for the climatic range of New Zealand ; Richard Renquist
Biodiesel production for sustainable agriculture ; Kishan G. Ramawat
Forage legume intercropping in temperate regions: models and ideotypes ; Aleksandar Mikic
Endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria as biofertilizer ; Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar

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Eric Lichtfouse: PhD in organic geochemistry, INRA researcher in Dijon, France since 1992, he teaches scientific writing. He is also editor in chief of the INRA journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and founder and editor of the Springer journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.

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