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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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01 Leaf-cutting ants, biology and control; Isabelle Boulogne
02 Impact of pesticide productivity on food security; József Popp
03 Farmland birds and arable farming, a meta-analysis; Aude Barbottin
04 Phytoremediation, transgenic plants and microbes; Kambaska Kumar Behera
05 Management of pathogens of stored cereal grains; Neeta Sharma
06 Allelopathy for pest control; Kambaska Kumar Behera
07 Rice bed planting and foliar fertilization; Md. Toufiq Iqbal
08 Integrated nutrient management and postharvest of crops; Hassan R. El-Ramady
09 Intercropping taro and bambara groundnut; Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
10 Land productivity and food security in Zhangjiagang, China; Chengming Sun

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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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