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.
Volume editor:
Ashita Sharma (Department of Civil Engineering Chandigarh University Mohali Punjab India.),
Manish Kumar (Department of Botany,
SD College,
Barnala,
Punjab,
India),
Puneet Sharma (Assistant professor,
Department of Civil Engineering,
Chandigarh University,
India)
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780443219078
ISBN 10: 0443219079
Series: Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 28 August 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India. Department of Botany, SD College, Barnala, Punjab, India Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India, 140413
