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Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions explores how agriculture has historically contributed to carbon emissions and then takes the reader forward, offering insights into an integrated approach to reducing those emissions toward the COP26 goal. The dual challenge of increasing production to meet population and nutrition food demands while reducing the traditional emissions generated by production practices is significant. It requires understanding the foundation of current practices and then revising those underlying principles to reflect the resources and greater insights of today. This book provides an overview of the current state of the science, explores the development of policies and plans to improve carbon management, and provides examples of technology and agroecosystem management practices. It includes the latest updates in carbon neutral farming, carbon and energy management, and addresses the knowledge gap between input management, livestock management and agroecosystem management. Advancing agroecosystem science through a roadmap for improving capacity, Agriculture Toward Net Zero Emissions is a valuable resource for those seeking to develop and apply new agricultural best practices.

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Author:   Sandeep Kumar (Scientist (Agronomy), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Karnal, India) ,  Ram Swaroop Meena (Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780443139857

ISBN 10:   0443139857
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   09 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section-I COP 26: A pivotal pledge to net zero emissions 1. Role of agriculture in achieving net zero greenhouse gases emissions target of COP26 2. Greenhouse gases emissions: Problem, global reality and future perspectives 3. Net zero emission: Progress, opportunities and challenges 4. Food losses and waste: Establishing a sustainable food supply chain to lower greenhouse gas emissions 5. Realizing net zero through effective governance, skill development, rewards and incentives for the farmers’ society Section-II Plans and Policies for Low-Carbon Emission 6. Investments plans and policies in different sectors for the development of an innovative system for carbon emission reduction 7. Digital agriculture: A carbon neutral and low emission roadmap for green agriculture 8. Engaging the private sector to implement agriculture and land-use priorities for carbon-neutral farming 9. Global carbon market: Policy pathways for low carbon emissions in the agriculture sector 10. Plans and policies for carbon stability and reducing carbon oxidation in agriculture systems 11. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystem to ensure zero carbon emission 12. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint 13. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture 14. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission 15. Reforming the plans and policies for agroforestry systems’ involvement in agriculture Section-III Renewable energy technological interventions 16.Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy 17.Global renewable energy research and policies to phase down coal: Progress and possibilities after Glasgow summit 18.Reducing energy consumption in the agriculture sector through advanced technological interventions 19.Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture 20.Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector Section-IV Agroecosystem management 21.Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency 22.Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions 23.Conservation agriculture: A boon of net zero emission farming 24.Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future 25.Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production 26.Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector

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Dr. Sandeep Kumar is a scientist (Agronomy) at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Regional Station, Karnal, India. He is working on enhancing resource use efficiencies in conservation agriculture-based rice-wheat systems for sustainable crop production. He has published 8 books in Springer, Elsevier and national publishers as editor and author as well. He has edited several special issues in MDPI and Frontier having impact factors up to 5.0. Currently, he is an active reviewer of various highly reputed journals, e.g., Sustainability, Agriculture, Agricultural Water Management, Soil and Tillage, European Journal of Agronomy, Plant and Soil, PLOS One and many others. He has received numerous prestigious national awards, including Young Scientist, Best Paper Awards, Best Research Scholar, and Best Master’s Thesis awards. Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is an Agronomist working in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shri Prof. Rattan Lal, World Food Prize Laureate, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has completed 10 external funded projects including, MHRD, ICAR, DST, etc.

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