Sustainable Horticultural Systems Issues, Technology and Innovation [Paperback]

Sustainable horticulture is gaining increasing attention in the field of agriculture as demand for the food production rises to the world community. Sustainable horticultural systems are based on ecological principles to farm, optimizes pest and disease management approaches through environmentally friendly and renewable strategies in production agriculture. It is a discipline that addresses current issues such as food security, water pollution, soil health, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, entomology, ecology, chemistry and food sciences. Sustainable horticulture interprets methods and processes in the farming system to the global level. For that, horticulturists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable horticulture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable horticulture treats problem sources.

Section A: Sustainable Horticultural Systems. 1. Sustainable Vegetable Production Systems in the Caribbean; Velta Fenis-Napoleaon, Dilip Nandwani.- 2. Horticulture Based Production Systems in Indian Arid Regions; D.C. Bhandari et al.- 3. Principles and practices of sustainable vegetable production systems; Ajay Nair et al.- 4. A Small Integrated Farm System in a Tropical Insular Environment of Guam - A Case Study; Mari Marutani, John Brown.- 5. Impacts of Vulnerabilities and Climate Change on Sustainable Agriculture for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (CSIDS); Rohanie Maharaj, Dimple Singh-Ackbarali.- Section B : Biodiverlsö