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.
Presented in three parts, 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.
1. COP 26: A pivotal pledge to net zero emissions
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. Global Carbon Market: Policy Pathways for Low Carbon Emissions in the Agriculture Sector
6. Law and policy pathways for global soil carbon sequestration in agroecosystems to ensure zero carbon emission
7. On-farm carbon capturing strategies to reduce carbon footprint
8. Transforming land use towards carbon neutral agriculture
9. Agroforestry: Harnessing the unrealized potential for negative carbon emission
10. Agroforestry and Net-Zero in the European Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
11. Net zero emission of the agricultural power sector through land-based renewable energy
12. Solar energy harvesting and its use in agriculture
13. Plans and policies framework for enhancing the energy efficiency in the agriculture sector
14. Precision input management for reducing resources wastages and enhancing production efficiency
15. Managing rice soils for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions
16. Reducing water footprints: Shaping transition to a net zero future
17. Achieving net zero emission through greenhouse gases emissions reduction in animal production
18. Efficient manure management in achieving net zero goals in the dairy sector
19. Microbes for reducing greenhouse gases emission in agriculture for a sustainable future
20. Recent advancement in climate change projections and socio-economic scenarios used to evaluate climate impacts and adaptation measures
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 with 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 Masters Thesis awards. Dr. Meena was born into a farming family and is working in the Department of Agronomy at IAS, BHU, Varanasi. With an excellent academic background, he has been elected a fellow of several academies, including the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS), the Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA), and the Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research (SRMR). The Ministry of Education has also awarded him the Raman Fellowship for the USA under World Food Prize Laureate Prof. Rattan Lal, and he was an INSA visiting scientist at ISARC-IRRI. Additionally, he has been listed among the world's 2% of scientists for his career. He guided 8 PhD, 29 masters and completed 10 externally funded projects from IRRI, IoE-BHU, SERB-DST, ICAR, MOE, and GOI. Dr. He has made significant research contributions to natural resource management and to farm and industrial waste recycling for soil health. Dr. Meena evaluates energy flow, atmospheric CO2 capture, carbon credit and auditing, and eco-friendly techniques for a sustainable food system and soil regeneration, as evidenced by high-impact publications and extension work at the farmer level. He has published extensively, with an H-index of 76, an I-10 index of 222, and 17,250 citations. His work is crucial for understanding the long-term stability of soil carbon, which enhances soil microbial and nutrient dynamics in rice-based diversified cropping systems. He trained farmers from the Deep Forest Tribe to adopt climate-smart practices to secure their livelihoods under the DST-SEED grant project. Dr. Meena has also contributed to the agricultural extension activities in the Honourable Prime Minister of India” villages. His future work aims to reduce soil organic carbon oxidation and enhance its stability in agroecosystems, enabling farmers to benefit from carbon credits and generate additional income.
