Table of Contents
List of Articles
History of Agriculture
The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
William Ruddiman
Nomadism
Philip Carl Salzman
Hunter-Gatherer Economies in the Old World and New World
Christian Morgan, Shannon Tushingham, Raven Garvey, Loukas Barton, and Robert Bettinger
Geography and Chronology of the Transition to Agriculture
Peter Bogucki
Ancient and Traditional Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Agricultural Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew B. Smith
Barley in Archaeology and Early History
Simone Riehl
Prehistoric and Traditional Agriculture in Lowland Mesoamerica
Clarissa Cagnato
Agricultural Origins and their Consequences in Southwestern Asia
Alan Simmons
Agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant
John M. Marston
Human Environmental Interrelationships and the Origins of Agriculture in Egypt and Sudan
Simon Holdaway and Rebecca Phillipps
Agricultural Dispersals in Mediterranean and Temperate Europe
Aurélie Salavert
The Agriculture of Early India
Charlene Murphy and Dorian Q. Fuller
Early History of Animal Domestication in Southwest Asia
Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Agricultural Practices and Environmental Impacts of Aztec and Pre-Aztec Central Mexico
Deborah L. Nichols
Ancient and Traditional Agriculture in South America: Tropical Lowlands
Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Eduardo Neves, Charles R. Clement, Helena Lima, Claide Moraes, and Gilton Mendes
Indigenous American Agricultural Contributions to Modern Global Food Systems
Marcia C. Bruno
Origin and Development of Agriculture in New Guinea, Island Melanesia and Polynesia
Tim Denham
Agricultural Innovation and Dispersal in Eastern North America
Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody
Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawai'i
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln and Peter Vitousek
Evolution of Agricultural Practices and the Transformation of the English Landscape
Tom Williamson
From the Plow and Harness to Precision Farming in the North American Great Plains
David E. Clay, Sharon A. Clay, Thomas DeSutter, and Cheryl Reese
History of Agriculture in the United States
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Soil Nature, Abuse, and Stewardship
Soils, Science, Society, and the Environment
Colin Robins
Soil Resources, the Delivery of Ecosystem Services and Value
David A. Robinson, Fiona Seaton, Katrina Sharps, Amy Thomas, Francis Parry Roberts, Martine van der Ploeg, Laurence Jones, Jannes Stolte, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Paula Harrison, and Bridget Emmett
Soil Tilth and Management
Lars J. Munkholm, Mansonia Pulido-Moncada, and Peter Bilson Obour
Soil Sediment Loading and Related Environmental Impacts from Farms
Vito Ferro
Measuring Soil Loss and Subsequent Nutrient and Organic Matter Loss on Farmlands
Vito Ferro and Vincenzo Bagarello
Effective Practices in Mitigating Soil Erosion from Fields
Vincenzo Bagarello
Soil Quality as Affected by Intensive Versus Conservative Agricultural Managements
Luigi Badalucco
Soil Salinization
Pichu Rengasamy
Classification and Mitigation of Soil Salinization
Tibor Tóth
Causes of Soil Salinization, Sodification, and Alkalinization
Elisabeth N. Bui
Irrigation, Nutrient Management, and Nutrient Issues
Surface Irrigation
Luis S. Pereira and José M. Gonçalves
The Qanat System of Iran and the Maghreb
Ahmad Abbasnejad; Behnam Abbasnejad
Environmental Benefits and Concerns of Center Pivot Irrigation
Leonor Rodriguez Sinobas
Subsurface (Tile) Agricultural Drainage
Gary Sands, Srinivasulu Ale, Laura Christianson, and Nathan Utt
Well Construction, Cones of Depression and Groundwater Sharing Approaches
Fidel Ribera Urenda
Terracing: From Agriculture to Multiple Ecosystem Services
Paolo Socci, Alessandro Errico, Giulio Castelli, Daniele Penna, and Federico Preti
The Role of Cover Crops in Agriculture and their Environmental Significance
Helena Aronsson
Crop Rotations, Fallowing, and their Environmental Benefits
Muhammad Farooq, Ahmad Nawaz, and Faisal Nadeem
Industrial Fertilizers in Agriculture
Gregory L. Willoughby
Agricultural Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution in Surface Waters
Marianne Bechmann and Per Stålnacke
Selected Crops, Livestock, and Environmental Impacts of Their Production
Agricultural Energy Demand and Use
David Roland-Holst
Agricultural Subsidies and the Environment
Heather Williams
Cultivation and Impact of Wheat
Peter Shewry
Cultivation and Environmental Impact of Corn
Emerson Nafziger
Cultivation and Environmental Impacts of Rice
Reiner Wassmann
Tomatoes: A Model Crop of Solanaceous Plants
Autar Mattoo, Raheel Anwar, and Tahira Fatima
Citrus History, Taxonomy, Breeding, and Fruit Quality
Paolo Inglese; Giuseppe Sortino
Cultivation and Environmental Impact of Mushrooms
Shu Ting Chang; Solomon P. Wasser
Cultivation, Improvement, and Environmental Impacts of Tea
Mainaak Mukhopadhyay and Tapan Kumar Mondal
Environmental Impacts of Tropical Soybean and Palm Oil Crops
Kimberly M. Carlson and Rachael D. Garrett
Social and Environmental Implications of Plantation Agriculture in Malaysia and Indonesia
Jean-François Bissonnette and Rodolphe De Koninck
Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Agroforestry
Shibu Jose
Dairy, Science, Society, and the Environment
Christopher Lu
CAFOs: Farm Animals and Industrialized Livestock Production
James M. MacDonald
Agricultural Methanogenesis
Alexander N. Hristov
The Big Picture, and Toward a New Global Agriculture
An Image Reconnaissance: Agricultural Patterns and Related Environmental Impacts Viewed from Space
Richard W. Hazlett and Joshua Peck
Economics, Agriculture, and Famines
Noel Russell
Food Safety in a Global Economy: Policies and Concerns
Tomiko Yamaguchi and Shun-Nan Chiang
Sustainable Coffee Production
Sarada Krishnan
Organic Farming
Theodore J. K. Radovich
Ecological Farming and the Methods of Agroecology
Miguel A. Altieri
Agroecology
Juhn Helenius, Alexander Wezel, and Charles A. Francis
Biotechnology and Agriculture
David Still
Food Waste and Biomass Recovery
Wun Jern Ng, Keke Xiao, Vinay Kumar Tyagi, Chaozhi Pan, and Leong Soon Poh
Vermiculture in Greenhouse Plants, Field Crop Production and Hydroponics
Norman Q. Arancon; Zachary Solarte
Pros and Cons of GMO Crop Farming
Rene Van Acker, Motior Rahman, and S. Zahra H. Cici
Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Africa
Laura Pereira
Crop Production Resilience through Biodiversity for Adaptation to Climate Change
Charles A. Francis
Seed Banking as Future Insurance against Crop Collapses
Fiona Hay
