India would require around 311 million tons of food grains (cereals and pulses) during 2030
to feed around 1.43 billion people, and the requirement expectedly would further increase to …

Land-use options that increase resilience and reduce vulnerability of contemporary societies
are fundamental to livelihood improvement and adaptation to environmental change …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Defining the relationship between soil characteristics and crop requirements must be the first
step in planning future agriculture land use. The aim of the present study is to identify the …

Abiotic stresses are both serious in magnitude and widespread in occurrence and thus pose
major hurdles to attaining higher crop productivity. In rice, salinity follows only drought stress …

The majority of past studies of abiotic stress tolerance have compared the physiological
status of a stressed plant with that of an unstressed control plant in order to deduce …

While agroforestry is a well-established approach for agroecological intensification, rice is
less often integrated with trees than other annual staple crops. The benefits and risks from …

Nearly, one billion hectares of arid and semi-arid areas of the world are salt-affected and
remain barren due to salinity or water scarcity. In India, about 6.75 Mha lands are either …

Bioenergy production from marginal and degraded lands is getting worldwide attention due
to its potential for renewable energy, land restoration, soil carbon sequestration and also for …

Agroforestry is widely recognized as a sustainable land-use management practice for
different landscapes, both in tropical and temperate regions. Anecdotal agroforestry …