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Building Soil Health, Improving Carbon Footprint and Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through CSR

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Title Building Soil Health, Improving Carbon Footprint and Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through CSR
 
Creator Chander, G
Wani, S P
Pardhasaradhi, G
Patil, M D
Rao, A N
 
Subject Agriculture
Andhra Pradesh
Soil Fertility
CSR
 
Description Unabated soil degradation due to low soil organic carbon (C) levels, multiple nutrient deficiencies including
micro- and secondary nutrients, rising salinity and soil loos due to erosion jeopardizes food security of swiftly rising global population projected to be 9.7 billion by 2050. Soils also play a major role in global C cycling and huge C sequestration potential offers opportunities for mitigating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
The lessons learnt from CSR pilot and scaling-up initiatives indicated significant productivity benefits with soil
health mapping based management...
 
Publisher CABI
 
Contributor Wani, S P
Raju, K V
 
Date 2018-10
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10944/1/Chapter%2003_CSR-Book-Published-2018.pdf
Chander, G and Wani, S P and Pardhasaradhi, G and Patil, M D and Rao, A N (2018) Building Soil Health, Improving Carbon Footprint and Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through CSR. In: Corporate Social Responsibility : Win-win Propositions for Communities, Corporates and Agriculture. CABI, pp. 35-54. ISBN 9781786394514