Challenges To Organic Farming And Sustainable Land Use In The Tropics And Subtropics

Key Words: forestry, legal pluralism, land tenure, property rights, rainforest, conservation

This book gives the latest information on advances in organic agriculture which can be used by agroindustry people as well as agricultural engineers and with practical examples for farmers. It provides important information covering multidisciplinary approaches on environmental awareness, organic agricultural production as well as organic fertilizers. The chapters here are prepared by experts in the field who present and discuss the principles of a wide range of practical ideas with examples. This book also presents novel ideas and suggestions for future research in organic agricultural production. The topics included in this book are based on surveys together with literature reviews to enable the academic and industrial readers to evaluate what they see as specific to their own discipline. The chapters include a wide range of topics which will also make it easy to make comparisons between different disciplines.

Athalye Sapre Pitre College Devrukh has always been on the forefront in organizing different academic, co-curricular and administrative activities to nurture the student's minds and equip them with skills to face the challenges of the real world situations with academic excellence. UGC sponsored Three Day National Conference on “Renewable Energy and Environment” was jointly organized by the Department of Chemistry and Physics during 25th to 27th September, 2014. The main objective of this conference was to provide platform to researches in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Technology, Economics, Commerce, Geography and Environmental sciences to share problems and prospects in the field of energy and environment and to compile intellectual inputs for the sustainable development of our country. Protection of the Environment and Climate, and their preservation is a demanding social, scientific and economical task. Utilization of renewable energy, efficient conversions of fossil fuel are not only environmentally and climatically beneficial, they also preserve the finite energy sources. Awareness of this global issue at the grass root level is the need of the hour. Renewable energy and environment is the subject of global attention. The present scenario between energy generation, consumption and depletion of sources of conventional energy has various impacts on Environment. Conservation of renewable energy sources and protection of environment are the burning issues at the global level. Unless a long term planning is done to handle these issues and make them commercially viable and environment friendly; alternative technologies are developed. The potential of renewable energy sources is enormous as they can in principle meet many times the world’s energy demand. Renewable energy sources such as small hydropower, wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal can provide sustainable energy services, based on the use of routinely available, indigenous resources. I am sure such platforms through national conference will definitely help to promote various academicians, scientist and research students to share and absorb various new ideas which will help our country to overcome fuel crisis and environmental problems.