Soil Management for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in the Himalayan Region - Soil Management of Smallholder Agriculture - page 162

Hillel, D. 1992. Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil . University of California
Press, Berkeley, CA, 321 pp.
Hillel, D. 2007. Soil in the Environment: Crucible of Terrestrial Life . Academic Press, MA,
320 pp.
Hla, A.K., and T.F. Scherer. 2003. Introduction to Micro-Irrigation . North Dakota State
University and U.S. Department of Agriculture Publication, 7 pp. Published online,
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/irrigate/ae1243w.htm, accessed September 13,
2007.
International Biochar Initiative. 2012. Biochar. Published online, http://www.biochar-interna
tional.org/.
Iqbal, M., A. Hassan, and R. Lal. 2007. Nutrient content of maize and soil organic matter
status under various tillage methods and farmyard manure levels. Acta Agriculturae
Scandinavica 57:349-356.
Ju, X.-T., G.-X. Xing, X.-P. Chen et al. 2009. Reducing environmental risk by improving
N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106(19):8071-8078. Published
online, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1071/pnas.0902655106.
Kahindi, J.H.P., P. Woomerb, T. Georgec, F.M. de Souza Moreirad, N.K. Karanjaa, and K.E.
Giller. 1997. Agricultural intensification, soil biodiversity and ecosystem function in the
tropics: The role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Applied Soil Ecology 6(1):55-76.
Karki, K.B. 2004. Improvement of animal dung, biogas, environment and soil fertility. Proc.
Fifth Nat'l. Animal Science Convention, Livestock Development for Socio-economic
Empowerment, Nepal Animal Science Association, pp. 241-246.
Karki, K.B. 2006. Impact of cropping intensification on nutritional balance in Nepalese
soils. Proc. Int'l. Seminar on Environmental and Social Impacts of Agricultural
Intensification in Himalayan Watersheds held in October 15-17, 2006, Kathmandu,
Nepal, pp. 27-33.
Lal, R. 2004. Soil and forest degradation in South Asia. Forestry, Journal of the Institute of
Forestry 12:8-17. Pokhara, Nepal.
Lal, R. 2007. Soil degradation and environmental quality in South Asia. International Journal
of Ecology & Environment 33(2-3):91-103. International Science Publishers, New
Delhi, India.
Lal, R. 2011. Soil degradation and food security in South Asia. In: R. Lal, M.V.K. Sivakumar,
S.M.A. Faiz, A.H.M. Mustafizur Rahman, and K.R. Islam (eds.), Climate Change and
Food Security in South Asia . Springer, New York, pp. 137-152.
Lambin, E.F., and P. Meyfroidt. 2011. Global land use change, economic globalization, and
the looming land scarcity. PNAS 108(9):3465-3472.
Latif, M.A., M.R. Islam, M.Y. Ali, and M.A. Saleque. 2005. Validation of the system of rice
intensification (SRI) in Bangladesh. Field Crops Research 93(2-3):281-292.
Linquist, B.A., V. Phengsouvanna, and P. Sengxue. 2007. Benefits of organic residues and
chemical fertilizer to productivity of rain-fed lowland rice and to soil nutrient balances.
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 79:59-72.
Lopez, R. 1998. Agricultural intensification, common property resources and the farm house-
hold. Environmental and Resource Economics 11(3-4):443-458.
Matson, P.A., W.J. Parton, A.G. Power, and M.J. Swift. 1997. Agricultural intensification and
ecosystem properties. Science 277:504-509.
McCalla, A.F. 2001. Challenges to world agriculture in the 21st century. Agricultural and
Resource Economics Update 4(3). Published online. University of California, Davis,
CA.
Murgai, R., M. Ali, and D. Byerlee. 2001. Productivity growth and sustainability in post-
green revolution agriculture: The case of the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs. World Bank
Research Observer 16(2):199-218. Oxford University Press, UK.