Meet the editors

Jan Moudrý is an associate professor and head of the Department of Organic Farming at the University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Agriculture, Ceske Budejovice. He is focused on agroecology, environmental impacts of agriculture, sustainable and organic farming systems, social farming, and multifunctional agriculture. He is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications, methodologies, monographs, and books. He

is also a founding member of Agroecology Europe, member of European Network of Organic Agriculture Teachers (ENOAT), member of Climate Change Task Force for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM EU), member of TP Organics advisory board, member of steering committee of Czech *Technology Platform for Organic Agriculture* (CTPOA), member of steering committee of PRO-BIO advisory (advisory in organic farming), and head of the Association of Social Farming.

Kassio Ferreira Mendes is Professor of Biology and Integrated Management of Weeds, Department of Agronomy, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He graduated from the State University of Mato Grosso in 2011 and received a master's in Agronomy (Crop Science) from the Federal University of Viçosa in 2013. Post-Doctor (2019) and Doctor (2017) in Sciences - Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (Chemistry in Agriculture and Envi-

ronment), Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of São Paulo, Brazil with fellow sandwich University of Minnesota - USA (2016), Twin Cities Campus - College of Food and Agricultural Sciences in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate and United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS). Dr. Mendes is a member of the Brazilian Society of Weed Science.

Jaroslav Bernas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agroecosystems at the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Agriculture. He is focused on organic farming, special plant production, environmental aspects of agricultural activities, environmental, energy and economic aspects of energy crops, life cycle assessment, and social farming. He participated in several national and international projects focused on

sustainable agriculture and published numerous papers and other publications with focus on organic farming and environmental impacts of agriculture.

Rafael da Silva Teixeira is a professor at Federal University of Viçosa. He graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa in 2011. He obtained a master's and a PhD in Soils and Plant Nutrition from the same university in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Dr. Teixeira has experience in agronomy, focusing on agricultural microbiology, biochemistry, soil management and organic matter, land use change, agricultural waste

use, greenhouse gases (GHG), and soil C sequestration.

Rodrigo Nogueira Sousa has an undergraduate degree in Agronomic Engineering (2016) and a master's in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2018) from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He obtained a PhD in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition from the University of São Paulo. During his undergraduate period he did an internship at the Department of Soils/Stable Isotope Laboratory (LIE/UFV) focusing on organic matter and soil ferContents

**Section 1**

in Brazilian Agriculture

Semiarid Region

**Section 2**

*and Ana Flávia Souza Laube*

*and Waldir de Carvalho Júnior*

Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

**Preface XI**

Conventional Farming System **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 61**

Organic Agriculture **81**

**Chapter 5 83**

Pedometric Tools Applied to Zoning Management of Areas in Brazilian

Economic Approach to Risk Analysis of Naturally Occurring Radioactive

Materials (NORMs) in Dairy Milk Products Consumed in Nigeria

Accounting for the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture: The Role of Community Based Organization and Local Governance Structures in

*by Terrence Thomas, Cihat Gunden and Befikadu Legesse*

*by Helena Saraiva Koenow Pinheiro, Pedro Armentano Mudado Xavier,* 

Current Approaches to Pesticide Use and Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds

*by Kassio Ferreira Mendes, Rodrigo Nogueira de Sousa* 

Sugarcane Production Systems in Small Rural Properties *by Mauro Wagner de Oliveira, Luís Cláudio Inácio da Silveira, Alexandre Bosco de Oliveira, Márcio Henrique Pereira Barbosa, Manoel Gomes Pereira and Terezinha Bezerra Albino Oliveira*

*Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos, Cesar da Silva Chagas* 

*by Ezekiel O. Agbalagba and Hannah O. Agbalagba*

tility. He took a sandwich course at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA, from 2014 to 2015. He also had an internship at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at North Carolina State University, USA, in 2015, for which he studied management of nitrogen fertilization in corn crops.
