Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security

Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security Volume 9 in Advances in Food Security and Sustainability highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapter on important topics such as Exacerbation of Food Insecurity in Africa: A Consequence of the Dual Threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis; Rising Environmental Issues: A hindrance to food security; Microplastics in Soil and Water: Unveiling Environmental Risks and Implications; Emerging Contaminants - Categorization, Effect and Treatment; The Potential Impact on Pesticides on Insect Pollinators and Their Ecological Implications; Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivity; Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safety; Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediation; Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly management; Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant Growth; Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicity; Decrease in Arable Land and Water; Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trends; Monoculture Of Crops.