Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security

Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India. Department of Botany, SD College, Barnala, Punjab, India Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India, 140413

"This volume investigates the many environmental hurdles that stand before food security and provides perspective on how these challenges need to be understood before we can solve them. The book comprises ten chapters dealing with different environmental challenges.... [It] would be a valuable reference and textbook in food and nutrition security courses, as well as for policy makers and scientists working in this field." — Professor Gunnar Sigge, FST Magazine, April 2025

• 1. Exacerbation of Food Insecurity in Africa: A Consequence of the Dual Threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine CrisisShuaibu Saidu Musa, Don-Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, Isaac Olushola Ogunkola, Oyinloye Emmanuel Abiodun, Innocent Chimaobi Umeh, Mfoniso Tom-James, Babatunde Ismail Bale, Emmanuel Ebuka Elebesunu and Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi2. Rising Environmental Issues: A hindrance to food securityAshita Sharma3. Microplastics in Soil and Water: Unveiling Environmental Risks and ImplicationsJatinder Kaur Katnoria, Surbhi Sharma, Priyanka Sharma, Ankita Sharma, Mahima Sharma, Priyanka Atri and Shalini Bahel4. Emerging Contaminants – Categorization, Effect and TreatmentGaurav Saini and Anupriya Verma5. The Potential Impact on Pesticides on Insect Pollinators and Their Ecological ImplicationsMandeep Kaur6. Change in geo-environmental conditions and crop productivityPuneet Sharma7. Pesticide Concentration and Its Impacts: Food security Vs. Food safetyAvinash Kaur Nagpal, Sakshi Sharma and Inderpreet Kaur8. Heavy metals in soil and water: Sources, fate, toxicology and remediationAvinash Kaur Nagpal, Megha Latwal, Akanksha Bakshi, Sonali , Nitika Sharma, Anamika Sharma, Inderpreet Kaur and Jatinder Kaur Katnoria9. Salinity stress in Crop Plants: Effects and Eco-friendly managementAshutosh Sharma, Indu Sharma, Rahul Kumar, Sonika Sharma, Harjot Singh, Vasudha Maurya and Narayan Singh10. Salinity Stress: Impact on Plant GrowthKritika Pandit, Chandni , Simrandeep Kaur, Manish Kumar, Renu Bhardwaj and Satwinderjeet Kaur11. Micronutrient bioavailability in contaminated soil and mitigation strategies for toxicityAshun Chaudhary, Ruchika Kumari, Vidhi S, Niharika Shekhawat and Dinesh Pathak12. Decrease in Arable Land and WaterKanwarpreet Singh13. Nano-enabled sensor modules for detection of agrochemicals in diverse soil, and water systems: Progression and future trendsAnu Kalia and Prateek Kalia14. Monoculture Of CropsSandeep Kaur, Harpal Singh, Simran Singh, Gulshan Bhagat, Navdeep Kour, Manish Kumar, Ravinder Kumar and Astha Bhatia