• Provides a detailed overview of the range of techniques and treatments used to optimise safety at the pre-harvest and postharvest stages of egg production
• Outlines key shell egg quality standards and ways of meeting quality requirements
• Considers the environmental impact of egg production systems and how these can be better optimised to improve sustainability

• Provides a comprehensive overview of the major technologies used in precision agriculture, from proximal/remote sensing and use of unmanned aerial vehicles to the wide range of variable rate delivery systems
• Discusses the breadth of precision agriculture applications both in crop and livestock farming, from precision tillage and variable-rate seeding to precision pasture management
• Includes new developments such as multi-sensor fusion, robotics, artificial intelligence and big data

• Provides a comprehensive overview of the ways agroforestry can support key ecosystem services
• Reviews the range of silvopastoral and silvoarable systems and their application in agriculture to optimise crop and livestock production
• Considers the benefits of temperate agroforestry in mitigating/adapting to climate change

Remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and metalloids should give priority to risk minimisation by reduction of their bioavailable fraction that poses actual risk. This may be achieved in certain situations, and within a reasonable timespan, using immobilisation/phytostabilization strategies, i.e., locking contaminants in the root zone, using plants, soils amendments, and rhizosphere microorganisms, lowering their bioavailability. The choice of proper soil amendments, eventually waste-derived organic and inorganic materials, is of pivotal importance to immobilize the contaminants. Non-edible crops may be used, with means for their biomass valorisation, and the selection of soil-quality indicators, to evaluate environmental risk reduction and the increase in soil health, are very important in this strategy. The objective of this chapter is to describe the importance of immobilisation/phytostabilisation and recent advances that may contribute to its use, not only in mining and industrial soils, but also in agricultural and peri-urban soils.

Phytoextraction is the use of plants to remove heavy metal contaminants from agricultural soil and keeping the contaminants inside their own tissues. If the metal accumulator plants, particularly those called hyperaccumulator plants, that can accumulate relatively large quantities of the heavy metals in the above-ground parts such as the leaves and stems, then these tissues could be harvested and moved off the site of contamination for disposal or further processing. Ideally, the plants selected for the phytoextraction purpose can be cultivated for intercropping and are compatible with the crops of interest in the same field with polluted soil. In this chapter, selected studies were discussed regarding their impacts on Cd and Cu phytoextraction research that have emerged from the major contemporary research trends including the strategies to enhance phytoextraction of Cd and Cu contaminants from agricultural and viticultural soils.

Soil contamination, stemming from both anthropogenic and natural origins, remains a critical environmental and public health concern. This contamination spectrum is diverse, encompassing inorganic elements like heavy metal(loid)s—lead, mercury, arsenic—and organic compounds such as pesticide residues and petroleum byproducts. The consequences of such contamination range from compromised soil health to severe health implications in humans. With emerging contaminants like PFAS, microplastics, and endocrine disruptors adding to the challenge, there's an urgent need for sophisticated detection and analysis methodologies. This review emphasizes the role of analytical tools, notably spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, in comprehensively addressing soil contamination. Techniques like atomic absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provide molecular-level clarity, while mass spectrometry elucidates intricate elemental and structural facets. Complementing these are imaging technologies, namely X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI), which afford both micro and macro environmental assessments.