
Sustainable Food Systems from Agriculture to Industry
Improving Production and Processing
Description
Key Features
- Addresses why food waste recovery improves sustainability of food systems, how these issues can be adapted by the food industry, and the role of policy making in ensuring sustainable food production
- Describes in detail the latest understanding of food processing, food production and waste reduction issues
- Includes emerging topics, such as sustainable organic food production and computer aided process engineering
- Analyzes the potential and sustainability of already commercialized processes and products
Readership
Researchers; specialists; agriculturalists; professionals and strategy developers working in the agro-food industry from farm to fork, chemical engineers. University libraries and Institutes as a textbook and/or ancillary reading in graduates and post-graduate level multi-discipline courses dealing with sustainable food systems, agricultural and environmental science, food processing, or bioresource valorization
Table of Contents
Part A: Sustainable Food Production
1. Introduction to Sustainable Food Production
Renan Oliveira Zocca, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Pedro Dinho da Silva, José Nunes, Luís Pinto de Andrade
2. Elucidating Local Food Production to Identify Principles and Challenges for Sustainable Agriculture
Oren Shelef, Jesús D Fernández-Bayo, Yonatan Sher, Valeria Ancona, Heather Slinn, Yigal Achmon
3. Role of Earthworm in Sustainable Agriculture
Jaswinder Singh
4. Evaluating the Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability of Agro-Food Systems Through Life Cycle Approaches
Giovanni Gulisano, Alfio Strano, Anna Irene De Luca, Giacomo Falcone, Nathalie Iofrida, Teodora Stillitano
5. Systems for Sustainability and Transparency of Food Supply Chains
Louise ManningPart B: Sustainable Food Processing
6. Energy saving food processing
Shahin Roohinejad, Oleksii Parniakov, Nooshin Nikmaram, Ralf Greiner, Mohamed Koubaa
7. Drying and chilling/freezing of perishable foods in the organic sector
Gardis J. E. von Gersdorff, Michael Bantle, Oliver Hensel, Barbara Sturm
8. Sustainable Packaging
Valentina Siracusa, Marco Dalla Rosab
9. Sustainable Sanitation in the Food Industry
Maricica Stoica
10. Microbial Biosurfactants in Food Sanitation
Deepansh Sharma, Esha Gupta, Joginder Singh, Pratibha Vyas, Daljeet Singh DhanjalPart C: Sustainable Food Waste Management
11. Food Waste Valorisation
Semih Otles, Canan Kartal
12. Food Waste Recovery: Prospects and Opportunities
Charis M. Galanakis
Product details
- No. of pages: 442
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: January 2, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128119617
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128119358
About the Editor
Charis Galanakis
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