Sustainable Development and Pathways for Food Ecosystems: Integration and Synergies is a science-based reference which focuses on several illustrated patterns that explore the roles played by the agri-food ecosystems, their functions and needs, and the importance of the interdependencies among them. This book explores the relationships and interdependencies between food ecosystems, highlighting the role each entity has in exploiting, transforming, preserving and conserving the others. It is a great resource of information on the ecosystems that surround the food supply chain and includes all processes from primary production of food through consumption.
Sections cover the agricultural phase, processing and transformation, storage and consolidation, packaging, transportation and the management of waste and losses. This will be a useful reference for academicians, researchers and all the personnel involved with agri-food sector management.
- Provides information on sustainability challenges, developments and solutions related to food ecosystems
- Discusses the impact of renewables toward sustainable and zero-carbon food ecosystems
- Summarizes the scientific literature on alternative valorization strategies to reduce biomass
- Defines boundaries of analysis of entities, input/output flows, constraints and performance goals to measure data
1. Exploring strategies, technologies, and novel paradigms for
sustainable agri-food supply chain ecosystems design and control Riccardo
Accorsi, Beatrice Guidani, Michele Ronzoni, Riccardo Manzini and Emilio
Ferrari
2. Planning growers strategies for sustainable large-scale food
supply network and food security Amir Hajimirzajan, Mohammadali Vahdat, Ahmad
Sadegheih and Hamid El Bilali
3. Sustainable development of food supply
chains toward food security managing and reducing losses Danar Praseptiangga
and Gusti Fauza
4. Reconciling the design of livestock production systems and
the preservation of ecosystems Oscar Blumetto, Andrea Ruggia and Guadalupe
Tiscornia
5. The role of organic and natural ecosystems in the food industry
S.K. Yadav, Subhash Babu, Raghavendra Singh, Devideen Yadav and G.A. Rajanna
6. Sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services with agricultural
production A. Tenza-Peral, R. Ripoll-Bosch, I. Casasśs, D. Martķn-Collado and
A. Bernués
7. Sustainable materials and infrastructures for the food industry
Dimas Rahadian Aji Muhammad, Muhammad Zukhrufuz Zaman and Achmad Ridwan
Ariyantoro
8. Valorization of food waste biomass and biomaterials from a
circular economy approach J. Echave, M. Fraga-Corral, A.G. Pereira, A.
Soria-Lopez, M. Barral, F. Chamorro, Hui Cao, Jianbo Xiao, J. Simal-Gandara
and M.A. Prieto
9. Biopolymers as sustainable alternatives in the food
packaging industry Abirami Ramu Ganesan, Surya Mudavasseril Sudheer and
Rajeev Bhat
10. Assessing energy requirements in the European (EU-28) food
sector Marco Bortolini, Cristian Cafarella, Emilio Ferrari, Francesco
Gabriele Galizia, Mauro Gamberi and Valentina Ventura
11. Reconciling
biofuels with growing food demand and sustainable food systems Tajul Ariffin
Masron and Yogeeswari Subramaniam
12. Solar thermal technology adoption in
the food processing industry Muhammad Imran Ismail, Nor Alafiza Yunus and
Haslenda Hashim
13. Water management towards sustainable food industry Javier
Santos, Elisabeth Viles, Paloma Grau and Florencia Kalemkerian
Riccardo Accorsi is assistant professor at the University of Bolognas Department of Industrial Engineering where he teaches Industrial Logistics class. His research interests lie in operations management and in the development of decision-support models and tools for the design, planning and optimization of sustainable production and distribution systems with particular focus on food supply chains. Leading member of the Food & Wine Supply Chain Council (FWSCC), he has written numerous publications on the management of food supply chain operations. He has been involved in many funded research projects and consulting for industry. Rajeev Bhat Rajeev Bhat is a professor and the ERA Chair holder in Food By-products Valorization Technologies (VALORTECH) at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EU. He has an extensive research and teaching experience of more than 20 years in the field of agri-food technology, with research expertise focusing on various issues pertaining to sustainable food production and food security. He holds international work experiences in South Korea, India, Malaysia, Germany, Fiji Islands, and now in Estonia. To date, he has nearly 250 research articles published in ISI based journals and as refereed book chapters; has edited seven and authored one book; is on the editorial board of leading International journals; has been a scientific committee/advisory board member and an invited speaker in various international conferences. His name now figures in the Worlds top 2% scientists in the field of Food Science & Technology as per the survey done by Stanford University based researchers. He has completed several sponsored research and consultancy projects with funding received from various agencies. Prof. Bhat has also been a visiting professor in many of the renowned universities and is a recipient of several prestigious international awards and recognitions conferred by various institutions of higher learning and research establishments.
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