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As urban populations continue to increase it is essential to
consider ways of reducing their impact in terms of the use of
natural resources, waste production and climate change. The
increasing number of people in cities requires new strategies to
supply the necessary food with limited provision of land and
decreasing resources. This will become more challenging unless
innovative solutions for growing and distributing food in urban
environments are considered. The scale of modern food production
has created and exacerbated many vulnerabilities and the feeding of
cities is now infinitely more complex. As such, the food system
cannot be considered secure, ethical or sustainable. In the last
few years, there has been a rapid expansion in initiatives and
projects exploring innovative methods and processes for sustainable
food production. The majority of these projects are focused on
providing alternative models that shift the power back from the
global food system to communities and farmers improving social
cohesion, health and wellbeing. It is therefore not surprising that
more people are looking towards urban farming initiatives as a
potential solution. These initiatives have demonstrated that urban
agriculture has the potential to transform our living environment
towards ecologically sustainable and healthy cities. Urban
agriculture can also contribute to energy, natural resources, land
and water savings, ecological diversity and urban management cost
reductions. The impact urban agriculture can have on the shape and
form of our cities has never been fully addressed. How cities embed
these new approaches and initiatives, as part of new urban
developments and a city regeneration strategy is critical. The 2nd
International Conference on Urban Agriculture and City
Sustainability addressed these challenges and the search for new
solutions. The presented papers which form this volume detail
research works looking at how urban agriculture can contribute to
achieving sustainable cities.
The present revised edition has 16 chapters including 10
appendices. 42 scientists from seven Institutes, States
Agricultural Universities and 2 organizations have contributed to
the 3rd revised edition. A village market has now all kinds of
vegetables, fruits, tubers and ornamentals which vouch for progress
in the science and art of horticulture. Many educated youth are
taking up Horticulture as a profession. Basic sciences like
physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology,
bioinformatics and economics are adding to the understanding of
horticultural crops. New To 3rd Edition: 1. 5 chapters of
floriculture and landscaping 2. Information on newly released
varieties of all horticulture crops 3. Colour photographs 4.
Updated data and referencesThe present revised edition has 16
chapters including 10 appendices. 42 scientists from seven
Institutes, States Agricultural Universities and 2 organizations
have contributed to the 3rd revised edition. A village market has
now all kinds of vegetables, fruits, tubers and ornamentals which
vouch for progress in the science and art of horticulture. Many
educated youth are taking up Horticulture as a profession. Basic
sciences like physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and
biotechnology, bioinformatics and economics are adding to the
understanding of horticultural crops. New To 3rd Edition: 1. 5
chapters of floriculture and landscaping 2. Information on newly
released varieties of all horticulture crops 3. Colour photographs
4. Updated data and references
Handbook of Food and Feed from Microalgae: Production, Application,
Regulation, and Sustainability is a comprehensive resource on all
aspects of using microalgae in food and feed. This book covers
applied processes, including compounds found in microalgae
applicable in food and feed, food products developed with
microalgae biomass in the composition, the use of microalgae in
animal nutrition, and challenges and recent advances. Written by
global leading experts on microalgae, the book's sections discuss
the fundamentals of food and feed from microalgae, including its
biodiversity, biogeography, genomics, nutritional purposes and
compounds found within microalgae like proteins, vitamins and
antioxidants. In addition, the book explains the incorporation of
microalgae into meat, dairy, beverages and wheat products, as well
as in real-world food applications in aquaculture, mollusk, poultry
and pet feeding. The last two sections cover challenges and issues
such as bioavailability and bio-accessibility and how to address
safety, regulatory, market, economics and environment concerns.
The Sounds of Science provides a comprehensive account of a
large-scale scientific experiment with globally operating seafood
corporations headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia. It
describes how scientists worked to identify these, world’s
largest seafood companies, and how their disproportionate powers
were mobilized in a coalition of companies called SeaBOS (Seafood
Business for Ocean Stewardship), aiming to provide global and
science-based industry leadership on ocean stewardship. As invoked
by the cover art (Flow, 2020) by world-renowned creative director,
Kashiwa Sato, the experiment is creating a small wave of change
that sits within a larger wave, supporting and generating larger
movements towards improved stewardship of the planet. A new
direction for the private sector is emerging, and new priorities
are flourishing. The book explores how corporations, guided by
science, can be part of the solution to the biosphere challenges.
Written in collaboration with international experts on
sustainability, ocean ecosystems, fisheries policy, and
corporations, this book explores the mechanisms leading to the
evolution of cooperation, and the barriers to address in order to
engage in collaborative learning, corporate change and novel
science. It offers tangible advice to scientists on how to work
with the private sector for a better, more sustainable world. The
Sounds of Science is an important resource for scientists
interested in engaging with the private sector. Corporate leaders
and policy makers will find this book useful for understanding,
collaborating, and working with the planet to reach global
sustainability goals.
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Food Processing
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Romina Alina Marc, Antonio Valero Diaz, Guiomar Denisse Posada Izquierdo
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Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative
Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the
title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis.
Cooperative Extension Service intended this publication to improve
bankers' empathy and communication skills, especially when facing
farmers showing "Suicide Warning Signs." After all, they were
working with individuals experiencing extreme economic distress,
and each banker needed to learn to "be a good listener." What was
important, too, was what was left unsaid. Iowa State published this
pamphlet in April of 1986. Just four months earlier, farmer Dale
Burr of Lone Tree, Iowa, had killed his wife, and then walked into
the Hills Bank and Trust company and shot a banker to death in the
lobby before taking shots at neighbors, killing one of them, and
then killing himself. The unwritten subtext of this little pamphlet
was "beware." If bankers failed to adapt to changing circumstances,
the next desperate farmer might be shooting.This was Iowa in the
1980s. The state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural
collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. In When a Dream
Dies, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg examines the lives of ordinary Iowa
farmers during this period, as the Midwest experienced the worst of
the crisis. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and
small-town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find
effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and communities
were to endure, they would have to think about themselves, their
farms, and their futures in new ways. For many Iowan families, this
meant restructuring their lives or moving away from agriculture
completely. This book helps to explain how this disaster changed
children, families, communities, and the development of the
nation's heartland in the late twentieth century. Agricultural
crises are not just events that affect farms. When a Dream Dies
explores the Farm Crisis of the 1980s from the perspective of the
two-thirds of the state's agricultural population seriously
affected by a farm debt crisis that rapidly spiraled out of their
control. Riney-Kehrberg treats the Farm Crisis as a family event
while examining the impact of the crisis on mental health and food
insecurity and discussing the long-term implications of the crisis
for the shape and function of agriculture.
The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms
provides foundational insights on plant beneficial microorganisms
and their impact on the health and productivity of plants.
Providing in-depth and recent updates about unexplored aspects of
plant microbes interactions, the book includes the biological
repertoire of arbuscular mycorrhizal association, molecular
architecture of Rhizobium-plant symbiosis, and endophytes in
transcriptional plasticity during host colonization by endophytes.
The book also includes details about the mechanism of different
plant beneficial microorganisms, how these differ, and their cross
signaling. This book will be an important reference for researchers
working on different plant beneficial microorganisms and their
molecular arsenal.
Kharif season crops of rainfed areas are inflicted by several
important insect pests, diseases and weeds. Correct identification
of insect pests, diseases and weeds is therefore necessary not only
for strict quarantine to check the spread of new pest species, but
to achieve the desired productivity levels. The purpose of this
publication entitled "A Colour Handbook on Rainfed Kharif Crops:
Protection, Constraints and Mitigation Strategies" is to assist the
students, field researchers, scholars and farmers in correct
identification of these pests and their management thereof. In this
book, efforts have been made to describe the damaging symptoms,
identification characteristics, and biology and management
techniques of more than 100 pest species. Coloured illustrations
have been provided in this book for amateurs.
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