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This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on
sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world
scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to
accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and
to ensure sustainable patterns for all, this book provides a
contribution towards a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary
understanding of the cross-cutting issues related to
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. This interdisciplinary
book supports the efforts to engage a commitment from all fields of
science, to work together to provide knowledge that could help to
address SDG2 (No hunger) and lead to the promotion of quality of
life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved
food security. This book is expected to fill the gap of
publications in this field. It gives a special emphasis to a
state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches,
methods, initiatives and projects from universities,
stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world,
regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable food
production. It includes examples of policies and practices case
studies, examples of projects, institutional policies, innovative
methods and tools and research outputs, which highlight the
interdependence between sustainable agriculture and food security
issues. It is expected that the “Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security” will make the many benefits of sustainable food
production clearer and, inter alia, lead to an increase in the
emphasis provided to this central theme.
This book includes information, experiences, practical initiatives
and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a
wide audience. It addresses the scientific, social, political and
cultural aspects of climate change impacts and respective solutions
in an integrated and coherent way. Climate change as a global
phenomenon imposes new challenges for survival. Extreme weather
events including heat waves, storms, droughts as well as rising sea
levels, warming oceans and melting glaciers threaten people's
livelihoods and communities, ecosystems and habitats. Furthermore,
it affects the entire food chain and increases competition for
natural resources fuelling socioeconomic tensions. The results of
the latest IPCC report highlight the urgent need for combating
climate change. The adaptation measures to be undertaken range
across sectors, thematic fields and geographical locations. Based
on this need, the book focuses on the high-quality,
interdisciplinary contributions on the scientific, social,
economic, political and cultural aspects of climate change
challenges and solutions
This book presents climate change as a global phenomenon which
affects the entire food chain. Many studies analyzing environmental
impacts of food systems confirm significant effects of food
production on climate change. Most of them associate primary
production with emission of greenhouse gasses identified as one of
the causes resulting in warming the atmosphere and global climate
effects. A wider perspective shows that the food chains start at
farms with consumers being at the end of the pipeline. This
approach emphasizes the role of the entire food chain highlighting
different kinds of environmental impacts affecting climate change.
On the other side, temperature changes and variations of
precipitation patterns, together with extreme weather events and
water reduction, are recognized as predictors for producing less
food, decreased food quality, new food safety risks, biodiversity
losses, and depletion of resources associated with food production
in modified circumstances. Last but not least, these effects
introduce new threats known as food security where some assumptions
stress that almost one billion of people are hungry not receiving
enough food as a result of climate changes. As a result, the UN
highlights the need for combating climate change and promotes
sustainable (food) consumption and production. Based on the
perceived need to promote and disseminate information on climate
change related to food system, the “Handbook of Climate change
across the food supply chain” is being produced. The publication
compiles information, experiences, practical initiatives, and
projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide
audience. It is expected that the “Handbook of Climate change
across the food supply chain” makes many benefits of climate
service clearer and, inter alia, leads to an increase in the demand
for such important services.
This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on
sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world
scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to
accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to
ensure sustainable patterns for all, this book provides a
contribution towards a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary
understanding of the cross-cutting issues related to Sustainable
Agriculture and Food Security. This interdisciplinary book supports
the efforts to engage a commitment from all fields of science, to
work together to provide knowledge that could help to address SDG2
(No hunger) and lead to the promotion of quality of life, by means
of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security.
This book is expected to fill the gap of publications in this
field. It gives a special emphasis to a state-of-the-art
descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from
universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across
the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable food
production. It includes examples of policies and practices case
studies, examples of projects, institutional policies, innovative
methods and tools and research outputs, which highlight the
interdependence between sustainable agriculture and food security
issues. It is expected that the "Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Security" will make the many benefits of sustainable food
production clearer and, inter alia, lead to an increase in the
emphasis provided to this central theme.
This book presents climate change as a global phenomenon which
affects the entire food chain. Many studies analyzing environmental
impacts of food systems confirm significant effects of food
production on climate change. Most of them associate primary
production with emission of greenhouse gasses identified as one of
the causes resulting in warming the atmosphere and global climate
effects. A wider perspective shows that the food chains start at
farms with consumers being at the end of the pipeline. This
approach emphasizes the role of the entire food chain highlighting
different kinds of environmental impacts affecting climate change.
On the other side, temperature changes and variations of
precipitation patterns, together with extreme weather events and
water reduction, are recognized as predictors for producing less
food, decreased food quality, new food safety risks, biodiversity
losses, and depletion of resources associated with food production
in modified circumstances. Last but not least, these effects
introduce new threats known as food security where some assumptions
stress that almost one billion of people are hungry not receiving
enough food as a result of climate changes. As a result, the UN
highlights the need for combating climate change and promotes
sustainable (food) consumption and production. Based on the
perceived need to promote and disseminate information on climate
change related to food system, the "Handbook of Climate change
across the food supply chain" is being produced. The publication
compiles information, experiences, practical initiatives, and
projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide
audience. It is expected that the "Handbook of Climate change
across the food supply chain" makes many benefits of climate
service clearer and, inter alia, leads to an increase in the demand
for such important services.
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the
state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus,
Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results
show that the problem of food waste can be found at different
levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by
the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily
due to food waste generated by the manufacturing sector, mostly in
the form of unused or inefficiently used by-products, as well as on
a share of food thrown away by households that is still suitable
for human consumption. The main reduction/prevention method,
applied across the countries, is food donation; the remaining
methods are the same ones used for biodegradable waste in the
respective countries. The findings gathered in this study show a
number of potential measures/methods for sustainable food waste
management, which may be considered in future works in order to
reduce the amounts of food waste generated in each of the
aforementioned countries.
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the
state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus,
Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results
show that the problem of food waste can be found at different
levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by
the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily
due to food waste generated by the manufacturing sector, mostly in
the form of unused or inefficiently used by-products, as well as on
a share of food thrown away by households that is still suitable
for human consumption. The main reduction/prevention method,
applied across the countries, is food donation; the remaining
methods are the same ones used for biodegradable waste in the
respective countries. The findings gathered in this study show a
number of potential measures/methods for sustainable food waste
management, which may be considered in future works in order to
reduce the amounts of food waste generated in each of the
aforementioned countries.
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