Sustainability Challenges in the Agrofood Sector
Agrofood sustainability’ is a strategic term in the present world scenario with several novel and impressive works being proposed and pursued by various researchers, academicians and policymakers around the world. This book takes a comprehensive approach to identify various challenges offered by agrofood (agrifood) sustainability. On a global level, several critical factors cover the issues pertaining to sustainability challenges in the agrofood sector. Transforming and communicating lab‐ or office‐generated knowledge to the local population is an important phase to face the overwhelming sustainability challenges in the agrofood sector. The overall outlook of this book concerns the current knowledge and challenges incurred in the agrofood sector with an onward focus on the future of sustainability. Various multidisciplinary aspects and a range of topics have been covered by leading international experts who have endeavoured to update and provide the latest information on sustainability challenges from around the world. The sustainability issues covered in the chapters includes those concerning the impact of environment or climatic changes on the agrofood sector, the food—water—energy nexus, geopolitical and climatic unrest, supply chain management, challenges incurred in the food crops sector, food diversification issues, diet and health effects, food waste, sustainable food processing technologies, food tourism, the importance of judicial and regulatory issues and educating consumers on the significance of sustainability. All the experts have explored and identified existing gaps and have tried to propose innovative solutions, which can be implemented to benefit local populations (consumers) around the world. As the book takes an ‘easy to read’ approach with up‐to‐date information, it will benefit all those who are engaged in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, agrofood scientists, industrial professionals and policymakers as a readily assessable reference material. Until now, there have been no books in the market which have contained the views of so many leading researchers/experts from different countries.
Tidak ada salinan data
Tidak tersedia versi lain