Sustainability of Agricultural and Food Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 37098
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biochar; agricultural waste management; sustainable cropping systems; soil toxicity and environmental impact; carbon cycling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global population increase is placing demands on food supply and increasing waste streams. The agricultural activities as the basic step and then the food industry are responsible for addressing these demands, while the entire production and supply chain including field practices, transport, processing, and waste disposal play a substantial role in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, and in toxic emissions to soil and water bodies. To achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, the agri-food industry and the supply chain must be sustainably developed through alternative solutions and/or optimization of the current scenarios, despite all the constraints and challenges. This significantly leads towards less environmental pollution and improved human health, and helps to preserve and improve the quality of the ecosystem.
However, the performance of these alternative solutions and optimized scenarios needs to be scrutinized, mainly from environmental, energetic, economic, and social perspectives.
This Special Issue "Sustainability of Agricultural and Food Systems" aims to fill the gaps in the scientific literature concerning this crucial area as much as possible, to highlight the topic’s importance, and to provide a platform for the dissemination of state-of-the-art advances in this field. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Development of life-cycle assessment models to quantify the sustainability of alternative and novel methods in agricultural and food production systems;
- Modelling the sustainability of novel technologies for managing agricultural residues and food waste by converting them into value products;
- Optimization of the current scenarios in the agri-food industry from environment and economic perspectives;
- Economic feasibility of implementing novel technical solutions in the agri-food processes;
- Modeling and optimization of energy and exergy indicators in cropping and food engineering systems through combined system analysis tools;
- Adoption of new technologies in the agri-food industry and their social sustainability.
Dr. Ali Mohammadi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- life cycle assessment
- social-economic impact
- farming systems
- food processing
- agricultural residues
- sustainable development
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