Sustainability in the Agrofood Sector

Content: Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 List of Contributors
 Foreword
 Preface
 Introductory Note: Future of Agrofood Sustainability
 Chapter 1 Food Sustainability Challenges in the Developing World
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Agriculture and the Food Sustainability Sector
 1.2.1 Biodiversity and Agriculture
 1.2.2 Agricultural Development
 1.2.3 Agriculture: Pests and Rodents
 1.2.4 Agriculture and Organic Farming
 1.2.5 Livestock, Poultry and Aquaculture
 1.3 Food Security and the Developing World
 1.3.1 Poverty, Hidden Hunger and Diseases
 1.3.2 Emerging Diseases 1.3.3 Stability of Food Supply and Access to Safe, High-quality Foods 1.3.4 Food Diversification
 1.3.5 Health (dietary) Supplements
 1.3.6 Food Wastage
 1.3.7 Food Safety
 1.3.8 Sustainability Challenges in the Food Industry
 1.4 Conclusions and Future Outlook
 References
 Chapter 2 The Role of Small-scale Farms and Food Security 
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 The Elusive Search for Sustainability
 2.3 Food Security, the Bio-economy and Sustainable Intensification 
 2.4 Global Land Grabs or Agricultural Investment?
 2.5 Farm Succession
 2.6 Conclusions and Future Outlook
 References Chapter 3 Sustainability Challenges, Human Diet and Environmental Concerns3.1 Introduction
 3.2 The Current State of the World Food System
 3.3 Health and Diet
 3.4 What is Stopping People from Consuming 'Healthy' Food
 3.5 The Relationship between Diet and Environmental Impacts
 3.6 Animal Protein Consumption
 3.7 Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment
 3.8 Metrics of Environmental Impact Assessments
 3.9 Consumers' Understanding of Diet and the Environmental Impacts
 3.10 Interventions in Diet
 3.11 Conclusions and Future Outlook
 Acknowledgements
 References Chapter 4 Sustainable Challenges in the Agrofood Sector: The Environment Food-Energy-Water Nexus4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Challenges of Sustainability in the Agrofood System
 4.3 Food-Energy-Water Nexus
 4.4 Dynamics of Agricultural Productions
 4.5 Sustainable Agrofood Businesses: Supply-Chain Perspective 
 4.5.1 Suppliers
 4.5.2 Producers
 4.5.3 Processors
 4.5.4 Transporters and Distributors
 4.5.5 Marketers and Sellers
 4.5.6 Consumers
 4.6 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
 4.7 Role of government in promoting sustainable development
 4.8 Transparency of information 4.8.1 Barriers to Implementation4.9 Innovations in Agrofood Businesses
 4.9.1 Biological Catalysts
 4.9.2 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation
 4.10 Food safety
 4.11 Food wastes
 4.12 Conclusions and future outlook
 References
 Chapter 5 Dynamics of Grain Security in South Asia: Promoting Sustainability through Self-sufficiency 
 5.1 Introduction: Overview of the Grain Sector in South Asia
 5.2 Food security in India: From Green Revolution to trade revolution
 5.3 Involvement of WTO and its implications for Food Security