Sustainable food and beverage industries: assessments and methodologies

Content: Acknowledgment and how to cite --
List of contributors --
Introduction --
Overview of food production and supply chains --
Current trends in green technologies in food production and processing / Joyce I. Boye and Yves Arcand --
Design of sustainable supply chains for the agrifood sector : a holistic research framework / E. Iakovou, D. Vlachos, Ch. Achillas, and F. Anastasiadis --
Dairy industry --
An appraisal of carbon footprint of milk from commercial grass-based dairy farms in ireland according to a certified life cycle assessment methodology / Donal O'Brien, Padraig Brennan, James Humphreys, Eimear Ruane, and Laurence Shalloo --
Evaluation of industrial dairy waste (milk dust powder) for acetone-butanol-ethanol production by solventogenic clostridium species / Victor Ujor, Ashok Kumar Bharathidasan, Katrina Cornish --
And thaddeus chukwuemeka ezeji --
Life cycle assessment of cheese and whey production in the usa / Daesoo Kim, Greg Thoma, Darin Nutter, Franco Milani, Rick Ulrich, and Greg Norris --
Meat industry --
A comparison of the greenhouse gas emissions from the sheep industry with beef production in canada / James A. Dyer, Xavier P. C. Vergé, Raymond L. Desjardins, and Devon E. Worth --
Coffee and tea industries --
Tensions between firm size and sustainability goals : fair trade coffee in the united states / Philip H. Howard and Daniel Jaffee --
Conventional to ecological : tea plantation soil management in panchagarh district of bangladesh / Jakia Sultana, Md. Noor-E-Alam Siddique, Md. Kamaruzzaman, and Md. Abdul Halim --
Food and beverage waste products --
Energetic analysis of meat processing industry waste / Cosmin Marculescu, Gabriela Ionescu, Simona Ciuta, and Constantin Stan --
Laboratory scale anaerobic sequencing batch reactor for treatment of stillage from fruit distillation / Elena Cristina Rada, Marco Ragazzi, and Vincenzo Torretta --
Food processing and packaging --
Integrated production and treatment biotech-process for sustainable management of food processing --
Waste streams / Bo Jin --
Concluding implications --
Are the dietary guidelines for meat, fat, fruit and vegetable consumption appropriate for environmental sustainability? : a review of the literature / Christian John Reynolds, Jonathan David Buckley, Philip Weinstein, and John Boland --
Author notes --
Index.