Agricultural Waste Diversity and Sustainability Issues
Sub-Saharan Africa as a Case Study
- 1st Edition - January 24, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Peter Onu, Charles Mbohwa
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 4 0 2 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 8 0 0 - 7
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Request a sales quoteAgricultural Waste Diversity and Sustainability Issues: Sub Saharan Africa as Case Study presents solutions for overcoming limitations, guiding developmental processes, and improving knowledge transfer in agricultural waste management and development. The book gives considerable attention to treatment and conversion, with best management practices involving the reduction and elimination of waste volume in its various forms, sectors and streams. Sections cover waste management in the agriculture and food sector, including methodological approaches in waste preparation and processes, the most important energy generation techniques and strategies, and best practices, management, sustainability, associated technologies, accountability, communications, and involvement surrounding diverse stakeholders.
Agricultural Waste Diversity and Sustainability Issues: Sub Saharan Africa as Case Study illustrates the use of mathematical models to minimize operational cost in agro-waste management processes and discusses the application of eco-efficiency. Ultimately, the book focuses on the prospect of agro-wastes management and risk associated in the sub-Saharan African region, including Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa as case studies.
- Captures a solutions-based assessment that redresses the challenges created by a poor biodiversity strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa to meet present needs in SSA and around the world
- Provides foundational information for agricultural diversity, food waste elimination, clean energy production, and technology emergence
- Enables a greater understanding of the state-of-the-art approach for effective biodegradable waste management
- Inspires further research into sustainable and cost-effective biowaste operations, wastes management models, methodologies for utilization and nascent technologies that are capable of bolstering clean energy generation
Academic institutional libraries globally, to furnish young researchers and students (postgraduate level) a comprehensive understanding of the past, present, and prospects of agricultural waste development, and biodiversity. SMEs interested in start-up projects and who are willing to exploit agricultural wastes for business
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 1. Waste management and the prospect of biodegradable wastes from agricultural processes
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Agricultural waste management operations strategy
- 1.3. Sustainable technology entry versus agricultural diversification
- 1.4. Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 2. Agricultural wastes and opportunities in the food production chain
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Correlation between agrowastes management and food production operation
- 2.3. Waste management and implication of biodiversity: a brief into industrial food production
- 2.4. Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 3. Methodological approaches in agrowaste preparation and processes
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Physical and chemical pretreatment of biomass feedstock
- 3.3. Biological pretreatment of agrowaste
- 3.4. Conclusions and prospects
- Chapter 4. Sustainable agricultural waste diversity: advances in green energy and materials production
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Sustainable bioenergy production
- 4.3. Sustainable biomaterials: selection, design, and production
- 4.4. Conclusions and prospects
- Chapter 5. Sustainable agrowaste diversity versus sustainable development goals
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Achieving sustainable development goals versus agricultural waste diversity
- 5.3. Business as usual versus sustainable development goal implementation: biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa
- 5.4. Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 6. New approach and prospects of agrowaste resources conversion for energy systems performance and development
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Biofuels production from agricultural wastes
- 6.3. Physicochemical properties of biofuels
- 6.4. Enhanced biofuel production: outlook and prospects
- 6.5. Conclusion and perspectives
- Chapter 7. Overview of models for agricultural waste management, and trends in biofuels production
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Emerging opportunities, challenges, and prospects of modern bioenergy process
- 7.3. Model case scenarios for agrowaste management system
- 7.4. Conclusion and perspectives
- Chapter 8. Nascent technologies in resources conservation and sustainable agricultural development
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Green innovation strategy and implementation success: the perspectives of agricultural resources development
- 8.3. Technological considerations, challenges, and policies for green innovation and sustainable development
- 8.4. Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 9. Which way forward: agricultural waste management and the fourth industrial revolution appraisal
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Advances in information communication and knowledge management for agrowaste reduction
- 9.3. Integrated farming and agriculture diversity
- 9.4. Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 10. Economics and risk assessment of new technologies in agrowaste diversity
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Drivers and implications of technoinnovative appraisal in agrowaste management
- 10.3. Toward integrated waste management systems for sustainable energy sovereignty in sub-Saharan Africa
- 10.4. Conclusion and perspectives
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 24, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 204
- No. of pages (eBook): 204
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323854023
- eBook ISBN: 9780323858007
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Peter Onu
Peter Onu works in the Department of Quality and Operations Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Department of Quality and Operations Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaCM
Charles Mbohwa
Professor Charles Mbohwa is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. He is currently Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg and is an established researcher and professor in the field of sustainability engineering and energy. Upon graduating with his BSc Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe in 1986, he was employed as a mechanical engineer by the National Railways of Zimbabwe. He holds a Masters in Operations Management and Manufacturing Systems from University of Nottingham and completed his doctoral studies at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology in Japan. He was a Fulbright Scholar visiting the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, a Japan Foundation Fellow, is a Fellow of the Zimbabwean Institution of Engineers and is a registered mechanical engineer with the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe. He has also visited many countries on research and training engagements including the United Kingdom, Japan, German, France, the USA, Brazil, Sweden, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mauritius, Austria, the Netherlands, Uganda, Namibia and Australia. He has had several awards including British Council Scholarship, Japanese Foundation Fellowship, Kubota Foundation Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship.
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Department of Quality and Operations Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaRead Agricultural Waste Diversity and Sustainability Issues on ScienceDirect