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Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture
From Lab to Farm to Table
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2025
- Editors: Katarzyna Chojnacka, Mateusz Samoraj
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 5 6 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 5 6 4 - 4
Mixed crop-livestock systems offer promising strategies for sustainable farming. Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture: From Lab to Farm to Table details solutions for mitigatin… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMixed crop-livestock systems offer promising strategies for sustainable farming. Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture: From Lab to Farm to Table details solutions for mitigating agricultural waste, such as carbon emissions and chemical runoff, and creating a circular economy on mixed farms. In addition to covering potential solutions, the book will analyze the effectiveness of each strategy in protecting the environment from harm. Notable topics covered include manure management, agricultural waste valorization, wastewater and resource recovery, and even dairy cow feed for lowering methane production.
While the book is based primarily on the climates and farming systems of Europe, the climactic diversity of the continent will make this a useful resource for many other parts of the world with similar climates, including North America and portions of South America, Asia, and Oceana. Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture: From Lab to Farm to Table offers practical strategies and solutions to readers and will benefit audience members ranging from students and researchers to farmers and agricultural stakeholders.
- Covers climate-smart solutions for mixed crop-livestock production, taking an interdisciplinary approach
- Explores promising strategies, including ICT, to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and provide data to demonstrate the effectiveness of strategies implemented
- Focuses on the challenges of Europe and other parts of the world with similar climates
Researchers and upper-level graduate students in agroecology, agricultural technology, animal agriculture, and sustainable farming, Farmers and farming companies interested in implementing sustainable practices, local and regional governments
Introduction: Background of sustainable and mixed crop-livestock agriculture
Section 1: Systemic approach of mixed crop-livestock production (for adaptation to climate change)
1. Circularity in mixed crop-livestock production - a priority for sustainable development
2. Feeding dairy cows - a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
3. Methods and techniques in manure management to reduce GHG emissions
Section 2: Solutions to increase Nutrient and Carbon circularity
4. Prevention pollution caused the nutrient leaching from agricultural non-point sources
5. Waste management in mixed farming systems: valorization of agricultural waste to increase nutrient and carbon circularity
6. Sustainable livestock wastewater management: resource recovery in the context of the circular bioeconomy
Section 3: Decision support platform and ICT solutions
7. Data-driven decision support in mixed farming systems: Overview and challenges
8. Design of a decision support platform for mixed farming systems
Section 4: Pilot deployment and testing
9. Systems to reduce GHG emissions (in crop and animal sectors) across various climatic regions of Europe
10. Production of fertilizers from agricultural waste - circularity improvement and reduce GHG emissions
11. Mixed crop and livestock farming opportunities - integration of animal and plant production into the circular agri-food system
Section 5: Evaluation of circular approaches with LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
12. Strengths and limitations of LCA in representing mixed crops and livestock farming systems
13. LCA framework to evaluate the footprint of linear vs. circular systems
14. Case studies: Footprint results
Section 6: Evaluation of circular approaches using agroecological and socioeconomic analysis.
15. Agroecological strengths and limitations of the circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems.
16. Socio-economic analysis of circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems
Section 1: Systemic approach of mixed crop-livestock production (for adaptation to climate change)
1. Circularity in mixed crop-livestock production - a priority for sustainable development
2. Feeding dairy cows - a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
3. Methods and techniques in manure management to reduce GHG emissions
Section 2: Solutions to increase Nutrient and Carbon circularity
4. Prevention pollution caused the nutrient leaching from agricultural non-point sources
5. Waste management in mixed farming systems: valorization of agricultural waste to increase nutrient and carbon circularity
6. Sustainable livestock wastewater management: resource recovery in the context of the circular bioeconomy
Section 3: Decision support platform and ICT solutions
7. Data-driven decision support in mixed farming systems: Overview and challenges
8. Design of a decision support platform for mixed farming systems
Section 4: Pilot deployment and testing
9. Systems to reduce GHG emissions (in crop and animal sectors) across various climatic regions of Europe
10. Production of fertilizers from agricultural waste - circularity improvement and reduce GHG emissions
11. Mixed crop and livestock farming opportunities - integration of animal and plant production into the circular agri-food system
Section 5: Evaluation of circular approaches with LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
12. Strengths and limitations of LCA in representing mixed crops and livestock farming systems
13. LCA framework to evaluate the footprint of linear vs. circular systems
14. Case studies: Footprint results
Section 6: Evaluation of circular approaches using agroecological and socioeconomic analysis.
15. Agroecological strengths and limitations of the circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems.
16. Socio-economic analysis of circular approach in mixed crops and livestock farming systems
- No. of pages: 325
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443135637
- eBook ISBN: 9780443135644
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Katarzyna Chojnacka
A full professor since 2012, Katarzyna Chojnacka Ph.D., Dr.Sc. has published over 350 papers, including 200 papers in world-known peer-reviewed scientific journals from JCR list, among them majority devoted to biosorption. She has participated in many international and national conferences as invited plenary speaker and received numerous awards. She is currently the head of Chemical Laboratory of Multielemental Analyses certified by Polish Centre for Accreditation and ILAC MRA for PN-EN ISO which specializes in determination of trace elements in environmental and biological samples, as well as in commercial products. She is the author of 30 patents and implementation of fertilizer products with trace elements to the market. For many years, she has been an expert for the National Science Centre (Poland) and The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland)
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, PolandMS
Mateusz Samoraj
Mateusz Samoraj recieved his Ph.D. in Chemical technology in 2016 from Wroclaw University of Sceince and Technology. For several years afterwards, he worked in industry as a Research and Development specialist in chemical manufacturing. He has since returned to academia and currently works as and Adjunct Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He has published over 25 papers.
Affiliations and expertise
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland