scholarly journals A Greater Share of Organic Agriculture in Relation to Food Security Resulting from the Energy Demand Obtained from Food—Scenarios for Poland until 2030

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6959
Author(s):  
Anna Kuczuk ◽  
Katarzyna Widera
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Nutritional Needs ◽  
Food Wastage

In line with the assumptions of the European Green Deal, it is planned to allocate 25% of agricultural land to organic farming by 2030. However, the question arises: what share of organic farming and under what additional conditions is it able to feed the population of a given country? The aim of the article is to try to answer the above question for the example of Poland. In particular, the authors analyze: the problem of satisfying people’s nutritional needs, reducing food wastage, and finally the relationship between sustainable consumption and increasing the share of organic farming in Poland. Attention was also paid to possible potential changes in the agricultural land area with the growing share of organic farming. The proposed scenarios for the transition to organic farming concern the year 2030. We propose to increase the share in 20%, 40% and 60%, imposing them on changes in sustainable consumption of +/− 25%, +/− 50% and +/− 75%. The available FAOSTAT (Statistic Data of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Statistics Poland data from 2008–2018 were used for the analysis. The model scenario analysis showed that the total food demand will be met in most of the scenarios. It has also been shown that with a higher level of transition to organic farming, it becomes necessary to reduce food wastage. Changing the consumption style not only creates opportunities for a wider development of organic farming in Poland but can also generate free areas on arable land (e.g., even more than 26% of free area in the +/− 75% scenario). This may create potential opportunities for their use in the production of consumer crops, but also in the protection of the natural and agricultural environment.

Various Approaches for Food Waste Processing and Its Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 578-594
Author(s):  
Anupam Pandey ◽  
Priyanka Harishchandra Tripathi ◽  
Ashutosh Paliwal ◽  
Ankita Harishchandra Tripathi ◽  
Satish Chandra Pandey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Financial Impact ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Waste Processing ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Food Wastage

Food wastage is a huge crisis arising in today's world. An extensive amount of waste generation has become a serious concern of our society in the past years that affects developing and developed countries equally, and according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as much as one-third of the food intentionally grown for human consumption is never consumed and is therefore wasted, with significant environmental, social, and economic ramifications. By wasting food, we also waste the time and energy that we have used to produce the food and as well our natural resources and the limited available agricultural land will be used up which could be handled in a much better and sustainable way. Additionally, waste has a strong financial impact and affects the environment including the overall greenhouse gas emission. In an increasingly resource-constrained world, it is imperative to reduce the high environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with this type of waste.

Various Approaches for Food Waste Processing and Its Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-211
Author(s):  
Anupam Pandey ◽  
Priyanka Harishchandra Tripathi ◽  
Ashutosh Paliwal ◽  
Ankita Harishchandra Tripathi ◽  
Satish Chandra Pandey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Financial Impact ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Waste Processing ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Food Wastage

Food wastage is a huge crisis arising in today's world. An extensive amount of waste generation has become a serious concern of our society in the past years that affects developing and developed countries equally, and according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as much as one-third of the food intentionally grown for human consumption is never consumed and is therefore wasted, with significant environmental, social, and economic ramifications. By wasting food, we also waste the time and energy that we have used to produce the food and as well our natural resources and the limited available agricultural land will be used up which could be handled in a much better and sustainable way. Additionally, waste has a strong financial impact and affects the environment including the overall greenhouse gas emission. In an increasingly resource-constrained world, it is imperative to reduce the high environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with this type of waste.

Agricultural waste as a source of innovative and compostable composite biopolymers for food packaging: a scientific review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ronzano ◽  
Roberta Stefanini ◽  
Giulia Borghesi ◽  
Giuseppe Vignali
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Agricultural Waste ◽  
Natural Fibers ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Regional Project ◽  
Materials Used

"The recovery of agriculture waste is one of the challenges of 2030 Agenda. Food and Agriculture Organization states that 30 % of the world’s agricultural land is used to produce food that is later lost or wasted, and the global carbon footprint corresponds to 7% of total greenhouse gases emissions. Alternatively, natural fibers contained in food and agricultural waste could be a valuable feedstock to reinforce composite biopolymers contributing to increase mechanical properties. In addition, the use of biopolymers matrix could contribute significantly to reduce the environmental footprint of the biobased compounds. Based on these premises, a regional project in Emilia-Romagna, aims to enhance agricultural waste to produce food packaging materials which in turn would contribute to the reduction of green raw materials used. This article reviews the state of art of composite biopolymers added with fillers extracted by food and agricultural waste, analyzing the literature published on scientific databases such as Scopus. The characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of each innovative sustainable material will be studied, trying to compare their various properties. The results of the work could guide companies in the choice of eco-sustainable packaging and lay the foundations for the development of the mentioned regional project."

scholarly journals Cultured meat as halalan toyyiban food: a maqasid review in the preservation of life (hifz al-nafs)

Food Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
M.R.A. Reza Adnan ◽  
S.D.N. Mohd Fadzil ◽  
A.S. Baharuddin ◽  
M.A. Wan Harun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Meat Product ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultured Meat ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Halal Food ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Protection Of Life

It is expected that the global population, which is currently 7.3 billion, will exceed 9 billion by the year 2050. Therefore, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that 70 % more food will be needed in 2050 in order to meet the needs of the increasing human population. This is a massive test due to the limiting resources and arable land. Cultured meat is designated as one of the safe options among the alternatives by its proponents for the public who wish to be environmentally friendly but oppose altering their diets. This study proposed to achieve the maqasid review on the cultured meat product. This study uses a qualitative method, references related to maqasid alshariah and cultured meat and its rulings in Islamic perspectives were used to obtain further information, including the area of halal food because it is under the same circumstance. Halal cultured meat can be concluded as a new invention of food technology that complies with maqasid shariah in terms of protection of life (hifz an-nafs). Thus, it is suggested that Muslims must lead the technology of the production of cultured meat so that any haram item should be avoided in producing halal cultured meat.

scholarly journals Implementation Of The K-Means Cluster Algorithm In Rice Production Mapping And As A Decision Support For Agricultural Function Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Wahyu Wijaya Widiyanto ◽  
Fendy Nugroho ◽  
Kusrini Kusrini
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Clustering Techniques ◽  
Productivity Data ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Waterfall Model

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2014 Indonesia ranked 3rd with a total rice production of 70.6 million tons, but it still remains a rice importing country. As one of the districts known as rice barn, Sukoharjo is targeted to continue to increase crop productivity every year to keep up with the growing population, so it is necessary to know areas with less optimal yields, and minimize changes in agricultural land use change. A mapping method for harvest results is needed to group data in each region based on the similarity of harvest data. In data mining, clustering techniques are known that can be used to map harvest productivity data based on their similarity. This study applies clustering techniques using the KMeans algorithm to map rice harvest productivity data by dividing data into 3 groups, namely many, medium, and less. The research method used is SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) with a waterfall model. The K-Means algorithm is implemented using website-based programming to map harvest productivity data using attributes of planting area and rice production. The results of the mapping are visualized into a recommendation of agricultural land clustering and agricultural products as well as one of the decision makers in the transfer of agricultural functions so that subdistricts that have a lot of productivity, are moderate and lacking based on the characteristics of the data

scholarly journals Esculent coating of spider silk enhanced the preservation and shelf life of apricot

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Tahir ◽  
N. Pervez ◽  
J. Nadeem ◽  
A. A. Khan ◽  
Z. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Water Loss ◽  
Spider Silk ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Fungal Attack ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Preservation Technique

Abstract According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), roughly one-third of the total food produced is lost globally. The major cause of this wastage is the perishability of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, researchers have endeavored to develop an effective preservation technique. Our study explored the potential application of spider silk as an odourless and edible preservative coating for fruits. The spider silk was collected from spiders reared in the laboratory, following by degumming and dissolution to formulate the silk solution. For this study, apricots were selected as the model fruit. The apricots were dip coated with the formulated silk solution and allowed to dry. In order to enhance the beta sheet content of the silk coating, the fruits were exposed to water annealing for varying intervals of time under vacuum condition. The effect of silk coating and water annealing time period on preservation of fruits was then evaluated morphologically and gravimetrically. The results showed that the fruits, which were used as control, exhibited a greater degree of water loss and suffered from fungal attack. In contrast, the silk coated fruits showed less water loss and were protected from fungal attack. Therefore, the study provides compelling evidence regarding the application of spider silk as a preservative coating.

scholarly journals Quantities, Determinants, and Awareness of Households’ Food Waste in Italy: A Comparison between Diary and Questionnaires Quantities’

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Giordano ◽  
Fabrizio Alboni ◽  
Luca Falasconi
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Total Food

Food waste at the household level accounts for a significant share of total food waste in developed economies, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Studies have shown that this share varies between 0.3 kg to 4.5 kg per person per week, depending on the definitions and methodologies applied. In Italy, quantities, behaviors, and attitudes regarding food waste have been solely explored through the use of questionnaires, typically leading to discrepant values of food waste. In this study, we estimate and analyse the determinants of food waste over a 388 units’ panel spread over the national territory, through a diary and questionnaire study. Moreover, by comparing food waste value that was declared in questionnaires and reported in diaries, we confirm that the awareness of food waste quantities is heavily biased. The results confirm that the average food waste value is significantly higher when gathered through diaries, while questionnaires are able to catch less than one-third of food waste determinants.

scholarly journals Analysis of Namibian Main Grain Crops Annual Production, Consumption and Trade—Maize and Pearl Millet

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresia Kaulinawa Shifiona ◽  
Wang Dongyang ◽  
Hu Zhiquan
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Millet ◽  
Relative Increase ◽  
Cereal Grains ◽  
Average Annual Rate ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Per Capita Consumption ◽  
United Nation

<p>Cereal grains are the most important source of the world’s total food and staple food for most developing countries. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the Namibian cereal grains by examining trends in annual output, imports and exports as well as consumption volumes for over the period of fifteen years. Due to a variety number of grains being produced and consumed, the main focus is on maize and pearl millet. Data were collected from the Namibian Agronomic Board and from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation Statistical yearbooks for various years. A combination of descriptive statistics has been applied as the method of analysis of the collected data, providing concise summaries about the observations that have been made. The findings show that the production of both maize and pearl millet has increased over the year reviewed due to relative increase in area harvested and yield. Consumption of pearl millet represents one fifth (20%) of the national cereal consumption, while maize represents one third (33%). On average the per capita consumption of maize is around 44kg per year while millet is about 29kg per year. The consumption of both maize and pearl millet rose at an average annual rate higher than the production rate, particularly for maize. To cover deficits between consumption and production, imports become a viable option, especially for maize.</p>

scholarly journals EXPLORATION OF LAND RESOURCES FOR ANALYSING THE SUITABILITY OF SELECTED CROPS IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT OF THRISSUR DISTRICT, KERALA

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W6 ◽  
pp. 435-437
Author(s):  
K. Shyju ◽  
K. Kumaraswamy
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Suitability ◽  
Model Soil ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
Elevation Model ◽  
United Nations Food ◽  
Physical And Chemical

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The fitness of land for a defined use is termed as land suitability. The aim of the study is to find the land suitability of for selected crops examining the indicators of land suitability. The study focuses on analysing suitability of agricultural crops in Pazhayannur Block of Thrissur District. Pazhayannur is the administrative unit (block) in the east of the Talapilli Taluk of Thrissur District in Kerala. The physical and chemical characteristics of the soils of Pazhayannur block like texture, depth, slope, erosion, pH, salinity and soil available primary nutrients (NPK), secondary nutrients and micronutrients are identified. The slope of the terrain using Cartosat-Digital Elevation Model, soil erosion, rainfall and land capability is analysed for suitability classification. Land suitability is studied for the selected crops like paddy, banana, coconut, and rubber. The weighted overlay analysis in GIS is adopted for the analysis. The parameters are weighted based on its class and its influence in suitability of specific crops. The results on agricultural land suitability for individual crops were divided into 5 categories according to the land suitability classification of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It is identified that Pazhayannur has potential for the cultivation of the selected crops. The crops show high suitability (S1) in minor proportion and moderate suitability (S2) is found in 30 percent and above and marginal suitability (S3) is noticed in lesser areas. There is few portion of land which is currently not suitable for cultivation (N1) because of its topographic limitations. The restricted areas of forest are permanently not suited for agriculture (N2).</p>

Food and Agriculture Organization

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-649 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Director General ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Adequate Diet ◽  
The Third ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Total Food ◽  
The World ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Postwar Decade

Marking the twentieth anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the annual report on the state of food and agriculture reviewed the progress achieved during the second postwar decade, 1954/1955–1964/1965. In his foreword Director-General B. R. Sen noted three distinct phases of FAO's history. In the first, covering the postwar decade, FAO played a role in the task of reconstruction. The second phase, coinciding with the second postwar decade, had been marked by a number of significant developments in science and communications, in demography, and in national aspirations which influenced the outlook and work of FAO. Calling attention to the unprecedented rate of population growth and lagging food supply, FAO had warned that this trend implied a grave peril for the future peace and security of the world. The Freedom from Hunger Campaign launched by FAO in 1960 had represented a response to this new awareness of the dimensions of hunger and malnutrition in the world and of the responsibility of the world community to face the problem. The third phase of FAO's work, opening with the third postwar decade, would be a critical period. Mr. Sen referred to FAO studies, contained in the report, which indicated that the total food supplies of the developing countries would have to be increased fourfold in the next 35 years to give their rapidly expanding populations an adequate diet. The task of FAO, which would depend on the willingness of the leaders of the nations to devote a large share of the world's resources to meet the crisis, would be to assist in laying the foundation for this increase.

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