Globally, it is estimated 1.3 billion tons of food, valued at $1 trillion is wasted a year, according to the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization. (FAO) In addition, billions of tons of agro-industrial waste from agriculture and food processing activities are generated yearly, putting a strain on natural resources, and negatively effecting the environment. Food and Agro-Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Impacts, Transformation and Added Value of By-Products, addresses both the valorization of food waste and agro-industrial waste as a promising and sustainable solution to recycle material back into the supply chain to create new, value-added products--from functional foods to enhanced product packaging. Divided into four parts, Food and Agro-Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Impacts, Transformation and Added Value of By-Products, sequentially addresses the fundamentals of food waste. It begins with explaining sustainable development methods through responsible consumption and production and moves on to emphasize the practical protocol-based valorization methods for food and agro-industrial wastes and ways to extract value-added products. This includes a deep dive into the meat and dairy industries, crop, and processing residues for leaves, stems, pods and straw, and husks, seeds, bagasse (a byproduct of the sugar extraction process) and roots, respectively. The valorization and safety of fruit and vegetable waste highlights peels, tops, skins and shells and how their bioactive compounds are used to nutritionally enhance and innovate food products. The book concludes with valuable, real-life case studies on the valorization of food and agro-industrial wastes highlighting bioactive compounds, nutraceuticals and other bio-based enzymes.
Choudhury, Moharana: -
Moharana Choudhury is a researcher and environmentalist from Guwahati, Assam, India. He has completed his education as an M Sc, PGDGIS, PGDEM, and PGCGARD from Gurukul Kangri Deemed to be University, Haridwar, Uttrakhand, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Meghalaya, Tezpur University, Assam, and NIRD Hyderabad, respectively. Choudhury has worked on various scientific projects in various Government departments and has more than 10 years of research and working experience in the field of environment. He began his career as a research intern at the National Institute of Disaster Management in New Delhi, followed by the North Eastern Space Application Center (Department of Space, Government of India) as a Junior Research Fellow. Choudhury has authored or edited books with internationally reputed publication houses and more than 30 articles in national and internationally reputed journals, proceedings, and more than 20 book chapters. He has written many articles and scientific reports in popular magazines; He is working now as an editor of various renowned publishing houses. Choudhury is working on various environmental conservation activities in Assam and the country. He has worked on several initiatives to integrate environmentally sustainable projects for iconic heritage places, wetlands, and ecotourism spots in Assam, India, especially for cleanliness and beating single‐use plastic pollution missions. He contributes to various environmental research, management, social media mass awareness, and research studies. He is also well known in India for his efforts to implement environmental education and safeguard the privileges of environmental degree holders in India.
Goswami, Srijan: -
Srijan Goswami is a research coordinator at the Biomedical Research and Allied Sciences Division of Voice of Environment (VoE), in Assam, India. He has authored and edited several Environmental Sciences and Public Health Books (PG-Research category) and is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the University of North Bengal. Dr. Goswami has around 11 years of experience in the field of teaching and research, and has published four books, and over 40 research papers in national and international journals. His research focuses on environment-public health connections, extraction and characterization of bioactive compounds from food wastes, nutrition nanobiotechnology, nutraceuticals, and functional foods.
Sillanpää, Mika: -
Mika Sillanpää's research work centers on chemical treatment in environmental engineering and environmental monitoring and analysis. The recent research focus has been on the resource recovery from waste streams.
Sillanpää received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) degrees from the Aalto University where he also completed an MBA degree in 2013. Since 2000, he has been a full professor/adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, the University of Eastern Finland, the LUT University, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Johannesburg.
