Integrated ag landscapes for profit and risk management

Muth, David J.; Euken, Jill; Bryden, Kenneth M.

doi:10.31274/icm-180809-116

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“…biopesticides, single cell proteins, and animal proteins [13,67], and extraction of bioactive molecules and functional groups for varied applications [47,48,67]. Obviously, the potential availability and sustainability of feedstock supply for particular industry would depend on alternative or competing uses, cost of production and supply, crop yield and revenue from crops to farmers, and scale of crop farming enterprise [1,11,68]. Following is a review of application and allocation of agro-industrial residues (crop residues, fruits and vegetable wastes, animal manure, carcasses, and dairy wastes) and food wastes to major competing applications.…”

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Agro-Industrial Waste Management: The Circular and Bioeconomic Perspective

Ogbu¹,

Okechukwu²

2023

Agricultural Waste - New Insights

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Traditional agricultural production is circular. Virtually no waste is produced. Residues are returned to soil as compost; used as bedding material in livestock husbandry (and returned to soil as compost) or as feed to produce animal protein and manure; utilized as construction materials; or fuel for domestic energy. Circular agricultural production ensures soil conservation, waste reduction, residues reuse, and recycling. The ever rising global population, and demand for food and agro-industrial products, necessitated a transition to linear agricultural production which generates enormous quantities of agricultural residues, agro-industrial, and food wastes. The economic losses, environmental degradation, and health hazards resulting from poor management of excess wastes, and their mitigation have been the subject of research and policy efforts at continental and regional levels. Current waste management models redirect attention to circular agricultural production and bioeconomic approaches aimed at waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. Such approaches view agricultural wastes as raw materials with economic benefits for the farmer, consumer, and investor in varied industrial enterprises (crop and animal production, animal and human health, food, beverage, neutraceutical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and material industries). The present review attempts to collate information on global production, and possible valorization of recyclable agro-industrial residues and food wastes.

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