A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food

P Pradhan, M Callaghan, Y Hu, K Dahal, C Hunecke… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

[HTML][HTML] Valorization of food waste as animal feed: a step towards sustainable food waste management and circular bioeconomy

PC Nath, A Ojha, S Debnath, M Sharma, PK Nayak… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Have you ever thrown away food that you didn't eat? Most people do this
all around the world but throwing away food can actually harm the environment. One way to …

Cradle-to-grave emissions from food loss and waste represent half of total greenhouse gas emissions from food systems

J Zhu, Z Luo, T Sun, W Li, W Zhou, X Wang, X Fei… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food loss and waste (FLW) are not well
characterized from cradle to grave. Here GHG emissions due to FLW in supply chain and …

Intelligent Bio-FeS-loaded chitosan films with H2O2 rapid response for advanced waterproof and antibacterial food packaging

B Shen, S Sun, L Zhu, J Yu, L Jiang - Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel nanocomposite film (Cs/FeS film) for potential food packaging applications was
fabricated using chitosan (Cs) and Bio-FeS biosynthesized by Deinococcus wulumuqiensis …

Changes in global food consumption increase GHG emissions despite efficiency gains along global supply chains

Y Li, H Zhong, Y Shan, Y Hang, D Wang, Y Zhou… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to food consumption complement production-
based or territorial accounts by capturing carbon leaked through trade. Here we evaluate …

Cropland displacement contributed 60% of the increase in carbon emissions of grain transport in China over 1990–2015

C Zuo, C Wen, G Clarke, A Turner, X Ke, L You, L Tang - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Rapid urbanization and population growth have increased the need for grain transportation
in China, as more grain is being consumed and croplands have been moved away from …

[HTML][HTML] Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture

J Qin, W Duan, S Zou, Y Chen, W Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global
energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We …

Vertical farming in urban environments: a review of architectural integration and food security

OB Akintuyi - Open Access Research Journal of Biology and …, 2024 - oarjbp.com
Vertical farming in urban environments has emerged as a promising solution to address the
challenges of food security while efficiently utilizing limited urban spaces. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Urban farming with rooftop greenhouses: A systematic literature review

A Drottberger, Y Zhang, JWH Yong… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental impacts of food systems will increase in tandem with rapid urban
population growth, which calls for alternative solutions, such as urban agriculture, to reach …

Processed foods: From their emergence to resilient technologies

D Knorr, R Sevenich - … Reviews in Food Science and Food …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Humans need food processing assuring food safety, quality, and functionality to sustain their
life. The ongoing debates regarding food processing require rational and scientific data …