Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Daniel Callo-Concha

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-05-20

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 3039286684

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The bioeconomy concept aims to add sustainability to the production, transformation, and trade of biological goods. Though implemented around the world, the development of national bioeconomies is uneven, especially in the global South, where major challenges exist in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, the international BiomassWeb project aimed to underpin the bioeconomy concept by applying the value web approach, which seeks to uncover complex interlinked value webs instead of linear value chains. The project also aimed to develop intervention options to strengthen and optimize the synergies and trade-offs among different value chains. The Special Issue “Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Toward a Basis for a Regional Bioeconomy" compiles 23 articles produced in this framework. The articles are grouped in four sections: the value web approach; the production side; processing, transformation and trade; and global views.

Global Agricultural Production: Resilience to Climate Change
Global Agricultural Production: Resilience to Climate Change

Author: Mukhtar Ahmed

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 3031149734

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This book covers all aspects related to climate change and agriculture. The book discusses Global Climate Models (GCMs), Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and application of strategic management tool that includes RCP (Representative concentration Pathway), SSP (Shared Socio-economic Pathways) and SPA (Shared climate Policy Assumptions). The book provides information on how climate change, agricultural productivity and food security are interlinked. The impacts of climate change on food security are studied through different climatic drivers e.g., ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) and SOI (Southern Oscillation Index). These drivers are responsible for the climatic extreme events hence early prediction of these drivers could help to design appropriate adaptive measures for the agriculture sector and could be considered as early warning tools for risk management. Similarly, climate change and process-based soil modeling as well as the role of soil microbes and climate smart agriculture are discussed in this book. Climate change impacts on legume crop production and adaptation strategies are presented, with details about cereal crop modeling, perspectives of Camelina sativa as well as low input biofuel and oilseed crop, greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and mitigation strategies.

The Nigerian Rice Economy
The Nigerian Rice Economy

Author: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0812248953

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Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute.