Waste Utilization in Agriculture and Sustainable Development (Second Edition)
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 July 2024 | Viewed by 163
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant nutrition; biomass valorization; biochar; composting; GHG emissions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a Special Issue of the journal Sustainability titled “Waste Utilization in Agriculture and Sustainable Development (Second Edition)”.
Agricultural production has more than tripled over the last 50 years, having negative impacts on soil, air, and water resources. Current concerns, such as population growth and increased food and energy prices, underline the need to improve the whole agricultural production process. Agricultural production is creating huge amounts of agricultural waste. Since agriculture is very diverse around the world, it generates waste biomass of very diverse compositions. Agricultural wastes are defined as the residues derived from the growing and processing of raw agricultural products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products, and crops.
Present methods of agricultural waste disposal comprise incineration, landfill, and composting. Even though these are often well-developed methods, they can produce either low-value products or toxic gases and bad odors, having a negative impact on the environment. Therefore, the goal is to develop innovative and advanced solutions that will convert agricultural wastes into valuable resources and, at the same time, minimize the negative impacts on the environment, mitigating climate change.
Agricultural waste materials can be used as soil amendments and fertilizers, composting substrates, biochar feedstock, bioactive compound sources, etc., as well as for energy recovery.
This Special Issue welcomes review articles and research papers that offer advanced and innovative solutions to promote waste valorization for sustainable development in agriculture. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Nutrient recovery;
- Bioactive compound extraction;
- Composting;
- Biochar production;
- Soil amendments;
- Energy production.
The First Edition of this Special Issue can be found via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/wastutil_agric
Dr. Igor Palčić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agricultural residues
- sustainable agriculture
- circular economy
- biomass
- organic matter
- composting
- pyrolysis
