Megatrends in Food and Agriculture : Technology, Water Use and Nutrition.
by
 
Traitler, Helmut.

ISBN
9781119391166

Title
Megatrends in Food and Agriculture : Technology, Water Use and Nutrition.

Author
Traitler, Helmut.

Personal Author
Traitler, Helmut.

Physical Description
1 online resource (339 pages)

Contents
"Title Page " -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Foreword" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Part 1 Agriculture and the Food Industry" -- "Chapter 1 The Role of Agriculture in Today’s Food Industry " -- "1.1 Introduction" -- "1.1.1 The Four Building Blocks" -- "1.1.2 Some History of Agriculture" -- "1.1.3 Eat More and Increase the Likelihood for Survival" -- "1.1.4 Food Can Be Grown and Plants Can Be Bred: What’s Next?" -- "1.1.5 From Very Old to Rather Recent Food-Preservation Techniques " -- "1.2 Agriculture: The Main Supplier to the Food Industry" -- "1.2.1 Artificial Ingredients" -- "1.2.2 The Main Raw Material Sources" -- "1.2.3 Milk’s the Star" -- "1.2.4 Milk…What Else?" -- "1.2.5 Other Excursions from Food" -- "1.2.6 Noncompeting Alternatives" -- "1.3 Agriculture’s New Role in Light of Food and Health" -- "1.3.1 Decades of Food Safety Rules and Regulations" -- "1.3.2 More Rules: What Do We Do?" -- "1.3.3 Raw Materials and Processes Become More Sophisticated" -- "1.4 Most Likely Drivers for Change in the Agriculture Industry" -- "1.5 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2 Water Management in Modern Agriculture: The Role of Water and Water Management in Agriculture and Industry " -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 Multiple Dimensions of Water" -- "2.3 On the Evolution of Water Institutions and Policies" -- "2.4 Reforming Water-Resource Management at the Micro-Level (Farm and Field) " -- "2.5 Reforming Regional Water-Allocation Regimes " -- "2.6 Improved Water Project Design" -- "2.7 Improved Water Quality" -- "2.8 Climate Change" -- "2.9 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3 Innovation in Plant Breeding for a Sustainable Supply of High-Quality Plant Raw Materials for the Food Industry " -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 Challenges for Future Agricultures and Food Industries".
 
"3.2.1 Strongly Growing Food Needs" -- "3.2.2 Energy Issues" -- "3.3 Genetic-Based Techniques for Plant Breeding in the Context of Agricultural Production " -- "3.3.1 Genetic Innovation and Agronomic Practices" -- "3.3.2 The Process of Plant Breeding and Its Main Limitations" -- "3.3.3 Preliminary Conclusions" -- "3.4 Trends: Shift in Allocation of Resources to Global Needs?" -- "3.4.1 Methodology" -- "3.4.2 Analysis of Investment in Seed Research and Development" -- "3.4.3 Analysis of Deviations and Distortions of R&&D Investments and Production Volumes" -- "3.5 A First Set of Conclusions and Recommendations" -- "3.6 Summary and Major Learning" -- "3.7 Appendix Tables" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4 The Agriculture of Animals: Animal Proteins of the Future as Valuable and Sustainable Sources for the Food Industry " -- "4.1 Livestock and Animal Husbandry" -- "4.1.1 How We Got to Now" -- "4.2 Animals: A Source of High‐Quality Proteins" -- "4.3 Animal Protein Demand in Emerging Markets" -- "4.4 Optimal Animal Welfare: Sustainable, Humane, and Healthy" -- "4.4.1 Animal Production Increase" -- "4.5 Animal-Breeding Programs " -- "4.5.1 Genomic Breeding of Animals" -- "4.6 The Use of Big Data for Management and Genetic Evaluations" -- "4.7 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Part 2 The Future of the Food Industry" -- "Chapter 5 The Food Trends—The New Food—Enough Food? " -- "5.1 Historical Food Trends: From Then to Now" -- "5.1.1 Food and Beverages during the Period of Classical Greece" -- "5.1.2 Food and Beverages in the Roman Empire" -- "5.1.3 Food in Medieval Times in Central Europe" -- "5.1.4 From European Renaissance and Enlightenment to the First Industrial Revolution" -- "5.1.5 Food in the 20th Century: The Real Food Revolution".
 
"5.2 Present-Day Food Fashions and Trends: A Never-Ending Story " -- "5.2.1 Food and Nutrition Trends: A Story of Perception, Deception, and Beliefs" -- "5.3 New Food Sources: New Protein Sources" -- "5.3.1 Insects: A New Food Source?" -- "5.3.2 Increased Food Security through Exploiting New Protein Sources" -- "5.3.3 A “Crazy” Idea for Other Food Sources: Beyond Proteins" -- "5.4 Vegetarian Food and Its Potential Societal and Economic Impact" -- "5.5 Urban Gardening and Urban Agriculture" -- "5.5.1 The Urban Bee-Highways " -- "5.6 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 6 The New Food Industry Business Model: From B2C to B2B, from Product Manufacture to Selling Know-How, and from Now to Then " -- "6.1 The Old: Develop, Manufacture, and Sell (“Demase”)" -- "6.1.1 The Fall of the Righteous" -- "6.2 The New: The Customer Is King, the Consumer Is an Enabler, and from B2C to B2B" -- "6.2.1 Slotting Allowance" -- "6.2.2 Retailers Become the Most Important Partners for Food and Beverage Companies" -- "6.2.3 How This Could Work: A Possible Path and Examples" -- "6.3 From Selling Products to Selling Know-How " -- "6.3.1 The Knowledge-Centric Company " -- "6.3.2 Engaging, Interacting, and Selling: The New Etiquette" -- "6.4 The Community of Consumers: It’s What They Want that Counts!" -- "6.4.1 The Consumers Become Involved" -- "6.5 Food-Related Trends and Hypes in Today’s Societies: An Outlook to the Future " -- "6.6 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 7 The Internet of Just about Everything: Impact on Agriculture and Food Industry " -- "7.1 Modern Cooking: Forward to the Past" -- "7.1.1 The Role of Robotics and Connectivity" -- "7.2 Everything Is Online and Everyone Is Online—All the Time" -- "7.3 Food and Agriculture: The New Hardware and Software".
 
"7.3.1 Big Data are Here to Stay" -- "7.3.2 Agriculture and Space Science: The New Connection" -- "7.3.3 Impact on the Food Industry and the Consumer in the Middle" -- "7.4 An Attempt at Peaking Ahead: Will There Still Be an Agriculture or Food Industry?" -- "7.4.1 Bigger Is Not Always Better" -- "7.4.2 Elements that Will Stay and Others that Might Disappear" -- "7.5 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 8 Nutrition: The Old Mantra … the New Un-Word " -- "8.1 Nutrition: What’s All the Fuss about?" -- "8.1.1 The Hottest New Food Trends" -- "8.1.2 The Debate Continues: What’s Good and What’s Not Good for You?" -- "8.1.3 And Here We Go Again: Fasting Can Do You an Awful Lot of Good" -- "8.1.4 A Few Simple Tips When It Comes to Healthy and Happy Eating" -- "8.2 A Bit of Nutrition History" -- "8.2.1 Low and Reduced, Lower and “Reduced-Er”: Low or Reduced Fat " -- "8.2.2 Low or Reduced Salt" -- "8.2.3 Low or Reduced Sugar and No Sugar" -- "8.2.4 Low Saturated Fats, Good Monounsaturated Fats, More Polyunsaturated Fats, and Lots of Ω3 Fats" -- "8.3 Typical Nutrition Controversies" -- "8.3.1 So Many Recommendations…Too Many?" -- "8.3.2 More Controversies" -- "8.4 Food and Claims, Food and Benefits" -- "8.5 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Part 3 The New Food World" -- "Chapter 9 A Food Company Transforms Itself " -- "9.1 The Not-So-New Realities " -- "9.1.1 Automation Is Here…For Quite Some Time Actually" -- "9.1.2 The Novel Directions in Food and Agriculture are Governed by Regulatory Involvement" -- "9.1.3 All-Natural Industrial Food Products: The Way Forward? " -- "9.2 From Product to Know‐How Seller: An Encore" -- "9.2.1 Some Assumptions as to How This May Function" -- "9.2.2 What are Possible Consequences for Food Ingredient Suppliers?".
 
"9.3 Anticipating the Inevitable: Possible Scenarios" -- "9.3.1 Possible Future Models and Scenarios" -- "9.3.2 The Return of Medical Food?" -- "9.4 Reality or Fiction? Reality and Fiction!" -- "9.4.1 A New Manufacturing Reality" -- "9.5 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 10 Food for the Future: A Future for Food " -- "10.1 Proactive Agriculture" -- "10.1.1 What If Agriculture Anticipated Real Food Requirements and Trends?" -- "10.2 Democratized Agriculture" -- "10.2.1 Agrihood" -- "10.2.2 Permaculture" -- "10.2.3 From Large to Small" -- "10.2.4 The Growing Role of Urban Agriculture: Self‐Centeredness or Community Driven?" -- "10.3 Agriculture and Food Manufacture in Exotic Places" -- "10.3.1 An Ice Cream Factory in Greenland?" -- "10.3.2 A Chocolate Factory in Ghana?" -- "10.4 A Future for Food" -- "10.4.1 What about the Role of Restaurants?" -- "10.4.2 Pet Food Is Food, Too" -- "10.4.3 Will We Eat Food in Pill Format?" -- "10.5 Summary and Major Learning" -- "References" -- "Chapter 11 Summary and Outlook " -- "11.1 Introduction" -- "11.1.1 The Role of Agriculture in Today’s Food Industry" -- "11.1.2 Food-Preservation Techniques " -- "11.1.3 Agriculture Is the Main Raw Material Supplier to Be Transformed to Food" -- "11.1.4 Nonfood Uses of Agricultural Raw Materials" -- "11.1.5 Agriculture in a World of Rules and Regulations" -- "11.1.6 Food Raw Materials and Process Became More Sophisticated and Complex" -- "11.2 Water Management in Modern Agriculture" -- "11.2.1 The “Water Reform”" -- "11.2.2 Water Productivity" -- "11.2.3 Water-Related Government Policies " -- "11.2.4 Getting It Right: Policies and Price" -- "11.2.5 Controlling Water Quality" -- "11.3 Innovation in Plant Breeding: High-Quality Plant Raw Materials for the Food Industry ".
 
"11.3.1 Agricultural Plant Output: The Essential Raw Material Source for the Food Industry".

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
Agricultural biotechnology.
 
Food industry and trade.
 
Water in agriculture.

Added Author
Zilberman, David.
 
Heikes, Keith.
 
Petiard, Vincent.
 
Dubois, Michel.

Format
Electronic Resources

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Publication Date
2017

Publication Information
Newark :
 
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
 
2017.
 
©2018.


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