Energy-Smart Farming: Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Sustainability

The agricultural sector must develop and invest in alternative methods of farming that recoup the same results but have a reduced environmental impact. Energy-smart farming: Efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability explores recent research on reducing the costs and environmental impact of on-farm energy use.

Format: Hardback
Length: 370 pages
Publication date: 17 May 2022
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited

It is estimated that approximately 15% of the global agricultural production costs are energy-related. With growing concerns regarding the sustainability of crop and livestock production, the agricultural sector must proactively develop and invest in alternative farming methods that yield the same outcomes but have a significantly reduced environmental impact.

Energy-smart farming: Efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability delves into recent research endeavors aimed at reducing the costs and environmental impact of on-farm energy consumption. This comprehensive collection explores innovative approaches to enhancing energy efficiency on farms, including the utilization of renewable energy technologies such as agrivoltaics, biomass combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis. Furthermore, it sheds light on how sustainable energy use can be effectively implemented in livestock production systems.

Edited by a renowned expert in the field, Energy-smart farming: Efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability serves as a valuable reference for university and other researchers engaged in renewable energy deployment and policies, environmental scientists, government agencies addressing climate change challenges, as well as farmers and representatives from food manufacturers and suppliers committed to reducing their carbon footprint.

Weight: 688g
Dimension: 158 x 236 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786768353