Emerging and Modern Approaches for Sustainable Food Production and Waste Management

Dear Colleagues,

A sustainable food economy creates new social, economic, and environmental goals for food producers. Today, food should not only fulfill nutritional requirements but improve the well-being of populations and provide deficient nutrients. A great challenge is determining how to develop processing operations that save natural resources, with limited environmental impact, and reduce waste production.

This requires multi-directional actions in the entire food production chain, including searching for alternative raw materials, replacing conventional processes with less energy-consuming ones, or developing the so-called “clean technologies” with lower impact on environment. Another important aspect is also obtaining high-quality and extending the shelf-life of products with a lower degree of processing, and reducing and re-directing valuable compounds from the waste stream. The strategy of sustainable development also includes proper production management, reduction in losses and waste management, as well as searching for opportunities to reuse them. A sustainable approach to food production, in view of the limited availability of water and high-resource intensity of animal production, also stimulates the development of new food products, e.g., plant-based food or alternative sources of protein.

Considering all the aspects mentioned above, we would like to propose a Special Issue entitled “Emerging and Modern Approaches for Sustainable Food Production and Waste Management”. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect creative research papers presenting original research results,  or to show review papers highlighting recent achievements in sustainable food production.

Dr. Elżbieta Radziejewska-Kubzdela
Dr. Róża Biegańska-Marecik
Dr. Marcin Kidoń
Guest Editors

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• sustainable food processing
• alternative sources of protein
• plant-based food
• functional food
• future food resources
• energy saving technology
• non-thermal processing methods
• emerging food technologies
• food waste management