sustainable agricultural and food systems engineering: new research, practices, and developments

Providing valuable research on the latest topics in sustainable agriculture and food systems engineering, this new volume covers key concepts on sustainable agriculture, food systems engineering for sustainable development, and agroecological transitions as an interdisciplinary field that comprises the concepts of agronomy, economics, and livestock farming sciences. It also reports on important techniques in transforming new concepts involved in both agricultural production and food consumption choices.

Jose Juan Buenrostro-Figueroa, PhD, is a Researcher at the Research Center for Food and Development, A.C., Mexico. Dr. Buenrostro has experience in bioprocess development, including microbial processes for enzyme production and recovery of bioactive compounds; valorization of agroindustrial by-products, and extraction and characterization of bioactive compounds from plants and agroindustrial wastes. He has published 35 papers in indexed journals, 19 book chapters, three books as editor, four patent requests, and more than 65 contributions at scientific meetings. Dr. Buenrostro has been a member of S.N.I. (National System of Researches, Mexico), the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (SMBB), and the Mexican Society for Food Protection affiliate of the International Association for Food Protection. He became a Food Engineer at the Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous University. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Food Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Coahuila, México, where he worked on the development of bioprocesses for the valorization of agroindustrial by-products. He also worked at in the Biotechnology Department of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico.

Julio César Tafolla-Arellano, PhD, is a Full-Time Research Professor of the Department of Basic Sciences of the Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro in Coahuila, Mexico. He is the Head of the Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Laboratory and a member of the Mexican Association of Food Engineering and Biotechnology. He is editor in-chief of the journals Universitas Agri and Revista Agraria. Dr. Tafolla-Arellano is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (level I), and his research is focused on the study of the biotechnological use of plants through an interdisciplinary omics approach, biocatalysis, bioinformatics, and food biotechnology. He became an engineer in food science and technology at the Autonomous Agrarian University Antonio Narro. He earned his PhD degree in Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology at the Center for Research and Food and Development A.C. of Sonora, Mexico. Also, he performed postdoctoral research on the postharvest shelf life of fruit and transcriptomics analysis. He has published several books chapters and articles in indexed journals and developed eight research projects. He has been advisor of several PhD, MSc, and BSc theses.

Leonardo Sepúlveda Torre, PhD, is a full Professor at the School of Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila, México, where he is also a leader of the Bioprocesses and Microbial Biochemistry Group. His postgraduate studies were related to topics on food biotechnology in the Food Research Department of the UAdeC. In 2011 he made a research stay at the Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the University of Minho (Uminho), Braga, Portugal. He also worked as a collaborator at the Center of Biological Engineering in Uminho, Braga, Portugal, with the link project ＂Biotechnologies for Regional Food Biodiversity in Latin America.＂ He participated as author and co-author in 35 scientific articles in indexed journals, several books, and 24 book chapters, and he holds two national patents.

Porteen Kannan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Public Health at Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India. The research activities of Dr. Kannan include food safety and antimicrobial resistance. He performed his postdoctoral studies at the US Department of Agriculture, Maryland, USA, with a specialization in foodborne pathogens. He has published his work in both national and international journals. He is actively involved in mentoring both MSc and PhD students.

A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor with over 250 academic research-oriented books as well as over 1000 research papers published in various journals and conference proceedings with over 3350 citations and h-index of 30, according to the Google Scholar database. He is currently a senior material engineering consultant in the UK. Professor Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal. Professor Haghi has acted as an editorial board member of many international journals. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences & Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal. He has supervised several PhD and MSc thesis at University of Guilan (UG) and co-supervised international doctoral projects. Professor Haghi holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina (USA), and holds two MSc, one in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) and another one in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He was awarded a PhD in engineering sciences at Université de Franche-Comté (France).