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This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices and guiding principles implemented in eight developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This book details key processes that respective teams employed to create an innovation space that delivers seed, other inputs, knowledge and financial services to agricultural communities and most importantly, the underserved farmers in remote areas of the drylands. It offers valuable insights into the pathway to establishing, promoting and operating innovation platforms to enhance the performance and competitiveness of legume crops’ value chains, and addresses critical issues that must be considered to make innovation platforms more sustainable and attractive to beneficiaries. The book offers a wealth of practical insights for development workers, technical staff, and project managers. This publication is all about TLIII community of practice. It will definitely inspire other development workers and scientists to share their own experiences for others to learn from.

Agriculture --- Biotechnology --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology --- Plant Anatomy/Development --- Plant Genetics and Genomics --- Plant Biotechnology --- Plant Development --- Plant Genetics --- Open Access --- Innovation processes --- Multi-stakeholders --- Legume value chain --- Seed business --- Rural livelihoods --- Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia --- Agricultural science --- Botany & plant sciences --- Developmental biology --- Genetics (non-medical)

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Beer is a beverage with more than 8000 years of history, and the process of brewing has not changed much over the centuries. However, important technical advances have allowed us to produce beer in a more sophisticated and efficient way. The proliferation of specialty hop varieties has been behind the popularity of craft beers seen in the past few years around the world. Craft brewers interpret historic beer with unique styles. Craft beers are undergoing an unprecedented period of growth, and more than 150 beer styles are currently recognized. This Special Issue, Brewing and Craft Beer, comprises nine different works by researchers from five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania). This Special Issue reflects thus a broad perspective on the most important questions that concern the researchers in different parts of the world.

barley milling --- wet milling --- brewing technology --- granulometry --- beer wort --- foamability --- audible sound --- brewing --- carbonation --- fermentation --- craft beer --- polyphenols --- bitterness --- preference --- sensory attributes --- beer --- adjuncts --- fermentation rate --- germ --- nutrient --- FAN --- Safrari --- coffee --- lactose --- stout beer --- sensory evaluation --- beer acceptability --- machine learning --- robotics --- fast-screening --- automation --- craft beer --- local value chain --- economic contribution analysis --- beer --- computer vision --- image analysis --- quality --- craft beer --- bottle refermentation --- AEDA --- short-chain fatty acids --- beer aging --- n/a

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The development of new technologies and the increasing demand for mineral resources from emerging countries are responsible for significant tensions in the pricing of non-ferrous metals. Some metals have become strategic and critical because they are used in many technological applications such as flat panel TVs (indium), solar panel cells (indium), lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (lithium, cobalt), magnets (rare earth elements, such as neodymium and dysprosium), scintillators (rare earths), and aviation and medical applications (titanium); their availabilities remain limited. The secured supply of these metals is crucial to continue producing and exporting these technologies, and because the specific properties of these metals make them essential and difficult to substitute for a given industrial application. Hydrometallurgy have the advantages of being able to process low-grade ores, to allow better control of co-products, and have a lower environmental impact providing that the hydrometallurgical route is optimized and cheap. The need to develop sustainable, efficient, and cheap processes to extract metals from complex and poor polymetallic matrices is real. The aim of this book was to highlight recent advances related to hydrometallurgy to face new challenges in metal production.

bauxite residue --- red mud --- leaching --- titanium --- metal recovery --- gold recovery --- pregnant thiosulfate solutions --- resin adsorption technique --- competitive adsorption --- eluent --- base metal production --- intermediate --- nickel iron oxide --- fayalite --- cuprite --- leaching --- Alamine® 336 --- solvent extraction --- chromium(VI) --- degradation --- tri-n-octylamine --- gold cyanidation --- mercury ions --- intensification behavior --- structure --- surface product --- platinum group metals --- value chain --- refining --- leaching --- bauxite residue --- red mud --- hydrometallurgy --- recovery --- scandium --- precipitation --- ionic liquids --- metal extraction --- liquid-liquid extraction --- back-extraction --- reusability --- metal recovery --- electroleaching --- electrodeposition --- secondary raw materials --- ionic liquids --- phosphoric acid --- rare-earth elements --- separation --- solid-liquid extraction --- ion exchange resin --- WEEE --- yttrium --- indium --- hydrometallurgy --- chalcopyrite --- voltammetry --- electrochemistry --- seawater --- chloride --- n/a

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One of the major knowledge challenges in the domain of Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems refers to the integration of perspectives on consumption, patterns that support public health, inclusive value chains, and environmentally sustainable food production. While there is a long record of the analysis of separate interventions, this special issue generates integrated insights, provides cross-cutting perspectives, and outlines practical and policy solutions that address these global challenges.The collection of papers promotes the view that sustainable food systems require thorough insights into the structure and dynamics of agri-food production systems, the drivers for integrating food value chains and markets, and key incentives for supporting healthier consumer choices. On the production side, potential linkages between agricultural commercialization and intensification and their effects for food security and nutritional outcomes are analyzed. Value Chains are assessed for their contribution to improving exchange networks and markets for food products that simultaneously support efficiency, circularity, and responsiveness. Individual motives and market structures for food consumption need to be understood in order to be able to outline suitable incentives to enhance healthy dietary choice.The contributed papers focus on interfaces between food system activities and processes of adaptive change that are critical for overcoming key constraints and trade-offs between sustainable food and healthy diets.

agricultural impacts --- climate change impacts --- integrated assessment model --- CGE model --- Ostrea edulis --- native oyster restoration --- North Sea --- site selection --- pilot study --- offshore wind farms --- sustainability --- food systems --- nutrition --- public-private cooperation --- corporate values --- sanitary control --- food safety --- prosperity --- sustainable development --- alternative agri-food networks --- transition theories --- grassroots innovations --- socio-technical systems --- agroecology --- ecovillages --- social movements --- certification --- organic agriculture --- Participatory Guarantee Systems --- Spain --- alternative certification systems --- food systems --- metrics --- interdisciplinarity --- sustainable food and nutrition security --- food system assessment --- participatory approach --- SUSFANS --- agribusiness cluster --- commercialization --- sustainable intensification --- dairy value chain --- farming system --- service arrangements --- Ethiopia --- Kenya --- sustainable diets --- diet adoption --- sustainable food system --- intention-behavior gap --- citizen participation --- innovation workshop --- Agricultural commercialization --- food and nutrition security --- salutogenesis --- life course perspective --- food systems --- multi-level --- positive deviance --- Myanmar --- social innovation --- agricultural commercialization --- nutrition sensitive transformation --- Myanmar --- vegetable consumption --- food choice motives --- knowledge --- self-efficacy --- socio-economic classes --- food environment --- Nigeria --- sustainable development goals --- sustainability assessment --- agricultural sustainability --- food security --- LCA broadening --- LCA deepening --- food systems --- interdisciplinary research --- feedbacks &amp --- interlinkages --- food policy --- 3I Approach --- value chain development --- participatory approach --- context-specific interventions --- behavioural change --- postharvest losses --- tomato --- Nigeria --- supply chain --- raffia basket --- plastic crate --- systems approach --- conceptual framework --- food loss practices --- food loss causes --- food loss solutions --- supply-chain stages --- literature --- socio-economic indicators --- tomato --- Nigeria --- adoption --- conservation agriculture --- social capital --- count outcome models --- pca --- marginal treatment effects --- Nigeria --- food security --- CGE model --- nutrition --- diet diversity --- land substitution --- agricultural intensification --- baseline projections --- commercialization --- Vietnam --- food system --- fertilizer use --- caloric intake --- dietary diversity Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS)

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Water Footprint Assessment is a young research field that considers how freshwater use, scarcity, and pollution relate to consumption, production, and trade patterns. This book presents a wide range of studies within this new field. It is argued that collective and coordinated action - at different scale levels and along all stages of commodity supply chains - is necessary to bring about more sustainable, efficient, and equitable water use. The presented studies range from farm to catchment and country level, and show how different actors along the supply chain of final commodities can contribute to more sustainable water use in the chain.

water footprint --- land footprint --- economic water productivity --- economic land productivity --- crop choice --- CSR --- sericulture --- silk --- Malawi --- food security --- food self-sufficiency --- water footprint --- water scarcity --- crop trade --- virtual water trade --- water productivity --- water saving --- green water availability --- effective rain --- crop water demand --- water resources --- water footprint --- water management --- soybean --- cattle --- land use change --- Amazon --- Cerrado --- Mato Grosso --- Steenkoppies Aquifer --- carrots --- cabbage --- beetroot --- broccoli --- lettuce --- packhouse --- retail --- consumers --- Central Europe --- modelling --- urban area --- water footprint --- water management --- water footprint --- irrigation intensity --- wheat --- maize --- Haihe River Basin --- blue water footprint --- water scarcity footprint --- threshold --- embedded resource accounting --- life cycle analysis --- regulation --- economic water productivities --- groundwater --- wheat-bread --- water footprint accounting --- South Africa --- value addition --- water footprint --- root water uptake --- oil palm (Eleasis guineensis) --- crop ages --- soil type --- environmental sustainability --- water footprint assessment --- multi-level governance --- value chain --- consumption --- international trade --- river basin management --- sustainability --- water accounting --- water productivity --- water footprint benchmarks