Sustainable Dairy Production (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: De Jong, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It aims to stimulate process innovations, taking into account environmental, economic and public relations benefits for companies. Topics covered include: * How to set up a sustainable production line * How to quantify the carbon foot print of a dairy product by using life cycle analysis * Current technologies to improve the carbon foot print * What measures can be taken to reduce the global warming potential of the farm * Reduction of water use in dairy production * Marketing sustainable dairy products * Bench marking of dairy products against other food products * Potential future technological developments to improve the carbon foot print for the following decades

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118489468
• Artikelnr.: 37348526

Autorenporträt

Dr Peter de Jong is Head of Processing Research at NIZO, a well-known food production research institute in the Netherlands which has a focus on dairy science. Peter has been active in sustainable dairy processing for more than 20 years and has written more than 140 scientific and technical papers on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Contributors xi 1 Introduction 1 Peter de Jong 1.1
Sustainability and the dairy industry: hype or trend? 2 1.2 Quantifying the
issue: measuring footprints 4 1.3 Communication: telling the whole story 5
1.4 Structure of this book 6 References 8 2 Greenhouse gas emissions from
global dairy production 9 Theun V. Vellinga, Pierre Gerber and Carolyn Opio
2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Methods for calculating emissions 11 2.3 Total
emissions of the dairy sector 14 2.4 Discussion 26 References 28 3 Life
cycle assessment 31 Maartje N. Sevenster 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Current
life cycle assessment 32 3.3 Life cycle assessment in application 37 3.4
Life cycle assessment of dairy products 41 3.5 Life cycle assessment in
strategy and policy 50 Acknowledgements 51 References 52 4 Sustainability
and resilience of the dairy sector in a changing world: a farm economic and
EU perspective 55 Roel Jongeneel and Louis Slangen 4.1 Introduction 56 4.2
Dairy economics and sustainability 62 4.3 Sustainability evaluation of the
EU dairy sector 71 4.4 Agricultural policy 79 4.5 Conclusion 83 References
85 5 Dairy processing 87 Arjan J. van Asselt and Michael G. Weeks 5.1
Introduction 87 5.2 Key unit operations and their water and energy use 89
5.3 Possibilities for optimisation 101 5.4 Revisiting dairy processing:
breakthrough technologies 114 References 117 6 The role of packaging in a
sustainable dairy chain 119 Erika Mink 6.1 Introduction 120 6.2 Packaging
sustainability: a growing market expectation 123 6.3 Packaging's
contribution to dairy sustainability 130 6.4 Global alignment of packaging
requirements: implications for dairy 139 6.5 A company response: the
example of Tetra Pak 150 6.6 Outlook: growing importance of economic and
social pillars of sustainability 158 References 160 7 The business case for
sustainable dairy products 163 Jaap Petraeus 7.1 Introduction 163 7.2 From
a process-driven to a product-driven approach 164 7.3 Success factors for
creating more sustainable processes and products 169 7.4 Implementation of
sustainability within the company 175 7.5 The business case for
sustainability 180 7.6 Policy and strategy adopted by different dairy
companies 183 7.7 Looking to the future 183 7.8 Conclusion 184 References
186 Appendix: Overview of the sustainability policy and strategy of various
companies 187 8 A case study of marketing sustainability 191 Grietsje
Hoekstra, Corine Kroft and Klaas Jan van Calker 8.1 Introduction 191 8.2
What is sustainability? 193 8.3 Motivations for sustainability 196 8.4
Choose your battles: sustainability strategy issues 198 8.5 Getting to work
203 8.6 Communicating sustainability 212 8.7 Conclusion 217 Acknowledgement
218 References 219 9 Cradle to Cradle for innovations in the dairy industry
221 Wil A.M. Duivenvoorden 9.1 Introduction 222 9.2 A tool for
C2C(r)-driven innovation (PROPER model) 229 9.3 Cradle to Cradle for the
dairy industry 232 9.4 Conclusion 238 References 241 10 The future of
sustainable dairy production 243 Peter de Jong 10.1 Future relevance of
sustainable dairy 243 10.2 Next steps in chain innovation 244 10.3
Communication and marketing 247 10.4 Business case: people, planet and
profit 247 10.5 Conclusion 249 References 250 Index 251

Rezensionen

"In summary, a very worth-while addition to the series that provides an excellent source for those working with this technology." (International Journal of Dairy Technology, 16 July 2013)