This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens. Focusing on the effective recycling of biomass waste generated in cities for use in organic farming, it discusses alternatives to traditional composting, such as carbonizing organic waste, which not only produces recyclable materials but also converts organic waste into energy. Recycling discarded organic matter appropriately and reusing it as both material and energy is the basis of new urban organic farming, and represents a major challenge for the next generation of urban agriculture. As such, the book presents advanced research findings to facilitate the implementation of safe, organic agricultural production with only a small environmental load.
Author(s): Seishu Tojo
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 250
Tags: Waste Management, Waste Technology, Organic Agriculture
Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Status and Prospects of Urban Agriculture (Seishu Tojo)....Pages 1-13
Discharge and Recycling of Urban Wasted Biomass (Seishu Tojo)....Pages 15-31
Carbonization of Wasted Biomass and Carbon Sequestration (Pisit Maneechot, Prapita Thanarak, Haytham M. El Sharkawi)....Pages 33-68
Nutrient Recovery from Wasted Biomass Using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (Hiroyuki Kashima)....Pages 69-90
Energy Production from Wasted Biomass (Miftahul Choiron, Seishu Tojo, Megumi Ueda)....Pages 91-112
New Technologies to Implement Precise Management of Farming in a City (Tadashi Chosa, Hitoshi Kato, Rei Kikuchi)....Pages 113-145
Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in Urban Farmland (Toru Nakajima)....Pages 147-158
Cover Crop Farming System (Masakazu Komatsuzaki, Takahiro Ito, Tiejun Zhao, Hajime Araki)....Pages 159-172
Symbiotic Coexistence of Paddy Field and Urban Ecosystem (Takashi Motobayashi, Seishu Tojo)....Pages 173-202
Recycle-Based Organic Agriculture in Japan and the World (Yosei Oikawa, Vicheka Lorn, J. Indro Surono, Y. P. Sudaryanto, Dian Askhabul Yamin, Tineke Mandang et al.)....Pages 203-235
Back Matter ....Pages 237-240
