Sustainable production and the sustainable use of biotic resources have become increasingly significant. This results in the demand by society for a sustainable use of biotic resources especially within the nutrition sector. But also their use for industrial purposes had led research and...

How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in...

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies. The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of...