Recycle Based Organic Agriculture in a City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Status and Prospects of Urban Agriculture

   • Seishu Tojo

   Pages 1-13

3. Discharge and Recycling of Urban Wasted Biomass

   • Seishu Tojo

   Pages 15-31

4. Carbonization of Wasted Biomass and Carbon Sequestration

   • Pisit Maneechot, Prapita Thanarak, Haytham M. El Sharkawi

   Pages 33-68

5. Nutrient Recovery from Wasted Biomass Using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies

   • Hiroyuki Kashima

   Pages 69-90

6. Energy Production from Wasted Biomass

   • Miftahul Choiron, Seishu Tojo, Megumi Ueda

   Pages 91-112

7. New Technologies to Implement Precise Management of Farming in a City

   • Tadashi Chosa, Hitoshi Kato, Rei Kikuchi

   Pages 113-145

8. Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in Urban Farmland

   • Toru Nakajima

   Pages 147-158

9. Cover Crop Farming System

   • Masakazu Komatsuzaki, Takahiro Ito, Tiejun Zhao, Hajime Araki

   Pages 159-172

10. Symbiotic Coexistence of Paddy Field and Urban Ecosystem

    • Takashi Motobayashi, Seishu Tojo

    Pages 173-202

11. 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

12. Back Matter

    Pages 237-240

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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.

• Farmland
• Organic farming
• Waste biomass
• Recycling
• Carbonizing
• Symbiotic
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan

  Seishu Tojo

Seishu Tojo, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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