Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Harikesh Bahadur Singh

Vijay Singh Meena

Amitava Rakshit

Manoj Parihar

Somsubhra Chakraborty

Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms. Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on various innovations in agriculture spanning the different agricultural gamut.

Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability

Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture

Pradeep Srivastava

Manoj Kumar Mondal

Contributed articles presented at an International Conference on Separation Processes organized by Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 2009.

Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development

Separation Processes

Neha Srivastava

Manish Srivastava

Pramod W. Ramteke

Cellulase is a key enzyme of industrial interest and plays a crucial role in the hydrolysis of cellulose, a prime component of plant cell walls. Cellulase covers a broad area in the global market of industrially important enzymes and it is considered as the third largest industrial enzyme globally. Additionally, cellulase contributes about 20% of the total enzyme market globally because of its massive demand in various industries such as in biofuel production, pulp, paper, textile, food, and beverages, as well as in detergent industries. Among these, the demand of cellulase may become frequently selected in the commercial production of biofuels in the future and thus will further increase demand of cellulase in the biofuel industry. Because biofuel production is still not realized in a cost-effective, practical implementation due to its high cost (the higher cost of biofuels is due to higher production costs of enzymes), there is a need to introduce these types of approaches, which will help to lower the cost of enzyme production for developing overall economic biofuel production.

Approaches to Enhance Industrial Production of Fungal Cellulases

Pradeep Kumar Mishra

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