Instant Insights: Good Agricultural Practices: Good agricultural practices (GAP): 112 (Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights) - Softcover

Manning, Professor Louise; Keogh, John G.; Saunders, Dr Thomas P.; Bihn, Dr Elizabeth A.; Monaghan, Professor James; Wortmann, Prof. Charles; Grassini, Patricio; Elmore, Roger W.; Staver, Dr Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1835450164 ISBN 13: 9781835450161

Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 2025

Synopsis

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on good agricultural practices (GAP).

The first chapter describes GAP, notions of good farming and how GAP standards have developed over time. The chapter also identifies opportunities to evolve these pre- and post-harvest or slaughter standards, and their related principles and practices in the future.

The second chapter reviews the role of GAP in preventing microbial contamination of fresh produce. The chapter also summarises how GAP have evolved, as well the impact they have had on the fresh produce industry.

The third chapter considers emerging aspects of GAP in the context of controlled environment agriculture and explores how performance criterion and monitoring programmes can be developed as part of an effective food safety control programme.

The fourth chapter explores the role of GAP in optimising maize-based cropping systems. The chapter illustrates the importance of setting targets and measuring performance through the inclusion of a case study on improving maize cultivation in the US, Ethiopia and Argentina.

The final chapter reviews the range of GAP in smallholder organic export banana production and the ways in which they can be improved to make banana production more sustainable.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Louise Manning is Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln, UK. With over 30 years of experience in both industry and research, and over 125 peer-reviewed publications, Professor Manning is internationally-renowned for both her research and consultancy work on food safety and quality, agri-food systems, food integrity and crime. She is an Associate Editor for the British Food Journal and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Rothamsted Research. Professor Manning has previously edited Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality, published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2021.

From the Back Cover

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the development and deployment of good agricultural practices (GAPs).

The first chapter describes GAPs, notions of good farming, how GAP standards have evolved in developed and developing economies and the opportunities to evolve these pre- and postharvest standards.

The second chapter reviews the role of GAPs in preventing microbial contamination of fresh produce. The chapter also summarises how GAPs have evolved, the impact they have had on the produce industry, as well as how they are implemented.

The third chapter considers the debates about GAPs in the context of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and how GAPs can be developed as part of an effective food safety control programme in CEA systems around the world.

The fourth chapter addresses how GAPs can be used to optimise sustainable crop production and refers to three contrasting maize cultivation systems in the USA, Ethiopia and Argentina to demonstrate this.

The final chapter provides an overview of the GAP-related certification schemes in global banana production and how they can be utilised to address the yield gap, improve synchronisation between ecological processes, production routines and cost efficiency.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835450164
• ISBN 13: 9781835450161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148