Nanotechnology is one of the most important tools in modern agriculture, and agri-food nanotechnology is anticipated to become a driving economic force in the near future. Agri-food themes focus on sustainability and protection of agriculturally produced foods, including crops for human consumption and animal feeding. Nanotechnology provides new agrochemical agents and new delivery mechanisms t...

Africa’s economic development will result from conscious efforts directed towards diversification and increased productivity in its low-performing agricultural sector. Technology development, transfer and uptake, which are low for now, are indispensible necessities in this respect. The purpose of this chapter is to review the characteristics, importance, constraints and technology adoption proc...

Recent scientific data indicate that nanotechnology has the potential to positively impact the agrifood sector, minimizing adverse problems of agricultural practices on environment and human health, improving food security and productivity (as required by the predicted rise in global population), while promoting social and economic equity. In this context, we select and report on recent trends ...

one of the main issues of nanotechnology is producing materials with new properties. nanotechnology, as a powerful tool, has the ability to create evolution in the agricultural system and food–medicinal industries across the world. producing a high-performance material from reclaimed cellulose material will increase motivation to recycle these materials at all phases of paper production and rem...

commercialization as one of the key steps in the process of innovation development transfers the findings of research and patents to market. more importantly, several factors and components influence the process of commercialization development which are necessary to be studied and identified. considering the importance of the subject, this descriptive- survey study is aimed to investigate comp...

nanotechnology in manufacturing of sensors with small dimensions, evaluate a lot of the parameters carefully. the applications of nanosensors include three important branch in nan biotechnology (medical, agricultural and food industries). nan osensors technology as a new science is a powerful substitution for conventional analytical techniques in the field of agricultural sciences. sensitivity ...

Nanotechnology is the study of particle sizes between 1 and 100 nanometers at least at one dimension. Particle size reduced to nanometer length scale exhibit more surface area to volume size ratio and showing unusual properties makes them enable for systematic applications in engineering, biomedical, agricultural and allied sectors. Nanomaterial can create from bottom up or top down approaches ...

Institute of Exact Science, Federal University of Alfenas – UNIFAL, CEP 37130-000, Alfenas, MG, Brazil Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar, CEP 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute for Innovation and Business, National Nanotechnology Laboratory for Agribusiness – LNNA, Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation, São Carlo...

Today is the era of nanoscience and nanotechnology, which find applications in field medicine, electronics, environmental remediation. Even though nanotechnology its emerging phase, it continues to provide solutions numerous challenges. Nanotechnology nanoparticles are found be very effective because their unique chemical physical properties high surface area, but cost one major hurdles wider a...

Nanotechnology is an emerging technology in the field of food and agriculture; every individual molecule atom can be modified or controlled by this technology. Everything that exists on earth made up atoms molecules. Problems all fields easily overcome modifying altering their nanosize. Similarly, nanotechnology could address many issues agriculture industries. Nanomaterials play a keen role pl...