Climatic changes and food production: Observations and outlook in the modern world

Climatic changes, animal and human activities that lead to desertification and deforestation have affected the increase in agricultural produce especially in sub-Sahara Africa. Several efforts have been put in place to reduce these effects. However, that has not fully resolved the problem food shortages due to the growing population in sub-Sahara Africa. The application of image processing and convolutional neural network in the determination of the optimum maturity of SAMMAZ 17 variety of maize plant is being considered to mitigate for the shortage of food production. The optimum maturity is determined by using GoogleNet pre trained network on 3000 samples of maize comb captured using a camera at different maturity stages in a farmland. GoogleNet pre-trained network gave an accuracy of 82.44%. The result obtained showed a 10.44% improvement over an earlier result using Alexnet pre-trained network. The results suggest that when made operational there is a window of opportunity for increase in the production of food in sub-Sahara Africa

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Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture

Animalities ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400022.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Karen Lykke Syse

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

Food Production ◽

Food Culture ◽

Modern World ◽

The Real ◽

Television Shows ◽

Factory Farms ◽

Industrial Food Production ◽

And Gender ◽

Looking Back

Syse defends Nordic and British chefs, cookbooks, television shows, and food magazines advocating for meat-eaters to face up to the animals that must be killed before they are eaten. Slaughtering one’s own pig and eating all parts of an animal from nose to tail, for example, are put forth as better ways of “respecting” animals, and as a critique of industrial food production and factory farms. In this kind of food culture, looking back nostalgically to times when people were more likely to live on farms and slaughter their own animals is seen as a way of finding “authenticity” in the modern world. This desire to “re-animate” one’s meat can construct traditional forms of masculinity and gender roles, but in Syse’s analysis it is more important to focus on the stated intentions of the chefs and writers at hand, which includes condemning the distance between carnivores and the real lives of the animals they consume.

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An Academic Analysis of Demarcation and Ownership of Land in Hinduism

Journal of Religious Studies Vol I Issue I ◽

10.33195/uochjrs-v1i1452017 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 11-21

Author(s):

Dr. Muhammad Anees Khan ◽

Dr. Hafiz Nasir Uddin

Keyword(s):

Food Production ◽

Land Ownership ◽

Modern World ◽

Land Area ◽

Human Right ◽

Religious Law ◽

The World ◽

Half Power ◽

Ownership Of Land ◽

State Interference

Land ownership is considered as a human right under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is recognized as a basic right in the modern world. It remains one of the most controversial issue throughout history, always in need of an appropriate definition suited to a nation’s political, social and economic conditions.While all liberal laws allow for certain reasonable restrictions on an absolute right to property for some public good, the challenge facing every country is where to draw the line against state interference into a person’s right to own and enjoy property. Especially in the modern world countries required more food production and the problem is that, some people have so much land area, and that a significant part of their lands is out of their power to cultivate accurately. Due to this reason much of land area remains barren. And in the other side some farmers who have not enough land, their half-power spend without receiving any fruit. Religion plays a Vitol role in this area, if the followers of that religion follow such rules with honesty. In non-Semitic religions Hinduism is one of the largest religion of the world with a rich culture and religious practices. This research paper will explain religious law about the ownership of land in Hinduism. Keywords: Hinduism, Property, Manu, Mahabhar’at, Landownership

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Natural Pigments of Bacterial Origin and Their Possible Biomedical Applications

Microorganisms ◽

10.3390/microorganisms9040739 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 739

Author(s):

Rodrigo Salazar Celedón ◽

Leticia Barrientos Díaz

Keyword(s):

Food Production ◽

Biomedical Applications ◽

Climatic Changes ◽

New Drugs ◽

Biotechnological Applications ◽

Short Life ◽

Natural Pigments ◽

Bacterial Origin ◽

Low Sensitivity ◽

Artificial Origin

Microorganisms are considered one of the most promising niches for prospecting, production, and application of bioactive compounds of biotechnological interest. Among them, bacteria offer certain distinctive advantages due to their short life cycle, their low sensitivity to seasonal and climatic changes, their easy scaling as well as their ability to produce pigments of various colors and shades. Natural pigments have attracted the attention of industry due to an increasing interest in the generation of new products harmless to humans and nature. This is because pigments of artificial origin used in industry can have various deleterious effects. On this basis, bacterial pigments promise to be an attractive niche of new biotechnological applications, from functional food production to the generation of new drugs and biomedical therapies. This review endeavors to establish the beneficial properties of several relevant pigments of bacterial origin and their relation to applications in the biomedical area.

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The Impact of Food Supply Chain Management on Food Safety

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science Engineering and Technology ◽

10.32628/ijsrset207454 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 01-06

Author(s):

Jyoti Pawar ◽

Manisha Mali

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Food Safety ◽

Food Production ◽

Food Products ◽

Food Storage ◽

Modern World ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Temperature Level ◽

The Impact ◽

Food Safety And Quality

Food safety is top priority for a lot of industries right now, maintaining food security has become difficult when it comes to customer demand. The food put on the market has to be of good quality and safe for use, as well as not be a source of any infection. For this reason, securing food safety and quality is a matter of the responsibility of food producers and governments. During the process of distributing food products it will go through all stages of the supply chain, i. e. all processes from farm to the consumers? tables, is to achieve full supervision of food safety in the modern world, because the journey leading from food production to the consumer is very time-and space consuming. There are many dangers of food during the transport, food storage, or food preparation. In order to enable food quality and sanitary safety of food products, companies have to follow rules and regulation, standards, and norms at every stage of the supply chain. The aim of this paper is to show how food safety is important and the ways in which industry ensures a temperature level that different kinds of food products require.

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