scholarly journals Expanding the Reach of Crop Plants for Food Security: A Lesson Integrating Non-Majors Students Into the Discussion of Food Diversity and Human Nutrition

CourseSource ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cody S. Bekkering ◽  
Li Tian
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Human Nutrition ◽  
Food Diversity

scholarly journals The Importance of Brassica Vegetables to the Kingdom of Eswatini: A Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Michael T. Masarirambi ◽  
Kwanele A. Nxumalo ◽  
Daniel V. Dlamini ◽  
Lokadhia Manwa ◽  
Molyn Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Human Nutrition ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Brassica Vegetables ◽  
Postharvest Handling

Brassica vegetables are diverse and widely consumed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of the world. Although exotic in Southern Africa brassicas are now relatively important vegetables produced and consumed in the region all year round. In their production, postharvest handling, storage and processing chain, employment is created and revenue is generated and thus their contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). Brassicas are not only important economically but by far their greatest contribution is to human nutrition and health. They contain vitamins and cancer preventing phytochemicals. They also contribute fibre which is important for proper digestion and is anticancer preventing material. Brassica vegetables provide interesting colour when incorporated in salads. They are components which add up to achieving food security in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Despite immense importance of brassica vegetables in the Kingdom, there is dearth of information pertaining to their agro-climatological requirements and their nutritional awareness among the citizens. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the agro-climatological needs of the brassica vegetables and to bring awareness of their health and food security contribution through documentation and community education.

Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security

2022 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
Anna Koprivova ◽  
Stanislav Kopriva
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Sulfur Metabolism ◽  
Human Nutrition

Introduction to functional foods

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 ◽  
pp. 213-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
North America ◽  
Functional Foods ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Nutrition ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Disease Avoidance ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Recent Innovation

It is axiomatic that adequate supplies of good quality food is beneficial for health. Conversely it has also long been recognised that populations suffering from malnutrition are more susceptible to various diseases and have poor health. However the concept of functional foods, as foods that offer some health-associated advantage over conventional foodstuffs is a relatively recent innovation into the human nutrition market. Functional foods are generally defined as foods that have an effect on well-being and health or result in reduction in disease risk. The advantages offered by functional foods are generally related to disease avoidance and health maintenance rather than to therapeutic effects of foods. Functional foods are now part of a worldwide nutrition market estimated at $156 billion in 2001 (Starling, 2002). However, they can only become significant in societies where food security is assured and basic foodstuffs are relatively cheap. Consequently the major markets are North America, Europe and Japan.

scholarly journals Foundational and Translational Research Opportunities to Improve Plant Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 515-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Michelmore ◽  
Gitta Coaker ◽  
Rebecca Bart ◽  
Gwyn Beattie ◽  
Andrew Bent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Dynamic Components ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Global Food

Reader Comments The white paper reports the deliberations of a workshop focused on biotic challenges to plant health held in Washington, D.C. in September 2016. Ensuring health of food plants is critical to maintaining the quality and productivity of crops and for sustenance of the rapidly growing human population. There is a close linkage between food security and societal stability; however, global food security is threatened by the vulnerability of our agricultural systems to numerous pests, pathogens, weeds, and environmental stresses. These threats are aggravated by climate change, the globalization of agriculture, and an over-reliance on nonsustainable inputs. New analytical and computational technologies are providing unprecedented resolution at a variety of molecular, cellular, organismal, and population scales for crop plants as well as pathogens, pests, beneficial microbes, and weeds. It is now possible to both characterize useful or deleterious variation as well as precisely manipulate it. Data-driven, informed decisions based on knowledge of the variation of biotic challenges and of natural and synthetic variation in crop plants will enable deployment of durable interventions throughout the world. These should be integral, dynamic components of agricultural strategies for sustainable agriculture.

scholarly journals Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition Through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash I. Gangashetty ◽  
Babu N. Motagi ◽  
Ramachandra Pavan ◽  
Mallikarjun B. Roodagi
Keyword(s):  
Crop Plants ◽  
Human Nutrition
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