Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Seven in this informative serial, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Nutritional improvement of cereal crops to combat hidden hunger during COVID-19 pandemic: Progress and prospects, Resilience and food security, Food insecurity in Lebanon, Promising technologies on food security and sustainability, and Agrobiodiversity.
Author(s): Marc J. Cohen
Series: Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, 7
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 176
City: London
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Advances in Food Security and Sustainability
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
References
Chapter One: Facing up to our converging climate and food system catastrophes
1. Introduction
2. Lessons from the past: Food aid as an important but inadequate response to hunger crises
3. Meeting a challenge more complex than producing more food
4. A promising conceptual shift at the 2021 United Nations food systems summit
5. Harnessing science and innovation to transform food systems
6. Levers for food system change
7. Conclusions
References
Chapter Two: Women and food security in Africa: The double burden in addressing gender equality and environmental sustain ...
1. Introduction
1.1. Definition of food security: Gender dimensions, climate impact and sustainability
2. Women´s contribution to food security in Africa
2.1. Challenges/limitations encountered and innovations employed
3. Gender dimension of food security in Africa
4. Conclusion and recommendations
References
Chapter Three: Nutritional improvement of cereal crops to combat hidden hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: Progress and ...
1. Introduction
2. Population structure and genetic base-broadening
3. Genotyping approaches for association mapping
4. High-throughput phenotyping platforms and statistical tools
5. Integrating omics with association mapping
6. Application of association mapping in genetic improvement of nutritional traits
6.1. Protein content
6.2. Carbohydrate and related traits
6.3. Micronutrients
6.4. Secondary metabolites
7. Biofortification using conventional and genomic approaches
8. The way forward
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Four: The future of food security: Implantation of technologies
1. Introduction
2. Efforts
3. Limits to advances of technology in food security
4. Recommendations
5. Conclusion
References
Further reading
Chapter Five: Food security in Lebanon: A multifaceted challenge
1. Introduction
2. Barriers
3. Impact on climate change
3.1. Efforts
3.2. Recommendations
3.3. Conclusion
References
Further reading
Chapter Six: Agriculture and food security in Northern Nigeria, Part I: The implications of climate change
1. Introduction
2. Climate change in Northern Nigeria
3. Impact on crop production
4. Impact on livestock production
5. Impact on fish production
6. Conclusion
7. Recommendations
7.1. Investing in renewable energy
7.2. Agricultural initiatives
7.3. Climate change awareness
References
Chapter Seven: Agriculture and food security in Northern Nigeria, Part II: The impact of mining
1. Background
2. Mining activities in northern Nigeria
2.1. Mining and implications for agricultural productivity
2.2. Impact of mining on the agricultural ecosystem
3. Conclusion
4. Recommendations
References
Further reading
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