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Author Padulosi, Stefano

Title Orphan Crops for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security Promoting Neglected and Underutilized Species
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (471 p.)
Series Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity Ser
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- PART I: Introduction to Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) -- 1 NUS: what they are and why we need them more than ever -- 2 Landmark NUS events and key publications -- 3 Mainstreaming NUS for nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A holistic approach -- 4 NUS and peoples sense of dietary diversity and well-being -- 5 Diversity and small millets in India -- 6 From discovery to food system diversification with African neglected and underutilized species
7 Barriers to adopting a diversity of NUS fruit trees in Latin American food systems -- 8 Promoting buckwheat in China -- 9 Neglected and underutilized species of Mexico: status and priorities for their conservation and sustainable use -- 10 Neglected and underutilized species in Brazil: from obscurity to non-conventional edible plants -- 11 Underutilized genetic resources and crop diversification in Europe -- 12 Neglected and underutilized species and indigenous foodways of Oceania -- PART II: Approaches, methods and tools for the use enhancement of NUS
13 The BFN Mainstreaming Toolkit. A roadmap to using neglected and underutilized species for food system change -- 14 Development of seasonal calendars for sustainable diets -- experiences from Guatemala, Mali and India -- 15 Enhancing the use of underutilized food crops: Partnerships in a success story of a pop cereal business in Kenya -- 16 Agritourism and conservation of neglected and underutilized native Andean crops in Santiago de Okola, Bolivia -- 17 Mainstreaming African vegetables to improve diets and livelihoods -- 18 Slow Food and NUS: Protecting and promoting endangered food products
PART III: Integrated conservation and use of minor millets -- 19 Conservation and utilization of small millets genetic resources: Global and Indian perspectives -- 20 Challenges to conserving millets in ecologically sensitive areas -- 21 Community-centred value-chain development of nutri-millets: Challenges and best practices in India -- 22 Taking millets to the millions: Experiences from government-driven value chains -- 23 Millet-based intercropping systems facilitated by beneficial microbes for climate-resilient, sustainable farming in tropics
24 Status of minor millets processing technologies in India: An overview -- PART IV: Nutritional and food security roles of minor millets -- 25 Modelling the food security role of millets under climate change in eastern Madhya Pradesh -- 26 Germplasm characterization and novel technologies to unleash the nutritional potential of small millets -- 27 Millets in farming systems in support of nutrition and social safety net programmes -- 28 The smart food approach: the importance of the triple bottom line and diversifying staples -- PART V: Stakeholders and global champions
Notes Description based upon print version of record
29 Voices from the communities: the custodians of neglected and underutilized species
Subject Crops -- Germplasm resources.
Food crops.
Crops -- Germplasm resources
Food crops
Form Electronic book
Author King, E. D. Israel Oliver
Hunter, Danny
Swaminathan, M. S
ISBN 9781000450361
1000450368