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This book focuses on food security and safety issues in Africa, a
continent presently challenged with malnutrition and food
insecurity. The continuous increase in the human population of
Africa will lead to higher food demands, and climate change has
already affected food production in most parts of Africa, resulting
in drought, reduced crop yields, and loss of livestock and income.
For Africa to be food-secure, safe and nutritious food has to be
available, well-distributed, and sufficient to meet people's food
requirements. Contributors to Food Security and Safety: African
Perspectives offer solutions to the lack of adequate safe and
nutritious food in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as highlight the
positive efforts being made to address this lack through a holistic
approach. The book discusses the various methods used to enhance
food security, such as food fortification, fermentation, genetic
modification, and plant breeding for improved yield and resistance
to diseases. Authors emphasize the importance of hygiene and food
safety in food preparation and preservation, and address how the
constraints of climate change could be overcome using smart crops.
As a comprehensive reference text, Food Security and Safety:
African Perspectives seeks to address challenges specific to the
African continent while enhancing the global knowledge base around
food security, food safety, and food production in an era of rapid
climate change.
This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and
advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial
venture. This book deals with the concept of entrepreneurship
skills for production, cost-benefit analysis and marketing of
button, oyster, milky mushroom, Ganoderma sp, Single cell protein,
Breads, Cheese, Yoghurt, Wine, Beer, Probiotics, Prebiotics
fermented vegetables, and Fermented Fish etc. Chapters cover the
applications of microorganisms in small and large scale production
to achieve a sustainable output. This book provides essential
knowledge and working business protocols from all related
disciplines of food and dairy industry, probiotics industry,
mushroom industry, beverage and baking industry, poultry industry,
and aquaculture industry etc. This book is useful to graduate
students, research scholars and postdoctoral fellows, and teachers
who belong to different disciplines via botany, food microbiology,
biotechnology, aquaculture microbiology and poultry microbiology.
The other two volumes are focused on agriculture and industrial
microbiology.
This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and
advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial
venture. This volume explains the entrepreneurship skills for
production, cost-benefit analysis and marketing of bio-fertilizers,
bio-pesticides, bio-insecticides, seaweed liquid biofertilizer, and
phosphate solubilizers. Chapters cover the applications of
microorganisms in small and large scale production to achieve a
sustainable output. The book provides essential knowledge and
working business protocols from all related disciplines in
agribusiness, organic farming, and economic integration. This book
is useful to graduate students, research scholars and postdoctoral
fellows, and teachers who belong to different disciplines via
Botany, Agriculture, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology,
Plant Pathology, and Horticulture. Next two volumes are focused on
food and industrial microbiology.
Sustainable food production is a global challenge with respect to
climate change and an ever-increasing world population.
Conventional crop production using agrochemicals presents human
health and environmental challenges. Rising concerns about
environmental sustainability have increased attention toward
improved, efficient, and sustainable means of crop production.
Various strategies are employed in enhancing crop production to
adapt and mitigate climate change and ensure food security. The
future of food production relies on improving productivity without
compromising long-term productivity and environmental
sustainability. Feeding the ever-increasing world population would
require concerted efforts by all stakeholders to combat the impact
of climate change and numerous ecological challenges facing food
production. Hence, innovative technologies and methods are
indispensable in mitigating the effects on food security. The book
looks at the current challenges and solutions, from an African
perspective, regarding food safety and health management, food
security and nutrition, climate change and sustainable food
production, and forest resources and food security. The target
audience is scientists, graduate students, researchers,
academicians, and professionals in food production for sustainable
development and ecosystem management. This book will also be
helpful to policymakers and specialists in framing future feasible
agro-ecosystem policies.
This book focuses on food security and safety issues in Africa, a
continent presently challenged with malnutrition and food
insecurity. The continuous increase in the human population of
Africa will lead to higher food demands, and climate change has
already affected food production in most parts of Africa, resulting
in drought, reduced crop yields, and loss of livestock and income.
For Africa to be food-secure, safe and nutritious food has to be
available, well-distributed, and sufficient to meet people's food
requirements. Contributors to Food Security and Safety: African
Perspectives offer solutions to the lack of adequate safe and
nutritious food in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as highlight the
positive efforts being made to address this lack through a holistic
approach. The book discusses the various methods used to enhance
food security, such as food fortification, fermentation, genetic
modification, and plant breeding for improved yield and resistance
to diseases. Authors emphasize the importance of hygiene and food
safety in food preparation and preservation, and address how the
constraints of climate change could be overcome using smart crops.
As a comprehensive reference text, Food Security and Safety:
African Perspectives seeks to address challenges specific to the
African continent while enhancing the global knowledge base around
food security, food safety, and food production in an era of rapid
climate change.
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