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Wild Food Plants for Zero Hunger and Resilient Agriculture
Title
Wild Food Plants for Zero Hunger and Resilient Agriculture [electronic resource] / edited by Ajay Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Suruchi Singh, Bhupinder Singh.
ISBN
9789811965029
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVI, 386 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
The edited volume brings out a comprehensive collection of information relevant to wild food plants, their importance for global sustainable food security, future-readiness, and resilient agriculture. The book's primary focus is to cover topics on the diversity of wild food plants across the globe, their nutraceutical importance, production-consumption trends, integration into the current food menu, and marketing and livelihood opportunities to the indigenous people. Sustainable development goals 1, 2, and 3 are significant for a poverty-free, hunger-free world and ensure good health and wellbeing of the people, respectively. The three goals are important and interlinked as achieving zero poverty will help reduce hunger among the people. Availability of nutritional and balanced food ensures good health. Wild food plants are an essential part of a nourishing and healthy diet for indigenous communities. They are globally collected from natural habitats or cultivated at more minor scales. Although consumed locally, they are an essential part of the diets of tribal and indigenous communities worldwide and hold immense potential to alleviate global hunger. Considering their importance for global sustainable food security, it is essential to clearly understand the future role of wild food plants for future readiness and resilient agriculture. Therefore, this book provides a piece of important information on these aspects. The book is a valuable resource for the audience ranging from undergraduate science students to the NGOs and institutions involved in poverty alleviation programs, policymakers, dieticians, horticulturists, plant breeders, farmers, health experts, and food enthusiasts.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 05, 2023
Series
Plant Life and Environment Dynamics,
Contents
Chapter 1. Wild food plants for zero hunger and resilient agriculture: An introduction
Chapter 2. The culture has not faded: reliance on diverse wild edible plants in prehistory, history, and modern times
Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants: History, Use and Impacts of Globalisation
Chapter 4. Global traditional food systems that are based on wild food plants
Chapter 5. Usage of wild edible plants among upland indigenous communities of Northeast India
Chapter 6. Nutritional and health benefits of high altitude wild food plant, Hippophae rhamnoides for the Himalayan Communities
Chapter 7. Nutritional potential of wild edible rose hips in India for food security
Chapter 8. Ethnic mountain foods of Western and Eastern Himalaya, India
Chapter 9. Reemergence of pseudocereals as super foods for food security and human health: Current progress and future prospects
Chapter 10. Nutraceutical potential of tropical wild edible plants of India
Chapter 11. Utilization of wild food plants for crop improvement programs
Chapter 12. Conservation of wild food plants and crop wild relatives: planning, strategies, priorities and legal frameworks
Chapter 13. Databases relevant to wild food plants
Chapter 14. A comprehensive update on traditional agricultural knowledge of farmers in India.
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