Unleashing the potential of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Author: Andrade, M.
Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2009-02-27
Total Pages: 208
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Author: Andrade, M.
Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2009-02-27
Total Pages: 208
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Author: Victor R. Preedy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1461470765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Handbook of Food Fortification and Health: From Concepts to Public Health Applications Volume 1 represents a multidisciplinary approach to food fortification. This book aims to disseminate important material pertaining to the fortification of foods from strategic initiatives to public health applications. Optimal nutritional intake is an essential component of health and wellbeing. Unfortunately situations arise on a local or national scale when nutrient supply or intake is deemed to be suboptimal. As a consequence, ill health occurs affecting individual organs or causing premature death. In terms of public health, malnutrition due to micronutrient deficiency can be quite profound imposing economic and social burdens on individuals and whole communities. This comprehensive text examines the broad spectrum of food fortification in all its manifestations. Coverage includes sections on definitions of fortifications, fortified foods, beverages and nutrients, fortifications with micronutrients, biofortification, impact on individuals, public health concepts and issues, and selective methods and food chemistry. Handbook of Food Fortification and Health: From Concepts to Public Health Applications Volume 1 is an indispensable text designed for nutritionists, dietitians, clinicians and health related professionals.
Author: Jan Low
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2015-10-28
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 1780644205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sweetpotato and potato are expanding faster than any other food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing investment in research to address bottlenecks in value chains concerning these two crops, and growing interest from the private sector in investing in them. This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours.
Author: Kapinga, R.S.
Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2010-03-28
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 9290603836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gad Loebenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-03-21
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 1402094752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.
Author: Irwin Goldman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1119616751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contents 1. Maria Isabel Andrade: Sweetpotato Breeder, Technology Transfer Specialist, and Advocate 1 2. Development of Cold Climate Grapes in the Upper Midwestern U.S.: The Pioneering Work of Elmer Swenson 31 3. Candidate Genes to Extend Fleshy Fruit Shelf Life 61 4. Breeding Naked Barley for Food, Feed, and Malt 95 5. The Foundations, Continuing Evolution, and Outcomes from the Application of Intellectual Property Protection in Plant Breeding and Agriculture 121 6. The Use of Endosperm Genes for Sweet Corn Improvement: A review of developments in endosperm genes in sweet corn since the seminal publication in Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 1, by Charles Boyer and Jack Shannon (1984) 215 7. Gender and Farmer Preferences for Varietal Traits: Evidence and Issues for Crop Improvement 243 8. Domestication, Genetics, and Genomics of the American Cranberry 279 9. Images and Descriptions of Cucurbita maxima in Western Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 317
Author: Calestous Juma
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0190237236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.
Author: Debbie Rees
Publisher: International Potato Center
Published: 2003-06
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780859545488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael L. Morris
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0821379429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.