Relearning Old Lessons for the Future of Food—By Bread Alone No Longer: Diversifying Diets with Fruit and Vegetables
By J. Keatinge, F. Waliyar, R. Jamnadas, A. Moustafa, M. Andrade, P. Drechsel, J. Hughes, Palchamy Kadirvel, K. Luther. 2010
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Diversifying diets and agricultural enterprises with fruit and vegetables is a potent weapon in the current global battle against malnutrition and poverty. Agricultural science can contribute substantially to enhance the development prospects and health of not only disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals at one end of the spectrum but also the growth and equity of national economies at the other. Moreover, with relatively simple applied research, new crop species and technologies can rapidly enter the development pathway to benefi t even the poorest people or nations. More upstream research can help to guard fruit and vegetable production against the vagaries of potential climatic uncertainty, which is projected to become more prominent over future decades. However, historical and continuing widespread underinvestment in fruit and vegetable research and development from the national to the global level may severely compromise the world’s ability to use such highvalue species for crop diversifi cation and as a major engine of development growth to ensure global food and nutritional security.
Subfields: Ecology
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Citations in the corpus
- Agrobiodiversity for food security, health and income (2013, background): “Two interrelated strategies emerge; the first is to promote a general increase in fruit and vegetable consumption; the second is to promote an intelligent diversification of the diet (Keatinge et al. 2010; Lutaladio et al. 2010).”
- The importance of vegetables in ensuring both food and nutritional security in attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (2011, background): “…types of statistics for vegetables makes the case much harder to argue for the importance of such crops, despite the fact that their dietary value is evident and their role in the provision of wholesome, tasty and attractive meals is also well-understood in most kitchens (Keatinge et al. 2010).”