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Relearning old lessons for the future of food—by bread alone no longer: diversifying diets with fruit and vegetables

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http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2009.09.0528
 
Title Relearning old lessons for the future of food—by bread alone no longer: diversifying diets with fruit and vegetables
 
Creator Keatinge, J D H
Waliyar, F
Jamnadas, R H
Moustafa, A
Andrade, M
Drechsel, P
Hughes, Jacqueline d’A
Kadirvel, P
Luther, K
 
Subject Food legumes
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Crop Science Society of America
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/92/1/CropSci50_1_S51-_S56_2010.pdf
Keatinge, J D H and Waliyar, F and Jamnadas, R H and Moustafa, A and Andrade, M and Drechsel, P and Hughes, Jacqueline d’A and Kadirvel, P and Luther, K (2010) Relearning old lessons for the future of food—by bread alone no longer: diversifying diets with fruit and vegetables. Crop Science, 50 (1). S-51.