The quest for a food secure and safe world has led to continuous effort toward improvements
of global food and health systems. While the developed countries seem to have these …

Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a
continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce …

Food security is an ongoing problem, and current staple foods are not sufficient to overcome
challenges such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. We propose here that small millets …

Modern agricultural systems that promote cultivation of a very limited number of crop species
have relegated indigenous crops to the status of neglected and underutilised crop species …

As a result of climate change, drought is predicted to pose greater pressure on food
production system than in the past. At the same time, crop yield co-varies with both …

This review of the literature on varietal change in sub‐Saharan Africa looks in detail at
adoption of new varieties of bananas in Uganda, cassava in Nigeria, potato in Kenya …

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

Main conclusion The diversification of food crops can improve our diets and address the
effects of climate change, and in this context the orphan crop Chinese yam shows significant …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Molecular analyses are providing new elements to decipher the origin, domestication and
dispersal of native Amazonian crops in an expanding archaeological context. Solid …