Local Food for Global Future
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Local Food for Global Future
A critical analysis of the post World-War II industrial agriculture and food system showed a number of drawbacks. To overcome these difficulties a new paradigm is needed: sustainable food security that requires a focus on local resources. Starting from recently published articles and new research the book presents a structured approach, which offers opportunities and challenges for lo...
Rearing of Eri silkworm on Tapioca
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Rearing of Eri silkworm on Tapioca
Eri silkworm is polyphagous species and reared mostly on the leaves of Castor and Kesseru plant. Tapioca is also as known as Cassava is an important starchy root crops and has been grown in India for more than a century. Tapioca leaves are also good source of protein and are utilized as secondary source of food to rear eri silkworm. Almost all insect are host specific their most prefe...
What motivates Greek consumers to buy organic food?
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What motivates Greek consumers to buy organic food?
Interest in organic farming and food has increased tremendously as consumers and marketers respond to coverage in the media about health and environmental impacts of pesticides, genetically-modified organisms, and food safety. Consumption of organic food in Greece is very low and, at the same time, it is increasing at a fast rate. Thus, in the present book, an attempt was made to iden...
Crossbred Cows and Food Security
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Crossbred Cows and Food Security
Millions of people in developing countries lack adequate access to food. Increased food production and the commercialization of agriculture are cornerstones for increasing food security. Considerable literature focuses on commercialization effects of crop production, but little attention is given to livestock production, integral to mixed farming. By contrast, this study examines the ...
Food Security Situation in Nepal
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Food Security Situation in Nepal
Achieving food security is still a major problem for households in most rural areas of Nepal. This book presents the food security situation of Chepang communities of Nepal on basis of all four indicators (food availability, food access, food utilization and food stability) of food security. The author has tried to assess their food sufficiency scenario, knowing the coping strategies ...
Bamboo
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Bamboo
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Reports have shown that the pandas are desperately searching for food! Bamboo shortage is a major indicator of threat being posed against species. In addition to this, researchers have shown that the giant pandas are also facing rapid habitat loss. The breedi...
Land Evaluation for Upland Rice Cultivation in Southern Cameroon
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Land Evaluation for Upland Rice Cultivation in Southern Cameroon
The Achievement of food security is one of the main challenges of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. A steadfast increase in rice production can substantially contribute in ameliorating food security. Actually, rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's population and its consumption is increasing rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa. In Cameroon, per capita consumption of ri...
Low Glycemic Index Foods
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Low Glycemic Index Foods
Recent upsurge in non-insulin dependent diabetes and cardiovascular diseases has accentuated nutrition therapy as a means to clinical management for keeping a check over such chronic diseases. In this regard, Glycemic Index (GI) has turned into a pivotal tool for nutritionists to assess the behaviour of foods in the human system. Further, it is being employed by food technologists to ...
Earth Oven
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Earth Oven
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An earth oven or cooking pit is one of the most simple and long-used cooking structures. At its simplest, an earth oven is simply a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food. Earth ovens have been used in many places and cultures in the past, and the presence of such cooking pits is a key sign of human settlement oft...
Non-thermal Food Engineering Operations
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Non-thermal Food Engineering Operations
A number of food engineering operations, in which heat is not used as a preserving factor, have been employed and are applied for preparation (cleaning, sorting, etc.), conversion (milling, agglomeration, etc.) or preservation (irradiation, high pressure processing, pulsed electric fields, etc.) purposes in the food industry. This book presents a comprehensive treatise of all normally...
Nutritional Value of Mung Bean and Mash Bean of Pakistan
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Nutritional Value of Mung Bean and Mash Bean of Pakistan
This research work includes the nutritional value of mung and mash bean of Pakistan, which are consumed as food and play significant role in human nutritional needs. The beans of mung and mash were used to prepare protein isolates where defatted beans flour was used as the starting material. Through this method 54% and 33% of protein isolates were made (from mung and mash varieties). ...
Just Hungry
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Just Hungry
Just Hungry investigates the potential of land reform to reduce hunger in developing countries. Towards this end, it studies the relationship between land concentration and chronic hunger in 41 countries across the developing world. The book analyses whether developing countries with a more egalitarian distribution of land enjoy less hunger than countries where land is concentrated in...
The Science of Cooking
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The Science of Cooking
Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal studies science courses and will cover a range of scientific principles of food, cooking and the science of taste and smell. Chapters include: The Science of Food and Nutrition of Macromolecules; Science of Taste and Smell; Milk, Cream, and...
Food Fortification
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Food Fortification
It is an honor and genuine pleasure to introduce Food fortification with Micronutrients text book. This book is intended to draw attention to the roles played by food fortification with micronutrients in human health and will serve as a useful text and reference. Controlling vitamin and mineral deficiency is an affordable opportunity to improve the lives of many millions of people and...
The role of home gardening in household food security
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The role of home gardening in household food security
Home Gardening and Food Security Attaining food and nutrition security is one of the Millennium Development Goals. In Kenya, a lot of effort has been put in to securing food for the nation. Yet, at household level, we still find many rural households struggling to afford even a meal per day. One of the resources that these households can utilize is land, which a majority do have. This...
Market access and agricultural production
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Market access and agricultural production
This study analyses smallholder production response to farm contraints, and development of product markets and off-farm employment opportunities. Results show imperfections in labour and food markets that cause farmers to allaocate land to crops that are less profitable but most suited to satisfying household food needs. High food prices induce farmers to rely more on own farm product...
Production of Xanthan gum from non-conventional substrates
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Production of Xanthan gum from non-conventional substrates
Xanthan gum is an important microbial polysaccaride produced by Xanthomonas campestris. It has wide industrial applications in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, oil, and textile industries. It is used as stabilizer, Thickener, and emulsifier agent. It is nonsensitizing and does not cause skin or eye irritation. On this basis, xanthan has been approved by the United States Food and Drug ...
Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture
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Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture
case studies of successful governance models could be referred to by others in order to improve the management of the sector. This is the initial step toward compiling stories of aquaculture successes, and the editorial team is to be congratulated for its great efforts. In approaching this difficult assignment, the team benefited from the leadership of the Network of Aquaculture Centr...
Banana and Plantain, staple foods for African continent
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Banana and Plantain, staple foods for African continent
Banana and Plantain, Staple foods for African continent is a unique text reference that provides detailed biochemical testing protocols with a view to compare the nutritional potentials between banana and plantain. Banana Plantain flour are most important raw material in the baking and confectionery industry, and complementary food formulation. The book is set apart from others in the...
Analysis of Food Security and Possibilities for Improvement
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Analysis of Food Security and Possibilities for Improvement
This study examines the food security situation of Bangladesh through secondary data. The overall food grains production growth rate is higher than population growth rate from 1971/72 to 2004/05. The long term (1971/72-2004/05) growth in food grain production was 2.8%, to which 79% was contributed by yield growth. The overall growth rate of area under food grain was 0.4 in 1971/72-200...
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Low Glycemic Index Foods

Recent upsurge in non-insulin dependent diabetes and cardiovascular diseases has accentuated nutrition therapy as a means to clinical management fo...

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Just Hungry investigates the potential of land reform to reduce hunger in developing countries. Towards this end, it studies the relationship betwe...

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The Science of Cooking

Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal ...

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Food Fortification

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The role of home gardening in household fo...

Home Gardening and Food Security Attaining food and nutrition security is one of the Millennium Development Goals. In Kenya, a lot of effort has be...

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Market access and agricultural production

This study analyses smallholder production response to farm contraints, and development of product markets and off-farm employment opportunities. R...

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Production of Xanthan gum from non-convent...

Xanthan gum is an important microbial polysaccaride produced by Xanthomonas campestris. It has wide industrial applications in food, chemical, phar...

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Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture

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Banana and Plantain, Staple foods for African continent is a unique text reference that provides detailed biochemical testing protocols with a view...

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Analysis of Food Security and Possibilitie...

This study examines the food security situation of Bangladesh through secondary data. The overall food grains production growth rate is higher than...

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