192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/24476 2026-04-10T13:57:01Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/72499 Title: Food Security and Sustainability Editors: George Mergos Marina Papanastassiou Description: Th e relevance of this volume is very timely. With evidence on climate change accumulating, the issue of feeding 9.5 billion people in 2050 climbs high up in the international agenda. Th ere is little doubt that global warming represents for mankind the huge challenge of making development sustainable. Hence, despite current eff orts, these two issues, food security and sustainability, remain unsettled. It is not just that the world needs to produce more food to accommodate rapidly rising demand due to fast-growing populations and incomes, but food systems are also under severe stress due to climate change, there is a diet shift to animal products and resource degradation. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/57585 Title: Global Food Insecurity Editors: Behnassi, Mohamed; Sidney Draggan Sanni Yaya Description: This volume is the outcome of an International Conference held in Agadir (Morocco), in November 2009, titled “The Integration of Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Development, and Ecosystems in the Context of Climate Change, the Energy Crisis and Food Insecurity”, chaired by Dr. Mohamed Behnassi. The Conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Ibn Zhor University of Agadir (Morocco) and the North South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS), with the fruitful support and sponsorship of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/57554 Title: Medical Foods from Natural Sources Authors: Meera Kaur Editors: Susan Safren, David Parsons, Jeffrey Taub, Springer Description: this book is the development of the medical (enteral) foods from natural sources. Because of the prevalent drug-like approach to the formula- tion of medical foods, most of the enteral foods marketed currently are a blend of defined or chemically defined food ingredients. These ingredients lack the natural stimulants and protectants present in normal foods. Further, they are unpalatable and often artificially flavored and excessively sweetened to mask the chemical taste of the ingredients. Furthermore, the defined ingredients-based enteral foods are too expensive for low-income-group patients. To overcome the aforementioned drawbacks associated with defined ingredi- ents-based enteral foods, this book describes the development of cost-effective enteral foods from natural sources such as barley, rice, mung bean, eggs, milk, etc. True, the preparation of nutrient-dense liquid foods from the natural food ingredi- ents that can flow easily through feeding tube can be a difficult task for the scien- tists. To overcome this difficulty, this book suggests the use of malted cereals and grain legumes as bases for the preparation of enteral foods. This is where this book offers a unique contribution to the food-like approach to develop medical foods, which is an alternative to conventional drug-like approach. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/54532 Title: Food security and soil quality Editors: Rattan Lal, B. A. Stewart Description: Food security implies physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food by all people at all times to meet their dietary and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In this regard, food security has four distinct compo- nents: (1) food production through improved and sustainable management of soil, water, crops, livestock, and other components of farming systems; (2) food stabil- ity as determined by reliable agronomic production in view of biotic and abiotic stresses including the probably adverse effects of climate change; (3) food access as determined by the economic/financial capacity of the household; and (4) food effec- tiveness as determined by safety and health standards. With these criteria, there is a serious global food crisis right now (especially from 2006 to 2009) as it was during the 1960s. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z