Kane-Potaka, J and Anitha, S and Grando, S and Kumar, Parkavi and Bhandari, Raj and Kale, M (2024) Future Staples for Nutrition Security and Sustainability. In: Future Crops and Processing Technologies for Sustainability and Nutritional Security. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781003280170
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Climate change and environmental degradation have spurred a critical need for more sustainable farming methods, together with more resilient crops and systems that can adapt to and mitigate climate change and be less taxing on natural resources. In addition, the need to improve diets to tackle the alarming and increasing levels of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency and related non-communicable diseases has drawn attention to sustainable solutions that are central to the health of people and the planet while also being viable and building the resilience of farmers. Given that staples dominate farming systems and diets, solutions to diversify them with smarter foods like millets (including sorghum) are what can have a resounding impact. Millets are being recognised for contributing to some of the biggest nutrition and health needs. They are also acknowledged as being highly resilient and are able to survive under high temperatures and in highly marginalised land. Millets require fewer pesticides, fertilisers and less water to survive. Market predictions are also showing these ancient grains are making a comeback, increasing in popularity and demand.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Divisions: | Strategic Marketing and Communication |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | processing technologies, future crops, Food and Nutrition, food security |
| Subjects: | Others > Smart Foods Others > Food Processing & Technology Others > Food and Nutrition |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2025 04:25 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2025 04:25 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13249 |
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