relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10106/
title: Diversifying Food Systems in the Pursuit of Sustainable Food Production and Healthy Diets
creator: Dwivedi, S L
creator: Lammerts van Bueren, E T
creator: Ceccarelli, S
creator: Grando, S
creator: Upadhyaya, H D
creator: Ortiz, R
subject: Food Production
subject: Plant Breeding
subject: Food and Nutrition
subject: Food Security
description: Increasing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food because of a growing population, and the pledge to maintain biodiversity and other resources, pose a major challenge to agriculture that is already threatened by a changing climate. Diverse and healthy diets, largely based on plant-derived food, may reduce diet-related illnesses. Investments in plant sciences will be necessary to design diverse cropping systems balancing productivity, sustainability, and nutritional quality. Cultivar diversity and nutritional quality are crucial. We call for better cooperation between food and medical scientists, food sector industries, breeders, and farmers to develop diversified and nutritious cultivars that reduce soil degradation and dependence on external inputs, such as fertilizers and pesticides, and to increase adaptation to climate change and resistance to emerging pests.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2017-10
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10106/1/Diversifying.pdf
identifier:   Dwivedi, S L and Lammerts van Bueren, E T and Ceccarelli, S and Grando, S and Upadhyaya, H D and Ortiz, R  (2017) Diversifying Food Systems in the Pursuit of Sustainable Food Production and Healthy Diets.  Trends in Plant Science, 22 (10).  pp. 842-856.  ISSN 13601385     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.06.011
relation: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.06.011