eprintid: 9002
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2015-09-15 05:00:21
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type: article
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Ojiewo, C O
creators_name: Keatinge, D J D H
creators_name: Hughes, J
creators_name: Tenkouano, A
creators_name: Nair, R K
creators_name: Varshney, R K
creators_name: Siambi, S
creators_name: Monyo, E S
creators_name: Ganga Rao, N V P R
creators_name: Silim, S
icrisatcreators_name: Ojiewo, C O
icrisatcreators_name: Varshney, R K
icrisatcreators_name: Siambi, M
icrisatcreators_name: Monyo, E S
icrisatcreators_name: Ganga Rao, N V P R
affiliation: ICRISAT (Addis Ababa)
affiliation: AVRDC -The World Vegetable Center (Shanhua)
affiliation: AVRDC -The World Vegetable Center (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Nairobi)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Lilongwe)
country: Ethiopia
country: Taiwan
country: India
country: Kenya
country: Malawi
title: The Role of Vegetables and Legumes in Assuring Food, Nutrition, and Income Security for Vulnerable Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.10
divisions: D3
crps: crp1.5
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Nutrition; Income Security; Vegetables; Legumes; Africa
note: This article is published in the Special Issue: Global Food Security and Health
abstract: Rising food and nutritional insecurity threatens the livelihoods of millions of poor people, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Vegetable and legume production and consumption are a potent mechanism for small-scale, disadvantaged farmers to obtain the required nutrients in their diets and to generate much-needed income through trade. Vegetables and legumes are key sources of nutrients and health-promoting phytochemicals, providing higher micronutrient contents and a wider spectrum of essential compounds to meet nutritional and health needs than other food sources. Diversifying diets with vegetables and legumes is a cheaper, surer, and more sustainable way to supply a range of nutrients to the body and combat malnutrition and associated health problems than other approaches that target only a single or a few nutritional factors. Furthermore, vegetables and legumes often accompany staple crops in meals, and most staple crops are less palatable without vegetable or legume accompaniments. As a growing world population demands more and higher quality foods, and as environmental problems such as soil degradation, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and climate change become more acute, the need for innovative vegetable and legume research solutions to improve food and nutritional security cannot be overemphasized.
date: 2015-09
date_type: published
publication: World Medical & Health Policy
volume: 7
number: 3
publisher: Wiley
pagerange: 187-210
id_number: 10.1002/wmh3.148
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2153-2028
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.148
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&q=The+Role+of+Vegetables+and+Legumes+in+Assuring+Food%2C+Nutrition%2C+and+Income+Security+for+Vulnerable+Groups+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Ojiewo, C O and Keatinge, D J D H and Hughes, J and Tenkouano, A and Nair, R K and Varshney, R K and Siambi, S and Monyo, E S and Ganga Rao, N V P R and Silim, S  (2015) The Role of Vegetables and Legumes in Assuring Food, Nutrition, and Income Security for Vulnerable Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.  World Medical & Health Policy, 7 (3).  pp. 187-210.  ISSN 2153-2028     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9002/1/Ojiewo%20paper.pdf