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A conceptual framework for crop-based agri-food supply chain characterization under uncertainty
(Springer, 2020)
Crop-based Agri-food Supply Chains (AFSCs) are complex systems that face multiple sources of uncertainty that can cause a significant imbalance between supply and demand in terms of product varieties, quantities, qualities, ...
Climate Change and Food Security
(Mujumdar, Arun S., 2019)
Climate change resulting in global warming has a massive adverse effect onthe production of foods of all kind. The first chapter discusses this matter inconsiderable detail. It is clear that it is essential to follow ...
Eco-agri-food systems: today's realities and tomorrow's challenges
(Geneva: UN Environment, 2018)
Provides an overview of the diversity of agriculture and food systems, each with different contributions to global food security, impacts on the natural resource base and ways of working through food system supply chains. ...
Natural Food Preservatives Against Microorganisms
(Academic Press, 2018)
Food products can be subjected to contamination by bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Most of these microorganisms can cause undesirable reactions that may deteriorate flavor, odor, color, sensory, textural properties of food as ...
Increasing folate content through the use of lactic acid bacteria in novel fermented foods
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Folate is an essential B-group vitamin that plays a key role in numerous metabolic reactions such as energy usage and the biosynthesis of DNA, RNA, and some amino acids. Humans cannot synthesize folate so an exogenous ...
Challenges and initiatives in reducing food losses and waste: Latin America and the Caribbean
(2020-03)
The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region comprises 42 countries, from Mexico to the southernmost point of the continent, including the territories in the Caribbean Sea (PNUD, 2019). It is a heterogeneous region in ...
Ecohydrology: processes and implications for rangelands
(Springer, 2017)
This chapter is organized around the concept of ecohydrological processes that are explicitly tied to ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are benefits that people receive from ecosystems. We focus on (1) the regulating ...
Gluten-Free Autochthonous Foodstuff (South America and Other Countries)
(OmniaSciencie, 2015)
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity for agricultureand nutrition have been extensively pointed out as crucial elements forfood security and nutrition. Likewise, the relevance of learning fromtraditional ...
Isomaltulose: The Next Sweetener, A Quick Review
(CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 2020)
The social behavior of new generations consume highly processed foods and high levels of fat and sugar, such as glucose or high-fructose syrup (corn syrup), commonly used in the manufacture of hard candies, have generated ...
Quinoa: An Incan Crop to Face Global Changes in Agriculture
(John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2015)
Environmental changes have always occurred in the past but in the last decades these have escalated to critical levels, presenting environmental risk to people, especially in terms of food supply, as it affects crop yield, ...