This study aims to analyse the role and contribution of small farms and small food businesses on the food system and food security. Drawing on a conceptual framework, methodology, and data from the EU H2020 'SALSA-Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security'...

Translating agricultural productivity into food availability depends on food supply chains. Agricultural policy and research efforts promote increased horticultural crop production and yields, but the ability of low-resource food supply chains to handle increased volumes of perishable crops is not...

Access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food is essential to ensure food and nutrition security and healthy lives for all. Secure access to nutritious food ensures healthy eating habits, economic growth, and stability in an economy. However, food insecurity and malnutrition persist globally. In...

"Valles Cruceños" rural region, Bolivia, is characterized by intrinsic water scarcity and increasing pressure for food production by the neighboring and fast-sprawling city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Here, orographic fog is a phenomenon occurring all year round, representing a sustainable water...

Pesticide residues in food and environment pose serious health risks to human beings. Plant protection laws, among other things, regulate misuse of agricultural pesticides. Compliance with such laws consequently reduces risks of pesticide residues in food and the environment. Studies were conducted ...

This research work was performed in the poorest urban area of Cairo (Egypt) in a slum area called Al-Quarafa. The aim was to develop and evaluate a simplified hydroponics system (HS) to grow vegetables for the local inhabitants who live in an extreme status of food unsafety. In the hydroponic...

This project focused on crops, production systems and issues that constrained production of vegetables in the Philippines and Australia. Low vegetable yields combined with unsophisticated marketing systems in the Southern Philippines keep vegetable farmers poor and threaten food security. The...

Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or subtropical climates. Moreover, this threat is escalating rapidly due to increasing difficulties in controlling virus...

Food loss and waste (FLW) in developing countries is often high at postharvest stages due to technical and infrastructural constraints, while supermarket expansion has induced organizational, institutional and technological changes in the agrifood supply chains. Here we assess the volume of FLW...

Postharvest losses in tomato fruits most especially during peak season have constituted a great barrier in ensuring balance in tomato supply and demand in the country. Furthermore, the prevailing traditional method of drying tomatoes especially during glut needs strengthening in order to...