Food safety problems are a major hindrance to achieving food security, trade, and healthy living in Africa. Fungi and their secondary metabolites, known as mycotoxins, represent an important concern in this regard. Attempts such as agricultural, storage, and processing practices, and creation of...

This paper introduces the role played by edible fungi and edible fungi industry in constructing the overall situation of food security from three aspects: The proposal and establishment of the concept of edible fungi as a big food, the role of edible fungi in food security and the role of edible...

Potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is a critical disease of potato and other solanaceous crops, such as tomato. The history of late blight is, in some ways, the history of modern plant pathology. It received much attention in the mid 1800's by causing the Irish potato famine, and ...

The importance of forests to safeguard agricultural production through regulating ecosystem services such as clean water, soil protection, and climate regulation is well documented, yet the contributions of forests and trees to provide food for the nutritional needs of the increasing human...

Purpose - This paper aims to address the issue of food security and its role in the inclusion of edible and medicinal mushrooms in the diets of nutritionally vulnerable populations in Colombia, allowing an overview of the nutritional situation and its main structural causes, the importance of food...

Matching the global food demand by 2050 and to ensure the stability of food security in over than 99 countries, it is necessary to scale up the production of food such as sorghum, wheat, rice, maize and sugarcane which are however natural hosts of Cochliobolus species. Cochliobolus species major...

The rapid development of genome editing and other new genomic techniques (NGT) has evoked manifold expectations on purposes of the application of these techniques to crop plants. In this study, we identify and align these expectations with current scientific development. We apply a...

The landless food concept's initial goal was to ensure food security for future generations in view of limited land resources. One of the ideas, in this regard, proposes edible insects, fungi, and algae becoming promising food sources and parts of the food chain. Although some cultures are familiar ...

This article reports on a project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research that will work with smallholder farmers in Mozambique and Tanzania to identify practical biosecurity approaches for bananas which are essential for food security in the region. African banana...

This article conducts a systematic literature review to analyze and consolidate empirical and/or theoretical evidence that shows the importance of wild foods for household food security in tropical forest areas. For these territories, forest plants, fungi and animals are not only important as a...