Nutritional Quality of Agricultural Products under Climate Change Scenarios
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2021) | Viewed by 3625
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mycorrhizal fungi; nutritional quality; phytopathology; plant physiology; symbiosis
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Dear Colleagues,
In August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elaborated a special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/). The executive summary of Chapter 5, focused on food security, affirms that climate change is already affecting food security, mainly due to increasing temperatures, changes in the precipitation patterns, and more frequent extreme environmental events being the future perspectives pessimistic for food security. Recent studies carried out at Harvard University note that countries whose diet is based on rice or wheat will lose near 5% of their dietary protein intake by 2050. Moreover, increasing atmospheric CO2 can change plant stoichiometry, reduce the ratio between the nutritional and the caloric value of crops, and increase the micronutrient (zinc, copper or iron) malnutrition problem in the human diet. In addition, the impact of pests and diseases on food safety under scenarios of climate change should be taken into account due to the chemical and microbiological risks derived from the application of chemicals and from the accumulation of mycotoxins in the edible parts of crops.
Prof. Dr. Nieves Goicoechea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Crop nutrient quality under climate change scenarios
- Impact of pests and plant diseases on crop quality
- Preservation of food security under climate change
- Social and economic impacts of decreased food security
