Crop Biofortification and Food Security
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 January 2023) | Viewed by 3697
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rapid developments in technology have enhanced globalization and people are more concerned about one another. Therefore, sensitivity to global food security is increasing day by day. However, in recent times many global drivers have diverted the attention of world communities fighting against hunger and food insecurity. It is challenging to achieve the targets of food security, especially in developing countries. Post COVID-19 challenges also enhance the threats to food security of poor resource countries. Besides global hunger “hidden hunger” has come up with the great potential to threaten food security, also affecting the human immune system. Hidden hunger (micronutrient malnutrition) is affecting more than half of the world's population and is a reason for a wide range of diseases. Pre-school-going children, young girls, and women are the main victims of micronutrient malnutrition. Changing living styles and reducing the nutritious value of staple foods are the main reason for this alarming issue. Crop biofortification has been considered an effective tool to combat micronutrient malnutrition for decades, especially in developing countries. Low bioavailability of essential microelements in edible parts of food crops is also affecting well-off global populations. Although efforts are being made worldwide and many successes have also been reported; however, is still a lot to do because the contribution of biofortification is still very limited and needs an immediate extension.
The purpose of this Special Issues is to highlight the recent research on biofortification, policy development to use the biofortification as a tool to combat malnutrition and to come up with further suggestions to expedite the biofortification eliminating all relevant concerns. Furthermore, collecting a set of articles from different parts of world will also provide the base for further research work on this issue.
Dr. Abdul Wakeel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malnutrition
- micronutrients
- staple crops
- cereals
- nutrient enhancement
- hidden hunger
- food security
