The breakout session ‘Nutrition challenges ahead’ was held at the EFSA 2nd Scientific Conference ‘Shaping the Future of Food Safety, Together’ (Milan, Italy, 14–16 October 2015) to address the main problems in the area of nutrition to be faced in the 21st Century, both at a global and individual ...
Chen, J.
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Fewtrell, M.
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Kennedy, G.
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Naska, A.
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Riediger, K.
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Roos, N.
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Sanders, T.
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Tuohy, K.M.
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Valtuena-Martinez, S.
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[Nutrition challenges ahead]
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Nutrition challenges ahead
This paper examines the literature on how biodiversity contributes to improved and diversified diets in developing countries. We assess the current state of evidence on how wild and cultivated biodiversity in all forms is related to healthy diets and nutrition, and examine how economic factors, k...
Powell, B.
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Thilsted, Shakuntala H.
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Ickowitz, A.
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Termote, C.
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Sunderland, T.C.H.
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Herforth, A.
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[Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape]
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Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape
Smallholder farmers who grow diverse landraces in centres of crop diversity contribute to sustaining the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to change by maintaining crop evolution in their fields today, thus enabling humanity to continue to have the broad genetic variation needed ...
Bellon, M.R.
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Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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[Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects?]
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Conserving landraces and improving livelihoods: how to assess the success of on-farm conservation projects?
Poudel, D.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Shrestha, P.
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[An analysis of social seed network and its contribution to on-farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in Nepal]
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An analysis of social seed network and its contribution to on-farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in Nepal
For most crops, like Capsicum, their diversity remains under-researched for traits of interest for food, nutrition and other purposes. A small investment in screening this diversity for a wide range of traits is likely to reveal many traditional varieties with distinguished values. One objective ...
Zonneveld, M. van
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Ramírez, M.
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Williams, D.E.
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Petz, M.
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Meckelmann, S.
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Avila, T.
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Bejarano, C.
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Rios, L.
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Pena, K.
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Jager, M.
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Libreros, D.
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Amaya, K.
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Scheldeman, Xavier
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[Screening genetic resources of Capsicum peppers in their primary centre of diversity in Bolivia and Peru]
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Screening genetic resources of Capsicum peppers in their primary centre of diversity in Bolivia and Peru
Dossou-Aminon, I.
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Dansi, M.
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Ahissou, H.
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Cisse, N.
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Vodouhe, R.S.
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Sanni, A.
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[Climate variability and status of the production and diversity of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in the arid zone of northwest Benin]
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Climate variability and status of the production and diversity of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in the arid zone of northwest Benin
Gixhari, B.
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Ismaili, H.
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Vrapi, H.
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Dias, S.
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Sulovari, H.
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Elezi, F.
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[Geographic distribution and diversity of fruit tree species in Albania]
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Geographic distribution and diversity of fruit tree species in Albania
The history of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda is reviewed, taking forest species and bananas as examples. Palynological research into past human influences on forests is reassessed. The evidence suggests that crops were first introduced into the country at about 1000 BCE, farming c...
Hamilton, A.
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Karamura, D.
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Kakudidi, E.
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[History and conservation of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda: forest species and banana varieties as case studies]
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History and conservation of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda: forest species and banana varieties as case studies
Informed collecting, conservation, monitoring and utilization of genetic diversity requires knowledge of the distribution and structure of the variation occurring in a species. Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum (K. Koch) Thell., a primary wild relative of barley, is an important source of genetic...
Thormann, I.
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Reeves, P.
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Reilley, A.
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Engels, Johannes M.M.
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Lohwasser, U.
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Borner, A.
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Pillen, K.
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Richards, C.M.
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[Geography of genetic structure in barley wild relative Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum in Jordan]
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Geography of genetic structure in barley wild relative Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum in Jordan