Consistency in agricultural development policy and programs is tantamount to adherence to guiding principles (policy), strategies or tactics and programs that are compatible with the nature of agriculture, problems to be solved and objectives desired. Based on the location specificity of agricultural production as bio-economic activity, defined as ...
Cassava is playing a major role in African food systems. Processing of cassava has several objectives and advantages. Traditionally, cassava is processed into many products. However, several constraints affect cassava processing. Cyanide content in the roots is a major limitation of cassava utilization, but can be reduced by appropriate processing....
Between 1991 to 1996, more than 50 Musa hybrids and 10 landraces were evaluated under field and screenhouse conditions for virus symptoms resembling those caused by banana streak badnavirus (BSV). The symptoms included chlorotic streaks, leaf deformation, stunting, cigar leaf death, distortion of the peduncle, bunch or fruits, and internal pseudost...
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Published in GeoJournal
Over the past 100 years, ethnic minorities and the poor have become increasingly concentrated and isolated in low-income urban neighborhoods. While the demographic changes in cities are well documented, the parallel history of urban retailing is less well known. Little research has been done on changes in urban food retailing, particularly as they ...
Published in Plant and Soil
Nutrient sufficiency is the basis of good health, productive lives and longevity for everyone. Nutrient availability to people is primarily determined by the output of foods produced from agricultural systems. If agricultural systems fail to provide enough food diversity and quantity to satisfy all the nutrients essential to human life, people will...
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dynamic interactions between and within the biogeophysical and human environments lead to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, resulting in food systems that underpin food security. Food systems encompass food availability (production, distribution and exchange), food access (affordability, allocation and p...
Alternative agricultural systems that ecological and community resilience provide a bridge between traditional agriculture ( . broad scale mono-cropping rotations) and natural resource management ( . maintaining pristine environments). These can be referred to as -ecological systems and include systems such as Organic Agriculture, , Community Suppo...
Published in EcoHealth
In this profile article, we report what we consider to be a rich learning experience which intertwines pedagogy and research: a process of community-based action research which has initiated a transition towards the sustainability of the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) food system. We call this initiative the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP)...
Published in Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy
AbstractThe control of flavouring of a food product as well as the flavour perception during consumption is a great challenge for improving food quality. However, the various ingredient composition and the different textural properties of foods can significantly affect the release of aroma compounds or sapid molecules. It is thus of major importanc...
