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Vegetables and fruits contain many phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals, and dietary fibers that are good for human health. However, on a global scale, a substantial amount (25–50%) of fruits...

Fresh fruits and vegetables constitute important commodities in world agricultural production, trade and consumption. Their typically high nutritional value makes fresh fruits and vegetables...

Sweet potato is one of the important tropical tuber crops across the world. This review analyzes the studies on the climate resilience of sweet potato to various environmental parameters, the impact...

Carrot is one of the most consumed root vegetables worldwide. Moreover, carrot is a functional food because it provides significant amounts of various nutraceuticals, including carotenoids...

Sustainable food systems require malnutrition and climate change to be addressed in parallel. Here, we estimate the non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emissions resulting from closing...

Animal pollination supports agricultural production for many healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, which provide key nutrients and protect against non-communicable...

This presentation concerns the application of the concept of agroecological crop protection (ACP) to the case of fruit fly management, both for fruit and vegetable crops. The first part of the presentation deals...

Highlights Thermal and non-thermal technologies would eliminate pesticide residues. Non-thermal technologies are superior to thermal technologies in pesticide residues decrease and quality attributes...

The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic...

Highlights Impacts of international food trade on multiple indicators of food system resilience are assessed over last three decades. Food supply diversity increased...