Global Perspectives on Underutilized Crops
Increase in world population, extreme weather conditions, decrease in fresh water supplies, and changes of dietary habits are major issues that affect global food security. We are expected to face the challenges of land use by 2050 because population will
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Global Perspectives on Underutilized Crops
Munir Ozturk Khalid Rehman Hakeem Muhammad Ashraf Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad Editors
Global Perspectives on Underutilized Crops
Editors Munir Ozturk Department of Botany and Center for Environmental Studies Ege University Izmir, Turkey Muhammad Ashraf Pakistan Science Foundation Islamabad, Pakistan
Khalid Rehman Hakeem Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad Department of Botany University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Preface
Today more than 200 million people have little access to enough food to live a healthy life. An increase in the agricultural production followed by overconsumption has increased the pressure on our environment. Biotechnological developments in the agricultural sector are playing a great role towards an increase in the p roductivity. In spite of all these developments only a very small population on earth at the global level has access to a variety of nutritious and affordable foods. During the centuries the humans living on planet earth have evaluated only 30 plants at a large scale. These plants provide more than 90% of the global food ene
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