Main description:

Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores future food crops with climate resilience potential. Sections cover their botany, nutritional significance, global distribution, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses of neglected and underutilized crops. By simply changing species in a crop rotation system, the cycle of some pests and diseases is disrupted and probabilities of infestations are reduced. Finally, the book provides case studies that highlight where the adaptation of crops to local environments, especially with regard to climate change, have been successful.

These crops can help make agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change. Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction
1. Role of neglected and underutilized crops in global food security and biodiversity
2. Production of neglected and underutilized crops - challenges and opportunities

Part II: Cereal and Pseudocereal Crops
3. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)
4. Pendant amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus)
5. Canihua (Chenopodium pallidicaule)
6. Fiindi (Digitaria exilis)
7. Indian Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea)
8. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
9. Teff (Eragrostis tef)
10. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
11. Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
12. Little millet (Panicum miliare)
13. Kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum)
14. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
15. Triticale

Part III: Food Legume Crops
16. Ground bean (Kerstingiella geocarpa)
17. Lablab-bean (Lablab purpureus)
18. Pearl lupin (Lupinus mutabilis)
19. Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum)
20. Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
21. African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa)
22. Moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia)
23. Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
24. Ground-bean (Vigna subterranea)
25. Ricebean (Vigna umbellata)
26. Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean)

Part IV: Oil Seeds
27. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
28. Sesame (Sesamum indicum)
29. Spurge (Euphorbia lagascae)
30. Wild hazel (Simmondsia chinensis)
31. Camelina (Camelina sativa)