Full Description
This book brings together innovative research that examines respectively climate change, agricultural production, environmental impacts, food security, nutrition and human health issues with regard to international policies as well as sustainable development goals.
As sustainability continues to be a high concern in the scholarly community, food security has become a critical worldwide topic. Food supplies are challenged by factors such as toxicity, substandard food processes, difficulties in providing food to struggling populations and changes to the environment due to climate change egislation can protect public health, but law-makers must understand the current complications facing food security today. This book features a broad range of topics including ecotoxicology, smart food, and wastewater reuse impacts.
The book aims to look at how we can protect and improve the health of vulnerable populations as well as innovative solutions to food insecurity. It is ideally designed for university students, from undergraduate to Ph.D. level, professors, researchers, professionals, environmentalists, physio-pathologists, medical doctors, epidemiologists, policies makers and sociologists.
Contents
Part I: Climate Changes, Agricultural Productions and Environmental Impacts.- Chapter 1. Climate Change Impact On Agricol Production.- Chapter 2. Bioactive components from agro-food waste: methods of delivery in food products.- Chapter 3. General overview on Water-Energy-Food Nexus.- Chapter 4. Fate and Impact of Pesticides - Environmental and Human Health Issues.- Chapter 5. Metallic Trace Elements in soil: Persistence, Toxicity, Bioaccumulation and Remediation.- Chapter 6 Wastewater for Agricultural Production, Opportunities, Challenges and Impacts.- Chapter 7. Alternatives crops as solution for food security under climate changes.- Part II: Food Security Policies and Smart Food.- Chapter 8. Food Security, Legislation and Regulations : Reading of law relating to food safety in Morocco.- Chapter 9. Electrochemical sensors for food quality and safety.- Chapter 10. Nutrigenomics and Transcriptomics for a Personalised Nutrition.- Chapter 11. Modeling of food and nutrition security: Relevance of the PLS Approach to Structural Equation Models.- Part III: Nutrition, Human Health and Food Security.- Chapter 12. Nutrition in Disease Prevention and Food Safety.- Chapter 13. Toxic Plankton Public Health Risks.- Chapter 14. Trace Metals and Food Risks.- Chapter 15. Protein-rich diet and management of hepatic encephalopathy: an overview on the last decade controversy.- Chapter 16. Nutritional diet and health among Moroccan chlidbearing women.- Chapter 17. Effects of mercury on general homeostasis and liver-brain interaction.- Chapter 18. Prostate cancer incidence and the consumable risk factor effect in the Metropolitan City of Ibadan.- Chapter 19. Emerging non-thermal processing effect on foods.- Chapter 20. Food hazards and brain development. The case of cadmium.- Chapter 21. Obesity In School-Going Adolescents.- Chapter 22. Nutritional Aspects and Neurodegenerative Disorders.- Chapter 23. Acrylamide In Nutriments And Human Health: What Are The Effects?
