Chapter 14

Sustainable Vegetable Production to Sustain Food Security under Climate Change at Global Level

Andreas W. Ebert

Andreas W. Ebert

Freelance International Consultant in Agriculture and Agrobiodiversity, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany

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Thomas Dubois

Thomas Dubois

World Vegetable Center, Eastern and Southern Africa, Duluti, Arusha, Tanzania

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Abdou Tenkouano

Abdou Tenkouano

CORAF/WECARD, Dakar-RP, Senegal

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Ravza Mavlyanova

Ravza Mavlyanova

World Vegetable Center, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Jaw-Fen Wang

Jaw-Fen Wang

Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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Bindumadhava Hanumantha Rao

Bindumadhava Hanumantha Rao

World Vegetable Center South Asia, Greater Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Srinivasan Ramasamy

Srinivasan Ramasamy

World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan

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Sanjeet Kumar

Sanjeet Kumar

World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan

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Fenton D. Beed

Fenton D. Beed

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

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Marti Pottorff

Marti Pottorff

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

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Wuu-Yang Chen

Wuu-Yang Chen

World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan

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Ramakrishnan M. Nair

Ramakrishnan M. Nair

World Vegetable Center South Asia, Greater Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Harsh Nayyar

Harsh Nayyar

Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

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James J. Riley

James J. Riley

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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Shyam S. Yadav

Shyam S. Yadav

Manav Memorial Trust/Manav Foundation, Freelance International Consultant in Agriculture, New Delhi, India

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Robert J. Redden

Robert J. Redden

RJR Agricultural Consultants, Victoria, Australia

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Jerry L. Hatfield

Jerry L. Hatfield

USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Iowa, USA

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Andreas W. Ebert

Andreas W. Ebert

Freelance International Consultant in Agriculture and Agrobiodiversity, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany

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Danny Hunter

Danny Hunter

Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

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First published: 19 November 2018
Citations: 3

Summary

This chapter focuses on approaches to sustainable vegetable production systems for food and nutrition security under climate change in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Peri-urban and urban agriculture offer high employment and income possibilities for the urban population, but where these cities are left unmanaged, urbanization goes hand in hand with pollution and environmental degradation, together with unsustainable vegetable production and consumption patterns. The chapter also focuses on vegetable breeding perspectives for sustainable vegetable production in changing small-scale farming systems in Asia and Africa in response to ongoing socio-economic and climatic changes. Breeding for the development of new vegetable cultivars with multiple disease-resistance and insect pest resistance and tolerance to abiotic stresses can make a substantial contribution toward sustainable vegetable production. The chapter exemplifies the roles of different pest management components in sustainable vegetable production systems.

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