Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) is among the poorest region in the world, and undernourishment
continues to be a great challenge although this region is endowed with a lot of underutilized …

Throughout history, more than 5538 crop species have been used as food for human
beings, whereas only 12 crop species share the major percentage of food security globally …

All over the world, a number of plant species that serve as source of food are indigenous
and underutilized. Many of these food types apart from forming part of what have come to be …

Interest in functional foods has been growing in sub-Saharan Africa due to consumer
concerns with diet and nutrition. This paper analyses consumer awareness, perceptions and …

Plantations provide a micro-climate that can facilitate the regeneration of other forest
species. Often exotic species have been tested for these kinds of functions. To determine the …

Crop production diversification into indigenous and neglected food crops could result in
increased access by farm households to diverse food nutrients. This paper identifies the …

The surge in chronic diseases has necessitated the global call for increased consumption of
diverse fruits and vegetables resulting in the need to study the potential health beneficial …

This paper examines the effect of indigenous food crops on the nutrition security outcomes
of children in farm households. Using a standard treatment effect model, data on children …

Akbar Hossain, Mst. Tan**a Islam, Sagar Maitra, Debjyoti Majumder, Sourav Garai, Mousumi
Mondal, Asgar Ahmed, Anirban Roy Page 14 1 Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species …

This report is the result of a project commissioned by the World Food Programme as part of
its global work on school feeding. The main purpose of the project is to understand the …