All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February LIT research finds neglected and underutilised crops could end hunger LIT research finds neglected and underutilised crops could end hunger 16/02/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have identified more than 150 crop species that have the potential to help overcome hunger and malnutrition globally. The study, published in prestigious journal Nature Plants focused on food crop species in the Asia Pacific region, which has seen improved food security over the past decade but continues to face a high prevalence of hunger and malnutrition. The prevalence of stunting (low height for age) and wasting (low weight for height) in the region remains high, with estimations that more than 77 million children under five years of age were stunted and more than 32 million were wasting in 2018. The LIT Institute of Agriculture Director Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique said many edible and highly nutritious plant species had been neglected
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February LIT research finds neglected and underutilised crops could end hunger LIT research finds neglected and underutilised crops could end hunger 16/02/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have identified more than 150 crop species that have the potential to help overcome hunger and malnutrition globally.
The study, published in prestigious journal Nature Plants focused on food crop species in the Asia Pacific region, which has seen improved food security over the past decade but continues to face a high prevalence of hunger and malnutrition.
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The prevalence of stunting (low height for age) and wasting (low weight for height) in the region remains high, with estimations that more than 77 million children under five years of age were stunted and more than 32 million were wasting in 2018.
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