Horticulture and Livelihood Security

Contents: I. Impact of horticulture on livelihood security: 1. Role of horticulture in livelihood security/Prem Nath. 2. Growth of agriculture and horticulture and livelihood security/S. Bisalaiah. 3. Improving nutrition security and health-the key role of horticulture/Janice Albert. 4. Horticulture and health: ancient and medieval views/Jules Janick, Marie-Christine Daunay, and Harry S. Paris. II. Studies on food, nutrition and health security and income generation: 5. Urban agriculture for food security/Abdul Kobakiwal. 6. Changing pattern of consumption, economic growth and food security: examining India's experience in global context/Keith Wiebe, Daniel Gustafson, David Dawe and Kostas Stamoulis. 7. Regional pattern of economic growth and horticultural development/Sudha Mysore. 8. Contribution of vegetable crops in address poverty, hunger and malnutrition in South Asia/M.L. Chadha, Peter Hanson, Satish K. Sain and Roohani Pal. 9. Horticulture and food security/Surabhi Mittal. 10. Integrate horticulture and nutrition development lessons learned from FAO projects/Biplab K. Nandi and Lalita Bhattacharjee. 11. Contribution of horticulture and homestead food production to household food and nutrition security and decreased anemia among young children--lessons learned from scaling-up programs in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Philippines)/Aminuzzaman Talukder, Nancy Haselow, John Deidrick, David Spiro, Ellen Villate, Hou Kroeun, Amin Uddin, Jennifer Nielsen and Victoria Quinn. 12. Improving livelihoods of small farmers through the production of high-value horticultural crops in protected agriculture in dry areas/Mahmoud Solh, Ahmed T. Moustafa and Aden Aw-Hassan. III. Contribution of horticulture technology: 13. Dynamics of technologies in horticulture for improving production, productivity and profitability/H.P. Singh. 14. Improving productivity in horticultural crops/Michael Bohme, Ina Pinker, Idha Arsanti, Huynh V. Chuong, Nabarath Baniya, Yaroslav Shevchenko. 15. Simplified soil-less system adopted by growers in UAE for the production of high-quality cash crops/Ahmed T. Moustafa, Mansour I. Mansour, Saeed H.Al Bagham, Ali H. Al Hamoudi, Arash Nejatian, Saleh Akrot and Hamlan Al Kabishi. 16. Asian smallholder vegetable farmers as IPM experts: experiences from the FAO regional vegetable IPM programme (2002-08)/Jan Willem Ketelaar and Prabhat Kumar. 17. Integrated bio-intensive pest management in horticultural crops/P. Parvatha Reddy. 18. Pesticides and urban vegetable production pattern in South-western Nigeria/Fadina, O. Olubunmi and O.A. Toriola. 19. Underutilized and under exploited tropical leafy vegetables as a source of fibre and anti-oxidants/P.G. Sadhan Kumar and S. Nirmala Devi. 20. Crop diversification with horticultural crops for enhancing incomes and improving livelihoods of poor farmers in dry-land areas/C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda, Dov Pasternak, Albert Nikiema, Sanjeet Kumar and Lennart Woltering. 21. Successful models of crop diversification/Usha R. Palaniswamy. 22. Tamil Nadu precision farming project: prelude to next green revolution/E. Vadivel, N. Sriram and I. Muthuvel. 23. Impact of improved vegetable cultivars in overcoming food insecurity/Joao Carlos da Silva Dias. 24. Vegetable crops for food, nutrition security and improving livelihood/A.S. Sidhu, Bangalore and Sabina Islam. 25. Biotechnological interventions in horticulture and sustainable livelihood/C. Aswath and Vageeshbabu Hanur. IV. Delivery of technology and products: 26. Horticultural revolution through research-extension-farmers linkages in Maharashtra/K.D. Kokate. 27. Farmer's participatory operational research in Tamil Nadu/E. Vadivel. 28. Emergence of food retail chains in India: implications on horticulture farmers/P.G. Chengappa and K.P. Mangala. 29. The impact of emerging organized retail chains on the marketing of fresh fruit and vegetables in the developing countries/Peter J. Batt. 30. Value chain management in India: overview and perspectives/A.P. Paul. 31. Linking smallholder producers to market: the need for efficient supply chain management/Peter J. Batt and Bich Nhu Le. 32. Success story : the impact analysis of Pomelo Agribusiness Development Production Centre of East Java, Indonesia/Yuniarti, Pudji Santoso Suhadri and R. Endah. V. Government policy and development programmes: 33. Horticultural development and sustainable growth of agriculture sector in India - a critical analysis/Mahendra Singh and V.C. Mathur. 34. International horticultural development scenario-implications for India/C. Prasad and P.C. Bhatia. 35. Vegetable systems in Central Asia and the Caucasus: research and development to improve livelihood security/Ravza Mavlyanova. 36. Contribution of Myanmar horticulture in supporting the livelihood security and economic growth/San San Yi. 37. Government policy, basic issues and formidable challenges in promotion of horticulture and plantation crops/A.K. Mehta. VI. National and international technical cooperation: 38.FAO experience of technical cooperation among developing countries (TCDC)/Gavin Wall. 39. Vegetable science international network (VEGINET): the way forward/Prem Nath and Anupam Varma. Author index. PNASF international and national award. PNASF and VEGINET profiles.

"This book Horticulture and Livelihood Security elucidates the nexus between horticulture sector and livelihood security. The book contains 39 contributory articles by world renowned scientists, technocrats, and development personnel's, policy makers, appropriately placed in six sections viz., 1. Impact of horticulture on livelihood security, 2. Studies on food, nutrition and health security and income generation, 3. Contribution of horticulture technology, 4. Delivery of technology and products, 5. Government policies and development programmes and 6. National and international co-operation edited by Dr. Prem Nath and Shri P.B. Gaddagimath, Bengaluru.

The book would of immense value for researchers, students, technocrats, bureaucrats, policy makers and public to understand the role of horticulture sector in providing livelihood security, food, nutritional and health security and economic growth and accordingly take up programmes and activities to further strengthen and promote horticulture sector and initiate policy issues at the appropriate levels." (jacket)