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Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species: Are They Future Smart Crops in Fighting Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition Under Changing Climate?

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Neglected and Underutilized Crops - Towards Nutritional Security and Sustainability

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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. Among these crop species, three kinds of cereal, such as rice, wheat and maize share >50% of calories across the globe. Besides these, more than 1000 neglected and underutilized crop species (NUFCs) across the world have been estimated as upcoming survival crop species as these crop species are enriched in nutrients and have wider adaptability to various stresses in the modern era of climate change. Although their importance and potentiality have been still unknown to various stakeholders. Recently, these NUFCs crops have received appreciation due to their prospective role for the sustainability of crop production through alleviating agricultural risk. Researchers also recognized that the extensive utilization of underutilized minor crops to reform time-based and dimensional heterogeneity into uniform farming systems will expand the pliability to both biotic and environmental stresses. The utilization of biotechnological approaches such as genotyping by sequencing and arrays and pan-genomics tools are important tactics for evaluating the secreted prospects of the NUFCs. The application of these genomic approaches has been already proved to improve the productivity of numerous climate-resilient NUFCs including sweet potato, cassava, yam, coconut, sorghum, groundnut, cowpea, common bean, chickpea, cacao, etc. Unlocking the real potentials of the NUFCs by employing advanced breeding technologies is imperative for global food and nutritional security and also for attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This chapter highlights the prospects of NUFCs as genetic resources for fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition for the food security of the increasing population. This chapter also discusses the important roles of NUFCs in advancing defensible agricultural improvement beyond the Green Revolution in the changing environment.

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Hossain, A. et al. (2021). Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species: Are They Future Smart Crops in Fighting Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition Under Changing Climate?. In: Zargar, S.M., Masi, A., Salgotra, R.K. (eds) Neglected and Underutilized Crops - Towards Nutritional Security and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3876-3_1

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