Satellite Session : Tropical resources for food animals: new concepts food value, databases, tables and software

Water-energy-food nexus as a new approach for watershed resources management: a review

Composition and Food Value of Leaves of Two Tropical Food Thickeners – Bombax Costatum and Cissus Populnea

The nutritional, anti-nutritional and mucilage contents of flour of leaves of two vegetables Bombax costatum leaf (BCL) and Cissus populnea leaf (CPL) were investigated. Their protein (≈19.0 g/100g in BCL and ≈13.0 g/100g in CPL) and ash (≈6.0 g/100g in BCL and ≈11.0 g/100g in CPL) contents were significantly different at P < 0.05. Both leaves were rich in Ca (BCL, 102 ± 2.5 mg/100g; CPL, 113 ±...

GM Food Animals Coming

Heritable vs non-heritable modifications The Codex Alimentarius Commission of the United Nations is preparing guidelines for safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA animals [1], which is a sure sign that GM animal food is coming to our table. Codex distinguishes between heritable and non-heritable genetic modification of food animals. Heritable genetic modification involves gene...

The Food Crisis and New Technologies

The present crisis in global economy, the issue of cli mate change and the fast-growing world population, <span style="font-variant: normal; font-s...

New Zealand’s Food Waste: Estimating the Tonnes, Value, Calories and Resources Wasted

We used macro-economic data and aggregated waste data to estimate that, in 2011, New Zealand households generated over 224,000 tonnes of food waste, and New Zealand industry generated over 103,000 tonnes of food waste. We split New Zealand’s food waste into 14 food-waste categories and found that 7% is related to “fresh” produce, and 93% “processed” food waste. The value of New Zealand’s food w...