Over 20% of residents of sub-Sahara Africa live below the poverty line. They are therefore unable to feed themselves and get access to other basic needs. Even in situations where they have access to land, they are unable to afford sufficient fertilizers and other farm inputs to produce efficiently. Pigeon pea production presents a great potential for improving livelihoods for resource poor Afri...

INTRODUCTION An understanding of the feeding ecology of the red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) is necessary for a comprehensive assessment of the potential impact of this species on cereals development. Queleas are reported to subsist primarily on wild Gramineae (Ward 1965a; Gaston 1976), but their mobility and tendency to feed in large aggrega-tions readily adapts them to becoming a major cerea...

Increasingly more studies are raising concerns about the increasing consumption of meat and the increasing amount of crops (cereals and oilseeds in particular) used to feed animals and that could be used to feed people. The evolution of this amount is very sensitive to human diets and to the productivity of feed. This article provides a 2050 foresight on the necessary increase in crop productio...

Bensassi, F., Zarrouk, A., Gargouri-Kammoun, L., Hajlaoui, M.R., and Bacha, H. 2011. Quality of feed cereals in Tunisia: Natural occurrence of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 6: 11-19. In Tunisia, the contamination of cereal grains with mycotoxins is very common. Such a situation is chiefly favored by the Mediterranean climate of the country, which plays a cri...

Aflatoxins have gained so much reputation among all mycotoxins due to their notoriety in causing countless adverse health effects on humans as well animals. It continues be a major concern food safety globally. In this study, total and constitutive aflatoxins levels the carcinogenic risks posed by 110 feed samples (55 cereals, 20 nuts oils, 18 animal feed, fruits vegetables) collected from Ho C...

Sorghum is a critical crop especially in semiarid areas where there inadequate moisture.it the fifth important among cereals. C4 plant which originated and diversified Ethiopia. It used for feed, fuel, consumed by human beings form of enjera, boiled porridge or gruel, malted beverages, beer, popped grain, chips. In Ethiopia, biotic, socioeconomic, abiotic restrictions limit sorghum production p...

This report briefly reviews existing methods for analyzing the vitamin D content of fortified and unfortified foods. The existing chemical methods are similar; all are time consuming, require experienced technicians, and have only been validated for a few materials (eg, dairy products or animal feed materials). This report also describes the lack of standard reference materials with certified v...

The Seine watershed has long been the foodsupplying hinterland of Paris, providing most of the animal and vegetal protein consumed in the city. Nowadays, the shift from manure-based to synthetic nitrogen fertilisation, has made possible a strong land specialisation of agriculture in the Seine watershed: it still provides most of the cereal consumed by the Paris agglomeration, but exports 80 % o...

W hen you are buying food, are you one of the 30% of shoppers (an estimate in the United Kingdom) who always read the labels, or one of the 20% who rarely or never give them a glance? Do you know what to make of them if you read them? Labels are meant to inform you and to help you to choose. But when you go shopping, how much time do you have to read about the differences between 30 types of ch...