- Para muchos paises en desarrollo, los cereales y las leguminosas de grano constituyen el elemento esencial del regimen alimentario de las poblaciones, sobre todo de las de ingresos mas bajos, generalmente rurales. En tales paises, la autosuficiencia alimentaria es todavia muchas veces un objetivo por alcanzar, [...]

M-17

 - What is a healthy diet and just how many of the 5 700 million people in the world have one? What do they eat and how is it produced? Has food production risen and can it keep on doing so? Is there enough land and [...]

 - This bulletin offers practical information to persons interested in the processing of fruits and vegetables. It replaces AGS Bulletin No. 13 "Fruit Juice Processing", which was published in 1972. The new bulletin provides a much wider information base. The publication starts with describing the general properties [...]

M-17

 - The importance of grain storage as part of the marketing, distribution and food security system is well recognized. As early as 1971, the Group for Assistance on Systems relating to Grain After-harvest (GASGA), in which FAO participates, brought together experts and coordinated activities on research [...]

M-17

 - If farmers are to increase production, more attention needs to be paid to the fact that their output must be marketed at a rewarding price. Commercialization of the small farm sector requires the development of market-orientated production, as opposed to the occasional sale of subsistence [...]

2. Ed. M-62

 - For the preface of this book the authors felt that the following article, written by a food technologist from an African country - who is clearly frustrated at the lack of quality assurance, would highlight the real situation in some food manufacturing enterprises and demonstrate [...]

M-81

 - This publication covers the five working modules of Integrated Pest Management used in this course-the current state-of-the-art Asian grain post harvest industry, grain properties, pest infestation during storage, storage methods and systems, and training and extension methods. These components have been integrated in several training [...]

 - Les prevalences elevees des differents types de malnutrition en particulier, de la carence en vitamine A sont courantes au Niger. La carence en vitamine A est l'un des problemes de l'arrondissement de Bouza. Certains aliments, en raison de leur richesse en vitamine A ou en [...]

 - Dans les zones humides des tropiques la premiere recolte de mais, la meilleure, se fait pendant la premiere saison des pluies; elle est prete pour la moisson entre les deux periodes de pluies abondantes. Mais au moment de la moisson, le mais est trop humide [...]

 - L'objectif de cette synthese est de faire le point en 1995 sur l'evolution des technologies apres-recolte employees pour le traitement et la conservation des produits de base (grains et tubercules) employees par les agriculteurs en Afrique. Ces technologies permettent d'assurer la securite alimentaire des familles [...]