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Food Production, Diversity, and Safety Under Climate Change

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Editors:
  1. Rakhi Chakraborty

    1. Department of Botany, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College, Matigara, Siliguri, India

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  2. Piyush Mathur

    1. Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, Siliguri, India

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  3. Swarnendu Roy

    1. Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, Siliguri, India

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  • Presents an elusive approach for developing climate-resilient food crops
  • Uses expressive figures to easily transpire the subject matter to students, researchers, and faculties within the field
  • Demonstrates the conventional and advanced strategies used to improve food crops and products and ensure food safety

Part of the book series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Present Status and Challenges in Meeting Food Demand: Case Studies with Respect to Developing Countries

    • Rakhi Chakraborty
    Pages 1-13

  3. Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security and Food Safety

    • Vinod Kotwal, Prachi Singh
    Pages 15-23

  4. Food and Nutritional Security Under the Changing Climate: Understanding the Established and Indeterminate Factors

    • Nishu, Vartika Mathur, Pooja Gokhale Sinha
    Pages 25-38

  5. Urban Agriculture: A New Dimension in Alternative Farming Systems for Achieving the Target of Food for All

    • Ritu Bharat Kukde, Priyanka Negi, Vikram Kad
    Pages 39-51

  6. Subsistence Agriculture—An Approach Towards Food Security in Changing Climate

    • Barsha Devi, Jupitora Devi, Nabanita Bhattacharyya
    Pages 53-62

  7. Food Security Through Farming Subsistence Crops

    • Swetha Priya Gali, M. Subhashini, R. Meenatchi
    Pages 63-76

  8. Traditionally Fermented Foods and Beverages for Nutritional Security and Global Acceptance

    • Roshini Deepika Murali, Selvaraju Vishnu Priya, Swetha, Usha Antony
    Pages 77-87

  9. Traditional and Underutilized Fruits and Vegetables for Attaining Zero Hunger

    • Ritika, Mansi, Rizwana, Himanshu Kumar, Birinchi Bora, Muzamil Ahmad Rather et al.
    Pages 89-111

  10. Bioactive Compounds of Bhoomi Amla (Phyllanthus niruri): Nutritional and Pharmacological Aspects

    • B. R. Annapoorna, P. Madan Kumar
    Pages 113-119

  11. Primary Processing of Fruits and Vegetables

    • Dawn C. P. Ambrose
    Pages 121-127

  12. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Quality and Safety: A Deep Insight on the Benefits of an Organic Farming Approach

    • Alisha Pradhan, Mupparapu Srijaya
    Pages 129-139

  13. Food Products of Non–plant Origin to Combat the Problem of Nutritional Deficiency

    • Vasudha Sharma, Sameer Ahmad, Chander Mohan, Sarushi Rastogi
    Pages 141-151

  14. Eri Silkworm Pupae: An Alternative Source of Protein in Changing Climate

    • Deepika Borah, Mrigendra Narayan Kumar, Ritima Mishra, Mahananda Chutia, Nabanita Bhattacharyya
    Pages 153-163

  15. Global Warming and Sexual Plant Reproduction: Impact on Crop Productivity

    • Priyanka Khanduri, Sudip Kumar Roy
    Pages 165-177

  16. Floral Nectar Microbiome: An Untapped Aspect and Its Overall Impact on Plants in Changing Global Scenarios

    • Akanksha Madan, Sarita Kumari, Savindra Kumar
    Pages 179-185

  17. Harnessing Endophytic Bacteria for Crop Improvement: Unveiling the Benefits in Agriculture

    • Bhumika Pradhan
    Pages 187-198

  18. Climate-Smart Advanced Technological Interventions in Field Crop Production Under Problematic Soil for Sustainable Agricultural Development

    • Ratneswar Poddar, Arup Sen, Arindam Sarkar, Sanmay Kumar Patra, Akbar Hossain
    Pages 199-210

  19. Genetically Modified and Gene-Edited Food Crops: Recent Status and Future Prospects

    • Mousumi Sabat, Ashutosh Tripathy
    Pages 211-222

  20. Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes: A Transgenic Approach for the Improvement of Desirable Crop in the Current Era of the Changing Climate

    • Ayaz Latif Siyal, Shumaila Sial, Akbar Hossain, Ali Gohar Chang
    Pages 223-233
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About this book

This book presents a universal picture of the impact of climate change on food production, diversity, and concerns regarding food safety. The book also highlights the traditional and modern techniques for sustainably improving the production of food crops and their nutritional quality aligning with the “zero hunger” goal (Sustainable Development Goal 2) of the United Nations. The book holistically includes the contributions of scientists and academicians working in the fields of Food and Nutrition, Plant and Microbial Sciences, Agriculture, etc. The book also offers insights into the strategies adopted worldwide for ensuring food availability and safety, taking the aid of advanced technologies like climate-smart agriculture along with nanotechnology and artificial intelligence in the event of climate change. Above all, the book transpires the subject matter using illustrative figures and outlines and therefore will be an asset for the post-graduate students, researchers, and faculties.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College, Matigara, Siliguri, India

    Rakhi Chakraborty

  • Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, Siliguri, India

    Piyush Mathur, Swarnendu Roy

About the editors

Dr. Rakhi Chakraborty presently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College, Siliguri, India, for the last 8 years. She has done her Ph.D. on medicinal plants specifically characterizing the antidiabetic and antihyperlipidemic properties of Litsea cubeba fruits traditionally used to cure hyperglycemia and hypertension by the ethnic communities of Darjeeling Himalayas, India. She also has a keen interest in the study of nutraceutical properties of underutilized food plants and the food biochemistry of bakery products. She has also published Research and Review articles in journals of international repute. She has presented her research work in several Seminars and Conferences and has also been awarded the Best Oral Presentation at the West Bengal State Regional Science Congress and at a National seminar organized by the University of North Bengal, India.


Dr. Piyush Mathur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India. He has been teaching for the past 6 years and has taught both at the undergraduate and post graduate level He has done his Ph.D. in Botany with a specialization in Mycology and Plant Pathology. Presently, he is supervising four Ph.D. research scholars who are working on microbial diversity, bioprospecting, and plant disease management. He has published quite a number of articles in well-known international journals of good repute. He has also contributed articles as book chapters in International and National books. He has edited two books with Springer and is working on other books too. Dr. Mathur is an active member of the Society of Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR), Bharatpur, and Delhi University Botanical Society (DUBS) Delhi, India.


Dr. Swarnendu Roy works as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Bengal,Siliguri, India. He has more than 13 years of teaching experience. He has received the University Gold Medal for securing the first position at B.Sc. and the University Silver medal for securing the second position at M.Sc. level. He received the Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder—awarded by the Ministry of HRD and UGC (2006–2008), Government of India. He also received the CSIR Junior Research Fellowship, which was awarded by CSIR-UGC (2008). He is actively engaged in research topics encompassing plant stress management by engineered nanoparticles and the synthesis of starch-based biofilms and edible coatings. He has published more than 40 articles with high-impact factors in reputed journals, such as Water Research and Scientific Reports, among many others. He has recently edited two books published by Springer and has also published several book chapters in edited volumes to date. He is a life member of prestigious societies like “The Indian Science CongressAssociation”;  “Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India)” and “Society of Plant Research (India)”. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Food Production, Diversity, and Safety Under Climate Change

  • Editors: Rakhi Chakraborty, Piyush Mathur, Swarnendu Roy

  • Series Title: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51647-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51646-7Published: 02 April 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51649-8Due: 01 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51647-4Published: 01 April 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2522-8714

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-8722

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 331

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Agriculture, Food Microbiology, Plant Sciences

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