Microbiome-based solutions to address new and existing threats to food security, nutrition, health and agrifood systems' sustainability

Autor: Karel Callens, Fanette Fontaine, Yolanda Sanz, Anne Bogdanski, Kathleen D‘Hondt, Lene Lange, Hauke Smidt, Leo van Overbeek, Tanja Kostic, Emmanuelle Maguin, Annelein Meisner, Inga Sarand, Angela Sessitsch
Přispěvatelé: European Commission
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
GTB Gewasgez. Bodem en Water
Microbiome-based solutions
Horticulture
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
End hunger
achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Biointeractions and Plant Health
Crop health
Life Science
MolEco
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
VLAG
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Global and Planetary Change
WIMEK
Resilience
Ecology
Malnutrition
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
PE&RC
Agrifood systems
Gewasgezondheid
Ecosystem health
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Agronomy and Crop Science
agrifood systems
ecosystem health
microbiome-based solutions
malnutrition
resilience
Food Science
Zdroj: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6 (2022)
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
ISSN: 2571-581X
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.1047765
Popis: In addition to challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss, the sustainability and resilience of agrifood systems worldwide are currently challenged by new threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war. Furthermore, the resilience and sustainability of our agrifood systems need to be enhanced in ways that simultaneously increase agricultural production, decrease post-harvest food losses and food waste, protect the climate, environment and health, and preserve biodiversity. The precarious situation of agrifood systems is also illustrated by the fact that overall, around 3 billion people worldwide still do not have regular access to a healthy diet. This results in various forms of malnutrition, as well as increasing number of people suffering from overweight and obesity, and diet-related, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) around the world. Findings from microbiome research have shown that the human gut microbiome plays a key role in nutrition and diet-related diseases and thus human health. Furthermore, the microbiome of soils, plants, and animals play an equally important role in environmental health and agricultural production. Upcoming, microbiome-based solutions hold great potential for more resilient, sustainable, and productive agrifood systems and open avenues toward preventive health management. Microbiome-based solutions will also be key to make better use of natural resources and increase the resilience of agrifood systems to future emerging and already-known crises. To realize the promises of microbiome science and innovation, there is a need to invest in enhancing the role of microbiomes in agrifood systems in a holistic One Health approach and to accelerate knowledge translation and implementation.
YS, KD'H, LL, HS, LO, TK, EM, AM, IS, and AS received funding from the European Union's H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant No. 818116 (Microbiome Support).
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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