Wild Edible Plants: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security in an Era of Climate Change
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 10837
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, there are more significant threats to food security than there were in earlier decades because of accelerating climate change. Some geographical areas may become too hot, dry, rainy, or cold compared to earlier decades. Ordinary crop plants may suffer and produce little or no harvest. However, many edible weeds (wild edible plants) often flourish. The best wild edible plants are mostly weeds that humans have spread almost globally through agriculture. Italians have called them alimurgic plants. They provide raw materials for healthy food even in hard times, times of war, and times when there is total loss of the ordinary harvest of cultivated plants. Fortunately, there has been an increasing number of research articles on the uses of wild edible plants and their chemical constituents since the beginning of the 21st century. Research shows that many invasive plant species provide health-promoting food as ecosystem services. We invite researchers to think of and present their research results from the viewpoint of the theme of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Mauri Åhlberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- edible weeds
- wild edible plants
- sustainable food
- food security
- healthy food
- alimurgic plants
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