Mainstreaming Underutilized Indigenous and Traditional Crops into Food Systems: A South African Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Business as usual or transformative change? While the global agro-industrial food system is credited with increasing food production, availability and accessibility, it is also credited with giving birth to 'new' challenges such as malnutrition, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. We reviewed the potential of underutilized indigenous and traditional crops to bring about a transformative change to South Africa's food system. South Africa has a dichotomous food system, characterized by a distinct, dominant agro-industrial, and, alternative, informal food system. This dichotomous food system has inadvertently undermined the development of smallholder producers. While the dominant agro-industrial food system has led to improvements in food supply, it has also resulted in signific

SUBMITTER: Mabhaudhi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615043 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature