NUTRITIONAL SECURITY

Chairs:

 Angelo Santino – CNR – ISPA-Lecce, IT Monika Schreiner – IGZEV, DE & Chiara Tonelli – Univ Milano,IT

This working group includes Plant and Animal research Chairs:

Odd Arne Rognli – NMBU, NO – Iain Donnison  & Alison Kingston-Smith – – IBER, Univ of Aberystwyth, UK

Activities:

This Working Group will address one of the most important challenges for the next fifty years – to reduce the impact of chronic disease.

The worldwide spread of unhealthy eating practices is increasing alarmingly and experts warn of increased mortality from associated chronic diseases. Diets rich in plant-based foods are strongly associated with reducing these risks. However, as yet, the constituents in plants that promote health have proved difficult to identify with certainty, thereby making the precision of dietary recommendations uncertain.

Scientists want to contribute. It is essential for plant scientists to build multidisciplinary interactions with researchers in nutrition and chronic diseases pathology in order to contribute novel insight into which foods reduce the risk of chronic disease and how these foods work to impact human health and reduce some of the complexity of the diet-health relationship. This was the focus of the EPSO workshop “Plant Pigments and Human Health” on May 2011, which was highly appreciated by all participants and gave rise to this working group.

In particular, plant biochemistry can make significant contributions to the identification and measurement of many metabolites in plant-based foods, especially phytonutrients known to promote health. From this, plant genetics and metabolic engineering can be used to make foods that differ only in their content of specific phytonutrients.

8eetings:

Workshop to discuss contributions from plant science to Food 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals at large. The next workshop will be on 27-28 May 2022 in Lecce (Italy).

EPSO news developed by this WG:

EPSO hybrid Workshop ‘Future-proofed crops to address the nutritional security goal in Europe’, 27-28.5.2022 – register by 29 April for physical & 20 May for online participation

Apr 8, 2022 | EPSO, WG Nutritional Security

The EPSO Nutritional Security Working Group will discuss and contribute to defining new paths and solutions for resilient and sustainable production systems using innovative solutions in the food and nutrition area. Plant-based foods have received remarkable attention...

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Members:

Borjana Arsova – Julich, DE

Susanne Baldermann – IGZ, DE

Elena Bitocchi – UNIVPM, IT

Tilman Brueck – IGZ, DE

Araceli Diaz-Perales – CBGP (UPM-INIA/CSIC), ES

Theresa Fitzpatrick – University of Geneva, CH

Manuel Gonzalez-Guerrero – CBGP (UPM-INIA/CSIC), ES

Alain Goossens – VIB, BE   

Neil Graham – Univ Nottingham , UK

Trine Hvoslef-Eide – Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, NO

Caroline Labrie – WUR, NL

Antonio Masi – Univ. Padova, IT

Karin Metzlaff – EPSO

Edward Muntean,  USAMV Cluj Napoca, RO

Erik Murchie, Univ Nottingham , UK

Joan Narciso, ETHZ, CH

Claudia Nunes dos Santos – ITQB, PT

Deborah Pacetti – UNIVPM, IT

Francesco Paolocci – CNR-IGV-Perugia, IT

Katia Petroni – Milano University, IT

Roberto Pinton – Università degli Studi di Udine, IT

Giuseppe  Puglia, CNR, IT

Angelo Santino – CNR – ISPA-Lecce, IT

Teresa Serra  – IBET, PT

Monika Schreiner – IGZ, DE

Carmen Socaciu – Cluj University, RO

Derek Stewart – Hutton Institute, UK

Chiara Tonelli – Milano University, IT

Bjorn Usadel – Julich, DE

Olaf van Kooten – Wageningen University, NL

Observers:

Rebeca Fernandez – FoodDrinkEurope, BE

Sebastien Thomine – I2BC, FR