Innovations in postharvest technologies for food security and safety, and for value addition to agricultural residues

粮食安全和农业残留物增值的采后技术创新

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-03954
• 负责人: Raghavan, Vijaya
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=589494
• 关键词: Innovations; postharvest; technologies; food; security

Food security and safety issues must be met within the context of population growth beyond 7 billion, climate change, and environmental degradation. Globally, a third of harvested food is lost to damage, rot, and vermin before it reaches the consumer. Preventing such losses will help ensure food security and relieve the need to deforest land for food production. To address these issues, the program’s objectives are to: 1) develop methods using electro-technologies to dry and thermally process crops to prevent degradation; 2) develop storage technologies for produce to maintain quality and increase nutrient content; and 3) develop electro-technological processes to use waste biomass to produce biofuels and bioactive compounds. The program’s goals are thus to make total use of harvested biomass as a source of nutrition that can be safely consumed, and of bioenergy and bioproducts from residual biomass.

必须在人口增长超过70亿、气候变化和环境退化的背景下解决粮食安全问题。 在全球范围内，三分之一收获的粮食在到达消费者手中之前就因损坏、腐烂和害虫而损失。防止这种损失将有助于确保粮食安全，减轻为粮食生产而砍伐森林的需要。为了解决这些问题，该计划的目标是：1）开发利用电子技术干燥和热处理作物的方法，以防止退化; 2）开发产品储存技术，以保持质量并增加营养成分; 3）开发电子技术工艺，利用废弃生物质生产生物燃料和生物活性化合物。因此，该计划的目标是充分利用收获的生物质作为可以安全消费的营养来源，以及剩余生物质的生物能源和生物产品。