Foreword
About the Editors
I. IMPACT OF HORTICULTURE ON LIVELIHOOD SECURITY
1) Role of Horticulture in Livelihood Security -
Prem Nath
2) Growth of Agriculture and Horticulture and
Livelihood Security - S. Bisalaiah
3) Improving Nutrition Security and Health-the Key
Role of Horticulture- Janice Albert
4) Horticulture and Health: Ancient and Medieval
Views - Jules Janick, Marie-Christine Daunay, and
Harry S. Paris
II. STUDIES ON FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH
SECURITY AND INCOME GENERATION 1) Urban
Agriculture for Food Secuirty - Abdul Kobakiwal
2) Changing Pattern of Consumption, Economic Growth
and Food Security: Examining India’s Experience in
Global Context - Keith Wiebe, Daniel Gustafson,
David Dawe and Kostas Stamoulis
3) Regional Pattern of Economic Growth and
Horticultural Development - Sudha Mysore
4) Contribution of Vegetable Crops to Address
Poverty, Hunger and Malnutrition in South Asia - M.L.
Chadha, Peter Hanson, Satish K. Sain and Roohani Pal
5) Horticulture and Food Security - Surabhi Mittal
6) Integrated Horticulture and Nutrition
Development: Lessons Learned From FAO Projects -Biplab
K. Nandi and Lalita Bhattacharjee
7) Contribution of Horticulture and Homestead Food
Production to Household Food and Nutrition Security
and Decreased Anemia Among Young Children – Lessons
Learned from Scaling-up Programs in Asia
(Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Philippines) -
Aminuzzaman Talukder, Nancy Haselow, John Deidrick,
David Spiro, Ellen Villate, Hou Kroeun, Amin Uddin,
Jennifer Nielsen and Victoria Quinn
8) Improving Livelihoods of Small Farmers through
the Production of High-Value Horticultural Crops in
Protected Agriculture in Dry Areas - Mahmoud Solh,
Ahmed T. Moustafa and Aden Aw-Hassan
III. CONTRIBUTION OF HORTICULTURE TECHNOLOGY
1) Dynamics of Technologies in Horticulture for
Improving Production, Productivity and Profitability
- H.P. Singh
2) Improving Productivity in Horticultural Crops -
Michael Böhme, Ina Pinker, Idha Arsanti, Huynh V.
Chuong, Nabarath Baniya, Yaroslav Shevchenko
3) Simplified Soil-less System Adopted by Growers in
UAE for the Production of High-Quality Cash Crops -
Ahmed T. Moustafa, Mansour I. Mansour, Saeed H. Al
Bagham, Ali H. Al Hamoudi, Arash Nejatian1, Saleh
Akrot and Hamlan Al Kabishi
4) Asian Smallholder Vegetable Farmers as IPM
Experts: Experiences from the FAO Regional Vegetable
IPM Programme (2002-08) - Jan Willem Ketelaar and
Prabhat Kumar
5) Integrated Bio-Intensive Pest Management in
Horticultural Crops - P. Parvatha Reddy
6) Pesticides and Urban Vegetable Production Pattern
in South-Western Nigeria - Fadina, O. Olubunmi and
O. A. Toriola
7) Underutilized and Underexploited Tropical Leafy
Vegetables as a Source of Fibre and Anti-Oxidants -
P.G. Sadhan Kumar and S. Nirmala Devi
8) Crop Diversification with Horticultural Crops for
Enhancing Incomes and Improving Livelihoods of Poor
Farmers in Dry-land Areas - C. L. Laxmipathi Gowda,
Dov Pasternak, Albert Nikiema, Sanjeet Kumar and
Lennart Woltering
9) Successful Models of Crop Diversification - Usha
R. Palaniswamy
10) Tamil Nadu Precision Farming Project: A Prelude
to Next Green Revolution - E. Vadivel, N. Sriram and
I. Muthuvel
11) Impact of Improved Vegetable Cultivars in
Overcoming Food Insecurity - João Carlos da Silva
Dias
12) Vegetable Crops for Food, Nutrition Security and
Improving Livelihood -A.S. Sidhu, and Sabina Islam
13) Biotechnological Interventions in Horticulture
and Sustainable Livelihood - C. Aswath and
Vageeshbabu Hanur
IV) DELIVERY OF TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTS 1)
Horticultural Revolution through
Research-Extension-Farmers Linkages in Maharashtra -
K. D. Kokate
2) Farmer’s Participatory Operational Research in
Tamil Nadu - E. Vadivel
3) Emergence of Food Retail Chains in India:
Implications on Horticulture Farmers - P.G.
Chengappa, and K.P. Mangala
4) The Impact of Emerging Organized Retail Chains on
the Marketing of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in the
Developing Countries- Peter J. Batt
5) Value Chain Management in India: Overview and
Perspectives - A. P. Paul
6) Linking Smallholder Producers to Market: The Need
for Efficient Supply Chain Management -Peter J. Batt
7) Success Story : The Impact Analysis of Pomelo
Agribusiness Development Production Centre of East
Java, Indonesia - Yuniarti, Pudji Santoso Suhadri
and R. Endah
V) GOVERNMENT POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
1) Horticultural Development and Sustainable Growth
of Agriculture Sector in India - A Critical Analysis
- Mahendra Singh and V. C. Mathur
2) International Horticultural Development
Scenario-Implications for India - C. Prasad and P.C.
Bhatia
3) Vegetable Systems in Central Asia and the
Caucasus: Research and Development to Improve
Livelihood Security -Ravza Mavlyanova
4) Contribution of Myanmar Horticulture in
Supporting the Livelihood Security and Economic
Growth - San San Yi
5) Government Policy, Basic Issues and Formidable
Challenges in Promotion of Horticulture and
Plantation Crops - A.K. Mehta
VI) NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL
COOPERATION 1) FAO Experience of Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries(TCDC) - Gavin
Wall
2) Vegetable Science International Network (VEGINET):
The Way Forward- Prem Nath, and Anupam Varma
PNASF International and National Award
Author Index
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