Local Food Plants of Brazil

Preface.- Part 1. Basics on Food Plants and Biodiversity in a Multidisciplinary Approach.- Food Biodiversity Key Concepts.- Food Systems towards Food and Nutrition Security: The Food Biodiversity Role.- Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity and Food Cultures.- Unconventional Food Plants: Food or Medicine?.- The Potential of Unconventional Food Plants for Improving Diets and Nutrition.- Part 2. Brazilian Food Plants: An Overview.- Brazilian Unconventional Food Plants and National Policies to Strengthen Food and Nutrition Security through Biodiversity.- Food Plants from Brazilian Biodiversity as a Source of Bioactive Compounds.- Natural Toxins in Brazilian Unconventional Food Plants: A Review.- Part 3. Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Brazilian Food Plants.- Brazilian Food Plants Reported by Scientific Travelers and Naturalists: Key Plants from the Past to the Future.- Brazilian Food Plants and Indigenous People: Trends in Archaeobotany.- Famine Foods: Thoughts from a Caatinga Research Experience.- Part 4. Nutritional Composition Data on Brazilian Food Plants by Biome.- Food Plants in Cerrado.- Food Plants in Caatinga.- Food Plants in Pampas.- Food Plants in Amazonia.- Food Plants in Pantanal.- Food Plants in Atlantic Rainforest.- Part 5. Consumption of Brazilian Food Plants.- Challenges to Assess Sustainable Diets in Nutritional Science: A Case Study in Caatinga Biome.- Potential for Popularization of Unconventional Food Plants Based on Local Perception.- Potential of Unconventional Food Plants Value Chains.- Food Plants of Brazilian's Sociobiodiversity in the National School Feeding Program.- Part 6. Learning and Teaching Brazilian Food Plants.- E-Learning through Social Networking Sites: A Case Study from Facebook.- Plant Identification Using Artificial Intelligence: Innovative Strategies for Teaching Food Biodiversity.- A Garden Laboratory: Food Biodiversity Research Skills for Nutrition Students.- The "PANC na City" and "Horta City Lapa" Experiences: Learning and Teachingon Unconventional Food Plants in the Brazilian Urban Context.- Food Sovereignty for Lunch: Workshops in an Unconventional Farm.- Index.