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"The more homogeneous overall diet will have more problems.
More diseases and food insecurity. "
With this message, the FAO expert Jorge Fonseca today defended at the School of Agricultural UPCT differentiating local products to preserve the genetic diversity of food and "not rely on a few seed producers".
"We need the agricultural researchers to value the advantages of local products and you need to think not only in monetary terms but also take into account social and environmental impacts," said Fonseca.
"We are losing genetic diversity on a large scale and we know the nutritional consequences that will occur," he added.
Fonseca, expert from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, gave a conference on measures to prevent food waste on 4th Workshop Agrifood Research UPCT.
FAO estimates that the food that is lost or wasted during the production, distribution and consumption come to assume in the world up to 70% of those who are consumed.
Fonseca has praised the researchers from the School of Agronomy.
"The whole team Postharvest is known worldwide.
Surprisingly the prestige of a university UPCT being so young. "
Paper on disclosure
Among the presentations this afternoon, highlights José Manuel Lopez Nicholas, professor in the area of ​​biochemistry at the University of Murcia and head of the blog 'Scientia', for which he received several awards among which the 'Blogs' the best Spanish-language blog;
Award '20 blog ';
the 'EuropaBio' disclosure of biotechnology Honorable Mention for Prism Awards.
Nicholas will speak from 16 hours on the influence of the world as an emerging tool 2.0 popularizing science.
Tuesday will attend the Workshop Mark Wilkinson, distinguished at the Center for Biotechnology and Plant Genomics (CBGP) of BBVA Chair of Biologicar Informatics and expert on W3C's Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and member of the Editorial Board of researcher the Journal of Biomedical Semantics.
He will give a presentation on the process from which a hypothesis is constructed through an experiment until it gets results and these can be published.
Finally, it will be presented in collaboration with the network of technological chairs UPCT research award G'S SPAIN for best oral presentation endowed with 400 euros as well as a certificate attesting the best poster at the end of the day.
Source: UPCT
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