Food Wastes In The Harness -The Cyclic Journey Of Food Security, Better Nutrition And Good Health:- Gregory Ikechukwu O

ABSTRACT

Four Inaugural Lectures have been delivered at various times from the Department of Food Science and Technology. These previous lectures addressed several aspects of Food Science especially in the area of Food Security. This is not surprising since the essence of our profession as Food Scientists/Technologists is to employ scientific and engineering principles in ensuring availability of nutritious, safe, convenient and sufficient food thereby advancing food security (Onwuka, 2014). In my search for the focus of this inaugural lecture, I was guided primarily by the need to bring to fore another approach apart from increasing agricultural productivity, in remediation of food insecurity, which has continued to be a global challenge. In spite ofimproving agricultural productivity, the food security gap has not yet been closed, this brings a query on how much ofwhat is produced actually get consumed?