From Farm-to-Fork: A pictorial Mini Review on Nano-Farming of Vegetables

Abstract

s a backbone of any nation, agriculture is the main supplier for our needed from food, feed, fiber and fuel. The production of vegetables is one of the main pillars of the agricultural production for human nutrition. This production nowadays has a serious problem, which may lead to many problems for human health. So, the "from farm to fork or F2F" initiative was launched last 2020 for healthy and eco-friendly food system. This study is a photographic mini-review on the strategy of F2F and the importance to produce healthy food like edible vegetables. The main targets of this strategy may include preventing food loss and waste, sustaining the production, and processing of food, its distribution, and consumption. The nano-farming expresses on using different nanomaterials in different agricultural practices of vegetables like nano-priming, nanofertilizers, nano-pesticides, nano-harvesting, and nano-postharvest. The current work was designed to answer about the main question: can nano-farming support the F2F strategy? More open questions will be presented in this review.

Farm-to-Fork and Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Perceived Economic Benefit as a Moderator and Environmental Sustainability as a Mediator

“…As a result, several initiatives have been launched to promote the use of locally sourced food in the tourism industry. One such initiative is the "from farm to fork or F2F" initiative launched last 2020 for a healthy and eco-friendly food system [30]. This initiative is a part of the "European Green Deal."…”

“…This approach primarily aims to achieve five goals: (1) guaranteeing sustainable food production and its security; (2) lowering food loss and waste; (3) encouraging sustainable food consumption and easing the transition to sustainable, healthy diets; (4) encouraging sustainable food processing, wholesale, retail, hospitality, and food services practices; and (5) combating food fraud along the food supply chain [31]. According to studies, these five bases, for example, can successfully achieve a 50% pesticide reduction in general [32], decrease applied pesticide quantities by more than 60% based on canopy attributes in apple trees to lower environmental risks [30,33], and improve the proportion of "organic agriculture" to up to 25% by 2030 [34]. Accordingly, hotels and restaurants strived to use local, seasonal, and organic ingredients in their menus and work directly with local farmers and producers [35].…”

Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Sectors in Kuwait

“…This modelling technique takes into account inter-industry connections. Additionally, urban farming practices that prioritize sustainability by implementing farm-to-fork strategies include tracking land-based and aquatic viruses in food production systems (Mahony & van Sinderen, 2022;Abdalla et al, 2022). In addition, the implementation of an ecommerce platform has the potential to reduce food waste.…”

Nano-Food Farming: Toward Sustainable Applications of Proteins, Mushrooms, Nano-Nutrients, and Nanofibers

“…Research on nano-farming systems has focused on food production through cropping systems [33,34] and animal production systems [35,36]. This includes mushrooms [37,38], vegetables [39], row crops [40], cattle production [41], fisheries [42], and aquaculture like seaweed farming [43], among others. Traditional farming depends on the use of conventional agrochemicals, including fertilizers and pesticides, which have a lot of negative consequences for human and ecosystem health [44,45].…”