Traditional food market selling agricultural products and other food items in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America © Curioso, Adobe Stock

Horticulture

Fruit and vegetables are high added-value products with high nutritional value, rich in vitamins, minerals, fibre and unique natural molecules. They are also drivers for social development and create numerous jobs. This puts them at the heart of global food security, public health and poverty alleviation issues.

Books and documents

  • FAO and ºÚÁÏÍø911. 2021. Rome.
  • . Editions Quae, 2020 Valérie and Fabrice Le Bellec.
    A lavishly illustrated book covering more than 80 tropical fruits, their histories, their specificities, and their food and medicinal uses.
  • Guide de reconnaissance des mouches des fruits et des légumes à la Réunion. Application de la protection agroécologique des cultures, Franck A., Deguine J.P., Vincenot D., ºÚÁÏÍø911, Réunion Chamber of Agriculture, 2018
  • , Philippe Vernier, Boni N’Zué, Nadine Zakhia-Rozis, Quæ, 2018
  • , Ahmed Bouaziz, Ali Hammani, Marcel Kuper (ed.), Cahiers Agricultures, 26-27, 2017-2018
  • , P. Ryckewaert, B. Rhino, Quæ, 2017
  • , Estelle Biénabe, Alain Rival, Denis Loeillet (ed.), Springer, 2017
  • , J.P. Deguine, C. Gloanec, P. Laurent, A. Ratnadass, J.N. Aubertot, Springer, 2017
  • Initiation à la protection agroécologique du manguier à la Réunion : retour d’expérience (Projet Biophyto 2012-2014), D. Vincenot, J.P. Deguine, C. Gloanec, A. Dijoux, R. Graindorge, Réunion Chamber of Agriculture, 2015

Journals

  • ,  monthly journal containing news about trade flows of fresh and processed tropical fruits, fresh citrus, and counter-season fruits.
  • , bimonthly journal on tropical and Mediterranean fruits.