Plants with Nutritional and Medicinal Uses: Their Applications and Value Addition in Achieving UN SDGs

Dear Colleagues,

As a common framework geared for international cooperation, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs Agenda 2030) are a set of 17 goals with 169 targets that focus on human beings and the planet. Given the diverse use and value of plants as well as associated indigenous and traditional knowledge, their role in achieving vital and important goals, such as goals 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and wellbeing), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action), and 15 (life on land), cannot be overemphasized. Thus, it is pertinent to apply a holistic approach to explore the intricate relationship that exists among plants, people, and the planet towards achieving the UN SDGs. In particular, more time and resources need to be invested in the documentation of rich plant diversity that exists on the planet and their uses among local communities, assessing their biological effects on medicinal and nutritional values, chemical profiling, devising appropriate propagation methods, and conservation as a means of preventing the loss of biodiversity.

This Special Issue invites submissions of manuscripts relating to the applications of plants and their constituents, as well as valuable additions for meeting the UN SDGs (e.g., 1, 2, 3, and 13). The Special Issue is particularly concerned with how plants can be explored for ending poverty, achieving a zero-hunger goal, ensuring good health and wellbeing, contributing to the responsible consumption and production of foods, combating climate action, and sustaining life on land, as well as halting biodiversity loss. We welcome studies focusing on the documentation of the indigenous knowledge associated with the use of plants for health and nutritional purposes, biological efficacies, phytochemical profiling, safety assessments, value addition and enhancement (e.g., nanoparticles), as well as quality-control issues and conservation strategies concerning these valuable natural resources.

Dr. Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu
Guest Editor

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• antimicrobial
• antioxidant
• biodiversity
• climate action
• conservation
• ethnobotanical surveys
• ethnopharmacology
• food and nutritional security
• indigenous plants
• natural products
• pharmaceuticals
• phytochemicals
• quality control