Sustainable crops for food security: Moringa (moringa oleifera lam.)

Moringa oleifera Lamarck is a multi-purpose tropical tree crop with great potentials. All its parts are suitable for a sustainable human and animal nutrition, due to their high nutritional properties. The scientific community has reported that moringa can help improve food security and reduce malnutrition and desertification. This plant is attributed the capacity to cure about three hundred diseases, due to its high content of bioactive compounds. For these remarkable properties, this crop is today considered among the most important and compatible with the great themes related to food security and sustainability both from an environmental and socio-economic point of view.