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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species and varieties, researched by partners of the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project, an initiative coordinated by Bioversity International in Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
Have you tried…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of the world’s favourite fruit.
Professor Rony Swennen is a world authority in banana science having researched bananas for more than 40 years. “Bananas are facing major challenges,” he says. “The world population is growing…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. By working with highly successful farmers, this methodology identifies locally proven practices that other farmers from the same area can benefit from.
Like most residents of Mchengamoto, a Tanzanian village not far from the border with Mozambique,…
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Four steps to diversify at multiple levels
A new assessment method means farmers can identify climate resilience gaps and ways to fill them using agrobiodiversity.
In the face of climate change, agricultural diversity is recognized as a strategic ally in the struggle for greater resilience and adaptability. Cultivation of diverse crops and varieties, mixed crop-animal production, and mosaics of land uses have…
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Nutritious underutilized species - African baobab
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105096
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The African baobab is an extremely important indigenous fruit tree species for humans and animals in the dry areas of Africa. It offers shelter and provides food, fibre and medicine, as well as raw materials for many purposes. The African baobab is a neglected and underutilized species (NUS): a category of non-commodity cultivated and wild species, which are part of a large agricultural biodiversity portfolio today falling into disuse for a…
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Wilt-like disorder of bananas in Uganda
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105373
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Musa disease fact sheet on wilt-like disorder in Uganda: symptoms, distribution, inicidence causes and recommendations
Publication year
2001
Authors
Kangire, A.
Rutherford, M.
International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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International…
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Service provision by agri-cooperatives engaged in high value markets
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78779
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This note presents a practical approach by which cooperatives strengthen their ability to deliver impactful and financially sustainable services. In doing so, it recognises the challenges faced by cooperatives to design services that both meet the different needs of members and are financially sustainable.
Publication year
2016
Authors
Stoian, D…
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Network analysis for evaluating on-farm conservation projects fact
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105120
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On-farm conservation projects, as well as most projects that use research to foster development, usually involve multiple partners who play different roles, bring diverse perspectives and influence the project in multiple ways. These partnerships should not be seen in isolation or as piecemeal, but as a network of actors that enable the implementation of a project, influence its success or failure, generate learning and…
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Empowering community and rural institutions for on-farm conservation and sustainable use of cultivated and wild tropical fruit diversity in Asia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105174
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On-farm (in situ) conservation of cultivated plants refers to the management of landraces/cultivars and the occasionally cultivated wild relatives (as in the case of fruit species like mango) in the very place where they developed their present-day characteristics. Fruit tree varieties and related good practices innovated by farmers in their home-…
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Nutritious underutilized species - Amaranth
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105095
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Amaranthus collectively known as amaranth, comprises about 70 species, of which about 40 are native to the Americas. It includes at least 17 species with edible leaves and three grain amaranths. Amaranthus is a neglected and underutilized species (NUS): a category of non-commodity cultivated and wild species, which are part of a large agricultural biodiversity portfolio today falling into disuse for a variety of agronomic, genetic, economic,…
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Improving community livelihoods by recovering and developing their traditional crops
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104634
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When crops that could contribute to better food, health and income are abandoned by communities, marginalized by mainstream agriculture, ignored by research and absent from consumers’ diets, the entire world loses. These traditional crops are usually referred to as Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS). In order to fully express NUS potential in achieving poverty alleviation, food security and…
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Policy brief 1: Payment for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS): policy intervention strategies
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104670
Publication year
2011
Authors
Drucker, Adam G.
Bioversity International
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Bioversity International; Drucker, A.G. (2011) Policy brief 1: Payment for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS): policy intervention strategies. n. 4 p…
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Indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104603
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The following policy report constitutes an important supplement to a set of 20 indicators for resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) that was developed over the course of joint collaboration between Bioversity International and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). The indicators were disseminated widely in pamphlet form for the first time in March 2012.…
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Fuel wood efficient dryers and home processing to add value for kokum and uppage fruits in India
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105180
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This flyer gives good insight into the value of uppage fruit (G. gummi-gutta) and kokum (G. indica) and shows how the use of these fruits can contribute to the livelihood and well-being of many rural households. The ‘Conservation and Sustainable Use of Cultivated and Wild Tropical Fruit Diversity: Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods, Food Security and Ecosystem Services’ project identified…
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Technical brief 4: Collective action, property rights and payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104672
Publication year
2011
Authors
Drucker, Adam G.
Bioversity International
Full Citation
Bioversity International; Drucker, A.G. (2011) Technical brief 4: Collective action, property rights and payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS…
