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This paper concerns the role of crop diversification in improving household food security in central Malawi. In this country, the agricultural sector is dominated by smallholder farming and rain-fed food production systems that are facing increasing challenges from land degradation and declining soil...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018
The publication reports the experiences and results of UN Programme supported by IFAD (‘IFAD NUS I Project’) implemented in India and Nepal from 2002 to 2004. It is a useful analysis of challenges and opportunities across the value chains of minor millets in South Asia and how these have been addressed...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2010
The key objective of this study was to use mixed method approaches to understand the opportunities and challenges to enhancing biofortification with a specific focus on orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) and high iron beans (HIB), in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) of Kenya. In particular, our research...
Subject: Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
ICARDA’s gene bank was established in 1985 in Tel Hadiya, Syria. It contains 157,000 samples of major winter cereals, food legumes, forage and rangeland species drawn from four major Vavilovian centers of plant diversity – including the ‘Fertile Crescent’ in Western Asia, the Abyssinian highlands...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Near East
Publication year: N/A
The Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS) in partnership with the African Biodiversity Network, and with funding from Brot für die welt, is implementing a project to address the contemporary challenges brought about by the breakdown of traditional practices and cultural norms of...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020