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1446) Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems
Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially provides a partial to complete substitute for many costly agricultural inputs. Diversification strategies include...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1447) African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC): status of developing genomic resources for African orphan crops
The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) was established in 2011 with an aim to reduce stunting and malnutrition by providing nutritional security through improving locally adapted nutritious, but neglected, under-researched or orphan African food crops. Foods from these indigenous or naturalized crops...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1448) Integrating Genetic Resource Conservation and Sustainable Development into Strategies to Increase the Robustness of Seed Systems
This article introduces a framework for analyzing seed supply strategies by considering principles of agrobiodiversity conservation, formal and informal seed systems, market and service orientation, and the strengthening of local institutions. This framework is used to analyze strategies for supporting...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
1449) Sustainable food systems through diversification and indigenous vegetables: an analysis of the Arusha area
One pathway to more sustainability – which acts as a guiding principle for the various unique pathways – is to support diversified agroecological systems. One way to diversify is to better integrate indigenous vegetables. Despite their potential, indigenous vegetables are routinely neglected by policymakers....
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
1450) Farmers Diversify Food Production in Malawi with New Crops
This brief 3-minute video reportage highlights the International Treaty’s first field visit with a high-level donor representative, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Agriculture & Food, into rural Northern Malawi to visit a Benefit-sharing Fund project. It explains the problem and how the FAO International...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018