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1636) Pohnpei and their Indigenous Foods
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: 2019
1637) How to do note: Crop selection for diet quality and resilience
This How to Do Note is part of a series of five Notes that accompany the NUS Operational Framework. The How to Do Notes offer recommendations on practical methods, approaches, and tools for use-enhancement of NUS in both design and implementation of IFAD-funded projects to support more nutrition-sensitive...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1638) Seed and Gene Banks Play a Critical Role in Conserving and Sharing Indigenous Crop Seeds
On a trip to Harare for partnership exploration meetings, the African Centre for Biodiversity visited the Genetic Resources and Biotechnology Institute of Zimbabwe. Gene banks such as these are primarily established to conserve the genetic resources that form the basis for all food production. In this...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1639) Diversity for food security: Improving human nutrition through better evaluation, management, and use of plant genetic resources
The use of plant genetic diversity is essential for ensuring an adequate and stable supply of diverse food crops as well as for enhancing their nutritional quality. The role of effective conservation, management, and use of plant genetic resources in ensuring the availability of a diverse range of nutritious...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2000
1640) BSF project "Seeds for Life – Action with farmers in Uttar Pradesh to enhance Food Security in the context of Climate Change in India"
" Seeds for Life – Action with farmers in Uttar Pradesh to enhance Food Security in the context of Climate Change in India" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Second Cycle). Sustainable food security for 50 villages, covering...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A