Agricultural biodiversity to manage the risks and empower the poor

An International Conference was held in Rome, Italy 27-29 April 2015 to launch the IFAD and EU supported Project ‘Linking agrobiodiversity value chains, climate adaptation and nutrition: Empowering the poor to manage risk’. These Proceedings share the abstracts of expert presentations delivered at the conference around range of topics related to the multidisciplinary Project. Furthermore, the document shares the Project framework and site specific plans for implementation in Guatemala, India and Mali by the partner agencies Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), Action for Social Advancement (ASA), the Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER), and the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty.