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91) Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health
This review paper found that the potential health benefits provided by cereals were often overlooked or undervalued as part of nutritious diets, including their role in reducing non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. The authors note that there is a need for collaboration between...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
92) Agricultural biodiversity and women’s empowerment: a successful story from Kolli Hills, India
The Kolli Hills Agrobiodiversity Conservers' Federation (KHABCOFED) is a federation of successful entrepreneurs formally established in 2009 in Kolli Hills Taluk (Tamil Nadu, India) composed of 110 different groups and with a membership of 1,523 (985 men and 538 women). Millets play an important role...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
93) Agricultural biodiversity in Southern Brazil: integrating efforts for conservation and use of neglected and underutilized species
Brazil is one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world, including a wealth of agricultural biodiversity in both wild and cultivated forms. This is particularly noticeable in southern Brazil, home to a wide array of underutilized food species whose genetic diversity is maintained mostly by...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2014
94) Agricultural Biodiversity Is Essential for a Sustainable Improvement in Food and Nutrition Security
Agricultural biodiversity has hitherto been valued almost exclusively as a source of traits that can be used in scientific breeding programs to improve the productivity of crop varieties and livestock breeds. We argue that it can make a far greater contribution to increased productivity. In particular,...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2011
95) 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...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016