Initiatives

Initiatives

Current Projects

Linking agrobiodiversity value chains, climate adaptation and nutrition: Empowering the poor to manage risk (IFAD-EU NUS)

2015 - present
Countries: Mali, Guatemala & India
Crops: Bambara groundnut, fonio, chaya, tepary bean & minor millet

Integrating Traditional Crop Diversity for Mountain Food security

2014 - present
Country: Nepal
Crops: Buckwheat, cold tolerant rice, common bean, finger millet, foxtail millet, grain amaranth, naked barley & proso millet.  

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition

2014 - present
Countries: Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka & Turkey
Crops: 190 indigenous and wild edible species 

Projects Archive

Empowering the rural poor by strengthening their identity, income opportunities and nutritional security through the improved use and marketing of neglected and underutilized species (IFAD NUS I & II)

2001 - 2010
Countries: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, India, Nepal, Egypt & Yemen
Crops: Andean grains, minor millet & medicinal and aromatic plants