Neglected and Underutilized
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Initiatives

Linking agrobiodiversity value chains, climate adaptation and nutrition: Empowering the poor to manage risk (IFAD-EU NUS)  [1]

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

Integrating Traditional Crop Diversity for Mountain Food security  [2]

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   [3]

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

Strengthening capacities and informing policies for developing value chains of neglected and underutilized crops in Africa (ACP-EU)

  [4]
 

2014-2016
Countries: Benin, Kenya & Zimbabwe
Crops: Bambara groundnut & amaranth

3rd International Conference on Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS): For a Food-Secure Africa

  [5]

Conference held in Accra, Ghana 25 to 27 September, 2013

Reinforcing the resilience of poor rural communities in the face of food insecurity, poverty and climate change through on-farm conservation of local agrobiodiversity (IFAD NUS III & IV)

  [6]

2011 - 2015
Countries: Nepal, India & Bolivia
Crops: Winter vegetables, minor millet & Andean grain

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)

  [7]
 

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

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