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Sharing progress and approaches for the research and promotion of underutilized species in Mali, Guatemala and India

Value Chain Development   [1] Climate Change Adaptation   [2] Nutrition   [3] Capacity, Awareness & Policy   [4] Fonio   [5] Chaya   [6] Tepary Bean   [7] Bambara Groundnut   [8] Minor millets   [9] Latin America   [10] South Asia   [11] Africa   [12] IFAD-EU NUS   [13]

The second steering committee meeting for the project “Linking agrobiodiversity value chains, climate adaptation and nutrition:  Empowering the poor to manage risk” was organized in Rome, Italy on 17-19 May 2017 at the Bioversity International Headquarters. The meeting included an update on project implementation from the project partners and a special training session and workshop on gender and nutrition sensitive value chains for underutilized species. Presentations were made by James Garrett on nutrition-sensitive value chains and Marlene Elias on gender sensitive value chains. The participants, which included experts and more junior actors working in the project, discussed how these concepts could better guide the value chain work on target crops.

Progress insofar was reviewed against project indicators and synergies within and outside the project were discussed along with constraints, needs and opportunities that emerged during the last year. Attention was also given to review scientific papers and other publications under development which facilitated sharing of knowledge and approaches across the three countries. Many fruitful exchanges took place over the three days! Synergy was found in the research on fonio in Mali and minor millets in India. Opportunities for exchange on scenario modelling for climate adaptation using tepary bean in Guatemala and minor millets in India were discussed and common approaches were defined for seasonal availability mapping of food groups across all three sites.

Presentations from the meeting are shared below.

Day 1

Day 2: Workshop on gender and nutrition sensitive value chains

Day 3

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