The Book
Agricultural biodiversity is important for food and nutritional security. Using examples and case studies from around the globe, this book explores current strategies for improving nutrition and diets and identifies key research and implementation gaps that need to be addressed to successfully promote the better use of agricultural biodiversity for rural and urban populations and societies in transition.
- Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa – delivery mechanisms for mobilizing agricultural biodiversity for improved food and nutrition security
- Sustained and integrated promotion of local, traditional food systems for nutrition security
- Linking biodiversity and nutrition: Research methodologies
- Successes and pitfalls of linking nutritionally promising Andean crops to markets
- Biodiversity’s contribution to dietary diversity: magnitude, meaning and measurement
- "Opening a can of Mopane worms": Can cross-sectoral partnerships leverage agricultural biodiversity for better quality diets?
Agricultural biodiversity and food based approaches to improving nutrition
- Traditional foods of the Pacific: Go Local, a case study in Pohnpei, FSM
- The Role of integrated homegardens and local, neglected and underutilized plant species in food security in Nepal and meeting the MDGs
- Diversity of indigenous fruit trees and their contribution to nutrition and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: examples from Kenya and Cameroon
- Fish diversity and fish consumption in Bangladesh
- The introduction of OFSP in Mozambican diets: a marginal change to make a major difference
- Diversifying diets: using indigenous vegetables to improve profitability, nutrition and health in Africa
- Diversifying diets: using agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition and health in Asia
- Minor millets in India: a neglected crop goes mainstream
- Local food and dietary diversity: farmers markets and community gardens in Melbourne, Australia
- "Please Pick Me" – How Incredible Edible Todmorden is re-purposing the commons for open source food and agricultural biodiversity
- Cultivating health with leafy vegetables in coastal Tanzania
- The Food Acquisition Programme in Brazil: contributions to biodiversity, food security and nutrition
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What they are saying about our book.
“At a time where fortification is widely promoted as the most effective solution to address micro-nutrient deficiencies, this book serves as an important reminder that nature provides an almost infinite variety of food species which are disregarded and therefore pushed into oblivion and extinction by the prevailing food production system. Sustainable development will only happen if we manage such resources in a sustainable way, building on local cultures, protecting and strengthening livelihoods, and ensuring good nutrition and health.”
Florence Egal, Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods, Nutrition Division, FAO
“This book is important and deserves a wide readership. Only once governments are convinced of the importance of agricultural biodiversity, shall they implement the policies that are urgently required to move away from the direction of agricultural development that is dominant today”
From the foreword by Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food
“I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the authors and partner organizations on this milestone publication. Their work offers a comprehensive summary of contemporary information and good practices, identifies gaps in research and provides insight on potential opportunities for a variety of policy options.”
From the foreword by Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Convention on Biological Diversity