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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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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