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Use and conservation of agrobiodiversity for increased agricultural sustainability, smallholder wellbeing and resilience to climate change in India - Rajasthan

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Title Use and conservation of agrobiodiversity for increased agricultural sustainability, smallholder wellbeing and resilience to climate change in India - Rajasthan
 
Creator Mathur, Prem N.
 
Subject crop diversification to address food and nutrition security at house hold level
 
Description Because of large scale
industrialization, fast urbanization, mega hydraulic projects and surface road/rail network, many
of the natural ecosystems /habitats have been destroyed resulting in increased number of
endangered species and some of the rare species are already lost. Further large scale cultivation
of improved varieties of only few crops namely, rice, wheat, maize, potato, tomato etc., large
number of land races, traditional varieties and their wild relatives of several useful and
nutritious crops are getting replaced. This has resulted in narrowing the range of biodiversity as
the result shrinking food basket. Due to cultivation of monotypic and small range of food
deriving spices, the nutritional and health insecurity is becoming glaring. Majority of the women
and children in the developing countries with high population density are reported to be mall
nourished /under nourished. The food what majorities of people eat is devoid of vitamins,
minerals and enzymes and as result, people are facing deficiency disorders besides losing
immunity.
Realizing the grave danger to the biodiversity and in turn nutrition and health security, several
initiatives are being taken across the globe both by national and international organizations.
Bioversity International is research for development organization seeking solutions to global
issues through conservation of agriculture and tree biodiversity. As a part of this agenda,
Bioversity International had initiated a phyto-geographical baseline survey aiming at
documentation of crop diversity both cultivated and wild, diet diversity and market diversity to
understand the intrinsic relationship between crop diversity in cultivated and on open lands to
the dietary and market diversity. The knowledge generated by the ABD-BS has been taken as the
basis for designing and implementing interventions that contribute to improve their well-being
of rural households in action sites.
 
Date 2015-06-12
2016-02-01T21:26:15Z
2016-02-01T21:26:15Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/719B98CC
Prem N. Mathur. (12/6/2015). Use and conservation of agrobiodiversity for increased agricultural sustainability, smallholder wellbeing and resilience to climate change in India - Rajasthan.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/3182
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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