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Baseline Survey for Agricultural Biodiversity in Anantapuramu and Kurnool Districts of Andhra Pradesh, India 2014

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Title Baseline Survey for Agricultural Biodiversity in Anantapuramu and Kurnool Districts of Andhra Pradesh, India 2014
 
Creator Mathur, Prem N.
 
Subject baseline survey
 
Description Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization
belonging to CGIAR consortium with a vision that agricultural biodiversity nourishes
people and sustains the planet. It delivers scientific evidence, management practices and
policy options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain sustainable global
food and nutrition security. Bioversity works with partners all over the world including
India. In its effort to empower farmers through various interventions for conserving and
Horticultural Research Station, Anantapuramu Page 9
utilizing the native/local biodiversity for sustaining the efforts of conservation and
management and ensuring nutritional security on long-term basis, it has started
programmes with Dr. Y.S.R. Horticultural University, Tadepalligdem, Andhra Pradesh,
India which has a similar vision. A survey was planned and implemented in four villages
namely Mallapuram and Kurlapalli of Anantapuramu district and V. Bonthiralla and
Yerraguntla of Kurnool district. A total 200 households were identified among the four
villages for the this survey work. Focused Group Discussions (FGD) were carried out to
elicite the indegenous and traditional local knowledge about agriculture biodeversity,
dietery biodiversity and market biodeversity available in the study areas. This was mainly
aimed at generating complete inventary of usefull plant, animal, acquatic species used by
local communities, particularly for food and income. It also aimed at preparing the
inventary of variety of food consumed and the species and products bought and sold in the
market by the people in the study villages. The surevy was undertaken to understand and
document the crop biodiversity in the area with the following objectives.
 
Date 2015-12-31
2016-02-14T06:56:44Z
2016-02-14T06:56:44Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/DFSakmJt
Prem N. Mathur. (31/12/2015). Baseline Survey for Agricultural Biodiversity in Anantapuramu and Kurnool Districts of Andhra Pradesh, India 2014.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4351
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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