Dergiler / ANADOLU Ege Tarımsal Araştırma Enstitüsü Dergisi / 2019 / Cilt: 29 - Sayı: 1
Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition into Policies and Practices: Methodologies and Lessons Learned from Four Countries
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- 25–38
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ABSTRACT: This paper outlines the methodology for mainstreaming biodiversity developed by the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project (BFN), a multi-country initiative led by Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey. BFN explored the nutritional properties of traditional and/or neglected native edible species, both wild and cultivated (including varieties and landraces), and used this knowledge to incorporate local agricultural biodiversity into national and global policy instruments that address food and nutrition security through the promotion of healthy, diversified and sustainable diets. Across the four countries, the project adopted a three-pillar approach for mainstreaming biodiversity for food and nutrition into policies and practices by: 1) Providing Evidence, 2) Influencing Policy, and 3) Raising Awareness. Case study examples from Brazil, Kenya, Turkey, and Sri Lanka demonstrate how the approach can be adapted to suit specific country contexts and how a multi-level, cross-sectoral partnership-based approach can create an enabling environment for mainstreaming biodiversity to improve nutrition.
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ABSTRACT: This project was conducted to test performance of cultivar candidates of legume bird's-foot trefoil developed in the forage crop breeding program of Aegean Agricultural Research Institute after completing the first cycle of selection procedures whose base material had been obtained from domestic and foreign sources. Regional yield trials were arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications by using cultivar nominees, check cultivars and population at Izmir and Adana locations and conducted for two years in 2015 and 2016. According to mean yields of trials obtained as both locations and year means, genotypes obtained 6940-9510 kg/ha matter yields, 37.1-39.4 %, NDF rates and 29.8-31.2 %, ADF ratios while seed yields were 97-234 kg/ha, germination rates were 52.3-67.9%, 1000 seed weights were 1.04-1.21 g. In terms of dry matter and seed yields, the trials showed that variety candidates were found to be high yielding and well adapted to the region, ranking in first yield groups.