ALLANBLACKIA, A NEW TREE CROP IN AFRICA FOR THE GLOBAL FOOD INDUSTRY: MARKET DEVELOPMENT, SMALLHOLDER CULTIVATION AND BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

Climate change and tree genetic resource management: maintaining and enhancing the productivity and value of smallholder tropical agroforestry landscapes. A review

“…Trees such as Allanblackia, whose seed is a new commercial product in the edible oil market, and which is collected from trees without disturbing growth (i.e., non-destructive harvesting), provide particular opportunities. Allanblackia is currently the subject of intensive domestication efforts that include genetic analysis and the selection of the best performing provenances (Jamnadass et al 2010;Russell et al 2009). …”

“…A diversity of local and exotic trees and crops can improve the resilience of agricultural systems to environmental change if constituent species respond differently to disturbances (Kindt et al 2006;Steffan-Dewenter et al 2007). In addition, by providing alternative sources of products, tree cultivation has the potential to take pressure off extractive harvesting from natural forests, contributing to in situ conservation, limiting deforestation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and fixing carbon in farmland (Jamnadass et al 2010;Nair et al 2009). Agroforestry is therefore seen as a key means of 'climate-smart' development, and understanding how to maximise the productivity of trees in agricultural landscapes under anthropogenic climate change is therefore essential in proactive management (World Bank 2009).…”

Allanblackia, butterflies and cardamom: sustaining livelihoods alongside biodiversity conservation on the forest–agroforestry interface in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

“…There are high hopes that planting and retention of AS tree crops in the agricultural landscape under agroforestry systems may in future contribute towards restoration of degraded lands in the East Usambara Mountains (Jamnadass et al 2010;www.iucnredlist. org).…”

Protecting the Rights of Farmers and Communities While Securing Long Term Market Access for Producers of Non-Timber Forest Products: Experience in Southern Africa

“…Furthermore, there is also a vital need for those industries who are the buyers of AFfPs to collaborate with the agroforesters who are supporting the participatory domestication process, so that the genetic selection is improving the traits and characteristics that are of commercial importance (Leakey 1999). Interestingly, the first such project, which has Unilever as the industrial partner, is in progress and concerns the domestication of Allanblackia species for their unique kernel oils (Attipoe et al 2006;Jarnnadass et al 2010).…”