Underutilized Species and Climate Change: Current Status and Outlook

Padulosi, S.; Heywood, V. H.; Hunter, Danny; Jarvis, Andy

doi:10.1002/9780470960929.ch35

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“…We believe the application of an analytical approach such as the one presented here provides a basis for informing more targeted, case-specific measures in the field of minor crops' genetic resource management. Finally, in addition to better targeted interventions in the genetic resource conservation and use area, to truly leverage the role of these species, it will be important to link up with national and international initiatives in the fields of sustainable agriculture, food security and sovereignty [74], health [75,76], and adaptation to climate change [77], as minor crops can substantially contribute to the achievement of these objectives. Annex 1.…”

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Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of Underutilized Crops in the Americas—A Continental Analysis

Galluzzi

Noriega

2014

Sustainability

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Latin America is home to dramatically diverse agroecological regions which harbor a high concentration of underutilized plant species, whose genetic resources hold the potential to address challenges such as sustainable agricultural development, food security and sovereignty, and climate change. This paper examines the status of an expert-informed list of underutilized crops in Latin America and analyses how the most common features of underuse apply to these. The analysis pays special attention to if and how existing international policy and legal frameworks on biodiversity and plant genetic resources effectively support or not the conservation and sustainable use of underutilized crops. Results show that not all minor crops are affected by the same degree of neglect, and that the aspects under which any crop is underutilized vary greatly, calling for specific analyses and interventions. We also show that current international policy and legal instruments have so far provided limited stimulus and funding for the conservation and sustainable use of the genetic resources of these crops. Finally, the paper proposes an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating a crop's underutilization, in order to define the most appropriate type and levels of intervention (international, national, local) for improving its status.

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Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of Underutilized Crops in the Americas—A Continental Analysis

Galluzzi

Noriega

2014

Sustainability

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“…In this regard, the term 'neglected and underutilised species' or 'development opportunity crop' refers to those species whose potential to improve people's livelihood is not being fully exploited (given the current lack of detailed and comprehensive nutritional information about diversity within crops at the cultivar level and the role it plays in nutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization has launched the INFOODS initiative (64) ). (68) . For instance, a local fruit, Berchemia discolor, was found to contribute in a low-cost manner to closing nutrient gaps in Kenya (69) .…”

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Agricultural biodiversity, social–ecological systems and sustainable diets

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The stark observation of the co-existence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity, the triple burden of malnutrition, is inviting us to reconsider health and nutrition as the primary goal and final endpoint of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made remarkable advances in the past decades. However, their development has not entirely fulfilled health and nutritional needs, and moreover, they have generated substantial collateral losses in agricultural biodiversity. Simultaneously, several regions are experiencing unprecedented weather events caused by climate change and habitat depletion, in turn putting at risk global food and nutrition security. This coincidence of food crises with increasing environmental degradation suggests an urgent need for novel analyses and new paradigms. The sustainable diets concept proposes a research and policy agenda that strives towards a sustainable use of human and natural resources for food and nutrition security, highlighting the preeminent role of consumers in defining sustainable options and the importance of biodiversity in nutrition. Food systems act as complex social-ecological systems, involving multiple interactions between human and natural components. Nutritional patterns and environment structure are interconnected in a mutual dynamic of changes. The systemic nature of these interactions calls for multidimensional approaches and integrated assessment and simulation tools to guide change. This paper proposes a review and conceptual modelling framework that articulate the synergies and tradeoffs between dietary diversity, widely recognised as key for healthy diets, and agricultural biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions, crucial resilience factors to climate and global changes.

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“…Though a large number of people make a living on them, there is scarcity of information on the NULs, such as nutritional and toxicological profiles. It is particularly conjectured that the neglect of these legumes might lead to a build-up of adaptive features, possibly, the production of secondary metabolite phytochemicals, which they require to survive the environment in which they live [3].…”

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Neglected and Underutilized Legumes (NULs): Exposure Assessment, Habitual Cooking and Eating Habits and Consumers’ Characteristics

Ofosu¹,

Ellis²,

Nsiah³

et al. 2017

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Many people usually consume neglected and underutilized legumes (NULs) as stop gap diets, making the legumes a critical food security resource. In order to ensure their sustainability, a survey was designed to study the characteristics of 534 respondents towards NULs processing and consumption. The survey questions covered habitual thermal processing times of NULs seeds, the quantities of NULs dishes consumed and the number of times they were consumed per week. Other questions covered consumer characteristics such as age, body weight, educational background, occupation, marital status and household numbers. The statistical analysis used Palisade @Risk software to fit each study item to the most adequate probabilistic distribution, based on their Akaike information criterion. Subsequently, the central tendency characteristics of the studied items together with their variations and uncertainties were recorded. The results showed quantified exposure assessment of each NUL, obtained as an integration of the product of the amount of NULs dishes consumed and the exposure frequency of each NULs dishes consumed per body weights of consumers. Similarly, the output of consumer characteristics were recorded along the statistical distributions of each specific NUL's consumption. These were linked to the ages of individuals consuming it, the household numbers of consumers, the educational levels, marital status and the occupation of the respondents.

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Underutilized Species and Climate Change: Current Status and Outlook

Cited by 121 publications

References 40 publications

Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of Underutilized Crops in the Americas—A Continental Analysis

Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources of Underutilized Crops in the Americas—A Continental Analysis

Agricultural biodiversity, social–ecological systems and sustainable diets

Neglected and Underutilized Legumes (NULs): Exposure Assessment, Habitual Cooking and Eating Habits and Consumers’ Characteristics

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