UNDERUTILIZED CROPS IN REVIEW
WHAT'S NEW?
Dr. Michael Herman Appointed Global Coordinator for CFF
A new Global Coordinator for CFF, Dr Michael Hermann, will begin work on 1 April 2010. We look forward to a continued close relationship with CFF. For more information [...]
After more than four years as Director of the International Centre
for Underutilised Crops (ICUC) and more recently as Interim Global Coordinator of Crops for the Future (CFF), Dr Hannah Jaenicke will be leaving the position at the end of March of this year.
Hannah has been a very dear friend of GlobalHort and we wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
ICUC and Globalhort co-organized, co-sponsored and co-participated in several events and proposals like the ICUC conference in Arusha 2008, the All Africa Horticulture Congress 2009, the proposal for High-Value Crops Challenge Program, the recently submitted Hortinnov proposal, and the Recipes for Success project funded by ICDF in 2010. ICUC/CFF participated in the GlobalHort launch meeting in 2006 and in the Paris GlobalHort Board meeting in 2007 (as an observer). We hope to continue our relationship in future in the complimentary spirit inspired by the GFAR Global Partnership Program (GPP).
PROTA Publishes New Book on Promising African Plants
Published on 13th Apr 2010
Promising African plants  |
| PROTA 2010 Price: USD $42.00 |
| Binding: Paperback 169 Pages |
| Stock Number: PROTA0025 |
| ISBN: 9789290814344 |
This full-colour publication highlights 25 promising African plants, a selection from 10 years PROTA programme. They include vegetables (e.g. spider plant, roselle, African eggplant), cereals and pulses (e.g. African rice, tef, bambara groundnut), dyes and tannins (e.g. dye-sorghum, n’galama, turmeric), vegetable oils (e.g. Allanblackia, shea butter tree), timbers (e.g. alstonia, moabi, African whitewood) and medicinal plants (e.g. endod, bitterbark tree, iboga). The book shows the great possibilities for agricultural diversification in tropical Africa. The articles are illustrated with a geographic distribution map, a line drawing of the habit and colour pictures. Click here to order.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2nd International Symposium on Underutilised Plant Species
| What | Symposium |
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| When | 27th Jun to 1st Jul 2011 |
| Where | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (MYS) |
| More Info | http://www.cropsforthefuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Underutilised-Plants-Symposium-2011-1st-Circular.pdf |
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The title of this ISHS sponsored symposium is "Crops for the Future- Beyond Food Security"
Resources
Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products (ASNPP)
Bioversity International Neglected and Underutilized Species
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Center for New Crops & Plant Products (Purdue University)
Crops for the Future (CFF)
Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
The International Center for Underutilized Crops
The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
Lost Crops of Africa. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press
Agroforestry Database (Search)
BCGI Plant Search (Search) Botanic Gardens Conservation International index.
ePIC - Electronic Plant Information Centre (Search) A major project making Kew's digitised information about plants available online. It searches through Kew's collections, bibliographies, nomenclators and checklists, publications and taxonomic works, as well as external links and content on Kew's website.
E-PROSEA (Search) Plant Resources of South-East Asia
- Famine Foods Database Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.
GFU Underutilized Species GFU Database (Search)
GFU Underutilized Species GFU Database (Browse)
Hortivar (Search) FAO´s database on performances of horticulture cultivars in relation to agro-ecological conditions, cultivation practices, the occurrence of pests and diseases and timing of the production. It covers six categories of horticultural crops: fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers, ornamentals, mushrooms, herbs and condiments.
NewCrop (Search/Browse)
Plants of Southern Africa (Search)
Plants for a Future (Search) A resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. 7,300 plants listed.
Plantzafrica (Search) Plants native to Southern Africa.
PROTABASE (Search/Browse) Plant Resources of Tropical Africa
Try-African-Food.Com Felix Muchiri Waweru is a student presently enrolled in the Masters of Plant Breeding and Genetics Program at the University of Nairobi. He has come up with a very informative and entertaining website that showcases the vast assortment of African food. He says that there are many "lost varieties" that have healthy nutritive values. The creation of this website started when he began working on a project of empowering resource poor farmers in Kenya by exploiting new markets through e-commerce. This website is 6 months old and it is gaining traffic daily. In this site you will find information on such vegetables as stinging nettle (thabai), cowpea leaves (Kunde) and many more. Mr. Waweu would like to collaborate with others to make this efforts a success.