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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: marketfarming <marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org>, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Crops for the Future - Sent using Google Toolbar
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:14:54 -0500

Crops for the Future - Sent using Google Toolbar

http://www.cropsforthefuture.org/

Welcome to Crops for the Future

"Crops for the Future is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of
neglected and underutilised plant species as a contribution to
humanity. It evolved from the International Centre for Underutilised
Crops and the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species.

• It covers the whole range of underutilised species, food and non-food
crops;
• It catalyses the development of processing and marketing facilities
for underutilised crops and will concentrate on developing options for
income generation;
• It has a global mandate and will thus strengthen national and
regional efforts in policy advocacy; coalitions, consortia and
alliances with relevant and engaged partners from the public and
private sectors will form the base for its operation;
• It will follow the innovation systems concept, thus being an
initiator and facilitator, not implementer of research and development
activities.

Crops for the Future activities are arranged in three major strategic
objectives formulated to increase the impact of past and ongoing
research and development: (1) increasing the knowledge base for
underutilised crops, especially regarding sustained market access,
nutritional security, health and climate change, (2) identifying and
advocating necessary policy change to promote the use of underutilised
crops, and (3) fostering capacity building about underutilised crops."


Unlocking the potential of minor millets
http://www.cropsforthefuture.org/?p=1515
>From an article appearing on Bioversity International web site

Minor millets [ little millet (Panicum sumatrense), finger millet
(Eleusine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica) ] are
providing opportunities for resource poor farmers in India allowing
adaptation options, better income and nutrition patterns.

Read about it here: Newly published research papers reveal the
potential of minor millets to improve people’s lives in southern India
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/unlocking_the_potential_of_minor_millets.html



  • [permaculture] Crops for the Future - Sent using Google Toolbar, Lawrence London, 01/03/2011

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