Presentation of BFN activities at the Alacati Herb Festival
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Recent successes in BFN activities were presented at the Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition Conference organized in the framework of the Alacati Herb Festival in Turkey in March 2015.
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Presentation of BFN activities at the Alacati Herb Festival
- 1. The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative Teresa Borelli, Programme Specialist Alaçati, 28 March 2015
- 2. Agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet Photo credit: LI-BIRD/A.Subedi
- 4. Mediterranean Region of Turkey Highest number of endemic plants species (1946) 111 taxa are consumed as food (salads, fried, roast) In the Aegean region 90 food species recorded Source: Turkey’s 2nd National Report to the CGRFA (2009) Dogan Y. (2012) Acta Soc Bot Pol 81(4):329–342
- 5. Low prevalence of: • Stunting • Underweight • Wasting • Diabetes/cholesterol Source: FAO. Turkey Nutrition Country Profile (2001) Chronic Diseases and risk factors survey in Turkey. MOH (2013)
- 6. Why traditional crops? Affordable Accessible Resilient Culturally acceptable Provide nutrients for healthy growth
- 7. Bananas and beta-carotene Cavendish Common Variety <5 µg/100g pro-Vit A carotenoid <8500 µg/100g pro-Vit A carotenoid South Pacific banana varieties Source: Burlingame, FAO (2013), Bioversity International, IFCP
- 8. PROVIDE EVIDENCE – Demonstrate the nutritional value of local BFN and the role it plays in promoting healthy diets and strengthening livelihoods INFLUENCE POLICIES - Use the evidence to influence policies and markets that support the conservation and sustainable use of BFN for improved human nutrition and wellbeing RAISE AWARENESS – Develop tools and best practices for scaling up the use BFN in development programmes, value chains and local community initiatives. •1/3 of the population is food insecure •1.8 million children chronically undernourished ALVs, sorghum, millets, nuts and oil crops, indigenous fruits and livestock Undernutrition ↓ Overnutrition ↑ 50% of adult population overweight (80 million) Plants for the Future Project (70 spp.) Non conventional leafy vegetables Undernutrition ↓ Overnutrition ↑ •31% overweight •12% obese 28 spp. local edible plant species • Acute protein-energy malnutrition • Moderate Iron deficiency anaemia and VAD Native root and tuber crops, traditional rice varieties, leafy vegetables and native fruits 5 year project : 2012 - 2017 Project aim: Strengthen the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with high nutritional potential, by mainstreaming into nutrition, food and livelihood security strategies and programmes; develop markets and value chains for nutritionally-relevant biodiversity.
- 10. Harness traditional foods to broaden the food basket, create resilient food systems and provide livelihood options in the four partner countries Sub-Saharan Africa Food System Amazonian food System Eurasian Food System South Asian Food System ©Bioversity International – Feb 2013
- 11. Source: ©TürKomp, Turkish Food Composition Database, Version 1.0, 2014 Özcan, M. (1999). Turkish Jour Agric. For. 23 (3): 771-776 Are wild foods and landraces better?
- 13. What is mainstreaming biodiversity? • Unprecedented biodiversity loss, degradation of ecosystems • Since 1994, the CBD has called for the integration of relevant concerns related to biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use into sectoral or cross-sectoral policies and national decision-making mechanisms. This process is known as biodiversity mainstreaming • Experiences and lessons learned largely confined to production sectors – agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining – few examples of mainstreaming BFN
- 14. How it can be achieved • Mainstreaming BFN into National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAP) • Mainstreaming BFN directly into relevant policies, programmes and national plans of action on food security and nutrition – Fome Zero, School Feeding Programmes • Mainstreaming BFN into relevant production sectoral programmes and plans which have a strong bearing on nutritional outcomes – agriculture (Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture), forestry…. • Other policy arenas….
- 16. Several possible options exist to undertake the mainstreaming of biodiversity for improving nutrition at the national and local level
- 18. 18 Kenya National Nutrition Symposium Feb 2015
- 19. 19 Brazil
- 20. BFN Project BFN Project website, Case studies documenting best practices Diversifying food and diets book.
Editor's Notes
- 4 countries one goal
- Agricultural biodiversity is the biological variety that exists among crops, animals and other organisms used for food and agriculture. It is now widely recognised that agrobiodiversity plays an important role in providing the diversity of nutrients (51 overall) needed for healthy growth and living. More importantly it can provide a local solution to diet-related nutrition and health conditions such as nutrient deficiencies and obesity that are becoming a growing burden on national health budgets and economies. The problem is that much of this diversity is disappearing.
- As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clue to the scope of the problem. It compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct. I’ve said that BFN has the potential to impact nutrition
- The reliance on a few staple crops. We have largely ignored the vast majority of the world’s Biodiversity for food and nutrition, where there is an immense diversity between species as well as within species much of it vastly superior in nutritional terms compared to the few crops we have come to rely on. Even within a species this varietal difference in nutrients can be vast – why worry about biofortification?
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- The reliance on a few staple crops. We have largely ignored the vast majority of the world’s Biodiversity for food and nutrition, where there is an immense diversity between species as well as within species much of it vastly superior in nutritional terms compared to the few crops we have come to rely on. Even within a species this varietal difference in nutrients can be vast – why worry about biofortification?
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- Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Use for Human Nutrition and Well-being.
- To find suitable entry points for mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, programmes and national and regional plans of action on nutrition. Time consuming exercise – It takes much time to build long-lasting partnerships particularly with the high staff turnover in many of the Ministries NPMU in Kenya has been successful in gathering influence and has since been invite to join the Nutrition InterAgency Committee of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. The BFN has provided a perfect platform for the coming together of actors from the various ministries. Kenya has been especially successful at the County level where it has established partnerships with various ministries and is busy drafting Busia County’s new Biodiversity Action Plan that takes into consideration BFN.
- FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at its 14th Session in 2013 formally recognised nutrients and diets, as well as food, as ecosystem services Furthermore, the Commission requested the preparation of guidelines to facilitate the process of mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, programmes and national and regional plans of action on nutrition These guidelines were endorsed at the 15th Session of the CGRFA in Rome in January 2015
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