How participatory domestication of high value indigenous fruit trees is brings nutrition, income to smallholder farmers and conserves forests and biodiversity. Presentation at Africa Agriculture Science Week, Accra, 15 July 2013
2. ARTICULATIONS*
1. WHY INDIGENOUS FRUIT TREES WERE SO
FAR NEGLECTED?
2. CONCEPT OF TREE DOMESTICATION
3. KEY INDIGENOUS FRUIT TREES FROM WCA
REGION
4. NUTRIONAL POTENTIAL OF INDIGENOUS
FRUIT TREES
5. POTENTIAL ROLE OF IF IN POVERTY
ALLEVIATION, CC
SUMMARY
4. KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF WCA REGION
• Smallholder farmers of this region relay on rain-fed
production systems and natural/traditional methods of
soil fertility maintenance.
• Farmers have limited access to markets.
• Huge potential to intensify and diversify productivity with
agroforestry as a primary delivery mechanism of
multifunctional agriculture for food and export markets
• Hosting the Congo basin forest so hot spot for
biodiversity, repository of important high-value
indigenous fruit trees and medicinal plants
8. What$is$domesBcaBon?$
Resource
identification
and
characterization
Capture, selection
and management
of genetic
resources
Regeneration and
management in
sustainable
landuse systems
Ethnobotanic
studies and socio-
economic
evaluation.
Market research
Farmer
preferences.
Market
development
Assessment of
adoption and
socio-economic
impact.
Market expansion
Species
selection
Germplasm
collection and
conservation
Genetic
selection and
breeeding
Development of
techniques to capture
genetic variation
Efficient
resource
capture.
Assessment of
environmental
impact
SOCIAL SCIENCES
BIOPHYSICAL
SCIENCES
36. KEY SERVICES OF RRCs
• Strengthening farmers skills
in nursery techniques, group
dynamic and marketing.
• Demonstration and
information on the agrofrestry
techniques
• Access to information on
marketing
• Link the different actors of
NTFPs with the private
sectors
• Forum of exchange for
different actors of NTFPs
41. The right tree for the right place
1. Trees for Products
2. Trees for Services
fruit firewood medicine income sawnwood fodder
soil
fertility
carbon
sequestration
soil
erosion
watershed
protection
shade biodiversity