Stepha McMullin
@mc_stepha
Scientist - Agrobiodiversity, Healthy Diets & Livelihoods
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18-02-2020 10:44:31
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🔥 New paper in Global Food Security! Vegetable #agrobiodiversity and #nutrition are linked, with win-wins and trade-offs for policy and action. Read our #PlanetaryHealth paper open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @go_vegetables UN Food Systems Coordination Hub
Fruit and vegetable biodiversity are essential for dietary diversity, check out ways to maintain and improve these now, and into the future! World Agroforestry CIFOR @go_vegetables Jody Harris @mvanzonneveld Inge D. Brouwer
Read our report globalgiving.org/projects/fores… Over 90% of 745 households we surveyed in rural Zambia collect wild fruit. We are helping them bring these & exotic fruit trees to their farms for better diets rich in micronutrients Saskia Osendarp CIFOR World Agroforestry @l_haddad GAIN
Proud to have World Agroforestry CIFOR Scientist Dr Alice Karanja part of the World Food Forum Young Scientist Group - harnessing biodiversity and local knowledge for food system transformation! @Ruguru_Jesse Cathy H Watson Ramni Jamnadass
In Chipata, CIFOR World Agroforestry, ZARI & COMACO - #COMACOWorks🐘 are training transformed poachers & others to collect seed of indigenous trees with micronutrient-rich fruit. The aim is an outsized impact on diets & livelihoods. Funded by Bundesentwicklungsministerium Jochen Flasbarth Yishan Terraformation #Zambia
Most attendees r transformed poachers speaking Chewa & Bemba. But everyone "gets" fruit tree portfolios: 10-12 tree species per home 2 ensure 1 tree is fruiting every month, providing year round micronutrients like Vit C, A & iron that r🔑 4 health Good Energies Foundation Jochen Flasbarth