Farming Matters | 32.2 | June 2016
This issue of Farming Matters looks at the growing number of initiatives that aim to revive the potential of traditional plant species, and illustrates that these plants can strengthen resilient family farming rooted in agroecology and diversity.
Traditional plants and crops strengthen nutrition, culture and food sovereignty and thereby build resilience and resistance – for farmers, and for anyone who eats. However, they have largely been neglected in mainstream agriculture and food.
FEATURES
India
Making millets matter in Madhya Pradesh by Ashis Mondal, Israel Oliver King, Gennifer Meldrum, Somnath Roy, Shambhavi Priyam, Sharad Mishra, Stefano Padulosi
Ecuador
Lupin regains ground in Central Ecuador by Nelson Mazón, Eduardo Peralta, Elena Villacrés, Ángel Murillo
Ethiopia
Afghanistan
Global
The Netherlands
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial: Traditional plants build resilience and resistance by Madeleine Florin, Diana Quiroz, Janneke Bruil
Opinion: Traditional crops keep our culture alive by Elizabeth Mpofu
Heritage grains in Canada: digging our roots, planting our seeds by Kirsten Spruit
Linking food choice with biodiversity in Germany by Jens Herold
Planting roots with non-timber forest products in Thailand by Rick Burnette, Abram Bicksler
Opinion: Making ‘bush food’ markets fair by Kylie Lingard
MIND! BOOKS AND FILMS by ILEIA
Perspectives: Fair and sustainable expansion of traditional crops – lessons from quinoa by Didier Bazile
FAO’s regional meetings on agroecology: a reflection by Janneke Bruil, Diana Quiroz
Making millets matter in Madhya Pradesh by Ashis Mondal, Israel Oliver King, Gennifer Meldrum, Somnath Roy, Shambhavi Priyam, Sharad Mishra, Stefano Padulosi