Why agro-biodiversity conservation - who is responsible for what?

Reuben, S. O. W. M.; Mgembe, E.

dc.creator	Reuben, S. O. W. M.
dc.creator	Mgembe, E.
dc.date	2017-12-18T10:07:49Z
dc.date	2017-12-18T10:07:49Z
dc.date	1999
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T08:53:52Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T08:53:52Z
dc.identifier	https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1924
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94247
dc.description	Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems (LinKS) to Strengthen Agricultural and Rural Development (GCP/RAF/338/NOR) Selected Papers from the First National Workshop held in Morogoro, 22-23 June, 1999
dc.description	Agro-biodiversity conservation is an important ingredient with potential for food security and for medicinal purposes. In the marginal semi-arid areas of the world, there is often nutritional deficiency due to low level of edible flora diversity during most parts of the year. Availability and knowledge on the utilisation of available indigenous and traditional flora as a food source is therefore important to alleviate nutritional and health problems of people in these areas. In Tanzania for example, there are several species of indigenous plants, both herbs, shrubs and trees available in both marginal and fertile areas with high rainfall areas which are either known or unknown to the local people as nutritional and medicinal plants. An example of such plants available in Tanzania is shown in Table 1. However, the current situation indicates that loss of agrobiodiversity is on the increase. It is estimated that about 34,000 species, constituting about 12.4% of plant species are in the danger of being extinct. This results into the depletion of food to the rural and urban people and loss of plants for healing various ailments for animals, plants and humans.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	FAO
dc.subject	Agro-biodiversity conservation
dc.subject	Food security
dc.subject	Medicinal plants
dc.subject	Marginal semi-arid areas
dc.title	Why agro-biodiversity conservation - who is responsible for what?
dc.type	Conferencce Proceedings