Leaflet manual on winged and wild yam cultivation.
Name
Leaflet_manual_on_winged_and_wild_yam_cultivation.pdf
Description
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Size
5.29 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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Resource type
Technical report
Creator (person)
Rajaonah, Mamy Tiana
Date published
July 19, 2021
Abstract
Madagascan native yams comprise at least 45 species. Almost all are found nowhere else. They form a dietary starch resource that ranges from seasonal staples in specific regions to famine foods.
The yams are threatened by over-harvesting and habitat loss. A further species of cultivated yam (winged yam, Dioscorea alata) was introduced to Madagascar from Asia, and has potential to both improve lives and livelihoods and reduce wild yam harvesting if more extensively grown.
We aim to protect and enhance conservation successes achieved in the precursor project “Conserving Madagascar’s yams through cultivation for livelihoods and food security”. We are doing so via cultivating wild and winged yams and through providing business models at multiple scales, sustainable value chains, markets for processed tubers and nutritional information to guide policy. These interventions are improving food security, nutrition and livelihoods and conserving species.
Creator (organisation)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Feedback Madagascar/Ny Tanintsika
Université d'Antananarivo, Département de Biologie et Ecologie Végétale
Université d'Antananarivo, Laboratoire de Biochimie appliquée à la Science des Alimentations
University of Greenwich Natural Resources Institute
FOFIFA-CWR
Project(s)
Sustainable yam markets for conservation and food security in Madagascar.
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Darwin Initiative | EIDPO049 |
Publisher
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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