Recent successes in BFN activities were presented at the Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition Conference organized in the framework of the Alacati Herb Festival in Turkey in March 2015.
4. Mediterranean Region of Turkey
Highest number of endemic plants species (1946)
111 taxa are consumed as food (salads, fried, roast)
In the Aegean region 90 food species recorded
Source: Turkey’s 2nd National Report to the CGRFA (2009)
Dogan Y. (2012) Acta Soc Bot Pol 81(4):329–342
5. Low prevalence of:
• Stunting
• Underweight
• Wasting
• Diabetes/cholesterol
Source: FAO. Turkey Nutrition Country Profile (2001)
Chronic Diseases and risk factors survey in Turkey. MOH (2013)
7. Bananas and beta-carotene
Cavendish Common Variety
<5 µg/100g pro-Vit A
carotenoid
<8500 µg/100g pro-Vit A carotenoid
South Pacific banana varieties
Source: Burlingame, FAO (2013), Bioversity International, IFCP
8. PROVIDE EVIDENCE – Demonstrate the nutritional value of local BFN and the role it plays in promoting
healthy diets and strengthening livelihoods
INFLUENCE POLICIES - Use the evidence to influence policies and markets that support the conservation
and sustainable use of BFN for improved human nutrition and wellbeing
RAISE AWARENESS – Develop tools and best practices for scaling up the use BFN in development
programmes, value chains and local community initiatives.
•1/3 of the population is food insecure
•1.8 million children chronically
undernourished
ALVs, sorghum, millets, nuts and oil
crops, indigenous fruits and livestock
Undernutrition ↓
Overnutrition ↑
50% of adult population
overweight (80 million)
Plants for the Future
Project (70 spp.)
Non conventional leafy
vegetables
Undernutrition ↓
Overnutrition ↑
•31% overweight
•12% obese
28 spp. local edible
plant species
• Acute protein-energy
malnutrition
• Moderate Iron deficiency
anaemia and VAD
Native root and tuber crops,
traditional rice varieties, leafy
vegetables and native fruits
5 year project : 2012 - 2017
Project aim: Strengthen the conservation and
sustainable use of biodiversity with high nutritional
potential, by mainstreaming into nutrition, food
and livelihood security strategies and
programmes; develop markets and value chains
for nutritionally-relevant biodiversity.
13. What is mainstreaming biodiversity?
• Unprecedented biodiversity loss, degradation of
ecosystems
• Since 1994, the CBD has called for the integration of
relevant concerns related to biodiversity
conservation and its sustainable use into sectoral or
cross-sectoral policies and national decision-making
mechanisms. This process is known as biodiversity
mainstreaming
• Experiences and lessons learned largely confined to
production sectors – agriculture, forestry, fisheries,
mining – few examples of mainstreaming BFN
14. How it can be achieved
• Mainstreaming BFN into National Biodiversity
Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAP)
• Mainstreaming BFN directly into relevant policies,
programmes and national plans of action on food
security and nutrition – Fome Zero, School Feeding
Programmes
• Mainstreaming BFN into relevant production
sectoral programmes and plans which have a strong
bearing on nutritional outcomes – agriculture
(Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture), forestry….
• Other policy arenas….
15.
16. Several possible options exist to undertake the
mainstreaming of biodiversity for improving nutrition at
the national and local level
Agricultural biodiversity is the biological variety that exists among crops, animals and other organisms used for food and agriculture. It is now widely recognised that agrobiodiversity plays an important role in providing the diversity of nutrients (51 overall) needed for healthy growth and living.
More importantly it can provide a local solution to diet-related nutrition and health conditions such as nutrient deficiencies and obesity that are becoming a growing burden on national health budgets and economies. The problem is that much of this diversity is disappearing.
As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clue to the scope of the problem. It compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct.
I’ve said that BFN has the potential to impact nutrition
The reliance on a few staple crops. We have largely ignored the vast majority of the world’s Biodiversity for food and nutrition, where there is an immense diversity between species as well as within species much of it vastly superior in nutritional terms compared to the few crops we have come to rely on. Even within a species this varietal difference in nutrients can be vast – why worry about biofortification?
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The reliance on a few staple crops. We have largely ignored the vast majority of the world’s Biodiversity for food and nutrition, where there is an immense diversity between species as well as within species much of it vastly superior in nutritional terms compared to the few crops we have come to rely on. Even within a species this varietal difference in nutrients can be vast – why worry about biofortification?
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Use for Human Nutrition and Well-being.
To find suitable entry points for mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, programmes and national and regional plans of action on nutrition. Time consuming exercise – It takes much time to build long-lasting partnerships particularly with the high staff turnover in many of the Ministries
NPMU in Kenya has been successful in gathering influence and has since been invite to join the Nutrition InterAgency Committee of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. The BFN has provided a perfect platform for the coming together of actors from the various ministries.
Kenya has been especially successful at the County level where it has established partnerships with various ministries and is busy drafting Busia County’s new Biodiversity Action Plan that takes into consideration BFN.
FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at its 14th Session in 2013 formally recognised nutrients and diets, as well as food, as ecosystem services
Furthermore, the Commission requested the preparation of guidelines to facilitate the process of mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, programmes and national and regional plans of action on nutrition
These guidelines were endorsed at the 15th Session of the CGRFA in Rome in January 2015
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