This document provides an overview of a project aimed at conserving tropical fruit tree genetic resources through good practices that improve livelihoods and food security. It describes the project goals of conserving diversity on farms and in situ to benefit farmers. Key areas of good practices are identified as propagation methods, production management, market links, and community roles. Case studies from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia demonstrate approaches like value addition through commodity chains. Criteria for selecting good practices include impact, scale, relevance across countries and crops, and sustainability. Dissemination of practices requires understanding target populations like smallholder farmers dependent on biodiversity.
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Steven Michael Cole
Alan Duncan
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Chris Stephen Jones
Christopher Kettle
Jan Kreuze
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Alice Muchugi
Bonaventure Aman Omondi
Michael Peters
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by Cathleen McCluskey, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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by Cathy Bouffartigue, INRA, France
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James Legg
Margaret McEwan
Beatrice Aighewi
Jorge Andrade
Zewdie Bishaw
Sammy Carsan
Steven Michael Cole
Alan Duncan
Alessandra Galie
Karen Garrett
Jonathan Hellin James Lillesø
Chris Stephen Jones
Christopher Kettle
Jan Kreuze
Kumar, Lava
Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø
Alice Muchugi
Bonaventure Aman Omondi
Michael Peters
Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku
David Spielman
Ronnie Vernooy
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2. Introduction-TFTGR Project
Project Title: Conservation
GEF Implementing Agency:
and Sustainable Use of
UNEP
Cultivated and Wild Tropical
Fruit Diversity: Promoting
Sustainable Livelihood,
Executing Agency:
Food Security and
Ecosystem Services
India: ICAR
Indonesia: ICHORD
Country: India, Indonesia,
Malaysia: MARDI
Malaysia and Thailand
Thailand: HRI, DoA
Target species: Citrus,
Regional: Bioversity
mango, mangosteen and
rambutan
Duration: Jan 2009-2013 (5 yrs)
4. Context: Diverse production systems
conserving tropical genetic resources!
1. Natural forest systems-wild
species
2. Buffer zones in protected
forests
3. Community
forestry/economic forest
4. Home gardens
5. Semi-commercial orchards
6. Commercial orchards
7. Field gene banks
5. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Cultivated and
Wild Tropical Fruit Tree Diversity: Promoting
Sustainable Livelihoods, Food Security and
Ecosystem Services (UNEP/GEF)
Goal
Improved livelihoods and food security of
target beneficiaries through the
conservation and use of tropical fruit tree
genetic resources
Immediate objective
To conserve tropical fruit tree genetic
resources in situ and on farm through
strengthening capacity of farmers, user
groups, local communities and institutions
to sustainably apply good practices and
secure benefits
6. IMPACT GOAL
OUTCOMES
x
Outcome 3:
Community &
institutions
empowered
by
strengthening
capacity
Activities
Objective: Tropical
fruit tree genetic
resources are conserved
in situ and on farm
through strengthened
capacity of farmers,
user groups, local
communities and
institutions to
sustainably apply good
practices and secure
benefits.
=
x
Outcome 2:
Stakeholde
rs benefits
by using
method and
GPD
GPD
Improved livelihoods
and food security of
target beneficiaries
through the conservation
and use of tropical fruit
tree genetic resources
Outcome 1:
Diversity
conserved
through
improved
knowledge
Activities
Project overarching
goal
GPD PATHWAY: is defined as a set of ‘Key strategic actions’ or a ‘ interventions’ that TFT
Project must undertake to achieve the intended ‘Outcome’. GPD must be clearly
reflected or captured in the Pathways. Some pathways under particular outcome can
have multiple effect or can also directly support other outcome areas.
8. What are good practices?
Good practices are practices that work towards
the achievement of certain objectives under
certain condition and context
It can be a process, a method or approach, a
technique, an institutional arrangement or a
combination of any of these.
Good practice works when a set of practice
assembled together under certain situation
(Sajise, 2005).
9. Definition -Good practice
A good practice is a system, method or
process, that over time and space
maintains, enhances and creates crop
genetic diversity and ensures their
availability to and from farmers and
other actors for improved livelihoods on
a sustainable basis (UNEP/GEF, 2002).
11. Key Areas of good
practices
1. Propagation methods and nursery management
2. Production and management of tropical fruit tree
genetic resources
3. Linking farmers with markets (commercialization
that support diversity maintenance and livelihood
options)
4. Consolidating roles of communities and local
institutions in management of TFTGR
12. GPD : Capitalizing farmer
selection
Varieties, genotypes, or
characters unique to
home gardens &
How to translate such
information for benefits
of farming communities
and consumers?
Results: Community action plans
13. Baseline survey on fruits diversity with
high value traits identification
M
Richness
G
New
clone (M)
C
New
clone
(C)
Fruit
HH
Site
Community
Malihabad, UP
4
29
0
0
6 (1)
0
1215
Pusa, Bihar
4
27
0
3
71(18)+
10 (4)
525
Amaravati, MP
3
07
0
8
3
1
1471
Sirsi, Karantaka
4
44
5
?
3
0
1879
Chittor, AP
3
29
0
1
12 (3)
0
1610
18
Total
Selected clones are identified from seedling trees from farmer’s
orchard or home gardens and registered in the name of farmer.
14. Pummelo Clone – 3
Collector No.
Name of Farmers
Fruit wt
No. of Segment
Rind thickness
TSS
Acidity
No. of Fruit/ plant
IPS - 506
Sankar Sah,
Dardha, Murol
Mujaffarpur, Bihar
542 g
16
10.4 mm
10.3 ° B
1.1%
198
Less seeded (8/fruit), attractive fruit
with very tender and sweet segment
Total
10
clones
identifi
ed from
farmer
home
garden
s
Pummelo Clone – 4
IPS – 520
Collector No.
Name of Farmers Ramnandan Yadav, Basdevpur,
Darbhanga, Bihar
1641 g
Fruit weight
19
No. of Segment
10.0mm
Rind thickness
TSS
9.0° B
1.4 %
Acidity
135
No. of Fruit/ plant
More edible portion with thin rind thickness and
attractive fruit
15. Case study
Linking farmers with
markets
(commercialization
that support diversity
maintenance and
livelihood)
16. Case 1:Value addition of local products
through commodity chain approach in
Malaysia
Rural farmers
Valued added local products
Income
G. atroviridis
Urban
consumers
“Commodity chain concept”
Site: Bukit Gantang
17. Case 2: Value addition of mangosteen products
through commodity chain approach in Thailand
Rural farmers
Valued added local products
Income
Urban consumers
Garcinia mangostana
“Commodity chain concept”
18. Case 3: Value addition of by-products of rambutan
through commodity chain approach in Thailand
Rural farmers
Nephalium spp.
Valued added local products
Income
Urban consumers
“Commodity chain concept”
19. Case 4:Value addition of Garcinia cowa
through value chain approach in Thailand
Rural farmers
Valued added local products
Garcinia cowa
Young leaves
Income
Urban consumers
“Value chain concept”
Local food culture
Cha muang
20. Analysis: Understanding of driving forces of good practices
Using sustainable livelihood framework-Thailand
Impact
Baseline
Livelihood Assets
Human
•Training on value addition
•Exposure visit
Livelihood strategies
Commercialization of
local food culture
Social
• Organizing women groups
• Strengthening cooperative
Physical
•Canning facilities
•Cooperative shop and OTOP
Financial
• Saving and credits
• Incentive mechanism
• Link to markets
Natural
•Garcina young leaves
•Home gardens/ SCO
Outcomes
Value addition of local
products
(canned) and
marketing
Income increased
Awareness enhanced
Diversity conserved
Stakeholders benefits
Partnership developed
21. What are criteria for GPD
selection?
• represent one target taxon (species)
• At least represent one per key focus areas
• Practices currently used by farmers with scope of
potential spread and scale up/out
• At least relevant to more than two countries
• Scope of immediate impact-2-3 years?
• Low cost, practical, sustainable
22. Selection criteria for regional GPD
Good practices
Criteria
Home gardens
Diversity fair
Value addition of cowa
Scale and scope
> million land scare poor
farmers, mostly
concentrated in LDC and
South Asia and SEA
> X million
population
across world
> Few thousands
population, mostly
concentrated in the KB
province region; limited
scope
Relevance and
alignment
Directly supports TFT’s
strategic goal, objectives
and outcome and
complements MDG #XX,
PRS XX and national
agriculture strategy XX
Regardless to
countries, highly
relevant to
enhance
human, social
and natural asst
Direct supports all assets
enhancement of
livelihoods; leverage chain
of economic actions
Target species
Integrated system enhances
spp richness
All species and
intraspecific
One spp but translated into
other spp
Focus areas
Encompass all focus area
Strengthens
community
capacity
Market links; address all
areas
Immediate effect
high
high
More time in new area
Sustainability
high
high
Policy support for driving
23. Take home
message
Good practices innovated and adopted by farming
communities and researchers provide immediate benefits at
the community level.
Good practices that support maintenance of genetic diversity
is context specific
Good practice in one context might not be the good in other
context. Better understanding of driving force and enabling
factors needs to be understood.
Successful intervention of good practice requires set of
practices based upon holistic and sustainable livelihoods
framework
24. How to disseminate the GDP and
scale up?
Key questions to be asked?
• Whose lives we would like to change?
• What is our impact group?
• What is our sub-population of impact group?
• What are specific production system?
• What are communities, sites, and countries we
could scale up?
25. Defining GPD’s Impact Group
IMPACT GROUP (IG): Specific population or
group upon which Bioversity’s program aims
to have significant and lasting impact
EXAMPLE: Farmers in managing rich
biodiversity and natural resources
SUB-SET POPULATION OF IG: A disaggregated
group included in the IG where program
strategies may need to be focused
specifically.
EXAMPLE: Farmers subject to natural
hazards resulting from frequent climate
variability ; Smallholder female HH with
insecure food and nutrition security
STAKEHOLDER: Any group of people
who may affect (+vely or –vely) or be
affected by Bioversity’s program in
some way.
EXAMPLE: Donors; Relevant
government department/ministries;
private sectors……
TARGET GROUP (TG): A group of people who are
deliberately engaged in the program as a
means for Bioversity to achieve impact on the
intended IG. While the TG’s lives may also be
favorably impacted, it is the IG and its sub set
populations to whom Bioversity’S commitment is
long term and focused.
EXAMPLE: Local institutions that supports
community based organizations and market
chain (CBM or SPARC) and links with research
and extension system; PGR network; NARS
26. IMPACT GROUP
Rural poor and marginalized farmers, especially
women, who depend primarily on TFT biodiversity
and natural resources for their livelihoods.
SUB-SET POPULATION
1) Farmers managing rich biodiversity and natural resources
2) Farmers dependent on rain-fed, and low external input
ecosystem based agriculture
3) Farmers subject to natural hazards resulting from frequent climate
variability
4) Land scarce (0.05ha) and diversity poor farmers
5) Farmers in highly food deficit areas of remote mountain
ecosystem
6) Farmers living in high production potential areas.
Editor's Notes
The purpose of this presentation is to share concept, methodology and approaches used by PDF-B for identification, evaluation and piloting of good practices for TFGR management.
This output is outcome of combined efforts of national consultations in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand we had recently. We have used inputs from various experts within and outside IPGRI. We are sharing to this group for further refinement.
Let me briefly introduce the project. Read title, country, target four species, duration and partners.
Goal
Improved livelihoods and food security of target beneficiaries through the conservation and use of tropical fruit tree genetic resources
Immediate objective
To conserve tropical fruit tree genetic resources in situ and on farm through strengthening capacity of farmers, user groups, local communities and institutions to sustainably apply good practices and secure benefits
Tropical fruits diversity is part of Asian food culture and livelihoods as it can be easily seen any local markets.
These genetic resources are found in diverse productions systems.
These valuable resources are being conserved because of these contrasting agro ecosystems managed by different actors. Good practices also vary according to the context.
Therefore, the project is complex in terms of its nature of stakeholders, partners and interest groups.
In general terms, good practice is easily understood and easily misunderstood. For our common understanding, we have broad understanding of concept and specific definition required by the project objective.