The Indigenous Partnerships for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty is co-coordinating, together with the  Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research and Crops for the Future an event that will take place during the Terra Madre event in Torino, Italy organized by Slow Food.

From the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research web site read about this event and, should you happen to be Torino attending Terramadre, on behalf of the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, being guided by Mr Phrang Roy, we wish to invite you to our Terra Madre Earth Workshop event titled “Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty: the Role of Indigenous Peoples” and to come join us for an allround experience that celebrates the importance of agrobiodiversity, local foods, indigenous people and more!

From PROTA’s (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) web site a write up on the Useful Plants Project (UPP).

The project was initiated by the National Museums of Kenya in 2007 to document information on local plant uses and to undertake seed storage of these plant species in a seed bank. The goal is to improve the welfare of poor communities and safeguard from extinction useful Kenyan plant species. On the other hand, a sister project known as the Seeds for Life Project is a Kenya plant conservation project targeting conservation of Kenya’s dry land plant taxa on-farm, in-situ and ex-situ … read on

From the report’s executive summary:

This report summarises the work in FOSRIN (Food Security through Ricebean Research in India and Nepal), funded by the 6th Framework Programme (FP6) of the European Commission from April 2006 to March 2010.

FOSRIN was a consortium of eight partners, universities, NGOs and government research organisations in Europe and South Asia, working to popularise the underutilised grain legume crop ricebean (Vigna umbellata) and promote its cultivation over a wider area of the environments to which it is suited than is currently the case. The work involved research on the supply chain and marketing of the crop, the diversity and adaptation of germplasm, farmers‟ preferred traits and indigenous knowledge of the crop, and its health and nutritional aspects. The work is showcased on the website of The Ricebean Network (www.ricebean.org).

Click here to read FOSRIN’s final Report