Projects

The GFU Projects database provides information about over 250 completed and ongoing projects involving underutilized plants.

Recipes for Success is about enhancing productivity and consumption of indigenous horticultural food crops for better nutrition and health through enhanced communication of research results in community-run resource centres.

Recipes for Success is a one-year pilot project supported by the International Cooperation Development Fund, Taiwan, through the Global Horticulture Initiative, that investigates ways to increase the nutritional status of underprivileged groups in Benin, Kenya and Tanzania through better production of and access to traditional fruits and vegetables…

The Coalition to Diversify Income through Underused Crops (CoDI) is a group of organisations in India and Vietnam led by the International Centre for Underutilised Crops. Funded by DFID’s Research into Use Program 2008-2011, the coalition will provide community services for production, post-harvest and marketing, to help disadvantaged people in India and Vietnam have better market access to generate sustainable income, and have more options for better land husbandry.

In early March 2008, ICUC and GFU organised an international symposium under the umbrella of the International Society for Horticultural Sciences and together with further partners on Underutilized Plants for Food, Nutrition, Income and Sustainable Development in Arusha, Tanzania. The symposium was organised around four main areas of importance for underutilized plants: food security, nutrition and health, income generation, and environmental sustainability. The over 200 participants were invited to share and discuss reasons for success and failure of diverse approaches to promote underutilized plants. An electronic discussion forum followed the symposium during May 2008 and yielded a joint Statement of Intent. The proceedings of the symposium are available from ISHS.