IPGRI-SSA Specific crops

Specific crops

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IPGRI activities in SSA

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Specific crops
     Banana
     Cucurbitaceae
     Wild rice
     Tubers
     Other crops
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IPGRI-SSA has focused on a number of specific crops of global and regional importance that contribute to food security, household income and national economies. Crops under advanced research stages include
Musa,
wild rice,
tubers and some
Cucurbitaceae

IPGRI also has an explicit commitment to conservation and use of other specific crops of regional importance and our focus has been on leafy vegetables, coffee, cocoa, coconut, Bambara groundnuts and fonio.

Central to IPGRI's attention to some of these crops stems from the realization that their potential to improve household nutritional status and increase income notwithstanding, they have tended to be neglected by researchers and developers. As a consequence, some are slowly disappearing from the menus completely.

There is, therefore, to focus research on their conservation and use, and help re-establish their importance at household level.

In addition, there is continuing research on
recalcitrant tropical forest tree seeds as well as research on
intra-specific diversity in forest tree species

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