The roles of indigenous crops and plants in improving nutrition and fighting HIV/AIDS Josep A. Gar

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The roles of indigenous crops and plantsin
improving nutritionand fighting HIV/AIDSJosep
A. GaríFood and Agriculture Organisationof the
United Nations (FAO)

• Distance-learning training course to build
  national capacities for integrating local
  knowledge into multi-sectoral AIDS projects
• Vide-conference connection with various African
  countries
• 9 September 2005

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Plants and human health
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STRATEGIC COMPONENTS

1. Traditional, neglected and under-utilised crops
2. Agricultural diversification
3. Home gardens
4. Wild food plants
5. Medicinal plants
6. Community seed systems
7. Livestock and agropastoral systems

agro-biodiversity indigenous knowledge
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Farmer with bungoma variety of sweet potato
(eastern Uganda)
Sweet potato varieties in 4 villages of Mawero
area (Eastern Uganda), 2001
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Selected examples of agricultural diversification
systems and practices
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Selected wild food plants among the Gogo people
in Dodoma drylands (Tanzania)
Source Field research, 2001 (in collaboration
with the Tanzanian Association of Women Leaders
in Agriculture and the Environment - TAWLAE)
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Extent of wild food plants and home garden crops
in Africa
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Papers

• Garí, J.A. (2004). "Plant diversity, sustainable
  rural livelihoods and the HIV/AIDS crisis". UNDP
  / FAO.
• http//www.hiv-development.org/publications

Garí, J.A. (2003). "Agrobiodiversity strategies
to combat foor insecurity and HIV/AIDS impact in
rural Africa Advancing grassroots responses for
nutrition, health and sustainable livelihoods".
FAO (SDWP) preliminary edition. http//www.geoci
ties.com/rural_Africa
Further information http//www.fao.org/hivaids h
ttp//www.fao.org/es/esn/nutrition/household_hivai
ds_en.stm http//www.fao.org/sd/links/resources/re
sources.html http//www.underutilized-species.org