Livelihood implications of in situ-on farm conservation strategies of fruit species in Uzbekistan

Gotor, Elisabetta; Bellon, Mauricio R.; Turdieva, Muhabbat; Baymetov, Karim; Nazarov, Parhod; Dorohova-Shreder, Elena; Arzumanov, V.; Dzavakyants, Mikhail; Abdurasulov, Abduvahob; Chernova, Galina; Butkov, E.; Caracciolo, Francesco

doi:10.1007/s10457-017-0069-6

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“…Therefore, the variable considered to capture the implementation of an intensification strategy will range from 0 to 5. The diversification strategy included information on crop diversification (through the Simpson's Diversity Index) (Gotor et al 2018b;Douxchamps et al 2016;McCord et al 2015), the use of intercropping with legumes by means of a dummy variable (Workayehu 2014;Rusinamhodzi et al 2012), the presence of other forms of on-farm diversification (coexistence of livestock and/or agroforestry) (De Giusti et al 2019;Wilkins 2007), as well as off-farm diversification (i.e. the amount of off-farm income sources).…”

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Adaptive strategies enhance smallholders’ livelihood resilience in Bihar, India

2020

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This study empirically assesses if and to what extent adaptive strategies contribute to smallholders' livelihood resilience in Bihar, India. The sustainable rural livelihoods framework has been implemented to understand how household livelihood systems may interact with the outside context. This poses significant empirical and methodological challenges, since studies of the interconnections between livelihood resources, livelihood strategies and livelihood outcomes from a quantitative point of view are still limited. The results extend the theoretical understanding of the relationships identified by the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods framework, and also provide empirical evidence about how livelihood resources, livelihood strategies and livelihood outcomes (food security in particular) are strictly interconnected. The study highlights that while the adaptive strategies implementation is influenced by the livelihood resources of rural households, it significantly influences the food security status of the smallholders in Bihar. On the basis of the above, the current study emphasizes the importance of targeted interventions to improve specific forms of households' livelihood resources which are prominent determinants of adoption of strategies that leads to the maintenance of resilience by environmentally dependent households in the developing world.

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Adaptive strategies enhance smallholders’ livelihood resilience in Bihar, India

2020

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“…Improving availability of materials-Community seed bank (https://alliancebioversityciat.org/ stories/uzbek-farmers-get-livelihood-boost-localfruit-tree-conservation, accessed on 28 June 2023) [107][108][109]. Community seed banks: Central Asian fruit-tree nurseries with high diversity.…”

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Scaling Up Pro-Poor Agrobiodiversity Interventions as a Development Option

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Pro-poor interventions that use agrobiodiversity for development actions are widely considered relevant only at small scales. Agrobiodiversity interventions are often left out of national-level/large-scale development planning. Scaling-up modalities include adaptation, diffusion, replication, value addition, and temporal scaling up. We undertook a review of 119 interventions that use agrobiodiversity for both the crop and the livestock sector. The interventions ranged from improving the availability of materials and information through management and market-oriented actions to changing norms and enabling policies. The interventions are also organized in accordance with farming-community goals and constraints. The open-access multilingual Diversity Assessment Tool for Agrobiodiversity and Resilience (DATAR) was created as a framework to systemize and structure agrobiodiversity interventions under different scaling-up modalities for the on-the-ground field assessment and scaling-up of agrobiodiversity interventions. The use of the framework enabled the scaling up of small-scale interventions that use agrobiodiversity to have impact on agricultural development at larger spatial and temporal scales.

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“…Efforts have tended to be ad hoc, small scale, fragmented, and uncertain in terms of their impact (Bellon et al., ). There is, however, some recent systematic evidence that interventions implemented to support on‐farm conservation can lead to higher levels of phenotypic diversity and livelihood benefits than would have been possible without them for Andean crops (Bellon, Gotor, & Caracciolo, ) and for phenotypic diversity only in the case of fruit trees in Central Asia (Gotor et al., ). To our knowledge, there is still a lack of evidence that interventions associated with on‐farm conservation projects lead to additional outcomes related to genetic diversity and crop evolution—an area that merits further research.…”

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In situ conservation—harnessing natural and human‐derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation

Bellon

Dulloo

Sardos³

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Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental for the world's future food supply. While ex situ conservation plays a major role in the conservation and availability of crop germplasm, it may be insufficient to ensure this. In situ conservation aims to maintain target species and the collective genotypes they represent under evolution. A major rationale for this view is based on the likelihood that continued exposure to changing selective forces will generate and favor new genetic variation and an increased likelihood that rare alleles that may be of value to future agriculture are maintained. However, the evidence that underpins this key rationale remains fragmented and has not been examined systematically, thereby decreasing the perceived value and support for in situ conservation for agriculture and food systems and limiting the conservation options available. This study reviews evidence regarding the likelihood and rate of evolutionary change in both biotic and abiotic traits for crops and their wild relatives, placing these processes in a realistic context in which smallholder farming operates and crop wild relatives continue to exist. It identifies areas of research that would contribute to a deeper understanding of these processes as the basis for making them more useful for future crop adaptation.

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Livelihood implications of in situ-on farm conservation strategies of fruit species in Uzbekistan

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Adaptive strategies enhance smallholders’ livelihood resilience in Bihar, India

Adaptive strategies enhance smallholders’ livelihood resilience in Bihar, India

Scaling Up Pro-Poor Agrobiodiversity Interventions as a Development Option

In situ conservation—harnessing natural and human‐derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation

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