The impact of Bioversity International's African Leafy Vegetables programme in Kenya

Multisector intervention to accelerate reductions in child stunting: an observational study from 9 sub-Saharan African countries

“…In relation to reductions in child stunting, these findings are supported by recent analyses of national and subnational data that document associations between agricultural growth and lower underweight (37,38) and stunting prevalence (when Indian states were excluded as outliers) (38). However, although the potential for communitybased interventions to enhance local food production has been demonstrated in areas as diverse as Bangladesh (39,40), Kenya (41), and Iran (42), few previous studies have examined their potential contribution toward the reduction of levels of child stunting (7,12,13,43,44). Changes in coverage with child care and disease-control interventions with the potential to influence stunting were less consistent and more complex to interpret.…”

Assessing the Benefits of Andean Crop Diversity on Farmers' Livelihood: Insights from a Development Programme in Bolivia and Peru

“…As a consequence, the evaluation of the efficacy of interventions is itself extremely complex, not only for the multidimensionality of the expected outputs (genetic resources conservation, ecosystem services, private benefits), but because the results may vary nonlinearly depending on time, space and scale (Limburg, O'Neill, Costanza, & Farber, 2002). Indeed, it is likely related to this complexity that while there exist many different types of interventions for supporting crop conservation and use in the world, as revealed by Jarvis et al (2011), there is still little evidence of their effectiveness (Lutz & Munasingheb, 1994) with the few existing evaluation studies still failing to recognise and understand this complexity (Gotor & Irungu, 2010;Bellon et al, 2015a).…”

Issues and Prospects for the Sustainable Use and Conservation of Cultivated Vegetable Diversity for More Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

“…Traditional vegetables are recognized as strategic assets to reduce high rates of malnutrition that persist in Africa and Asia due to the strong nutritional values, seasonal availability, and capacity to thrive on poor soils under water limited conditions that characterize many species [46,56,110]. Important steps are already being taken for promotion of traditional vegetables towards this end [111][112][113]. Notably, the World Vegetable Centre (AVRDC) is conducting selection programmes for indigenous Asian and African vegetables in addition to their active breeding programmes for ten major vegetable species [114].…”