Scaling Up Pro-Poor Agrobiodiversity Interventions as a Development Option

Agnès Bernis-Fonteneau (), Rima Alcadi, Marco Frangella and Devra I. Jarvis
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Agnès Bernis-Fonteneau: Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Rima Alcadi: Independent Researcher, Via Fonteiana 126, 00152 Rome, Italy
Marco Frangella: ICiTy—Social Urban Experience s.r.l., Viale Giulio Cesare 71, 00192 Rome, Italy
Devra I. Jarvis: Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR), The Raffaella Foundation, 80 Myer Creek Rd, Twisp, WA 98856, USA

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-16

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: farming communities; climate adaptation; poverty alleviation and empowerment; social environmental conditions; crop varieties; livestock breeds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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