"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme socio-economics".
Utilization of woody plants as food in times of food scarcity in selected dryland areas of Iringa district, Tanzania
Abstract:
Iringa District in Tanzania is a semi-arid area that is prone to
frequent crop failures. Food insecurity is widespread and often
the communities use woody plants as alternative source of
livelihood. Although the use of woody plants as food during
food scarcity is widely known, still, the knowledge of the useful
woody plants, prefered woody plants, species regeneration/
population structure, density, frequency, nutritinal values and
conservation priorities is insufficiently known. Therefore, this
study will compile floristic checklist, species preferences,
population ecology of key woody plants, nurtitional qualities and
conservation priorities in Iringa drylands.
Le district d’Iringa en Tanzanie est une zone semi-aride qui est
sujette à de fréquentes mauvaises récoltes. L’insécurité
alimentaire est très répandue et souvent les collectivités utilisent
les plantes forestières comme source alternative de revenus.
Bien que l’utilisation des plantes forestières comme nourriture
pendant la pénurie alimentaire est largement connu, encore, la
connaissance des plantes forestières utiles, les plantes forestières
préférées, la régénération des espèces/ la structure de la
population/, la densité, la fréquence, les valeurs et les priorités
de conservation nutritionnelle n’est pas suffisamment connue.
Par conséquent, cette étude a l’intention de documenter sur la
liste floristique, les préférences des espèces, l’écologie des
populations des principales plantes forestières, les qualités et les
priorités nutritionnelles de conservation dans les zones arides
d’Iringa.
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English
Date of publication:
2010
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East Africa
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RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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1709-1712
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