Conserve and screen premium value indigenous plant biodiversity and products on women smallholder farming systems of East Africa
Date
2010-09Author
Namutebi, A
Akundabweni, LSM
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Various interventions for promoting the premium value of
indigenous plants (IPs) are being adopted to enhance their status
in the food sub sector. The project aims to enhance women
smallholder farmers’ capacity in target Lake Victoria Basin
sites of Kenya and Uganda, to conserve and promote premium
indigenous plant biodiversity for value added processes, and
provide a basis for policy formulation on promoting IPs with a
potential market value. The project involves mapping IPs in
relation to land-use types, and characterization of physicochemical
and nutraceutical attributes of screened IPs. The study
involves a survey; rural participatory appraisal; focused group
discussions; laboratory methods viz.: Near Infrared Reflectance
spectroscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence
Spectroscopy, as rapid techniques for screening the IP
germplasm and soil samples; and high performance liquid
chromatography and UV spectroscopy reserved for establishing
the nutraceutical value of the screened IPs.
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http://www.caes.mak.ac.ug/Publications/2010/Namutebi-A-et-al-Conserve-and-screen-premium-value-indigenous-plant-biodiversity-and-products-on-women-smallholder-farming-systems-of-East-Africa.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/38320
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Namutebi A, Akundabweni LSM,September, 2010;Conserve and screen premium value indigenous plant biodiversity and products on women smallholder farming systems of East Africa,Second RUFORUM Biennial Meeting 20 - 24 September 2010, Entebbe, Uganda.Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Food Science & Technology, Makerere University Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, and Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Nairobi
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