Poster presented at Tropentag 2014. International Conference on Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development. "Bridging the Gap between Increasing Knowledge and Decreasing Resources" Prague (Czech Republic) Sep 17-19 2014

Keding, G.B.

Kehlenbeck, K.

McMullin, S.

Werner, A.

Whitbread, Anthony M.

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Assessment of on-farm, market and wild food diversity in three agro-ecological zones of Western Kenya ASPASIA WERNER1, ANTHONY WHITBREAD2, KATJA KEHLENBECK³, STEPHA MCMULLIN³, GUDRUN B. KEDING4  1 Georg- August University Göttingen, Crop Production Systems in the Tropics, Germany  2 International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India 3World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Tree Diversity, Domestication and Delivery, Kenya 4Bioversity International, Nutrition and Marketing of Diversity Program, Kenya 3. Materials and methods Study site: 6 Villages of Western Province and Nyanza Province, Western Kenya Agro-ecological zones (AEZ): humid upper midlands (UM1), Subhumid lower midlands (LM2), transitional lower midlands (LM4)              Duration: Nov/Dec 2013; Feb/Mar 2014 Tools: 10 market surveys on key markets (2013, 2014), 30 individual household interviews incl. farm inventories and transect walks (2014; 5 per village) Analysis:  ABD indices, Summed Dominance Ratio (SDR), SAS STAT (PROC GLM)  1. Context   Agrobiodiversity (ABD) can support    dietary diversity  -  Positive influence on soil fertility, and crop      productivity  support food security  -  Increased chances of agro-ecosystem      resilience to environmental changes  -  Essential for adapting to climate change Bioversity International is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future. Bioversity Headquarters Via dei Tre Denari 472/a 00057 Maccarese, (Fiumicino) Rome, Italy Tel. (39) 06 61181 Fax. (39) 06 61979661 Email: bioversity@cgiar.org www.bioversityinternational.org  2. Objectives    -  Assessment of on-farm, market, and wild food         diversity on smallholder farms and local markets     -  Evaluation of accessibility, availability and           usage of food crops 5. Conclusion / Outlook • Seasonal changing fruit diversity on markets suggests that challenges with year round fruit availability exist  • Different food groups dominate markets in different AEZs  • ABD differs with changing climatic conditions • Wild plants are contributing to diets especially, in drier areas where agriculture is more challenging  4c. Results farm inventory   Table 2: Differences in diversity between AEZ     -  On farm shannon entropy shows significant         differences between UM1 and LM4     -  On farm species richness is decreasing         significantly from the more humid (UM1) to the          least humid (LM4) agro-ecological zone 4a. Results market inventory Table 1: Differences in market variables between AEZ   -  No significant differences between AEZ   -  Fruit diversity was higher in the dry season (data        not shown)   Poster presented at the Tropentag 2014  from 17th – 19th September  in Prague, Czech Republic;  Field work in Kenya was supported by the GIZ and the CG Research Programme A4NH;  * Contact: aspasia.werner@stud.uni-goettingen.de © Aspasia Werner © Aspasia Werner © Aspasia Werner LM4 (Bondo) LM2 (Siaya) UM1 (Kakamega) Figure 1: Map of the study districts in Western Kenya Table 2 Table 1  4b. Results farm inventory    Figure 2: Summed Dominance Ratio of species       grouped into seven food groups, produced on 30       farms in 3 different AEZ during the dry season    -  Vegetables were equally important in UM1 and         LM2 and of most importance in LM4    -  Importance of fruits increases from UM1 to LM4     -  Staples were of major importance in LM4 Figure  2 UM1: Young farmer during field work LM2: Typical  appearance of a farm during the dry season LM4: Variety of pulses sold on the market 

Assessment of on-farm, market and wild food diversity in three agro-ecological zones of Western Kenya

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