Food diversity

Many neglected, under-valued and under-researched plants producing fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains and roots are often very nutritious and can help diversify the current agricultural system to one that provides more balanced, more nutritious and healthier diets and is less prone to environmental shocks.

 

 

Highlights

Food of the forest

Discover how millions of people around the world use plants to make nutritious meals and produce hundreds of sustainable products from rope, dyes and cloth, to beauty products and herbal remedies

Innovative farming is reducing migration and malnutrition in India

Agroforestry and other innovations are boosting farmers’ incomes and health and keeping them at home rather than following their arduous seasonal migration seeking jobs.

Research & knowledge

Videos

John Ingram, food systems programme leader, University of Oxford, discusses how we can enhance food system resilience