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| Author: | B. Becker |
| Keywords: | agroforestry, cinderella trees, domestication of key species |
Abstract:
Twenty years ago research on edible wild fruits was an 'exotic' subject outside mainstream agricultural research.
Dealing with non-wood forest products (NWFP) it was a subject within the newly emerging discipline of agroforestry.
The paper reviews the changes of the underlying paradigms of agroforestry research in the last twenty years with regard to edible wild plants.
Starting with a focus on utilising the 'wasted lands', the agroforestry paradigm shifted to food security, and to resource management of biodiversity.
Later paradigm changes led to the general acceptance of the so called 'cinderella trees', and most recently to the domestication of key species.
It is shown that wild fruit bearing species are in between the focus of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the FAO's Global Plan of Action (GPA) for genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Approaches to assessing the economic value of non-wood forest products are discussed.
Recent efforts to investigate the domestication of key species are presented and conceptualised in the framework of the paradigm development
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