The group leader acts as the peer reviewer of on-line contributing editors' shared knowledge. As of the year 2000 over 500 crops have been described. For a guide on EcoPort please contact us at the email address below. The related EcoCrop - the first Internet version of Agl's development was launched in October 2000. This enables users to identify a suitable crop for a specified environment, search for crops for a defined use and to look up the environmental requirement and uses of a given crop.
Poverty is the root cause of food insecurity.
Our aim is to help boost the incomes of smallholders and thus contribute to increased food security and sustainable production through crop intensification, diversification and extensification in both adaptive and fragile ecosystems. This is one key element of the Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Our objective is to help increase the income of smallholders through new crop and market options and thus contribute to local food security and sustainable production through crop diversification. To date, many African countries have not been able to take advantage of this as they lacked the climatic conditions for an economical production. FAO and ASD de Costa Rica have developed precocity and cold tolerance in oil palm during the past 20 years with germplasm from Cameroon and Tanzania crossed with DAMI Deli.