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Agroforestry
Extension
Resources
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 A089 International Centre for Underutilised Crops (ICUC)
The website states that "ICUC provides expertise and acts as a collaborative institute for tropical
and temperate crop development. The
Centre was established to address ways of increasing the use of underutilized crops both for food, medicinal
and industrial products, and
also for environmental improvement." ICUC's objectives are stated: (1) To identify demand-led needs
and opportunities for research and
development of new and underutilized crops from wild and semi-domesticated species. (2) To develop training
courses relevant for the
promotion and sustainable production of new crops, to provide professional and vocational development
and to develop skills needed for
technology transfer through practical participation. (3) To establish and manage information sets on
networks of farmers, scientists, traders
and users working on new and underutilized crops. This will contain ethnobotanical information and information
on underutilized species
derived from any source. It will also contain information on ecological and agronomic requirements of
the species, and the results of known
research and development work.
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