AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS ANALYTICS Laboratory
Promoting neglected and underutilized crops to address food shortages and malnutrition leading to outcomes such as sustainability, agribiodiversity, and protection of soil health and natural resources
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Current Project: H4H Breakthrough Crop Challenge
Implemented by : UPSTREAM Foundation, Inc & University of the Philippines Mindanao
Seed Fund from: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
Current Project
Current Project
Developing a multi-criteria index for identifying and prioritizing micronutrient rich neglected and underutilized crops
Developing a multi-criteria index for identifying and prioritizing micronutrient rich neglected and underutilized crops
Objective
Objective
To develop a predictive model that can select neglected and underutilized crops with high nutrient density and greater propensity for adoption among consumers, producers, and other actors who partake in the food system.
To develop a predictive model that can select neglected and underutilized crops with high nutrient density and greater propensity for adoption among consumers, producers, and other actors who partake in the food system.
Description
Description
The food and agriculture security gap is widened by inequitable income distribution, adverse effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity, unhealthy food choices of consumers, and the existing value-driven structure of agri-food markets. Transformation of the agri-food system is needed to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, safe, and nutritious food while agricultural producers, especially smallholders, are earning decent incomes and have protected livelihoods. Promoting neglected and underutilized species of crops is accepted to have a contribution to this transformation, but there is a need to develop acceptability among consumers and agricultural producers. This entails identifying the right crops, among the thousands, that have a higher propensity for adoption.
The food and agriculture security gap is widened by inequitable income distribution, adverse effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity, unhealthy food choices of consumers, and the existing value-driven structure of agri-food markets. Transformation of the agri-food system is needed to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, safe, and nutritious food while agricultural producers, especially smallholders, are earning decent incomes and have protected livelihoods. Promoting neglected and underutilized species of crops is accepted to have a contribution to this transformation, but there is a need to develop acceptability among consumers and agricultural producers. This entails identifying the right crops, among the thousands, that have a higher propensity for adoption.
Project Activities
Project Activities
Data Collection
Data Collection
The project collects and collates open source data on neglected and underutilized crop species (NUS).
Predictive and Cluster analytics
Predictive and Cluster analytics
Development of a predictive model to select NUS with a given set criteria.
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis
Ranking of high potential NUS using a multicriteria decision.
Decision Support System (DSS)
Decision Support System (DSS)
Development of a decision support system (DSS) to help decision maker select and prioritize NUS
Expected Outputs
Expected Outputs
Predictive Model
Predictive Model
Predictive model that can select and rank NUS according to a specified set of criteria
DSS
DSS
A DSS developed as a web app to help decision and policy makers in selecting which NUS to prioritize
Open Data Repository
Open Data Repository
Open source data repository use to train the predictive model
Criteria for Ranking
Criteria for Ranking
List of criteria that are used as basis to rank and prioritize of selected NUS
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