Interest Group Meeting on High Value Fruits Research ICRAF,

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Collaboration perspectives HVCs

• Why tropical fruits?
• Existing international coopération on vegetable
  with World Vegetable Centre (AVRDC)
• Nothing on fruits, except bananas (INIBAP)

2
Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits.

• Challenges
• Fruits High value products (cf CG priorities
  GFAR/CG workshop on HVCs)
• High nutritionous crops (cf
  WHO/FAO initiative on the promotion of FV for
  Health)

3
Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits.

• Goals
• Increase consumption (healthand well being
  issues) Increase availability, affordability,
  acceptability
• Income generation
• Reduce PH losses
• Eco-friendly production ( IFP)
• Certification of planting material

4
Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits

• Research activities
• GRM/Breeding (banana, pineapple,
  citrus, mango, papaya, passion fruit
• 
  apple, peach, apricot,)
• Quality,
• Pest/disease
  resistance
• Drought/salinity
  resistance

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Research activities Research
activities Integrated Production

Ecological components (agro-ecology)

Ecophysiology/Quality
(mango,lychee, banana, pinapple)

IPM/ICM (Fruit fly, HLB, C.canker, Mango
bacteriosis)
Plant certification

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Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits

• Research activities
• Post-Harvest Management
• PH physiology
• Storage techniques
• Soft/minimum processing

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Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits

• Research activities
• Nutrition/Health Nutritional traits
• Characterization of nutritional quality and
  connected attributes
• Preservation of nutritional and connected
  attributes/storage processing
• Impact on nutrition and health

8
Availabilityof FVAfrica

• 1-Benin
• 2-Burundi
• 3-Cameroun
• 4-RCA
• 5-RDC
• 6-Congo
• 7-RCI
• 8-Gabon
• 9-Guinée
• 10-Rwanda
• 11-Togo
• 12-BFA
• 13-Cap-Vert
• 14-Tchad
• 15-Gambia
• 16-Mali
• 17-Mauritanie
• 18Nigre
• 18-Senegal

9
Availabilityof FVWorld
1-Afrique

3-Amérique latine

5-Asie

7-Europe

9-Amerique Nord/centrale
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Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits

• Research activities
• Markets Market assessment (ODM)
• Commercial chain -
  certification
• and Agro-enterprise Management
• End-users Impact assessment

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Collaboration perspectives on tropical fruits

• Facilitating activities
• Connection with european teams ex.
  Olive,pome-grenate, nuts, temperate fruits,.