nutritional functional diversity, roseline remans

Nutritional functional diversity

Sustainable Diets Metrics WorkshopMontpellier, 4-5 November, 2014

Roseline Remans

ObjectivesOverall objective: Integrate nutrient diversity in agriculture, market and ecosystem assessments and planning

Specific objectives: 1. Monitor the diversity in nutritional composition produced

or supplied by agriculture and market systems2. Identify species/ varieties that add nutritional diversity to

a system3. Evaluate sensitivity/ resilience of a system for providing

nutritional diversity

Calculation (1)• Uses functional diversity metric calculations – from ecological

sciences to combine traits with species composition• Datasets: 1) species composition of plot/ farm/ market; 2)

food composition of species/ varieties

Calculation (2)Free statistical software to calculate Diversity metrics

www.nucleodiversus.org

Examples of applicationRemans et al. 201190 farms sampled for farm diversity across 3 villages

Examples of applicationRemans et al. 2014FAO national food production and supply data

Thank you

Sustainable Diets Metrics WorkshopMontpellier, 4-5 November, 2014

Roseline Remans