Baseline Survey for Agricultural Biodiversity in Vijayapur District of Karnataka

Abstract

Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization belonging to
CGIAR consortium with a vision that agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the
planet. It delivers scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and
safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security.
Bioversity works with partners all over the world including India. In its effort to empower
farmers through various interventions for conserving and utilizing the native/local biodiversity
for sustaining the efforts in conservation and management and ensuring nutritional security on
long-term basis it has started a collaborative programmes with University of Horticultural
Horticultural Research and Extension Station, Vijayapur Page 11
Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India which has a similar vision mandate. A survey was planned
and implemented in three villages namely Balaganur and Mannur in Sindhagi taluka and
Nandyal village of Basavana Bagewadi taluka in Bijapur district of Karnataka. A total 200
households were identified among the above three villages for the this survey work. Focused
Group Discussions (FGD) were carried out to elicit the indegenous and traditional local
knowledge about agriculture biodeversity, dietary biodiversity and market biodiversity
available in the study areas. This was mainly aimed at generating a complete inventary of
usefull plant, animal, acquatic species used by local communities, particularly for food and
income. It also aimed at preparing the inventary of variety of food consumed and the species and
products bought and sold in the market by the people in the study villages