Strengthening Seed Systems Promoting Community Based Seed Systems for Biodiversity Conservation and Food & Nutrition Security in South Asia

The book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation program on “Partnership to Strengthen Community Based Seed Systems in South Asia”, organized by the SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) during 7-9 November 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. In this forum, the government representatives from SAARC Member States, experts, researchers, and farmers’ organizations participated with innovative ideas and experience, useful to formulate policies on strengthening the seed systems in general, Community Based Seed Systems (CBSS) in particular, for biodiversity conservation, food security and nutrition in the South Asia region.