Video - Sanja Mikić is a researcher at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Serbia. She leads the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project in the country and she is responsible for collecting and researching local varieties of grain and cereals found in farmers’ fields, and national and international gene banks. Vulnerable farmers use these seeds and knowledge to diversify their production and food consumption and increase resilience to climate change
Theme
Technical Resources
Subject
Crop diversity
Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Access and benefit-sharing; Agricultural biodiversity; Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species; Plant breeding; Recognition of the role of farmers; Role of genebanks; Seed management