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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

How are Peruvian indigenous highland communities promoting agrobiodiversity?

Video - Indigenous highland communities in the Peruvian Andes sustain one of the most diverse food systems in the world. Using specially-adapted farming techniques, they conserve some of the world’s most important agrobiodiversity crops that could be key to food security in a warming and more unpredictable climate. CGTN’s Dan Collyns visited communities in the highlands of Cusco that cultivate dozens of varieties of maize, or corn – the cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectRecognition schemes for farmers
PublisherCGTN America
Publication year2021
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typeMultimedia
Resource linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWDUU_ilMpM
KeywordsAgricultural biodiversity; Food system; Best practices approaches and techniques; Recognition of the role of farmers