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516) Technical manual series on Community Seed Banks Manual 3 – Community Seed Banks: access to germplasm and benefit sharing models
European CSBs are generally embedded in informal PGRFA conservation and seed systems, and most often their origin does not emerge out of any relationship with formal PGRFA institutions. However, as their activities and services grow and diversify in scope and outreach, it is not at all un-frequent that...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
517) Indigenous Food for Better Health
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
518) Gender Differentiation of Farmer Preferences for Varietal Traits in Crop Improvement: Evidence and Issues
Changes in agro-ecological as well as socio-economic conditions lead to transformations of food and farming systems worldwide. Using plant varieties with new or different sets of traits can be one option for farmers to adapt to these changes; however, coping strategies and related varietal traits may...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
519) The History of Farmers' Rights: A Guide to Central Documents and Literature
The Farmers’ Rights Project has been set up to facilitate a common understanding and develop an empirical basis for proposals to the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture on concrete measures to be taken to implement its provisions on farmers’...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2005
520) Farmers' Rights e-learning course
This e-learning course examines the origins of the concept of Farmers' Rights under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. At the end of this course, you will be able to: Defend the importance of Farmers' Rights in the conservation and sustainable management...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A