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951) Toward seed systems that bring benefits and empowerment for women
Seed systems are the—formal or informal—networks, comprising many different actors, that ensure (or not) availability of and farmers’ access to high-quality seeds of a wide range of crops. Importantly, access to seeds, essentially shaping farm productivity, is largely segregated by gender roles....
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
952) Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon
The use of wild edible plants (WEP) by forest inhabitants and indigenous people remains largely undocumented. This study records the diversity of WEP used by Baka people in dense rainforests in the Mintom region, Cameroon. The area still contains relatively undisturbed forest expanses, just south of...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
953) Multi-faceted impact and outcome of COVID-19 on smallholder agricultural systems: Integrating qualitative research and fuzzy cognitive mapping to explore resilient strategies
The shock of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted food systems worldwide. Such disruption, affecting multiple systems interfaces in smallholder agriculture, is unprecedented and needs to be understood from multi-stakeholder perspectives. This study aims to explore the multiple pathways of...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
954) Green shoots. Community seedbanking in South Africa: endeavours and outcomes 2016-2019
This brief summarizes the progress made in establishing and supporting a national network of community seedbanks in South Africa in the period 2016-2019. Three community seedbanks are up and running. Some exchanges of seeds and knowledge have taken place within the country and with neighboring Zimbabwe....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
955) Developing sustainable food value chains – Guiding principles
Aimed at policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners, this publication provides the conceptual foundation for a new set of FAO handbooks on sustainable food value chain development. It defines the concept of a sustainable food value chain, presents a development paradigm that integrates...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2014