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1011) Little-known bush foods set to change the world: A quiet slow-food revolution is underway
A food revolution is building in West Africa. Hundreds of women in land-locked Mali are harvesting the diverse potential of ancient plants and working with visionary entrepreneur Oumar Barou Togola to create a market for them. The venture is transforming their lives, and the resilient crops are offering...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1012) The Maasai and their Indigenous Foods
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: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1013) Good Practices for Agrobiodiversity Management
A good practice is a process or methodology or action that is effective and successful; environmentally, economically and socially sustainable; technically feasible; inherently participatory; replicable and adaptable, that has been proven to work well and produce good results. It is a successful experience...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
1014) Embracing diversity: inputs for a strategy to support community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas
This report presents the findings of a field mission to Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa. The mission aimed to assess the viability of establishing and supporting community seed banks in the country’s smallholder farming areas. Tools used included four cell analysis,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2013
1015) Bringing Farmers Back into Breeding: Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation
This report provides an overview of participatory plant breeding (PPB). It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes. It draws on the concrete experiences of a number of PPB projects in Latin...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2006