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1181) Women hold the seeds of a stronger food system for Peru
The extremes of climate change and now COVID-19 have put Andean farmers at the sharpest end of the food system, and none more so than women, who already perform much of the family farm work. As the gatekeepers to family nutrition and the guardians of crop diversity, women play a defining yet underappreciated...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
1182) Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia
For centuries people in Asia and the Pacific region have grown and consumed a wide variety of nutritious foods. Unfortunately, more recent generations have slowly but surely changed their diets and have moved away from many of these traditional foods. The purpose of this publication is: i) to demonstrate...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia; South West Pacific
Publication year: 2018
1183) The Nuxalk 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: North America
Publication year: 2019
1184) Strengthening community seed banks in East and Southern Africa in times of Covid-19
This brief presents the highlights of the work done in 2020 in East and Southern Africa – in the difficult context of the outbreak of Covid 19− to strengthen community seed banks and foster the collaboration between them and with the national genebank of each country. Highlights include the development...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1185) Applying resilience in practice for more sustainable agriculture
This policy brief looks at how resilience thinking can be combined with agroecological approaches to secure the long term availability of healthy and nutritious food for all, while simultaneously decreasing the harm that agriculture causes to the planet’s climate and ecosystems. All this is of course...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Africa; Europe
Publication year: 2017