1226) In situ conservation — harnessing natural and human‐derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation

Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental for the world's future food supply. While ex situ conservation plays a major role in the conservation and availability...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2017

1227) Understanding Farm Diversity to Promote Agroecological Transitions

Agroecology is increasingly promoted by scientists, non-governmental organisations, international organisations and peasant movements as an approach to foster the transition to sustainable and equitable food systems. The challenges to agroecological transitions are not the same for all farmers, as they...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2018

1228) From Lessons to Practice and Impact: Scaling up pathways in peoples' biodiversity management

The rights and technical capacities of indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers are the focus of the three-year global programme, 'Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up People's Biodiversity Management for Food Security'. The programme aims to support farmers to influence policies and institutions...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia; Africa

Publication year: 2015

1229) Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: the example of the variety ‘Victoria’

The International Potato Center (CIP) genebank conserves and facilitates access to highly diverse germplasm of potato, sweetpotato, and Andean roots and tubers as a global public good for food security. While it is generally understood that material from the CIP genebank has played an important role...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2020

1230) Proposed legal framework for the recognition and promotion of peasant seed systems (SSP) and the protection of biodiversity

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers; Seed system

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2022