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1301) Sowing the seeds of resilience: a case study of community-based Indigenous seed conservation from Andhra Pradesh, India
Despite increasing evidence of threats to Indigenous food systems, many Indigenous communities are innovating to enhance their resilience while conserving and promoting their traditional food systems, offering important lessons for rural development policy. This community-based case study explores one...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2019
1302) SeedsGROW Progress Report: Harvesting global food security and justice in the face of climate change (PROGRESS REPORT 1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017)
(PROGRESS REPORT 1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017) SeedsGROW is tackling the issues of unequal and unsustainable global seeds and food systems. It will also demonstrate how to make changes, and identify how effective methods can be replicated and sustained. Oxfam and its partners are proud of the programme's...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
1303) Covid-19 management by farmers and policymakers in Burkina Faso, Colombia and France: Lessons for climate action
During crises, adaptation or recovery measures or plans at local or national scales may not necessarily address longer-term or structural problems such as climate change mitigation.This article describes farmers and policymakers' responses to mitigate the adverse effects of Covid-19 on the agricultural...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Europe
Publication year: 2021
1304) Wild Food Harvest, Food Security, and Biodiversity Conservation in Jamaica: A Case Study of the Millbank Farming Region
In Jamaica, small-scale farmers are the chief stewards of agrobiodiversity, and their food security and well-being are often dependent on wild food harvest. Yet, there is a paucity of empirical research on the relationship between wild food use, food security, and biodiversity conservation. This paper...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
1305) Value added grains for local and regional food systems
Proceedings of the 4th ISOFAR Scientific Conference. Interest in locally produced ancient and heritage grains has grown in recent years. Organic farmers stand to benefit from producing and marketing these grains. This paper presents the results from two years of fields trials, conducted in the Northeastern...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2014