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The women farmers have established the seed bank cum grain storages by practicing climate resilient sustainable agriculture system. The POWER Project of ActionAid Bangladesh is supporting them. Traditionally, the farmers have been producing, preserving and exchanging seeds since a long time.
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
Over one hundred scientists from 25 countries on four continents took part in a six-year quest to collect the wild plant species that scientists and breeders can use to make our crops more productive in increasingly challenging climates. The researchers secured 4,644 seed samples of 371 crop wild relatives—many...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
This book represents the proceedings of the first International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers which FAO organized at its headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 21–23 November 2018. FAO convened the symposium to provide inspiration for innovation actors and decision makers to unlock...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the wild cousins of cultivated crops and a vast resource of genetic diversity for breeding new, higher yielding, climate change tolerant crop varieties, but they are under-conserved (particularly in situ), largely unavailable and therefore underutilized. This study analyses...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
The objective of Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI) is to ensure the appropriate conservation and utilization of the biodiversity of Ethiopia. The Institute, thus, has power and duties related to the conservation and promotion of sustainable utilization of Ethiopia’s biodiversity. This includes...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A