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1631) BSF project "Participatory On-Farm Conservation, Sustainable Use and Management of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species (NUS) for Livelihood and adaptation to Climate Change"
"Participatory On-Farm Conservation, Sustainable Use and Management of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species (NUS) for Livelihood and adaptation to Climate Change" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle). This...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A
1632) Diversifying the Sourcing and Deploying Methods to Enhance the Crop Diversity
This brief presents several methods that can be used to source and deploy new crop diversity: Climate Analogue Tool (CAT) for sourcing diversity; Participatory seed exchange (PSE); Diversity blocks; Participatory varietal selection (PVS); Informal research and development (IRD); and Diversity kit. ...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1633) Protecting Farmers’ Rights with Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Territories: The Experience of the Potato Park
This document proposes an approach to implementing farmer’s rights in indigenous territories using a multilateral sui generis system for the protection of traditional knowledge based on “dynamic conservation”.
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Publication year: 2008
1634) Registration of farmers’ varieties in SADC - Report from dialogue held at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 3-4 December 2019
In Africa, smallholder/peasant farmers produce and reproduce the majority of their own seed needs from season to season. Crops produced from this seed contribute substantially to food and nutrition security on the continent. Despite this, farmer seed receives little to no recognition in policy, and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
1635) Policies recommendations : set of recommendations on farm conservation strategy, the role of innovative market mechanisms, legislative framework for landraces, conservation varieties and amateur varieties in Europe
Farm Seed Opportunities (FSO) has performed several studies and analysis to precise the concepts behind the “conservation varieties” regulations, to verify the situation in European’s fields and to suggest further development of these regulations aiming at preserving plant genetic resources. All...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020