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Community Seed Banks in China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects

Community seed banks can play a key role to complement the conservation activities of these genebanks and provide other important collective goods, such as evolutionary services, but although they have been around for some 35 years in various parts of the world, in China they have a much shorter history. In recent years though the number has increased to almost 30 in 2020, in particular due to the efforts of the China Farmers' Seed Network. The review of community seed banking not only provides rich empirical evidence, but also makes an important contribution to theory. Building on the achievements of community seed banking in the last decade, there is scope to scale this kind of very valuable agrobiodiversity conservation approach through more effective uptake and support by relevant national policies.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectFarming Systems
PublisherFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Publication year2021
RegionsAsia
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.630400/pdf
KeywordsCommunity seed banks; Agricultural biodiversity
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