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226) Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
Administered by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS), the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, established in 2014, provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and limit non-agricultural uses of the land. Agricultural Land Easements protect the long-term viability of the nation’s food supply by preventing conversion of productive working lands to non-agricultural uses. Land protected by agricultural land easements provides additional public benefits, including environmental quality, historic preservation, wildlife habitat and protection of open space.
Category: 3.Approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA
Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative; Legal
227) Participation of farmers' associations in decision-making related to PGRFA in Spain
The Commission of the National Programme for the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) was created in 2017. The aim of the Commission is to ensure coordination of actions of the different national administrations responsible for the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA. Among its members are representatives of the main professional agricultural organizations and farmers’ associations, which favors the participation of farmers in decision-making on national aspects relating to access, management, conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA in Spain.
Category: 8.Farmers’ participation in decision-making at local, national and sub-regional, regional and international levels
Type of measure/practice: Administrative
228) Building Food Sovereignty Based on Local Community Food Sources
The Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, established in 1994,is one of the institutions that provides support for the conservation and preservation of Indonesia's biodiversity. The Foundation provides financial and technical support to civil society organization and local communities who are working on conservation, development and preservation of biodiversity. The Foundation believes that food security can be achieved through conserving and utilizing local biodiversity as a source of income to improve the economy of farming communities, as well as promoting the importance of crop diversification. One of the work they carried out in supporting agricultural development is building food sovereignty based on local community sources. It supported various activities in 2013 to 2019, such as with local communities and other entities.: (1) development and cultivation of sorghum plants on farmers' land, (2) increasing farmer capacity: cultivation-post-harvest-processing-consumption; entrepreneurship, economic balance, food nutrition, (3) promotion, education, advocacy, (4) support for post-harvest and processing tools and (5) synergy and networking with the local and national governments. The Foundation also promotes recognition of people who have contributed to conservation efforts, e.g. Maria Loretha, one of the sorghum conservationists.
Category: 3.Approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA
Type of measure/practice: Technical; Others
229) Participatory plant breeding in Cuba
The national agricultural research organization Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agrícolas (INCA), in collaboration with several other public research institutes, universities, NGOs, local government units and financial support by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has engaged in participatory plant breeding (PPB) since 1999. The first project started with few farmers from three municipalities in two provinces, and was expanded to 11 provinces. Initially, it covered only beans and maize, and later, it included other crops such as, grains, vegetables, fruit trees, roots and tubers. Core components of PPB include collaboration between farmers and scientists. Farmers are actively involved in priority setting, selection, evaluation, and dissemination activities. The resulting varieties are adapted to local soil and climate conditions. Hundreds of varieties distributed to the farmers and today form part of the Cuban ‘agricultural landscape’. The initiative generated a national movement favoring local innovation and demonstrated the potentials of empowering farming communities in terms of quantity and quality crop production. Farmers’ involvement in the selection and experimentation work has also facilitated the revaluation of their knowledge, inducing reforms in the research sector and higher education system in Cuba.
Category: 7.Participatory approaches to research on PGRFA, including characterization and evaluation, participatory plant breeding and variety selection
Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative
230) National Plant Germplasm System
The earliest components of today’s NPGS date to 1898 and the USDA Plant Exploration Office and the National Small Grain Collection, with major expansions in the late 1940s with the establishment of four regional plant introduction stations and the interregional potato station, the National Seed Storage Laboratory (now the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation) in 1958, the cotton and soybean germplasm collection in the 1970s, and the mid-1980s with the addition of nine genebank sites with primarily clonally-propagated crops. Currently the NPGS comprises 20 different genebank sites, the GRIN-Global information management system, and 43 Crop Germplasm Committees.
Category: 6.Facilitation of farmers’ access to a diversity of PGRFA through community seed banks, seed networks and other measures improving farmers’ choices of a wider diversity of PGRFA.
Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative