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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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    The Inventory

    This online version of the Inventory presents, for each measure, the title and a brief description with information on implementing organization(s), start year, objectives, core elements, key outcomes, and, if applicable, lessons learned. It thus allows users to quickly identify those examples that may be of interest to them. A hyperlink to the original submission is provided, which includes additional information, such as on the history and context of the presented measure, challenges encountered, or target groups reached. In this way, users can get a more comprehensive idea of the measure in question and the specific context for which it was developed.
     
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    Number of records: 233

    226) 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

    227) 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

    228) 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

    229) Ejere Farmer Crop Conservation Association (FCAS) and Community Seed Bank

    The Community Seed Bank (CSB) in Ejere, Ethiopia, attracts many visitors each year, from Ethiopia as well as abroad, who wish to learn about their achievements and success. Through conservation and participatory improvement of local crop diversity and related activities, the CSB has significantly improved seed and food security, nutrition and livelihoods in the whole area. Initiated by USC Canada in collaboration with the then Plant Genetic Resources Centre, Ethiopia, in 1990, the work was later taken over by the NGO Ethio-organic Seed Action, with support from the Development Fund, Norway. The objective is to promote sustainable climate-change adaptation among farmer communities through enhanced capacity to sustainably manage, develop and utilize local agrobiodiversity as an adaptive mechanism to climate change. Core components include reintroduction of traditional crops, conservation, participatory varietal selection to adapt promising crops to changing environmental conditions and improve desired properties, quality seed production and distribution, seed fairs, training in advanced organic production methods and income generating activities. The success of the CSB has been achieved, inter alia, through awareness raising, competent supervision, solid research prior to project planning, financial support over a sufficient period of time and a democratic and transparent organization with good governance.

    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

    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