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496) Bringing Farmers Back into Breeding: Experiences with Participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalisation
This report provides an overview of participatory plant breeding (PPB). It reviews the approach from both a technical and a social perspective and identifies the challenges for incorporating PPB in national plant breeding regimes. It draws on the concrete experiences of a number of PPB projects in Latin...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2006
497) Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and the SDGs: challenges, interdisciplinary research gaps and empowering methodologies
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems have a critical role to play in addressing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but face many challenges and have so far received little attention from researchers and policymakers. This virtual workshop, consisting of four webinars held in October 2020, brought...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
498) Evaluation of the Benefit-sharing Fund second project cycle International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – Executive summary
Executive summary – This report outlines the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the independent evaluation of the second project cycle of the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF II) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). The evaluation focused...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
499) Private Contracting versus Community Seed Production Systems: Experiences from Farmer-Led Seed Entreprise Development of African Indigenous Vegetables in Tanzania
Drawing on experiences in Tanzania with amaranth, African nightshade, and African eggplant, this paper provides a preliminary assessment of the viability of seed production under two farmer-led seed enterprise models, namely, contract seed production with seed companies, and the community-led Quality...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2013
500) Enabling agricultural innovation systems to promote appropriate technologies and practices for farmers, rural youth and women during COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will vary for different groups of rural population, with the highest impact expected to be on farmers and other vulnerable groups, especially women and youth. Targeted support is feasible only by activating a network of actors or organizations within agricultural innovation...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020