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496) Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) Uganda: Local seed businesses in Uganda
This video from ISSD Uganda looks at how farmers, as members of Uganda's 30 Local Seed Businesses (LSBs), are collaborating toward the production quality declared seed, enabling significantly increased crop yields.
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2015
497) Permaculture training brings diversity to Eswatini’s smallholder food systems
Permaculture is a regenerative farming practice that creates food-producing gardens that are also self-maintained habitats. By modelling agricultural plots after natural ecosystems, it is possible to get more out of the land with less inputs. Permaculture is a process that works with, rather than against,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
498) Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population
The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the ‘localness’ of food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet, information on the minimum distance to food crops is still scarce at the global level. Using an optimization model...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
499) Little-known bush foods set to change the world: A quiet slow-food revolution is underway
A food revolution is building in West Africa. Hundreds of women in land-locked Mali are harvesting the diverse potential of ancient plants and working with visionary entrepreneur Oumar Barou Togola to create a market for them. The venture is transforming their lives, and the resilient crops are offering...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
500) Good Practices for Agrobiodiversity Management
A good practice is a process or methodology or action that is effective and successful; environmentally, economically and socially sustainable; technically feasible; inherently participatory; replicable and adaptable, that has been proven to work well and produce good results. It is a successful experience...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020