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511) Organic and Sustainable Farmers Can Feed the World
A key question that is often asked about ecological agriculture, including organic agriculture, is whether it can be productive enough to meet the world's food needs. While many agree that ecological agriculture is desirable from an environmental and social point of view, there remain fears that ecological...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2008
512) Safeguarding local crop knowledge: the use of community biodiversity registers
This brief presents suggestions for the design and use of a community biodiversity register as a practical tool for communities to: (i) establish an inventory to allow monitoring of crop diversity and to document its associated farmer (traditional) knowledge, (ii) generate a collective sense of community...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Africa; Asia; Global
Publication year: 2016
513) Seed-Related Assistance in Fragile Contexts: Lessons for the COVID-19 Response
In 2020, FSN Network organized a practical, farmer-centred webinar in which experts shared guidance and lessons for seed system interventions in the COVID-19 response. The discussion was on the following areas: (1) the likely impacts of the pandemic on farmers’ access to seeds; (2) the critical questions...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
514) Fruits and vegetables for healthy diets: Priorities for food system research and action : Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit March, 2021
Fruits and vegetables are vital for healthy diets, but intake remains low for a majority of the global population. This paper reviews academic literature on food system issues, and opportunities for research and action, as an input into the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit in the context of the International...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
515) Community seed bank platform - Uganda
Community seed banking is a fairly new concept in Uganda which is taking shape and being out-scaled by stakeholders in the field of crop diversity conservation and use. The first community seed bank was established in 2010 in Sheema district by the National Agricultura Research Organization together...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A