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Based on interactions among professionals from various countries who support community seed banks, it was decided to develop a generic collaboration protocol that could help shape the collaboration process in countries where this has not yet taken place or to solidify the process in countries where this...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
The maintenance of crop diversity on farmers’ fields in hot spots of plant genetic diversity is considered a ”global life insurance policy“ in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 2001:1). This paper provides evidence of the importance of the contribution of poor women farmers to the conservation...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2005
This Guidance Note provides key information to implementing organizations that might be considering an emergency seed intervention for the forthcoming planting season linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, often overlain with other stresses. The guidance is presented in four parts: 1) Background on seed security...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
Seed legislation specifies the requirements that seed and other propagating material must fulfil to be marketed legally, and how this marketing may be conducted. Such legislation can have a great impact on the composition of the seed market, as well as on cultivation and breeding, not least as it has...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2015
Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is a relatively new concept in Bhutan since it came to the forefront only after the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol in 2010. While there have been several efforts to create awareness on ABS till date, the need to provide holistic information on ABS under one window for...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2018