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596) Strengthening community seed banks in East and Southern Africa in times of Covid-19
This brief presents the highlights of the work done in 2020 in East and Southern Africa – in the difficult context of the outbreak of Covid 19− to strengthen community seed banks and foster the collaboration between them and with the national genebank of each country. Highlights include the development...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
597) Applying resilience in practice for more sustainable agriculture
This policy brief looks at how resilience thinking can be combined with agroecological approaches to secure the long term availability of healthy and nutritious food for all, while simultaneously decreasing the harm that agriculture causes to the planet’s climate and ecosystems. All this is of course...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global; Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Africa; Europe
Publication year: 2017
598) Rebuilding Local Seed System of Native Crops in Earthquake Affected Areas of Nepal - Proceedings of a National Sharingshop
The main aim of the project is to revive and strengthen local seed system capacity and resilience of households through rescue collection, conservation, multiplication and repatriation of native and threatened crop seeds in the most severely affected 10 districts of central and western Nepal, where farmers’...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
599) Adding value to landraces with cultural information
This presentation emphasizes the need to highlight the diverse use values of landraces/farmers' varieties to increase their value to society. The presentation was given by Maarit Heinonen at the workshop "Conservation strategies for European crop wild relative and landrace diversity", held in Palanga,...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2011
600) Atlas of wild potatoes
This atlas describes the ecogeographic distribution of wild potatoes. They occur solely in the Americas, from the southwestern United States to central Argentina and Chile. To help the nonspecialist to understand the past and future changes in their classification, we first discuss the habitats, morphology,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2002