731) Community-based Mechanisms for Promoting Access and Benefit Sharing

In the last 2 decades, Nepal has piloted and promoted some of the good practices for community biodiversity management (CBM) approaches to promote access and exchange of seeds and planting materials as well as facilitate benefit sharing to ensure food and nutrition security of households in Nepal. The...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Asia

Publication year: 2020

732) Baseline tool on nutrition and local food plants

This document aims at providing a guideline for the implementation of a baseline survey to capture information on nutrition and local food plants, which corresponds to the work on nutrition (third Pillar) of the “Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security” Program (SD=HS). SD=HS is a global program, currently...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2019

733) Podcast - Peasant biodiversity #2 - Bringing biodiversity to life

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Africa; Global

Publication year: 2022

734) Managing Potato Biodiversity to Cope with Frost Risk in the High Andes: A Modeling Perspective

Austral summer frosts in the Andean highlands are ubiquitous throughout the crop cycle, causing yield losses. In spite of the existing warming trend, climate change models forecast high variability, including freezing temperatures. As the potato center of origin, the region has a rich biodiversity which...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2014

735) A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture

Small farms play a crucial role in conserving the agricultural biodiversity that underpins longterm food security worldwide. Particularly in centers of crop genetic diversity – such as Mesoamerica in the case of maize (corn) and the Andean region in the case of potatoes – small farmers are the ‘keystone...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2004