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766) Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights
As part of our series looking at how the people and organisations working with IIED are successfully creating change, we profile Asociación ANDES, a Peruvian NGO that combines local-level support for Andean potato farming communities with international action on protecting Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity....
Subject: Grains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: N/A
767) SEEDS TOOLKIT Module 5: Seed marketing
To mainstream marketing in the seed industry and achieve successful results in developing countries is not easy. The marketing of seeds is unique, a living product is involved, a product that must still be viable when it reaches farmers for planting. For effective marketing – especially in small-scale...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
768) Decentralized-participatory plant breeding: an example of demand driven research
This paper describes a model of participatory plant breeding (PPB) developed by The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) which has been used successfully in several countries in West Asia and North Africa.
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global; Near East; Africa
Publication year: 2007
769) Genebank genomics bridges the gap between the conservation of crop diversity and plant breeding
Genebanks have the long-term mission of preserving plant genetic resources as an agricultural legacy for future crop improvement. Operating procedures for seed storage and plant propagation have been in place for decades, but there is a lack of effective means for the discovery and transfer of beneficial...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2019
770) The Evolution of Rights and Responsibilities over Agricultural Biodiversity
This publication explores the concerns driving relevant international instruments with the goal of increasing the understanding needed to achieve coherence and mutual support. Susan H. Bragdon notes the central role inequity plays both amongst the treaties and instruments discussed in this paper as well...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017