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801) How Can Agrobiodiversity Help Safeguard Sustainable Food Systems?
Agrobiodiversity refers to both domesticated and wild species that contribute to food production. It helps increase the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods, improve people’s diets, manage landscapes more sustainably and safeguard crop breeding efforts into the future. This blog explores why increasing...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
802) Coming to the Rescue - Payment for Agrobiodiversity Services to Safeguard Crop Varieties in Guatemala
The Payment for Agrobiodiversity Services (PACS) programme, led by Bioversity International (now the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) is helping saving resilient traditional crop varieties in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This article describes some of the activities implemented by this program....
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
803) The roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption
Although community level seed-saving initiatives have been around for about 30 years, until recently they have received little attention in the scientific literature on climate change adaptation and plant genetic resources. Based on research experiences from various countries, this article argues that...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
804) The Gwich'in and their Traditional Foods
In recent decades Indigenous Peoples globally have experienced rapid and dramatic shifts in lifestyle that are unprecedented in history. Moving away from their own self-sustaining, local food systems into industrially derived food supplies, these changes have adverse effects on dietary quality and health....
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2019
805) Community Seedbanking to Improve the Resilience of Farmers: the Case of Kiziba Seedbank in Uganda
The Kiziba seedbank was established in June 2010 in Kabwohe site, Uganda, as part of a project to improve the productivity and resilience of seeds for farmers through enhanced use of crop varietal diversity, focusing on Common bean and Banana. Common bean has been primarily managed by women, therefore...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2017