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841) On the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Genebank: An Interview with Professor Michael Abberton
To celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity, Professor Michael Abberton, Head of the Genetic Resources Center (IITA), discusses the crucial roles of genebanks in the conservation, distribution and utilisation of genetic resources to promote a sustainable future for food amid global threats...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
842) BSF project "Participatory On-Farm Conservation, Sustainable Use and Management of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species (NUS) for Livelihood and adaptation to Climate Change"
"Participatory On-Farm Conservation, Sustainable Use and Management of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species (NUS) for Livelihood and adaptation to Climate Change" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle). This...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A
843) Diversifying the Sourcing and Deploying Methods to Enhance the Crop Diversity
This brief presents several methods that can be used to source and deploy new crop diversity: Climate Analogue Tool (CAT) for sourcing diversity; Participatory seed exchange (PSE); Diversity blocks; Participatory varietal selection (PVS); Informal research and development (IRD); and Diversity kit. ...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
844) Protecting Farmers’ Rights with Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Territories: The Experience of the Potato Park
This document proposes an approach to implementing farmer’s rights in indigenous territories using a multilateral sui generis system for the protection of traditional knowledge based on “dynamic conservation”.
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Publication year: 2008
845) Pohnpei and their Indigenous 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: South West Pacific
Publication year: 2019