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871) Nigeria’s Rural Women Revolutionise Local Locust Beans
Locust beans are an indigenous plant grown for their pods with the seeds crushed and fermented, mostly by rural women farmers, for processing into seasoning for soups and stews. Despite the nutritional properties of the beans, which are high in calcium, the crop has previously not been commercialised...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
872) Recovering the cycle of wisdom: beacons of light toward the right to seeds – Guide for the Implementation of Farmers’ Rights
This guide aims to provide practical guidance for food producers’ organizations, civil society organizations as well as governments and public institutions about how to implement peasants’ and Indigenous Peoples’ rights to seeds in national and regional policy frameworks. Its objective is to provide...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
873) Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Combining agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems, traditional farming practices and cultural identity
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are outstanding landscapes of aesthetic beauty that combine agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and a valuable cultural heritage. Located in specific sites around the world, they sustainably provide multiple goods and services, food...
Subject: Traditional Knowledge
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
874) Agricultural Innovations for Sustainable Crop Production Intensification
This paper provides a review of agronomic management practices supporting sustainable crop production systems and intensification, and testifying to developments in the selection of crops and cultivars. The paper also describes crop farming systems taking a predominantly ecosystem approach and it discusses...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2012
875) Value Chain Development of Underutilized Food Crops for Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture in the Mountains of Nepal
Smallholder farmers in mountain regions of Nepal depend on traditional nutrient rich underutilized crops, including barley, buckwheat, beans, amaranths, finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet for their local food and nutrition security. These crops are currently undervalued nationally and globally...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2019