|
|
|
|
Technical Resources | Help on this page |
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: Global
Publication year: 2019
Conserving germplasm in community seed banks is important for making certain plant varieties and mixtures that are not easily available on the commercial market accessible to a community of interested users. However, the value of any collection, including those which are maintained in a community setting,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
Western Terai Landscape Complex Project (WTLCP) is a multi-stakeholders’ partnership project, aiming to ensure conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity in Nepal’s Western Terai Landscapes. Implemented from 2005, the project has been adopting Community-based biodiversity...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: N/A
Over the last ten millennia, farmers from all cultivated regions of the world have contributed to developing the enormous diversity of crop genetic diversity that is available today. The enormous diversity of food crops available today has developed through careful selection of seeds and propagating...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
This study performed a descriptive analysis of 202 papers and showed that small-scale producers adopted climate-resilient crops and varieties to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, flooding and salinity. The most important determinants of adoption of climate-resilient crops were the availability...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020