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1146) Community Biodiversity Management as an Approach for Realizing On-farm Management of Agricultural Biodiversity
Community Biodiversity Management (CBM) is a community-driven participatory approach that empowers farmers and communities to organize themselves and develop strategies that support the on-farm management of agricultural biodiversity for the improvement of their livelihoods. The CBM approach integrates...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
1147) The 'lost' seeds helping to feed a nation
Covid-19 and climate change have made it harder than ever for farmers in Zimbabwe to survive, but Melody Makumbe is encouraging a return to traditional, local crop varieties to safeguard their future.
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1148) Grain legume seed systems for smallholder farmers: Perspectives on successful innovations
Grain legumes are nutritionally important components of smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Unfortunately, limited access to quality seed of improved varieties at affordable prices due to inadequate seed systems has reduced their contribution to improving nutrition and reducing...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa; Asia
Publication year: 2020
1149) Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Nutrition and Local Food Plants
This document aims at providing a guideline for the development of farmer field school (FFS) curricula on Nutrition and Local Food Plants with a gender approach, which is part of the SD=HS program. The FFS on Nutrition and Local Food Plants aims at contributing to the SD=HS objective on improving the...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1150) In eSwatini, lead farmers are key to scaling up conservation agriculture practices throughout the country
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) describes conservation agriculture as a farming system that can prevent losses of arable land while regenerating degraded lands. To support the adoption of conservation agriculture techniques, the Resilient Food Systems eSwatini team...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020