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1166) Integrated Seed Sector Development - Guiding Principles
Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) is an inclusive approach that recognises and builds upon a diversity of seed systems in the sector. This video presents the guiding principles of the ISSD approach. Also available in French...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2016
1167) Mobilizing diversity: establishment of the two first community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas
This report presents the findings of the 2015 field missions to Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa. The missions aimed to build the technical and organizational capacity of the farmers to be able to manage the community seedbanks independently, with minimum support from...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2016
1168) Giving new life to peasant seeds in Ecuador
In the Ecuadorian provinces of Bolivar, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi, family farmers are building new capacity to conserve and use the biodiversity on their farms. By participating in action research they gain a greater understanding and control of their plant genetic resources. This results in increased...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2016
1169) Surveying the use of neglected and underutilized food-plant species in Africa. Case of Nyando, Western Kenya
For centuries, neglected and under-utilized species (NUS) have been grown for their food, fiber, fodder, oil, and medicinal properties. Sometimes known as forgotten foods, they include cultivated, semi-domesticated and wild species and traditional varieties. Their roles have been increasingly undervalued,...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2022
1170) In Situ Conservation of CWR - eLearning Modules
The In Situ Conservation of CWR-eLearning Modules is set of supplementary training to tools to be used with Crop Wild Relatives- A Manual of in situ Conservation. The modules were designed to help conservationists gain preliminary insight into the methods involved in the effective conservation of CWR. ...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A