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1251) State of Organic Seed (2016)
This Organic Seed Alliance publication reports on the State of Organic Seed project, which has the purpose of measuring progress in increasing the availability, quality, and integrity of organic seed in the USA. The report includes recommendations to guide research, education and policy efforts, and...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: North America
Publication year: 2016
1252) Born to Eat Wild: An Integrated Conservation Approach to Secure Wild Food Plants for Food Security and Nutrition
Overlooked in national reports and in conservation programs, wild food plants (WFPs) have been a vital component of food and nutrition security for centuries. Recently, several countries have reported on the widespread and regular consumption of WFPs, particularly by rural and indigenous communities...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
1253) Ethiopia’s seed banks and the search for food security
The community seed bank in Chefe Donsa, Ethiopia, collects and preserves the seeds of local crops to ensure farmers have a steady supply of seeds to sow each year. The Chefe Donsa seed bank is just one of 13 established in different climatic areas of the country. The nation’s central seed bank, which...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2014
1254) The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
1255) Decision-making tool for national implementation of the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing
This decision-making tool is designed to assist national-level policy actors identify appropriate measures to implement the multilateral system within their country, taking into consideration the fact that a growing number of countries that are Contracting Parties to the ITPGRFA are also parties to...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018