|
|
|
|
Technical Resources | Help on this page |
La biodiversité est devenue un enjeu majeur des relations internationales. La nécessité d'assurer la sécurité alimentaire mondiale et le développement des biotechnologies ont transformé la diversité biologique en ressource économique. Mais les ressources nécessaires à son exploitation sont...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2001
" Strengthening Community-Based On-Farm Conservation & Sustainable Use of Crop Diversity in Semi-Arid Zambezi-Gwembe Valley of Zambia" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Second Cycle). Improving food security and the livelihoods...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
This article describes the institutionalization of farmer participatory research and plant breeding that has occurred in Honduras over the past 22 years and demonstrates how this approach can offer a positive response to climate change and sustainable agricultural development. In Honduras, participatory...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2015
The extremes of climate change and now COVID-19 have put Andean farmers at the sharpest end of the food system, and none more so than women, who already perform much of the family farm work. As the gatekeepers to family nutrition and the guardians of crop diversity, women play a defining yet underappreciated...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
For centuries people in Asia and the Pacific region have grown and consumed a wide variety of nutritious foods. Unfortunately, more recent generations have slowly but surely changed their diets and have moved away from many of these traditional foods. The purpose of this publication is: i) to demonstrate...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Asia; South West Pacific
Publication year: 2018