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1506) Consumers’ Valuation of Farmers’ Varieties for Food System Diversity
For participatory on-farm breeding schemes to be successful, consumers need to be willing to compensate farmers for their efforts in breeding and in diversifying their cultivation. Using vegetables as an example, this paper provides information on whether consumers of four selected European countries...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2019
1507) Green value chains offer smallholder farmers in Africa’s drylands a more sustainable future
In Africa’s drylands, small-scale farming is characterised by low productivity and financial returns. Smallholder farmers primarily produce food for their families and their local community. They operate within informal ‘short’ agri-food value chains. However, the income from these short value...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
1508) Innovative sweet potato breeding and conservation in Papua New Guinea with Anno Darkop
This is the presentation of a project of the Fourth Cycle of the Benefit-sharing of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. It's the story of Anno Darkop who is establishing germplasm plots to improve the resilience and livelihoods of vulnerable farmers in Papua...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: 2022
1509) Understanding and stregthening informal seed markets
Informal markets receive little attention from governments and researchers, despite their centrality to farmers’ seed security. This paper documents the importance of informal markets for supplying seed and restocking critical plant genetic resources, in normal and stress periods. It analyses farmers’...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2010
1510) In situ conservation — harnessing natural and human‐derived evolutionary forces to ensure future crop adaptation
Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental for the world's future food supply. While ex situ conservation plays a major role in the conservation and availability...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017