1511) Proposed legal framework for the recognition and promotion of peasant seed systems (SSP) and the protection of biodiversity

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers; Seed system

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2022

1512) BSF project "Conservation and sustainable use of local plant genetic resources for food and agriculture to contribute to the food security of smallholder farmers in Argentina"

"Conservation and sustainable use of local plant genetic resources for food and agriculture to contribute to the food security of smallholder farmers in Argentina" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle). This project...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: N/A

1513) Visualizing politics: A feminist political ecology and participatory GIS approach to understanding smallholder farming, climate change vulnerability, and seed bank failures in Northern Ghana

Over the past three decades, seeds banks have emerged as a major strategy for building seed systems resilience to climate change. Often initiated and funded by non-governmental organizations, seeds banks have grown prolifically, but questions remain concerning their long-term sustainability. Despite...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Africa

Publication year: 2019

1514) BSF project "Using local durum wheat & barley diversity to support the adaptation of small-scale farmer systems to the changing climate in Ethiopia"

This BSF project aims to develop a mechanism to allow Ethiopian farmers access to locally adapted varieties of durum wheat and barley in order to ensure food security, reduce the risk of crop failures, build resilience in the face of unpredictable climatic changes, strengthen national self-sustainability...

Subject: Farming Systems

Regions: Africa

Publication year: N/A

1515) Bioversity International Collecting Mission Database

This database provides access to the original passport data of more than 220,000 samples collected around the world during Bioversity International supported missions. Approximately 150,000 samples are currently geo-referenced and displayed on the website's interactive map. 

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: N/A