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1541) Promoting good seed in East Africa
African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) are rich in vitamins and minerals. They are also improving food security and generating income for rural and urban communities in Africa. The increasing demand for AIVs is being limited by a lack of available quality seed. The majority of farmers use either seed saved...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A
1542) BSF project "Safeguarding threatened coconut diversity within the upgraded International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific"
"Safeguarding threatened coconut diversity within the upgraded International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Fourth Cycle). This project will safeguard Pacific coconut genetic diversity...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: South West Pacific
Publication year: N/A
1543) Traditional seed and exchange systems cement social relations and provide a safety net: A case study from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Millions of small-scale farmers on the African continent save and exchange the seed of their traditional crops, yet the social and cultural values of these systems remain under-researched. Through ethnographic research conducted in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, this study sets out to improve...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2017
1544) Wild Food Harvest, Food Security, and Biodiversity Conservation in Jamaica: A Case Study of the Millbank Farming Region
In Jamaica, small-scale farmers are the chief stewards of agrobiodiversity, and their food security and well-being are often dependent on wild food harvest. Yet, there is a paucity of empirical research on the relationship between wild food use, food security, and biodiversity conservation. This paper...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2021
1545) Rural and tribal women in agrobiodiversity conservation: an Indian case study
This publication examines the role of rural and tribal women as custodians of food plant genetic resources in three ecologically distinct and fragile regions in India. The growing awareness of the threat to food security from agrobiodiversity erosion has led to increased international recognition of...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2002