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Diversification is a central tenet of any good risk management plan, whether applied to business and finance, or food and farming. In agriculture, biological diversity is key to ensuring success: having a variety of well-adapted crops not only reduces the impacts of extreme weather, pests, and disease,...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: N/A
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) are remarkable traditional agricultural systems that safeguard the livelihoods of small-scale family farmers who practise sustainable agriculture based on local and indigenous knowledge....
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
The manual "Building on Gender, Agrobiodiversity and Local Knowledge" is based on experiences collected in numerous training workshops carried out under the FAO-LinKS project in Eastern and Southern Africa. This training manual constitutes a conceptual guide for trainers that can be used to lead them...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2005
Working with private seed companies, ICRISAT is helping integrate more women and youth into seed production enterprises in Tanzania. Recently ICRISAT supported the efforts of the seed company Mbozi Highlands (MHEG), to enhance the production, promotion, marketing and adoption of new high-yielding varieties...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2021
Agriculture is one of the most important pillars of Moldova’s economy. With sustainable crop production reliant upon the availability of pest/disease/drought-resistant varieties that perform well under local conditions, production requirements can only be addressed through the conservation of local...
Subject: Training, Capacity Development
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018