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Community-based seed producers are a relatively under-researched and under-documented category of seed producers, but have the potential to cater to the diverse seed needs and interests of smallholder farmers. This working paper presents a number of such community-seed producers, with a focus on community...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia; Africa
Publication year: 2020
Community seed banks can play a key role to complement the conservation activities of these genebanks and provide other important collective goods, such as evolutionary services, but although they have been around for some 35 years in various parts of the world, in China they have a much shorter history....
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2021
This website was carried out in the framework of the Diversifood project and with support of the European Union. The website provides some literature-links on Community seed banks (CSBs), links that are useful for daily practice, a map of CBSs in Europe and funding training and exchange sessions organized...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A
Community Seed Banks (CSBs) have been founded as part of the so called “informal seed systems” since the early 1980s in many parts of the world, with various forms and functions. Within DIVERSIFOOD project, a mapping and a survey on community seed banks in Europe have been carried out, comparing...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2017
Community seed bank has more than 20 years of history in Nepal. The main objectives of establishing a community seed banks are to halt the rapid erosion of local varieties and their on-farm management, improving local livelihoods and resilience through providing easy access to quality seeds of diverse...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017