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421) Sharing a Treasure: from Peru to Ethiopia
The aim of the Potato Park of Peru is joining forces for the conservation of native varieties of potato, traditional knowledge; improve the maintenance of agricultural production and ensuring food security. The park, with financial support from the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2015
422) ABS-Management Tool Best Practice Standard and Handbook for Implementing Genetic Resource Access and Benefit-sharing Activities
The ABS-Management Tool (ABS-MT) is a best practice standard and a handbook that provides guidance and tools on ABS practice to help companies, researchers, local and indigenous communities, and governments ensure compliance with the Bonn Guidelines and ABS requirements under the Convention on Biological...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2007
423) Joining smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge with metric traits to select better varieties of Ethiopian wheat
The unique diversity of Ethiopian durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum) is the result of thousands of years of selection exerted by smallholder farmers. Still today, more than 80% of the Ethiopian population of approximately 100 million people is engaged in agriculture. Eight out of ten...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2017
424) The many colors of maize, the material of life
Long considered a waste product, corn husks have been given a new lease on life through the Totomoxtle project. Named for the traditional indigenous Nahuatl word for corn husk, Totomoxtle turns the husks of native maize, found in a variety of colors, into a beautiful and sustainable veneer for furniture...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
425) Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high-quality food systems – Case studies of the marketing of products from newly bred lines and underutilized crops
The overall aim of Task 5.1 of the DIVERSIFOOD project, a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation, is to produce recommendations and guidelines for the marketing and valorisation strategies of biodiverse food products, including products from underutilized crops and...
Subject: Crop diversity
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2018