421) Traditional seeds and biodiversity: What legal regulation(s)? The Colombian case

Subject: Seed system; Traditional Knowledge

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2019

422) 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

423) 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

424) 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

425) 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