456) How To Do Note (HTDN): Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems

The challenges of ensuring access of farmers to quality seed of appropriate and adapted varieties, whether through the formal seed system or the farmer-based informal seed system, has been a recurrent issue in the quality enhancement and quality assurance review stages of IFAD investment projects. The...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2018

457) On-farm assessment of landrace of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) under organic conditions in Hungary

Landraces are an important cultural and economical heritage of agriculture. They have a low but stable yield and a great deal of adaptation against biotic and abiotic factors. This study tests these varieties in organic farming, to see if there is a possibility for professional growing and market. The...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Europe

Publication year: 2015

458) Lessons Learned Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems

Facilitating farmers’ access to quality seeds of improved varieties is often viewed as a strategy to better the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Unfortunately, the complexity of national seed systems, of including farmers’ seed needs and linking farmers to the other elements of increased productivity...

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global; Asia; Africa; Near East

Publication year: 2018

459) Farmers’ Crop Varieties and Farmers’ Rights: Challenges in taxonomy and law

Over the last 50 years there has been a growing appreciation of the important role that farmers play in the development and conservation of crop genetic diversity, and the contribution of that diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security. This book examines policies that aim to increase the...

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers

Regions: Global; Asia; Africa; North America; Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2016

460) Facilitator’s manual: Field schools for the production of quality potato seeds

Subject: Training, Capacity Development

Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2016