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491) Permaculture training brings diversity to Eswatini’s smallholder food systems
Permaculture is a regenerative farming practice that creates food-producing gardens that are also self-maintained habitats. By modelling agricultural plots after natural ecosystems, it is possible to get more out of the land with less inputs. Permaculture is a process that works with, rather than against,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2020
492) Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population
The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the ‘localness’ of food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet, information on the minimum distance to food crops is still scarce at the global level. Using an optimization model...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2020
493) Little-known bush foods set to change the world: A quiet slow-food revolution is underway
A food revolution is building in West Africa. Hundreds of women in land-locked Mali are harvesting the diverse potential of ancient plants and working with visionary entrepreneur Oumar Barou Togola to create a market for them. The venture is transforming their lives, and the resilient crops are offering...
Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
494) Good Practices for Agrobiodiversity Management
A good practice is a process or methodology or action that is effective and successful; environmentally, economically and socially sustainable; technically feasible; inherently participatory; replicable and adaptable, that has been proven to work well and produce good results. It is a successful experience...
Subject: Seed system
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2020
495) Embracing diversity: inputs for a strategy to support community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas
This report presents the findings of a field mission to Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa. The mission aimed to assess the viability of establishing and supporting community seed banks in the country’s smallholder farming areas. Tools used included four cell analysis,...
Subject: Farming Systems
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2013