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Three farmers field days conducted in 2011 at 3 project sites in Bangladesh. More than 100 farmers, government extension personnel, researchers, project staff, and visited sites that feature farmers’ participatory conservation agriculture (CA)-based unpuddled transplanted rice (UPTR), zero-tillag...

The project ‘Reinforcing the resilience of poor rural communities in the face of food insecurity, poverty and climate change through on-farm conservation of local agrobiodiversity’ will: investigate the use of neglected and underutilized species in increasing the adaptation and resilience of prod...

The application of payment for ecosystem services (PES) specifically for agricultural biodiversity conservation. This is recognition of the value of farmers’ work in maintaining such agrobiodiversity, and the provision of positive incentives that adequately compensate them for doing so (for prote...

A guide to integrate agricultural biodiversity knowledge into education curricula in universities. The curriculum framework has 14 topics central to agrobiodiversity processes, conservation and management.

Develop and test new methods and tools in close partnership with farmers and value chain actors aimed at enhancing their capacities to sustainably conserve traditional crops and associated knowledge at the farm level; explore ways of integrating the monitoring of diversity on-farm, along with use...

Tropical fruit tree genetic resources are conserved in situ and on farm through strengthened capacity of farmers, user groups, local communities and institutions to sustainably apply good practices and secure benefits.

The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of na...

The project aimed at restoring and conserving the genetic diversity of native potatoes in situ – high in the Andes, where the crops originated. Scientists, farmers, and local partners repatriated over 4,600 samples of more than 1,200 varieties of native potato in 41 locations, following the ancie...