In the last 20 years there has been a growing interest in on-farm conservation of crop diversity. Numerous projects to support on-farm conservation have been implemented worldwide. Projects are needed because maintaining crop diversity on-farm can entail important costs to farmers, who often face...
Bellon, M.
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Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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Bioversity International
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[Methodologies for evaluating on-farm conservation projects]
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Methodologies for evaluating on-farm conservation projects
The challenge of on-farm conservation projects is to identify, design and implement interventions that make the conservation of crop diversity compatible with improved livelihoods and well-being among the farmers who conserve it. The success of any on-farm conservation project depends on a good d...
Bellon, M.
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Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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Bioversity International
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[Guidelines and best practices for on-farm conservation projects: designing and evaluating interventions]
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Guidelines and best practices for on-farm conservation projects: designing and evaluating interventions
On-farm conservation projects, as well as most projects that use research to foster development, usually involve multiple partners who play different roles, bring diverse perspectives and influence the project in multiple ways. These partnerships should not be seen in isolation or as piecemeal, b...
This paper presents an approach for assessing the effectiveness of projects aimed at creating incentives for smallholder farmers to continue maintaining crop diversity under evolution on their farms in relevant centers of genetic diversity—a process known as on-farm conservation. It is applied to...
Bellon, M.R.
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Gotor, E.
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Caracciolo, F.
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[Assessing the effectiveness of projects supporting on-farm conservation of native crops: evidence from the high Andes of South America]
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Assessing the effectiveness of projects supporting on-farm conservation of native crops: evidence from the high Andes of South America
Coto, A.
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de Sousa, K.
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Fadda, Carlo
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Gebrehawaryat, Y.
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Gevel, J.M.J. van de
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Gotor, E.
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Gupta, A.
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Madriz, B.
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Mathur, P.
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Mengistu, D.K.
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Paliwal, A.
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Quirós, C.F.
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Scafetti, F.
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Sharma, N.
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Steinke, J.
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Etten, Jacob van
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[Seeds for Needs: crop diversity for resilience]
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Seeds for Needs: crop diversity for resilience