This brief aims to create more awareness that no country is self-sufficient in plant genetic resources and that international exchanges have facilitated critical variety innovations in individual countries contributing significantly to agricultural productivity enhancement. The brief synthesizes ...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Clancy, E.
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[No country is self-sufficient when it comes to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: the cases of Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda]
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No country is self-sufficient when it comes to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: the cases of Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) is the first legally binding international agreement that explicitly recognizes farmers' rights. The normative content of the Treaty's Article 9 on farmers' rights is relatively open-ended. It sets the scene...
Halewood, Michael
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Deupmann, P.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Ceccarelli, S.
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[Participatory plant breeding to promote Farmers' Rights: October 2007]
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Participatory plant breeding to promote Farmers' Rights: October 2007
Los cultivos de gran diversidad como el maíz, fríjol y papa incluyen muchas variedades de alto valor público nacional y global, aunque solo algunas tienen sus valores reconocidos por los mercados. Esto afecta el estado de conservación de las variedades.
Una solución innovadora para este dilema de...
Drucker, A.G.
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Alonzo, S.
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Ramírez, M.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Bancos comunitarios de semillas y el uso de recompensas por servicios de conservación de la agrobiodiversidad: primeras experiencias de la Sierra de Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, Guatemala]
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Bancos comunitarios de semillas y el uso de recompensas por servicios de conservación de la agrobiodiversidad: primeras experiencias de la Sierra de Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
A promising start has been made: the two new community seedbanks of Gumbu and Sterkspruit and complementary technical support provided by the government will allow farmers to improve seed conservation technologies, increase access to crop diversity, apply crop improvement practices and explore se...
Tjikana T.T.
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Dibiloane, A.
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Maluleke, N.
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Moila, P.
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Phora, G.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Sharing diversity: establishing and supporting community seedbanks in South Africa (pilot phase 2013-2015)]
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Sharing diversity: establishing and supporting community seedbanks in South Africa (pilot phase 2013-2015)
This brief has been prepared by Bioversity International for delegates to the 2016 Global
Consultation on Farmers’ Rights. The brief aims to raise awareness among delegates and
Contracting Parties to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture (ITPGRFA) of the ...
Clancy, E.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Realizing farmers’ rights through community-based agricultural biodiversity management]
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Realizing farmers’ rights through community-based agricultural biodiversity management
This brief presents suggestions for the design and use of a community biodiversity register as a practical tool for communities to: (i) establish an inventory to allow monitoring of crop diversity and to document its associated farmer (traditional) knowledge, (ii) generate a collective sense of c...
Gómez César, M.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Safeguarding local crop knowledge: the use of community biodiversity registers]
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Safeguarding local crop knowledge: the use of community biodiversity registers
Estimates suggest that globally 80% of the seeds on which smallholder farmers in developing countries depend are produced by the farmers themselves or obtained through informal channels. This high level of farmer seed autonomy masks the fact that almost everywhere local seed systems and the diver...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, I.
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Galluzzi, Gea
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[New strategies and partnerships for the sustainable use of plant genetic resources]
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New strategies and partnerships for the sustainable use of plant genetic resources
This brief presents highlights of the project "Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture", which was coordinated by Bioversity International, under the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unite...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Project highlights]
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Strengthening national capacities to implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Project highlights
This brief presents the results of research on the conservation and sustainable use of rice diversity in Bangladesh and how the rice varieties used and planted are intrinsically linked to religious festivals, food culture, land morphology and the climate that shape rice farming/cropping in this r...
Akhter, F.
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Khatun, A.
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Khatun, F.
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Islam, R.
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Mostafa, G.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Rice diversity and the joy of eid]
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Rice diversity and the joy of eid
A seed fair is an activity to create awareness about and appreciate local crop diversity, exchange seed and related knowledge, and celebrate farmers’ efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity. It takes considerable time and effort to organize a seed fair. This brief describes the seed fair organized a...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Shrestha, P.
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Gauchan, D.
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Bhusal, A.
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Gurung, R.
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Pudasaini, N.
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Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal
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[Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands]
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Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands