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
The Scaling Community Seed Banks and Farmer Seed Enterprises in East and Southern Africa workshop was held in Entebbe, Uganda on 2-4 October 2019, to share experiences about community seed bank management and to develop national pilot scaling proposals. The workshop was organized under the umbrel...
Adokorach, Joyce
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kakeeto, Ronald
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[Scaling community seedbanks and farmer seed enterprises in East and Southern Africa: Workshop Highlights, 2-4 October 2019, Entebbe, Uganda]
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Scaling community seedbanks and farmer seed enterprises in East and Southern Africa: Workshop Highlights, 2-4 October 2019, Entebbe, Uganda
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
Chaudhary, P.
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Joshi, B.K.
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Shrestha, P.
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Devkota, R.
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Upadhya, D.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Linking farmers to the multilateral system to increase the exchange of plant genetic resources]
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Linking farmers to the multilateral system to increase the exchange of plant genetic resources
Six years have passed since the first national meeting of community seed banks in Nepal. Since then, Bioversity International and partners around the world have expanded their capacity development, research and policy advocacy efforts to make community seed banks and the emerging networks of comm...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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[30+6 years of community seed banking around the world: a good start, but more to be done and learned]
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30+6 years of community seed banking around the world: a good start, but more to be done and learned
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region. This work aims to boost timely and affordable access to good-quality seed for a portfolio of crop...
Recha, Tobias
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Halewood, Michael
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Fadda, Carlo
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Mushita, Andrew
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kidane, Yosef
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[Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019]
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Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019
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
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 graphically presents the steps invo...
Teams in eight countries (Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda, and Uganda) supported by a grant from the Netherlands to Bioversity International have developed common terms of reference for research and capacity building to support national implementation of ...
Halewood, Michael
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Strengthening capacities to implement the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing:efforts under way and challenges encountered in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Cote d''Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda]
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Strengthening capacities to implement the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing:efforts under way and challenges encountered in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Cote d''Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda