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
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 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...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Seeds of adaptation. Climate change, crop diversification and the role of women farmers.]
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Seeds of adaptation. Climate change, crop diversification and the role of women farmers.