Although community-level seed-saving initiatives have existed in many countries around the world for about 30 years, they have rarely been the subject of systematic scientific enquiry. Based on a combination of a literature review and field research, we present a novel comprehensive conceptual fr...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Galluzzi, Gea
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Shrestha, P.
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[The multiple functions and services of community seed banks]
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The multiple functions and services of community seed banks
Although community level seed-saving initiatives have been around for about 30 years, until recently they have received little attention in the scientific literature on climate change adaptation and plant genetic resources. Based on research experiences from various countries, this article argues...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Otieno, G.
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Shrestha, P.
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Gupta, A.
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[The roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption]
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The roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption
Access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources is a crucial but very complex, political and legalistic matter. Does the formal system work for family farmers? It poses many challenges. At the same time, farmers around the world are leading successful initiatives for access and benefit shar...
Pistorius, R.
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Bruil, J.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. Making it work for family farmers]
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Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. Making it work for family farmers
This article discusses access and benefit sharing within the context of participatory plant breeding. It presents how Chinese farmers and breeders collaborate in relation to crop improvement and on-farm maintenance of plant genetic resources. Based on more than a decade of action-research, a numb...
Song. Y.
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Zhang, Y.
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Song, X.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China]
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Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China
Since 2012, national teams in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been identifying options for policy, legal and administrative mechanisms for the implementation of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing (MLS) for plant genetic resources. This article summarises ...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, Isabel
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Otieno, G.
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Lapena, I.
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Vodohue, R.
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Bessette, G.
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[Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries]
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Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries
This special issue of Farming Matters magazine has explored the ways in which access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources can work for family farmers. On one hand it presents cases that demonstrate the limited extent to which family farmers have been able to benefit from the ‘formal’ AB...
Pistorius, R.
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Bruil, J.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Learning from farmer-led access and benefit sharing. Conclusions.]
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Learning from farmer-led access and benefit sharing. Conclusions.