April 12th, 2013 | Publications
Access and Benefit Sharing in Research Projects, the guidelines describe the type of agreements that can be used in different contexts and the most relevant provisions to be included in such agreements. They also provide models of agreements that can be adapted to particular situations.
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March 11th, 2013 | Featured, News, Publications
21 expert representing 13 organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America met in Vietnam to discuss about
Integrating Farmers’ Seeds System into the Market:“What do we gain? What do we lose? What do we do?”
The report brings views from CSOs, seed companies and Oxfam Novib
January 31st, 2013 | News, Publications
Read the IPSI January 2013 Newsletter and about a presentation on Agrobiodiversity delivered at UNU by Dr. Anil Kumar from MSSRF
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December 19th, 2012 | Publications
Over the last two decades a substantial body of information has developed on the continuing maintenance and use of traditional crop varieties by small-scale farmers around the world. Farmers appear to find that crop biodiversity, in the form of traditional varieties of both major staples and minor crops, remains important to their livelihoods, despite earlier expectations that these varieties would rapidly disappear from production systems. In these circumstances it seems important, not only to understand better the nature and contribution of traditional varieties to the production strategies of rural communities around the world, but also ways in which they are maintained and managed. This can help in the development of ways of improving the use of these varieties and their contribution to rural livelihoods.
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December 19th, 2012 | News, Publications
The planet continues drifting on the waves of international meetings while powerful peasant movements are organising. The present levels of human and nature pollution brought about by an agro-industrial model are not sustainable on the long run. A transition is needed that takes into account what farming is and who the farmers are. New tools [...]
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Taking departure in the theory of resilience in social-ecological systems, this publication presents an analysis and discussion of how resilience theory can be applied to agro-ecosystems. Building on the premise that agro-ecosystems are too complex for resilience to be measured in any precise manner, the authors delineate behavior-based indicators of resilience within agro-ecosystems.
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