March 22nd, 2013 | Events, Featured, News
Outcomes of the Workshop on Custodian Farmers of Agricultural Biodiversity: Policy support for their roles in use and conservation
What are custodian farmers, Exploring policy support a table on the function of custodian farmers in terms of roles, responsibilities and rights and some recommendations
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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
February 11th, 2013 | Events
A workshop on Custodian Farmers
Despite this shrinking agricultural biodiversity, there are still a few farmers who actively maintain, adapt and disseminate agricultural biodiversity, and who possess the knowledge needed for its use and cultivation. We recognize them as ‘custodian farmers’.
The workshop aims to share experiences by the custodian farmers, debate challenges faced by such farmers and discuss ways to strengthen and/or support them so that they continue to use, conserve and promote agricultural biodiversity.
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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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October 19th, 2012 | Initiatives, Websites
The Society For Conservation of Mango Diversity (SCMD) is an organization working for mango growing community empowerment and mango diversity conservation. Activities taken up by SCMD mainly aim on the empowerment of communities of Kasmandi Kalan, Gopramau, Sarsanda and Mahmood Nagar Talukedari to appreciate more value and uniqueness of their mango diversity and its on farm [...]
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July 4th, 2012 | Announcements, Featured, Initiatives, News
By Khamphone Syvongxay, Vientiane Times The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) will provide Laos US$6.3 million to continue the work of the Agro-Biodiversity Initiative (Tabi) project. Phase I was undertaken within 13 development village groups totalling 104 villages in the Phoukoud district, the Xieng Khuang province, the Phonxay district, and the Luang Prabang province. [...]
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