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Strengthening the informal seed system through community seedbanks

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Title Strengthening the informal seed system through community seedbanks
 
Creator Bioversity International
 
Subject seeds
farmers
hard wheat
varieties
climate change
crops
participatory approaches
gene banks
 
Description A set of factsheets about our Seeds for Needs Initiative in Ethiopia.
Bioversity International's 'Seeds for Needs' initiative works with farmers to research how agricultural biodiversity can help minimize the risks associated with climate change. The concept is simple – if farmers have better information and access to a wide range of varieties, they are more able to choose what best suits their conditions and cope with unpredictable weather.
Seeds for Needs is trying to encourage this by exposing farmers to more crop varieties and increase their first-hand knowledge about different traits and options available and strengthening their seed systems and seed-saving capacity so that they always have access to planting material that fits their changing needs.

This factsheet is part of a series of 6
 
Date 2015
2015-10-29T09:29:54Z
2015-10-29T09:29:54Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Bioversity International (2015) Strengthening the informal seed system through community seedbanks. Factsheet 3. Bioversity International 2 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68743
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/strengthening-the-informal-seed-system-through-community-seedbanks/
 
Language en
 
Relation Seeds for Needs Factsheet
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 2 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Bioversity International