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Seed Diversity in the Drylands: Women and farming in South India
… Seeds are central to farming and food production. Saving, selecting, reproducing, storing and sowing … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 August 2006
“Protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people benefits us all”
… to sustain their knowledge and biodiversity. For example, agriculture policies and subsidies promote modern agriculture that replaces diversity with monocultures. Insecure land and … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 09 June 2011
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Innovative Practice Sri Lanka: Integrating small farmers into dynamic supply chains - case study of Ma's tropical fruit company
… a response to this weak competitiveness of smallholders MA'S Tropical Food Company has introduced an innovative "business model". Through this … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 July 2007
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
… and uneven, and households suffered crop failure, livestock losses, food insecurity and high food prices. More than one million of our 1.7 million population needed … includes transport and other infrastructure, tourism, sustainable agriculture and forestation, all of which leads to reduced greenhouse …
Insight, 19 July 2021
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Sowing Autonomy: Gender and Seed Politics in Semi Arid India
… in seed, crop diversity and nutrition. By extension, the realms of food culture and religious rituals (which entail the use of traditional … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 May 2006
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Climate change and biocultural adaptation in mountain communities: second international learning exchange of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous People
… exchange traditional knowledge and seeds for climate adaptation and food sovereignty and to protect biocultural heritage and farmers’ … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 February 2016
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Should Africa Protect its Farmers to Revitalise its Economy?
… looks for the deeper causes of African problems in the evolution of agriculture and world markets. In the history of developed countries, … growth raised agricultural prices, which facilitated investment in agriculture, so that more people could be employed and fed. But today, industrialised agriculture in Western countries causes chronic oversupply and low …
Publication, 01 January 2003
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Portraits of family farming in West Africa
… is part of IIEDs programme on the transformations in West African agriculture and the future of family farms. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 April 2005
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FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia’s national planning
… fishing make a significant contribution to Cambodia’s economy and food security. Community fisheries are already empowered to manage local … account through the System of Environmental and Economic Accounts — Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries would clarify the value such fishers …
Publication, 01 May 2020
Biodiversity convention's 'access and benefit sharing' protocol must protect traditional knowledge
… Food and agriculture …
News, 19 October 2010