Items tagged:
Seeds
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Film documents visit to "Guardians of Diversity" in the Potato Park
A new 15-minute film documents a gathering of indigenous farmers from mountain communities around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas about protecting biodiversity and culture as the basis for adapting to climate change
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Building resilient food systems
IIED strengthens the capacity of local organisations and institutions by designing resilient food systems and sustaining local food systems.
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With food and climate change, policymakers risk betting on the wrong horse
Governments are ignoring a vast store of knowledge - generated over thousands of years - that could protect food supplies and make agriculture more resilient to climate change, says a briefing published today by IIED.
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Seed industry and UN agency ignore traditional ways to protect biodiversity and knowledge
Communities worldwide risk losing control over their traditional knowledge and biological resources because a UN agency (the World Intellectual Property Organisation -WIPO) and the global seed industry insist on using Western intellectual property standards for managing access to them
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International farmers exchange for mutual learning: Privatisation of knowledge and seeds
In February 2007, ahead of the Nyéléni Forum for Food Sovereignty, IIED and its partners from India, Indonesia, Iran and Peru facilitated a preparatory workshop for farmers from Mali and neighbouring countries
