1. AccessAgriculture Training Video Depuis des siècles, partout dans le monde, les agriculteurs sont les gardiens de semences de cultures et les sélectionneurs de nouvelles variétés. Les décideurs politiques ont souvent de la difficulté à reconnaître les anciens droits des agriculteurs de conserver...
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    01/06/2010 Seeds naturally have a place in almost any endeavor having to do with agricultural development. Seeds of most food plants are small and, as such, are more easily transported and can be shipped longer distances than vegetative cuttings. For the farmer, seeds represent the promise of a continued...
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  4. 20/01/2019 The Resilient Seed Systems Handbook Second Edition, developed by a multidisciplinary team of Bioversity International researchers and research partners, is a tool that supports research and capacity building on resilient seed systems in the context of adaptation to climate change. The first...
  5. 26/04/2019 Lors de la conférence internationale sur l'agriculture organisée par ECHO en 2014, Dr Laura Meitzner Yoder a donné une conférence plénière intitulée «Cultiver des liens: tirer des enseignements des systèmes de semences locaux, et encourager l'échange de semences au sein de la communauté.» La...
  6. 20/01/2013 Currently, seeds of all carrot varieties grown in hot sub-Saharan Africa are imported from regions with temperate climates such as Europe and USA. It has not been easy to produce carrot seeds in hot Africa, because carrots require exposure to cold temperatures (vernalization) to induce flowering....
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  8. Organic Seed Allianceregularly publishes and distributes resources free of charge. OSA'spublications include manuals on how to conduct plant breeding, seed production, and variety trials; record keeping materials; proceedings from our Organic Seed Growers Conference; and policy reports, webinars,...
  9. 08/05/2017 ECHO reguguarly keeps track of crop porduction records especially for crops disseminated from our Global Seed Bank. This fillable form is the sheet ECHO staff (mainly interns) use when evaluating a crop for it's potential use and distribution to ECHO's Network. This form can also be used to...
  10. 04/10/2017 These days, many outstanding and special characteristics of local seeds, such as pest and disease resistance, have slowly become extinct, but people are not aware of it. Increasingly, farmers are buying their seeds from vendors instead of saving their own seeds. To help overcome this crisis, a...