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  1. Community Seed Banks Origins, Evolution and Prospects

    Ronnie Vernooy et al Despite 25 years of history and the rapid growth in number, organizational diversity and geographical coverage of community seed banks, recognition of their roles and contributions has remained scanty. This book reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures, challenges and...
    631.521 VER

  2. Community Seedbank Resource Kit

    Rural Advancement Fund This kit is primarily intended for Non-Governmental Organizations based in the Third World working with rural communities in general or with agriculutral projects in particular. We hope that it will be read by community organizers, project officers and agrilcutral extension workers. Secondarily,...
    635.043 RAF

  3. ECHO's Global Seed Bank List 2017-18

    631.5 ECH 6-9 Notebook

  4. Community Seed Banks: Concept and Practice - Facilitator Handbook (Updated Version)

    Vernooy, R., Sthapit, B. and Bessette, G. Over three decades, a number of international and national organizations have provided technical and financial support to community seed banks around the world. Only a few of these organizations have developed and published a practical guide about how they have offered this support. This...

  5. ECHO Asia Seed Catalog 2024/2025

  6. How to Develop and Manage Your Own Community Seed Bank: Farmers’ Handbook (Updated Version)

    Vernooy, R.; Bessette, G.; Sthapit, B. This handbook is a companion to Vernooy, R., Sthapit, B. and Bessette, G. (2020). Community seed banks: concept and practice. Facilitator handbook (updated version). Bioversity International, Rome, Italy (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81286). The three booklets making up this handbook were written...

  7. Conservation and sustainable use under the international treaty

    FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) 154 pp. : ill. This is the second module in a series of traning materials fo rthe implementation of the International Treay on PlantGenetic Resouces for Food and Agriculture. see also https://www.fao.org/3/i2631e/i2631e.pdf [ Gift of Dr Abram Bicksler Jan 24, 2023 ] “Conservation and Sustainable...
    576.52 FAO

  8. Resilient Seed Systems: Handbook, Second edition

    Vernooy, R.; Bessette, G.; Otieno, G. (eds.) 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...

  9. Consumed food for a finite planet

    Sarah Elton By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil—few of us...
    631.5 ELT

  10. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    Jeffrey D. Sachs A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top...
    339.4 SAC