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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFarmers choose best-adapted varieties for testing
Conservation of agrobiodiversity of local cultivars of millet, maize and sorgum through improved participatory methods
2009Visit ITPGRFA site internet. In Senegal, 90 percent of the farming area is dedicated to cereal production. Yet three of the main crops, millet, maize and sorghum, are facing progressive loss of genetic diversity in the fields and low variability which has dire effects on the abilities of farmers to achieve good results in their harvesting seasons. Thus, the Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project in Senegal pulled 340 samples of millet, maize and s orghum from a database to discuss their merits with local farmers. They specifically chose samples that still are found in farmers’ fields, not those that only exist in genebanks. This allowed local farmers to offer practical advice as to which ones would be best to include in on-farm testing that would determine which ones were best adapted to climatic conditions and also which ones met the taste demands of consumers. The farmers chose 55 varieties. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFarmers collaborate to improve knowledge on major food crops
Contribution of traditional methods for the in situ conservation and management of maize and beans to the food security of farming families in Cuba
2009For more information, visit the ITPGRFA internet site . Answering survey questions ranging from how they use inputs and conserve their seeds to how each member of the family contributes to production, Cuban farmers have participated in a Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project that is analyzing the current contribution of beans and maize to food security and family health – and also looking at ways to improve that contribution. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetScientists and farmers team-up to seek diversity in Morocco’s fields
On-farm conservation and mining of local durum and bread wheat landraces of Morocco for biotic stresses and incorporating UG99 resistance
2009Visit ITPGRFA site internet. The farmers and scientists who scour the fields of Morocco collecting local varieties of durum and bread wheat as part of the Treaty Benefit-sharing Project are doing more than conserving their genetic diversity. They are contributing to the global effort against one of the most dangerous plant pests to emerge in the last century – a fungus that attacks wheat. Known as UG99 because it was first detected in Uganda in 1999, its spores have spread through Africa and the Middle East and continue their move east toward Asia. Ninety percent of the world’s wheat has no resistance to UG99 which means plant en in the spores’ paths.
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