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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetResearchers help local farmers save maize wild relative
Rescue, conservation and sustainable management of teocintle in Nicaragua in the Apacunca Genetic Reserve
2009Visit ITPGRFA site internet.The Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project is giving the local farmers and their families a new perspective on conserving teocintle within a wider package of development activities, such as incorporation of new crops in order to diversify diets, and offering training in organic pest control to reduce the need for expensive or caustic inputs. These activities will help generate additional income for rural families withou t putting habitats of teocintle at risk, introduce farmers to the importance of teocintle and its associated species, and raise farmer awareness that teocintle can be exploited as a forage crop for their livestock. The project also supports the development of scientific and ecological tourism in the area. -
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-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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