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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. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetRebuilding farmers’ safety nets through on-farm conservation
Strengthening on-farm conservation and use of sorghum, finger millet, lablab beans and yam crop diversities for improved food security and adaptation to climate changes in Tanzania
2009Visit ITPGRFA site internet. Tanzania’s fields are losing their safety nets of plant genetic diversity, due to ongoing environmental challenges, changing farming systems, and even changes in taste preferences. In Tanzania, more than 80 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the country, this means subsistence agriculture practiced by smallholders who have traditionally mitigated the risks of ext reme weather events, pests and market fluctuations by relying on the diversity of their locally adapted traditional crops. Biodiversity constituted a kind of insurance. However, as they adopted improved crop varieties in recent decades, they abandoned their local seeds. -
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.
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