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Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come. This is the third story in our 'Fork in the Road' series as part of our Rio+20 campaign.
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Laura Snook Programme Leader, Forest Genetic Resources Conservation and Use, talks about the need to harness the huge genetic diversity of different tree species to face challenges such as climate change and find sustainable ways to use and conserve it for our future. This video is the latest from our Rio+20 campaign blog.
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Placing biodiversity in trust for the future: Bioversity Impact Assessment
Plant genetic resources are the foundation on which our food supplies are based. Over the centuries they have been freely collected and exchanged by farmers, breeders and researchers, and are becoming increasingly important to help meet global challenges such as food security and climate change.
However recent changes in the legislative environment threatened to place restrictions on the flow of plant genetic resource material and raised questions about the ownership of genebank collections.
The second in our series of impact assessment briefs examines the influence of the ‘In Trust’ agreements set up by Bioversity in response to these changes. The agreements aimed to create a legal framework within which important collections held by the CGIAR network could not only be protected but also remain accessible to the global community. [Read more]
Administration AreaCROP WILD RELATIVES | EURISCO | THE AGROBIODIVERSITY GRAPEVINE | PROMUSA | PLATFORM FOR AGROBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH
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This work by Bioversity International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. |
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