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Khadija Catherine RAZAVI "Reviving Indigenous Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in customary territories of Abolhassani mobile pastoralists, Iran"
1. The Story of Participatory Plant
Breeding and Evolutionary Plant
Breeding in Iran with the approach
of Participatory agricultural research
Farmers in Iran
are bringing
biodiversity back
to their fields and
helping
researchers to
breed better
varieties in
relation with
climate change
and adaptation to www.cenesta.org
2. It all started with meetings with farmers to
know their needs and concerns regarding
SEEDS SOVEREIGNTY
4. This resulted in breeders at ICARDA and DARI
providing 70 different lines of wheat and barley
to be cultivated in farmers' fields according to
their own methods
9. Based on their scores and performance
data from the field, they selected the
lines they wanted to keep
10. A researcher, a farmer and a
facilitator examine and discuss
data from the field
11. All this talk of biodiversity brings the
older farmers to ask: where have our
landraces gone ?
12. The discussion on the need to
revive landraces is continued with
a breeder for the National Gene
Bank
13. Some Iranian farmers have the
opportunity to see landraces from Iran
being multiplied at ICARDA's research
station
14. They join other farmers to exchange
experiences about PPB and the
importance of reviving landraces at the
Farmers' Conference at ICARDA
15. An old farmer shows a landrace which
he has not seen in 40 years in a field
where landraces from gene banks are
being re-introduced into farmers’ fields
- and their breeding programs
16. Photographs by an Iranian farmer
to show that agricultural
biodiversity brings bounty and
peace....
18. Farmers’ sketch of his PPB field,
including 70 lines of barley, a mix of 10
lines of barley and an evolutionary
population of 1600 F2s
19. PPB is starting to be discussed in
universities: here at a seminar of the
Iranian Association of Agroecology at
Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran
20. The first thesis on PPB is
successfully defended at
Kermanshah University
21. Giving a lecture on PPB to the
Agricultural Extension
Department of Razi University
22. 200 participants attend the “First
National Workshop on
Participatory Plant Breeding of
Cereal Crops”
24. A training seminar is organised
to build capacity in the
Agricultural Organisation of
Kermanshah
25. Farmers present their evaluation of the
strengths and weaknesses of the PPB
project to a group of farmers and
Ministry staff
26. Discussions on seed laws underline the
importance of farmers’ rights to
participate in research and law and
policy-making
27. Seed laws were discussed in a special
working group at the national PPB
workshop; the focus was on variety
release procedures and legal issues
related to intellectual property rights
28. Attending the meeting “Let’s Liberate
Diversity” in Ascoli, Italy to learn about
the impact European seed legislation is
having on farmer seed systems
33. Taller varieties
block out the
shorter ones in a
field of
“evolutionary
barley” where
1600 F2s are
cultivated over a
long period of
time to allow
nature to play a
role in selection