This document discusses custodian farmers and their role in conserving agricultural biodiversity. It begins by asking questions about who custodian farmers are and their key characteristics. Custodian farmers are defined as farmers who actively maintain, adapt, and disseminate agricultural biodiversity over time. Their key roles are to maintain diversity on their farms, adapt varieties to local conditions, promote sharing of seeds and knowledge, and ensure continuity of land management practices. The document discusses methods to identify custodian farmers and their various motivations. It argues that custodian farmers should be recognized for their contributions to conserving biodiversity and supported through policies. The purpose of the workshop discussed is to better understand the roles of custodian
Resilient farmer seed systems: the multiple functions of community seedbanksBioversity International
Bioversity International scientist Ronnie Vernooy presents on the important role that community seedbanks play in the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity at GIZ Expert Talk on Farmer Seed Systems in Bonn, Germany.
Community Biodiversity Management - Benefits of BiodiversityHugo Lamers
Case study from Sirsi, Western Ghats in India showcasing the Community Biodiversity Management approach for on-farm conservation; presented during the Tree Diversity Day at the CBD convention in Hydrabad in October 2012
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 4 - Poster presentationsdiversifoodproject
Monitoring On-Farm Diversity in the United States
by Cathleen McCluskey, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
A modeling approach for on farm crop diversity management
by Abdel Kader Naino Jicka, INRA, France
Management of plant health and crop diversity – a case study
by Stephanie Klaedtke, Univ. de Liège - SEED, Belgium
Conservation and usage of chestnut biodiversity: a case study of partnership research
by Cathy Bouffartigue, INRA, France
Mapping European CSAs’ Practices for Cultivated Biodiversity
by Jocelyn Parot, INRA, France
From Cosmopolitan maize to Identitarian maize: collective management of maize
landraces in France and Italy
by Marianna Fenzi, INRA, France
Governance and organizational models of informal seed systems in Italy
by Riccardo Franciolini, RSR, Italy
Design elements for gender-responsive breeding: The breeding cycleCGIAR
This presentation was given by Stefania Grando on 21 September 2017, as part of the webinar 'Design elements for gender-responsive breeding'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-design-elements-gender-responsive-breeding/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 7 - Cultivating diverse food systems in ...diversifoodproject
"Cultivating diverse food systems in the shell of the uniform: power relations and transitions to sustainability" Keynote Speech by Phil Howard, Michigan State University, USA. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
Resilient farmer seed systems: the multiple functions of community seedbanksBioversity International
Bioversity International scientist Ronnie Vernooy presents on the important role that community seedbanks play in the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity at GIZ Expert Talk on Farmer Seed Systems in Bonn, Germany.
Community Biodiversity Management - Benefits of BiodiversityHugo Lamers
Case study from Sirsi, Western Ghats in India showcasing the Community Biodiversity Management approach for on-farm conservation; presented during the Tree Diversity Day at the CBD convention in Hydrabad in October 2012
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 4 - Poster presentationsdiversifoodproject
Monitoring On-Farm Diversity in the United States
by Cathleen McCluskey, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
A modeling approach for on farm crop diversity management
by Abdel Kader Naino Jicka, INRA, France
Management of plant health and crop diversity – a case study
by Stephanie Klaedtke, Univ. de Liège - SEED, Belgium
Conservation and usage of chestnut biodiversity: a case study of partnership research
by Cathy Bouffartigue, INRA, France
Mapping European CSAs’ Practices for Cultivated Biodiversity
by Jocelyn Parot, INRA, France
From Cosmopolitan maize to Identitarian maize: collective management of maize
landraces in France and Italy
by Marianna Fenzi, INRA, France
Governance and organizational models of informal seed systems in Italy
by Riccardo Franciolini, RSR, Italy
Design elements for gender-responsive breeding: The breeding cycleCGIAR
This presentation was given by Stefania Grando on 21 September 2017, as part of the webinar 'Design elements for gender-responsive breeding'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-design-elements-gender-responsive-breeding/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 7 - Cultivating diverse food systems in ...diversifoodproject
"Cultivating diverse food systems in the shell of the uniform: power relations and transitions to sustainability" Keynote Speech by Phil Howard, Michigan State University, USA. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
Biocultural heritage territories and the in situ conservation of plant geneti...ExternalEvents
Biocultural heritage territories and the in situ conservation of plant genetic resources: China case, from PPB to Farmer Seed Network
Yiching Song - Center for Chinese Agricultural Plicy (CCAP)/Chinese Acadamy of Sciences (CAS)
Delivering climbing and drought tolerant bush beans in different soil health ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Rowland Chirwa, Gift Ndengu, Powell Mponela, Lulsegad Desta and Regis Chikowo for the Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3–5 October 2018.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 1 - Diversity and sustainability within ...diversifoodproject
"Transforming research for diverse and sustainable food systems: a paradigm shift for multi-actor and transdisciplinary research" - the Keynote Speech by Michel Pimbert, Executive Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, UK. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
Experience and guidelines for participatory varietal selection (PVS): Integra...IFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented as part of the 'gender in breeding session' of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in SADC Region – towards a region...ExternalEvents
In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in SADC Region – towards a regional CWR network
Ehsan Dulloo, Eve Allen, Prishnee Bissessur, Joana Magos Brehm, Hannes Gaisberger, Michelle Hammer, Yasmina Jaufeerally Fakim, Shelagh Kell, Jermina Matlou, Mpolokeng Mokoena, Nkat Maluleke, Graybill Munkombwe, Dickson Ng’uni, Livhuwani Nkuna, Domitilla Raimondo, Willem van Rensburg, Imke Thormann, Thabo Tjikana and Nigel Maxted
What do we have to lose? Generating crop diversity and threat monitoring info...Bioversity International
Ehsan Dulloo, Bioversity International Conservation and Availability Programme Leader, presented at the international conference Enhanced genepool utilization - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement, in Cambridge, UK, 16-20 June 2014.
It is said that “you can't manage what you don't measure”. The unprecedented global loss of agricultural species, varieties and associated traditional knowledge is of increasing concern, threatening the provisioning, regulatory, supporting and cultural ecosystem services of importance to the livelihoods of the poor as well as the welfare of broader society. Such services include such public goods as maintaining agroecosystem resilience and future option values.
Unfortunately, although many crop genetic resources (CGR) are widely recognized as being threatened, there is only limited information available regarding actual status. Only isolated efforts at monitoring have been undertaken. Conventional monitoring efforts, where they exist at all, have been subject to limitations due to ad hoc approaches that lack rigorous survey and sampling approaches, do not adequately account for search effort costs or systematically involve the participation of local-level actors, and are usually based on collections instead of direct observations in the field. Furthermore, the links between specific CGR conservation levels/configurations and the provision of specific ecosystem services are poorly understood.
There is thus an urgent need for the development of a systematic approach to the monitoring of CGR. This presentation draws on the outcome of a recent Bioversity International/CIP international expert workshop aimed at the development of such an approach. The proposed multi-scale approach builds on a wide range of existing monitoring experiences and a review of the literature related to agricultural biodiversity-relevant ecosystem services. A number of proposed indicators that could be used to assess CGR threat levels, be used for monitoring purposes and/or assist in evaluating ecosystem service public/private good trade-offs arising from agricultural intensification are presented, with a view to supporting the potential for prioritizing, designing and implementing on-farm/in situ conservation measures that actively involve farmers, support livelihoods, complement existing ex situ conservation efforts and facilitate access and benefit sharing.
Find out more about Bioversity International work on conserving crop diversity on the farm and in the wild http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/conservation-of-crop-diversity/
Open Access and Natural Resource ConservationFRANK Water
An alternative look at open access of knowledge in agriculture and what it was traditionally like and what are things we could learn from our own traditional systems.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - Poster presentationsdiversifoodproject
Participatory ideotyping for organic and locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
by Emma Forst, INRA, France
Seeding the Green Future – Participatory organic cotton breeding
by Monika Messmer, Fibl, Switzerland
LIVESEED boosting organic seed and plant breeding across Europe
by Monika Messmer, Fibl, Switzerland
Paradigm shift for muti-actor and transdisciplinary research
Veronique Chable, INRA, France
Enhancing Women Farmers’ Access to Climate Smart Technologies for Rice Farming Households through Participatory Approach
Poster by Truong Thi Ngoc Chi at the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Montpellier.
Read more: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/3rd-global-science-conference-%E2%80%9Cclimate-smart-agriculture-2015%E2%80%9D#.VRurLUesXX4
Abstract
In Lake Zone, Tanzania, the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa Marando Bora project trained farmers to become specialised multipliers to produce and distribute sweetpotato seed. The objectives of the case study were to analyse (1) how farmers and trained multipliers characterised and managed quality in sweetpotato planting material; (2) changes in skills and practices as multiplication became a specialised task; and (3) what other transactions were happening as planting material was exchanged. The study used mixed methods to investigate the sweetpotato seed system as a social and technical configuration and the processes and interactions within it. A formal survey of 88 trained decentralised vine multipliers (DVMs) was conducted in March 2013. Detailed observations and semi-structured interviews were also carried out with 21 farmers and a sub-group of the DVMs. The survey results showed that 70% of DVMs were multiplying vines 9 months after the project finished; 34% were using close spacing in beds; 61% were using conventional plant spacing on ridges for roots and vines; and 5% were using both multiplication beds and ridges. Further, 97% of DVMs irrigated from wells, springs, lake, river, or dam water; 34% used pumps. During the life of the project, 89% of DVMs used fertilizer, and 26% continued to use it after the project finished. The in-depth interviews showed that farmers selected planting material not only on the basis of plant health, but also used cues to plant vigour. The use of own-saved seed involved a complex performance of managing seed and root production across different agro-ecologies according to inter- and intra-season characteristics. As the vine multiplication cycle became a specialised activity, vines were treated differently, depending on whether they were to be used for high root production or high vine production. The resilience and viability of the existing seed systems depended not only on individual knowledge and skills, but also management practices across agro-ecologies and negotiating social settlements at community level. As specialisation of seed production developed, the multiplication and root production cycles were separated and tasks became segregated. New knowledge and skills were formed in different ways; the trained multipliers adapted the new techniques into the existing system of shifting vine conservation and root production between different ecologies. Interventions aimed at building the capacity of specialised vine multipliers and scaling-up seed interventions should consider the implications of skills-building and segregation of tasks in the broader context of society choice of technologies and agrarian change.
Margaret A. McEwan
Biocultural heritage territories and the in situ conservation of plant geneti...ExternalEvents
Biocultural heritage territories and the in situ conservation of plant genetic resources: China case, from PPB to Farmer Seed Network
Yiching Song - Center for Chinese Agricultural Plicy (CCAP)/Chinese Acadamy of Sciences (CAS)
Delivering climbing and drought tolerant bush beans in different soil health ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Rowland Chirwa, Gift Ndengu, Powell Mponela, Lulsegad Desta and Regis Chikowo for the Africa RISING ESA Project Review and Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3–5 October 2018.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a real impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with regional offices across Asia and Africa, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 1 - Diversity and sustainability within ...diversifoodproject
"Transforming research for diverse and sustainable food systems: a paradigm shift for multi-actor and transdisciplinary research" - the Keynote Speech by Michel Pimbert, Executive Director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, UK. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
Experience and guidelines for participatory varietal selection (PVS): Integra...IFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented as part of the 'gender in breeding session' of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in SADC Region – towards a region...ExternalEvents
In situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives in SADC Region – towards a regional CWR network
Ehsan Dulloo, Eve Allen, Prishnee Bissessur, Joana Magos Brehm, Hannes Gaisberger, Michelle Hammer, Yasmina Jaufeerally Fakim, Shelagh Kell, Jermina Matlou, Mpolokeng Mokoena, Nkat Maluleke, Graybill Munkombwe, Dickson Ng’uni, Livhuwani Nkuna, Domitilla Raimondo, Willem van Rensburg, Imke Thormann, Thabo Tjikana and Nigel Maxted
What do we have to lose? Generating crop diversity and threat monitoring info...Bioversity International
Ehsan Dulloo, Bioversity International Conservation and Availability Programme Leader, presented at the international conference Enhanced genepool utilization - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement, in Cambridge, UK, 16-20 June 2014.
It is said that “you can't manage what you don't measure”. The unprecedented global loss of agricultural species, varieties and associated traditional knowledge is of increasing concern, threatening the provisioning, regulatory, supporting and cultural ecosystem services of importance to the livelihoods of the poor as well as the welfare of broader society. Such services include such public goods as maintaining agroecosystem resilience and future option values.
Unfortunately, although many crop genetic resources (CGR) are widely recognized as being threatened, there is only limited information available regarding actual status. Only isolated efforts at monitoring have been undertaken. Conventional monitoring efforts, where they exist at all, have been subject to limitations due to ad hoc approaches that lack rigorous survey and sampling approaches, do not adequately account for search effort costs or systematically involve the participation of local-level actors, and are usually based on collections instead of direct observations in the field. Furthermore, the links between specific CGR conservation levels/configurations and the provision of specific ecosystem services are poorly understood.
There is thus an urgent need for the development of a systematic approach to the monitoring of CGR. This presentation draws on the outcome of a recent Bioversity International/CIP international expert workshop aimed at the development of such an approach. The proposed multi-scale approach builds on a wide range of existing monitoring experiences and a review of the literature related to agricultural biodiversity-relevant ecosystem services. A number of proposed indicators that could be used to assess CGR threat levels, be used for monitoring purposes and/or assist in evaluating ecosystem service public/private good trade-offs arising from agricultural intensification are presented, with a view to supporting the potential for prioritizing, designing and implementing on-farm/in situ conservation measures that actively involve farmers, support livelihoods, complement existing ex situ conservation efforts and facilitate access and benefit sharing.
Find out more about Bioversity International work on conserving crop diversity on the farm and in the wild http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/conservation-of-crop-diversity/
Open Access and Natural Resource ConservationFRANK Water
An alternative look at open access of knowledge in agriculture and what it was traditionally like and what are things we could learn from our own traditional systems.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - Poster presentationsdiversifoodproject
Participatory ideotyping for organic and locally adapted wheat variety mixtures
by Emma Forst, INRA, France
Seeding the Green Future – Participatory organic cotton breeding
by Monika Messmer, Fibl, Switzerland
LIVESEED boosting organic seed and plant breeding across Europe
by Monika Messmer, Fibl, Switzerland
Paradigm shift for muti-actor and transdisciplinary research
Veronique Chable, INRA, France
Enhancing Women Farmers’ Access to Climate Smart Technologies for Rice Farming Households through Participatory Approach
Poster by Truong Thi Ngoc Chi at the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Montpellier.
Read more: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/3rd-global-science-conference-%E2%80%9Cclimate-smart-agriculture-2015%E2%80%9D#.VRurLUesXX4
Abstract
In Lake Zone, Tanzania, the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa Marando Bora project trained farmers to become specialised multipliers to produce and distribute sweetpotato seed. The objectives of the case study were to analyse (1) how farmers and trained multipliers characterised and managed quality in sweetpotato planting material; (2) changes in skills and practices as multiplication became a specialised task; and (3) what other transactions were happening as planting material was exchanged. The study used mixed methods to investigate the sweetpotato seed system as a social and technical configuration and the processes and interactions within it. A formal survey of 88 trained decentralised vine multipliers (DVMs) was conducted in March 2013. Detailed observations and semi-structured interviews were also carried out with 21 farmers and a sub-group of the DVMs. The survey results showed that 70% of DVMs were multiplying vines 9 months after the project finished; 34% were using close spacing in beds; 61% were using conventional plant spacing on ridges for roots and vines; and 5% were using both multiplication beds and ridges. Further, 97% of DVMs irrigated from wells, springs, lake, river, or dam water; 34% used pumps. During the life of the project, 89% of DVMs used fertilizer, and 26% continued to use it after the project finished. The in-depth interviews showed that farmers selected planting material not only on the basis of plant health, but also used cues to plant vigour. The use of own-saved seed involved a complex performance of managing seed and root production across different agro-ecologies according to inter- and intra-season characteristics. As the vine multiplication cycle became a specialised activity, vines were treated differently, depending on whether they were to be used for high root production or high vine production. The resilience and viability of the existing seed systems depended not only on individual knowledge and skills, but also management practices across agro-ecologies and negotiating social settlements at community level. As specialisation of seed production developed, the multiplication and root production cycles were separated and tasks became segregated. New knowledge and skills were formed in different ways; the trained multipliers adapted the new techniques into the existing system of shifting vine conservation and root production between different ecologies. Interventions aimed at building the capacity of specialised vine multipliers and scaling-up seed interventions should consider the implications of skills-building and segregation of tasks in the broader context of society choice of technologies and agrarian change.
Margaret A. McEwan
On farm conservation of tropical fruit diversity - Roles and motivations of C...Bioversity International
Who are custodian farmers? What do they do and why? Why is it important to identify them?
Bioversity International scientist Bhuwon Sthapit discusses the role of custodian farmers in using and safeguarding important agricultural biodiversity for current and future generation. Presented at the 29th International Horticulture Congress.
Read the publication:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/custodian-farmers-of-agricultural-biodiversity-selected-profiles-from-south-and-south-east-asia/
Lead Authors:
Carlo Fadda
James Legg
Margaret McEwan
Beatrice Aighewi
Jorge Andrade
Zewdie Bishaw
Sammy Carsan
Steven Michael Cole
Alan Duncan
Alessandra Galie
Karen Garrett
Jonathan Hellin James Lillesø
Chris Stephen Jones
Christopher Kettle
Jan Kreuze
Kumar, Lava
Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø
Alice Muchugi
Bonaventure Aman Omondi
Michael Peters
Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku
David Spielman
Ronnie Vernooy
This is Rapid community assessment technique to assess the amount and distribution of crop diversity within farming communities, and widely used in various countries in on farm biodiversity management related projects.
Bioversity International policy scientist Ronnie Vernooy gave this presentation at the the Global Consultation on Farmers’ Rights, Indonesia, 27-30 September 2016, organized by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty).
The importance of farmers’ rights is recognized in Article 9 of the Plant Treaty.
In this presentation Vernooy shows how a community-based approach to the management of agricultural biodiversity, including supporting community seedbanks, can empower and benefit smallholder farmers and farming communities economically, environmentally and socially. This approach makes implementing farmers’ rights at national level both practical and effective contributing to food and seed security, sustainable livelihoods and resilience.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/conservation-of-crop-diversity/community-seedbanks/
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/policies-for-plant-diversity-management/the-plant-treaty/
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A Cross-Cultural, Participatory Approach for Measuring and Cultivating Resili...ESD UNU-IAS
A Cross-Cultural, Participatory Approach for Measuring and Cultivating Resilience on Small and Medium Farms
Walter Poleman, Co-Coordinator, RCE Greater Burlington, Senior Lecturer, Director of Ecological Planning Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont
Christopher Nytch, RCE Coordinator, RCE Puerto Rico and Fundación Amigos de El Yunque
10th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
5-7 October, 2021
Contribution of the GEF Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition to ‘mainstreaming’; country experiences.
Presentation given by Danny Hunter, Global Project Coordinator, Bioversity International at the side event ' Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action' on the occasion of the 15th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy - 20th January 2015
The contribution of GEF 'Biodiversity for food and nutrition' country experiences
Presentation given by Danny Hunter, Global Project Coordinator, Bioversity International at the side event ' Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action' on the occasion of the 15th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy - January 20th 2015
Find out more about the initiative here:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/biodiversity-for-food-and-nutrition/
Visit the B4FN website:
http://www.b4fn.org/home.html
Contributions of the BFN Project to mainstreaming - country experiencesTeresa Borelli
Through its national partners, the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative is contributing to greater policy and public awareness of the role of local, neglected and underutilised foods in achieving more nutritious and varied diets
Similar to Brs 2-concept and practice of custodian farmers-11-2-13 f (20)
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
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Brs 2-concept and practice of custodian farmers-11-2-13 f
1. Custodian Farmers of
Agricultural Biodiversity
Putting Theory into Practice: What can we
learn from custodian farmers of
agricultural biodiversity in situ ?
Bhuwon Sthapit, Hugo Lamers & Ramanatha Rao
Bioversity International
2.
3.
4.
5. Inter and intra specific diversity of
Mangifera sp., Nephelium sp., and
Gracinia sp.
Unique and rare fruit diversity!
Source: Salma Idris, Malaysia
7. Few basic questions?
• Why making so much fuss about custodian
farmers?
• What we really mean by custodian farmers?
• How we can identify them?
• What are the characteristics of such custodian
farmers?
• What are current roles and functions of such
farmers?
• Are there different types of custodian farmers?
• What role they can play for the national PGR
system?
• Why this workshop? Why this theme is important
global consultation issue?
8. Why is it important to identify
and define custodian farmers?
• Little research done on effective methods
how to strengthen on-farm conservation or
guide interventions
• Seems effective and efficient approach for
on-farm conservation interventions
• These farmers play a key role:
– Linking traditional knowledge to
scientific knowledge
– Linking formal sector to informal seed
exchange sector
9. What we really mean by
custodian farmers?
How can we identify
them?
10. Who are Custodian Farmers?
Custodian farmers are those conserver
farmers who actively maintain, adapt
and disseminate agricultural
biodiversity over time and space,
including the culture and institutions in
which it is embedded, and the
knowledge needed for its use and
cultivation
http://www.futurepolicy.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Axel/Genetic_Res
ources/Regulation_germplasm_bank_custodian_Tuscany.pdf
11. WHAT are the Key Characteristics
of Custodian Farmers?
1. Driven by conservation ideology
2. Knowledge holder of traits
3. Community recognition
4. Highly motivated and self-directed
5. Consistent and unshaken
commitment
6. Willing to share knowledge and
materials
12. WHAT are the Essential Roles and
Functions of Custodian Farmers?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Maintenance
Adaptation/innovation/selection
Promotion/dissemination
Continuity
Note: Genetic resources are deeply
embedded in knowledge and practices of
farmer’s livelihood and food culture
15. What are the Key Roles of
Custodian Farmers?
Role
Description
Indicators
Maintain
Richness of species/varieties/ traits
Guardian of at least 1 unique/rare/
special/difficult to propagate
Adapt
Rich ecological knowledge of
diversity, heritability and selection
Selection of specific crop, varieties
and trait adapted to local conditions;
needs; adversity
Promote
High frequency of exchange of
seed and associated knowledge
Community members frequently cite
source of seed from a particular node
Continuity Over time ensure land use system
that harbor portfolio of species and
varieties
Sets of traits maintained when old
varieties are replaced
Transfer of knowledge and practice to
younger generation
Ensure alternative options that under
threat
16. Sources of Motivation
• personal (driven by passion or sensitivity
regarding the need for conserving diversity to
future generations; hobby)
• social (driven by the desire to conserve
particularly relevant crops for festivity and food
culture)
• economic (driven by the need for safeguarding
diversity for economic options of the HH)
• agro-ecology (driven by the natural assets)
• cultural (driven by the awareness regarding the
intimate link between genetic and cultural
diversity)
19. Result: Who Maintains Diversity and How?
Custodian farmers of Malihabad site
Community
Kasmandi Kalan
Gopramau
Sarsanda
Mohammad
Nagar
Taluqedari
Total
Name of the farmer
Mr Nawab Hasan
Mr Parmeshwar Sharma
Mr Amir
Mr Chhote Lal Kashyap
Mr Jamuna Prasad
Mr Tulsi Ram
Mr Rameshwar
Mr Mohan Lal
Mr Ram Asre
Mr Ramesh Chandra
Rafeeq
Mr Ram Chandra
Number of varieties
40
30
24
135
70
30
45
35
25
09
10
08
461
(Source: Rajan et al 2012, TFT Project)
20.
21.
22. Policy support of custodian
farmers
Key issues
• How could we consolidate roles of CF
as conserver, dynamic innovator and
promoter of diversity?
• Could such custodian farmers be
recognized as community gene bank
and be publicly supported?
23. Key Questions
• How could society continue to motivate
such farmers, generation after
generation?
• Could custodian farmers contribute to a
national conservation strategy?
• How policy could support for their roles in
use and conservation?
24. So, the Purpose
1. to develop deeper understanding of the
roles and functions of custodian farmers in
conservation, use and dissemination of
agricultural biodiversity;
2. to highlight their contribution to the
national plant genetic resources system
and overall sustainable agriculture
development; and
3. to raise their visibility and recognition in
the field of genetic resources
management.
25. Specific Objectives
• Discuss and refine the concept and
methodology to identify custodian farmers.
• Consolidate the role of custodian farmers
for conservation and availability of/access to
ABD through recognition, visibility and
creating linkages (policy support).
• Formulate an action plan to support
custodian farmers and recognize their
contributions to the society.
26. Expected Outputs of the
Workshop
• A draft strategy that contribute to work
plans of ICAR-Bioversity International and
other countries’ genebanks as a strategy
for on-farm conservation.
• Methodology for identification and
recognition
• Publication of a book or peer reviewed
paper - Custodian farmers of tropical fruit
tree diversity
27. Format of Workshop Methodology
A dynamic mix of
• Brief self introduction of custodian farmers;
• Short talks on a conceptual framework for
custodian farmers;
• Country case studies, and experiences from
custodian farmers;
• Expert opinions;
• Sharing of overview results from profile
documentation;
• Sharing outcome of questionnaire surveys to set
round-table discussions and interactive focus
group workshops agenda;
• Action plans and publication
Farmer cultivating 3-4 species together in high mountain himalays
Intra-specific diversity of peralmillet in dryland of India
Diverse portfolio of unique and rare fruits in Sarawak Maaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
Someone who is responsible for looking after something valuable or important…
There are four types of custodian farmers and their sphere may change with access to more information and knowledge and should be intergal part of community based management
In the context of on-farm conservation, custodian farmers play four key roles to transfer knowledge and materials to next generations.
Source of motivation are diverse and they could be multiple.