DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 1 - Diversity and sustainability within ...diversifoodproject
Agroecology enhances dietary diversity through regenerating genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity on farms. This increases the availability, quality, and access to diverse foods. Diversifying crops and livestock in agroecosystems renders populations more resilient to problems. Functional biodiversity also reduces pests and diseases while enhancing dietary options. Agroecological practices and markets build alternative food networks that reconnect producers and consumers locally, promoting access to diverse diets. However, agroecology requires transformational changes to support farmers' material security and participation in research.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - Paradigm shift for muti-actor and tr...diversifoodproject
1. The document discusses a holistic multi-actor approach to enhancing agrobiodiversity. It emphasizes the need to understand barriers and opportunities that affect the sustainable use and maintenance of crop genetic diversity.
2. A key part of this approach is identifying factors related to crops, socio-cultural aspects, economics, agro-ecology, organization/institutions, and legal/political issues that enable or hamper agri-food systems and agrobiodiversity.
3. The document outlines the development of tools to operationalize the multi-actor approach, including common definitions, a toolkit of methods, and an overarching methodological framework.
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.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 2 - Underutilizated/forgotten crops: mul...diversifoodproject
"Underutilizated/forgotten crops: multi-actor and on farm evaluation": Keynote by Ambrogio Costanzo, ORC, UK
"Participatory assessment of local and traditional varieties of wheat in South Spain" by Maria Carrascosa, RAS, Spain
"Re-discovering ancient wheat population for organic farming in Hungary" by Dóra Drexler, ÖMKI, Hungary
"Lathyrus sativus and L. cicera germplasm characterization and breeding" by Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Spain
"Antinutritive ingredients in grain legume species for organic fodder" by Gilles Altmann, IBLA, Luxembourg
"Resistance screening of pea against a complex of root pathogens" by Lukas Wille, FiBL, Switzerland
"The Honeycomb Selection Designs in Participatory Breeding trials with cowpea" by Dionysia Fasoula, ARI, Cyprus
"Microbial communities and plant breeding: challenges and perspectives" by Michalis Omirou, ARI, Cyprus
"Chickpea genotypes response on drought and its impact on mycorrhizal symbiosis" by Athanasia-Eleni Kavadia, ARI, Cyprus
"Mobilising still diversity for minor cereals in West of France"
by Estelle Serpolay, ITAB, France
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
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Introduction - Véronique Chablediversifoodproject
Welcome and introduction by Véronique Chable, INRA, DIVERSIFOOD project Coordinator. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 5 - Value chains studies - Bernadette Oe...diversifoodproject
Lessons learnt from value chains studies in Diversifood: factors in support and hindering their success
Keynote by Bernadette Oehen, Fibl, Switzerland, and Adanella Rossi, University of Pisa
Embedding food diversity in supply chains – Experience of eight European case studies
by Anna Sellars, ORC, UK
Ancient cereals in modern times: is there a momentum for underutilised cereals?
by Boki Luske, LBI, NL
Communication and Label Concept for Underutilized Crops: Checklist
by Philipp Holzherr, PSR, Switzerland
Peasant seeds at the test of identification signs
by Pierre Rivière, RSP, France
The potential impact of crop species diversity on food sales in local markets
by Marjo Keskitalo, LUKE, Finland
Consumer preferences for vegetables from participatory on-farm breeding networks
by Claudia Meier, Fibl, Switzerland
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 1 - Diversity and sustainability within ...diversifoodproject
Agroecology enhances dietary diversity through regenerating genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity on farms. This increases the availability, quality, and access to diverse foods. Diversifying crops and livestock in agroecosystems renders populations more resilient to problems. Functional biodiversity also reduces pests and diseases while enhancing dietary options. Agroecological practices and markets build alternative food networks that reconnect producers and consumers locally, promoting access to diverse diets. However, agroecology requires transformational changes to support farmers' material security and participation in research.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - Paradigm shift for muti-actor and tr...diversifoodproject
1. The document discusses a holistic multi-actor approach to enhancing agrobiodiversity. It emphasizes the need to understand barriers and opportunities that affect the sustainable use and maintenance of crop genetic diversity.
2. A key part of this approach is identifying factors related to crops, socio-cultural aspects, economics, agro-ecology, organization/institutions, and legal/political issues that enable or hamper agri-food systems and agrobiodiversity.
3. The document outlines the development of tools to operationalize the multi-actor approach, including common definitions, a toolkit of methods, and an overarching methodological framework.
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.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 2 - Underutilizated/forgotten crops: mul...diversifoodproject
"Underutilizated/forgotten crops: multi-actor and on farm evaluation": Keynote by Ambrogio Costanzo, ORC, UK
"Participatory assessment of local and traditional varieties of wheat in South Spain" by Maria Carrascosa, RAS, Spain
"Re-discovering ancient wheat population for organic farming in Hungary" by Dóra Drexler, ÖMKI, Hungary
"Lathyrus sativus and L. cicera germplasm characterization and breeding" by Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Spain
"Antinutritive ingredients in grain legume species for organic fodder" by Gilles Altmann, IBLA, Luxembourg
"Resistance screening of pea against a complex of root pathogens" by Lukas Wille, FiBL, Switzerland
"The Honeycomb Selection Designs in Participatory Breeding trials with cowpea" by Dionysia Fasoula, ARI, Cyprus
"Microbial communities and plant breeding: challenges and perspectives" by Michalis Omirou, ARI, Cyprus
"Chickpea genotypes response on drought and its impact on mycorrhizal symbiosis" by Athanasia-Eleni Kavadia, ARI, Cyprus
"Mobilising still diversity for minor cereals in West of France"
by Estelle Serpolay, ITAB, France
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
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Introduction - Véronique Chablediversifoodproject
Welcome and introduction by Véronique Chable, INRA, DIVERSIFOOD project Coordinator. The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 5 - Value chains studies - Bernadette Oe...diversifoodproject
Lessons learnt from value chains studies in Diversifood: factors in support and hindering their success
Keynote by Bernadette Oehen, Fibl, Switzerland, and Adanella Rossi, University of Pisa
Embedding food diversity in supply chains – Experience of eight European case studies
by Anna Sellars, ORC, UK
Ancient cereals in modern times: is there a momentum for underutilised cereals?
by Boki Luske, LBI, NL
Communication and Label Concept for Underutilized Crops: Checklist
by Philipp Holzherr, PSR, Switzerland
Peasant seeds at the test of identification signs
by Pierre Rivière, RSP, France
The potential impact of crop species diversity on food sales in local markets
by Marjo Keskitalo, LUKE, Finland
Consumer preferences for vegetables from participatory on-farm breeding networks
by Claudia Meier, Fibl, Switzerland
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
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - NOVIC - Bill Tracydiversifoodproject
The document summarizes the NOVIC (Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative) project which aims to develop new vegetable varieties suited for organic agriculture through participatory plant breeding. The project involves conducting variety trials with farmers, improving availability of organic seed, and training graduate students in organic plant breeding. Over 12 varieties have been released through the project focusing on crops like broccoli, squash and tomatoes. Breeding efforts have led to gains in traits like plant height, time to flowering, ear length and quality for sweet corn varieties. The breeding work continues with a focus on traits like weed suppression and earworm resistance.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 4 - From on farm conservation to Communi...diversifoodproject
This document outlines Riccardo Bocci's presentation on moving from on-farm conservation to community biodiversity management. It discusses the shift from project-based conservation to participatory and decentralized innovation involving multiple actors over time. Lessons learned include the need for a common vision, a pluralistic legal framework, and new professional roles. Challenges are differing perspectives that can lead to confrontation and the fragility of social processes. The presentation is part of a session on community biodiversity management with additional talks on related topics like tools for community management, ecological justice, monitoring diversity in the US, and case studies of managing plant health and crop diversity.
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/
World agriculture is facing its biggest challenge due to population growth and climate change. Crop diversity is critical for adapting to these challenges but many varieties have been lost. The Crop Trust works to conserve crop diversity globally to ensure food security. A new initiative called DivSeek aims to facilitate open access to genomic and phenotypic data associated with genebank collections through common data standards. This will help breeders develop climate-resilient crops and address food insecurity.
Participatory approaches to diversification and intensification of crop produ...Rachel Gilbert
This document summarizes Daniel van Vugt's presentation on participatory approaches to crop diversification and intensification in smallholder farms in Malawi. The presentation discusses research objectives, methods, results, and implications. Key findings include that farmer-ranked technologies like early planting and plant population highly for soybean. Combining inoculants, fertilizer, and compost manure increased soybean yields. Variability in nitrogen fixation, yields, and responses were observed across locations and years. Fertilizer generally enhanced yields for maize, soybean, groundnuts, and sweet potato, but responses varied significantly.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
This document outlines crop diversity in Ethiopia and strategies for conservation. It discusses that Ethiopia has significant crop diversity as a center of origin for many plants. It notes major crops like coffee, tef, and minor crops. It then explains the importance of conserving crop diversity for food security, environment, and economy. The document outlines in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies and their benefits and challenges. It emphasizes that crop diversity provides genes for improving crops and meeting human needs.
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
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/
The document outlines an approach called Farming First that aims to enhance sustainable development through agriculture. It argues that smallholder and women farmers must play a central role in increasing global food production to feed a growing population, while protecting the environment. The framework highlights six interlinked imperatives needed to achieve this: 1) safeguarding natural resources, 2) sharing knowledge, 3) building local access and capacity, 4) protecting harvests, 5) enabling access to markets, and 6) prioritizing agricultural research. The goal is to transition subsistence farmers into small-scale entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing, sustainable practices, and improved local infrastructure and markets.
Value chain for produce from participatory plant breeding/underutilized crops...diversifoodproject
How to better embed crop diversity for resilient sustainable food systems? On April 11th, the DIVERSIFOOD Forum with policy makers and stakeholders addressed this and other fundamental questions to promote cultivated biodiversity. The event was hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and involved different stakeholders: from policy makers to researchers, from NGOs to Farmer Organisations and Value chain actors. This talk "Value chain for produce from participatory plant breeding/underutilized crops" was given by Bernadette Öhen, FiBL (DIVERSIFOOD Project Partner)
From on-farm conservation to Community biodiversity management - Riccardo Boc...diversifoodproject
How to better embed crop diversity for resilient sustainable food systems? On April 11th, the DIVERSIFOOD Forum with policy makers and stakeholders addressed this and other fundamental questions to promote cultivated biodiversity. The event was hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and involved different stakeholders: from policy makers to researchers, from NGOs to Farmer Organisations and Value chain actors. This talk "From on-farm conservation to Community biodiversity management" was given by Riccardo Bocci, Rete semi rurali (DIVERSIFOOD Project Partner)
Presentation given at the session on 'Seeds of Resilience - Novel strategies for using crop diversity in climate change adaptation' at Tropentag 2016, September 21st, Vienna, by Bioversity International scientist Ronnie Vernooy.
Future impacts of climate change are expected to become more pronounced in many parts of the world, forcing farmers to change their practices and causing them to find crops and varieties better adapted to new weather dynamics. Providing farmers with better access to crop and varietal diversity can strengthen their capacity to adapt to climate change. Under supportive policy and socioeconomic conditions, such strengthened capacity could contribute to greater food availability throughout the year, the production of more nutritious and healthy crops, and income generation. This is easier said than done.
How do we design and implement a comprehensive strategy that will allow farmers to access and use plant genetic diversity more effectively in the context of climate change adaptation? This session responded to this question through an interactive introduction to the challenge of enabling farmers to use climate-adapted germplasm (led by Bioversity International), a practical example from the field to bring new diversity to farmers fields (a case study from Uganda), and a “this is how we support crop diversification for climate change adaptation” exchange among a number of experts from government (development cooperation), private sector and civil society.
Find out more:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/tropentag2016/
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/resource-box-for-resilient-seed-systems-handbook/
This document provides an introduction and overview of a project focused on conserving tropical fruit tree diversity through sustainable livelihood approaches. The project aims to conserve tropical fruit tree genetic resources on farms and in situ through building capacity of local communities and institutions. The goal is to improve livelihoods and food security by strengthening the ability of farmers, groups, and communities to sustainably manage and benefit from tropical fruit tree species. Key outcomes include conserving diversity on farms through improved knowledge and practices, stakeholders benefiting from management methodologies, and empowering communities and institutions through enhanced capacity and partnerships. The impact will be global conservation of tropical fruit tree diversity and knowledge as well as domestic benefits like increased production, income, food supply and land area devoted
Pre breeding procedures and methods introgressionyogeshjaison8248
Pre-breeding involves identifying desirable traits in non-adapted plant genetic resources and transferring those traits into materials that plant breeders can use to develop new varieties. It serves as a bridge between genebank conservation efforts and plant breeding programs. The goal is to generate intermediate materials for breeders by combining expertise from genebank managers and plant breeders. Effective pre-breeding requires close collaboration and communication between these groups to access and utilize traits of interest from genebank collections.
A multi-discipline effort to provide options for sustainable intensification ...africa-rising
This document summarizes a multi-disciplinary effort between the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and International Livestock Research Institute to promote sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in Africa. The goal is to create pathways out of poverty for smallholder families. Key activities include advancing production, improving nutrition and food safety, and transforming production systems. The document provides details on situation analysis conducted in Babati district of Tanzania that identified challenges like poor agricultural practices, high crop losses, and livestock malnutrition. It outlines prioritized intervention niches being tested, like fodder banks and intercropping, as well as expected outputs which include identifying suitable forage species and describing integrated packages to farmers.
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
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 6 - NOVIC - Bill Tracydiversifoodproject
The document summarizes the NOVIC (Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative) project which aims to develop new vegetable varieties suited for organic agriculture through participatory plant breeding. The project involves conducting variety trials with farmers, improving availability of organic seed, and training graduate students in organic plant breeding. Over 12 varieties have been released through the project focusing on crops like broccoli, squash and tomatoes. Breeding efforts have led to gains in traits like plant height, time to flowering, ear length and quality for sweet corn varieties. The breeding work continues with a focus on traits like weed suppression and earworm resistance.
DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 4 - From on farm conservation to Communi...diversifoodproject
This document outlines Riccardo Bocci's presentation on moving from on-farm conservation to community biodiversity management. It discusses the shift from project-based conservation to participatory and decentralized innovation involving multiple actors over time. Lessons learned include the need for a common vision, a pluralistic legal framework, and new professional roles. Challenges are differing perspectives that can lead to confrontation and the fragility of social processes. The presentation is part of a session on community biodiversity management with additional talks on related topics like tools for community management, ecological justice, monitoring diversity in the US, and case studies of managing plant health and crop diversity.
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/
World agriculture is facing its biggest challenge due to population growth and climate change. Crop diversity is critical for adapting to these challenges but many varieties have been lost. The Crop Trust works to conserve crop diversity globally to ensure food security. A new initiative called DivSeek aims to facilitate open access to genomic and phenotypic data associated with genebank collections through common data standards. This will help breeders develop climate-resilient crops and address food insecurity.
Participatory approaches to diversification and intensification of crop produ...Rachel Gilbert
This document summarizes Daniel van Vugt's presentation on participatory approaches to crop diversification and intensification in smallholder farms in Malawi. The presentation discusses research objectives, methods, results, and implications. Key findings include that farmer-ranked technologies like early planting and plant population highly for soybean. Combining inoculants, fertilizer, and compost manure increased soybean yields. Variability in nitrogen fixation, yields, and responses were observed across locations and years. Fertilizer generally enhanced yields for maize, soybean, groundnuts, and sweet potato, but responses varied significantly.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
This document outlines crop diversity in Ethiopia and strategies for conservation. It discusses that Ethiopia has significant crop diversity as a center of origin for many plants. It notes major crops like coffee, tef, and minor crops. It then explains the importance of conserving crop diversity for food security, environment, and economy. The document outlines in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies and their benefits and challenges. It emphasizes that crop diversity provides genes for improving crops and meeting human needs.
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
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/
The document outlines an approach called Farming First that aims to enhance sustainable development through agriculture. It argues that smallholder and women farmers must play a central role in increasing global food production to feed a growing population, while protecting the environment. The framework highlights six interlinked imperatives needed to achieve this: 1) safeguarding natural resources, 2) sharing knowledge, 3) building local access and capacity, 4) protecting harvests, 5) enabling access to markets, and 6) prioritizing agricultural research. The goal is to transition subsistence farmers into small-scale entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing, sustainable practices, and improved local infrastructure and markets.
Value chain for produce from participatory plant breeding/underutilized crops...diversifoodproject
How to better embed crop diversity for resilient sustainable food systems? On April 11th, the DIVERSIFOOD Forum with policy makers and stakeholders addressed this and other fundamental questions to promote cultivated biodiversity. The event was hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and involved different stakeholders: from policy makers to researchers, from NGOs to Farmer Organisations and Value chain actors. This talk "Value chain for produce from participatory plant breeding/underutilized crops" was given by Bernadette Öhen, FiBL (DIVERSIFOOD Project Partner)
From on-farm conservation to Community biodiversity management - Riccardo Boc...diversifoodproject
How to better embed crop diversity for resilient sustainable food systems? On April 11th, the DIVERSIFOOD Forum with policy makers and stakeholders addressed this and other fundamental questions to promote cultivated biodiversity. The event was hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and involved different stakeholders: from policy makers to researchers, from NGOs to Farmer Organisations and Value chain actors. This talk "From on-farm conservation to Community biodiversity management" was given by Riccardo Bocci, Rete semi rurali (DIVERSIFOOD Project Partner)
Presentation given at the session on 'Seeds of Resilience - Novel strategies for using crop diversity in climate change adaptation' at Tropentag 2016, September 21st, Vienna, by Bioversity International scientist Ronnie Vernooy.
Future impacts of climate change are expected to become more pronounced in many parts of the world, forcing farmers to change their practices and causing them to find crops and varieties better adapted to new weather dynamics. Providing farmers with better access to crop and varietal diversity can strengthen their capacity to adapt to climate change. Under supportive policy and socioeconomic conditions, such strengthened capacity could contribute to greater food availability throughout the year, the production of more nutritious and healthy crops, and income generation. This is easier said than done.
How do we design and implement a comprehensive strategy that will allow farmers to access and use plant genetic diversity more effectively in the context of climate change adaptation? This session responded to this question through an interactive introduction to the challenge of enabling farmers to use climate-adapted germplasm (led by Bioversity International), a practical example from the field to bring new diversity to farmers fields (a case study from Uganda), and a “this is how we support crop diversification for climate change adaptation” exchange among a number of experts from government (development cooperation), private sector and civil society.
Find out more:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/tropentag2016/
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/resource-box-for-resilient-seed-systems-handbook/
This document provides an introduction and overview of a project focused on conserving tropical fruit tree diversity through sustainable livelihood approaches. The project aims to conserve tropical fruit tree genetic resources on farms and in situ through building capacity of local communities and institutions. The goal is to improve livelihoods and food security by strengthening the ability of farmers, groups, and communities to sustainably manage and benefit from tropical fruit tree species. Key outcomes include conserving diversity on farms through improved knowledge and practices, stakeholders benefiting from management methodologies, and empowering communities and institutions through enhanced capacity and partnerships. The impact will be global conservation of tropical fruit tree diversity and knowledge as well as domestic benefits like increased production, income, food supply and land area devoted
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DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress - Session 3 - New approaches of plant breeding for diversified and sustainable farming systems - Isabelle Goldringer
1. Participatory crop
improvement for local /
regional adaptation and
produces
Isabelle Goldringer,
INRA
Rennes, Diversifood Final Congress, December
10-12, 2018
5. 5
Participatory Plant Breeding
• Participatory Plant Breeding involves scientists, farmers, and others
(consumers, processors, extensionists,…) in plant breeding research.
• Participatory approaches: the processes used to develop new
technologies can achieve a range of material and socially
transformative outcomes.
≠ transfer-of-technology model that seeks efficient processes
to generate standardized, uniform outcomes (Jones et al 2014).
=> New methods needed:
* based on participatory approaches
* adapted to decentralized on farm trials
to manage, breed and adapt crop genetic diversity, embedded in
local/regional food systems
6. 6
DIVERSIFOOD objectives for PPB (WP3)
• Establish new populations & evaluate the
relative interest of the different methods used
• Develop or adapt methods and user-friendly
tools
• specifically designed for on farm decentralized
participatory breeding
• Apply a panoply of breeding strategies and
compare them to identify the most promising
7. 7
New populations created for many crops
species
- A large number of new populations developed for many
crops: tomato, broccoli, carrots, onion, bread and durum
wheat, einkorn, barley, maize, white lupin, faba bean and
buckwheat
8. A range of methods to create relevant
diversity for PPB
• Landraces and old varieties (ex: ITAB, RSP):
– Large diversity available, adaptive
potential to low input and agroecological
conditions, organoleptic and nutritional quality
– Needs further adaptation
• Mixtures of landraces and old varieties (ex: INRA, ITAB,
RSR):
– Allows to combine interesting traits from different varieties, easy
and rapid
– Limited recombination in selfing mixtures, risk of competition, needs
management
• Bi-parental crosses (ex: INRA, PSR):
– Creation of new genotypes combining advantageous traits from
both parents
– Crossing plants of self-pollinated species is feasible on-farm by farmers,
but is time consuming and requires dedicated skills.
8
9. A range of methods to create relevant
diversity for PPB
• Landraces and old varieties (ex: ITAB, RSP):
– Large diversity available, adaptive
potential to low input and agroecological
conditions, organoleptic and nutritional quality
– Needs further adaptation
• Mixtures of landraces and old varieties (ex: INRA, ITAB,
RSR):
– Allows to combine interesting traits from different varieties, easy
and rapid
– Limited recombination in selfing mixtures, risk of competition, needs
management
• Bi-parental crosses (ex: INRA, PSR):
– Creation of new genotypes combining advantageous traits from
both parents
– Crossing plants of self-pollinated species is feasible on-farm by farmers,
but is time consuming and requires dedicated skills.
9
10. A range of methods to create relevant
diversity for PPB
• Landraces and old varieties (ex: ITAB, RSP):
– Large diversity available, adaptive
potential to low input and agroecological
conditions, organoleptic and nutritional quality
– Needs further adaptation
• Mixtures of landraces and old varieties (ex: INRA, ITAB,
RSR):
– Allows to combine interesting traits from different varieties, easy
and rapid
– Limited recombination in selfing mixtures, risk of competition, needs
management
• Bi-parental crosses (ex: INRA, PSR):
– Creation of new genotypes combining advantageous traits from
both parents
– Crossing plants of self-pollinated species is feasible on-farm by farmers,
but is time consuming and requires dedicated skills.
10
11. A range of methods to create relevant
diversity for PPB
• Composite Cross Populations (CCPs)
and mixtures of crosses (ex: INRA, FiBL,
ORC, RSR, LBI)
– High diversity and recombination, large
potential for adaptation and mass
selection => broad genetic basis population
– Heavy to carry out and difficult to design
• Open pollinated populations (ex: ITQB & IPC):
– In out-crossing species, allows to combine several parents
in one or a few steps
– Difficult to apply mass selection on both parents, requires
optimization of the within-population diversity
11
12. A range of methods to create relevant
diversity for PPB
• Composite Cross Populations (CCPs)
and mixtures of crosses (ex: INRA, FiBL,
ORC, RSR, LBI)
– High diversity and recombination, large
potential for adaptation and mass
selection => broad genetic basis population
– Heavy to carry out and difficult to design
• Open pollinated populations (ex: ITQB & IPC):
– In out-crossing species, allows to combine several parents
in one or a few steps
– Difficult to apply mass selection on both parents, requires
optimization of the within-population diversity
12
14. Development of CCPs of white lupin at
FiBL
• 2 strategies for CCP creation:
– With or without selection for Colletotrichum
resistance
14
15. CCPs, dynamic populations and
evolutionary breeding
• Comparison of a CCP and a dynamic
population (mixture) of bread wheat
at INRA & ITAB:
– See Estelle Serpolay’s poster
• Test of selection methods in wheat CCPs
at LBI:
– Rust, seed size, plant height, deep sowing vs
normal sowing
• Evolutionary breeding
with a bread wheat CCP at RSR:
– See Bettina Bussi & Matteo Petitti presentation
15
16. Multi-trait approaches to PPB in maize
• Combining agronomic, quality and genetic
information to optimize crosses at ITQB-NOVA & IPC
– Crosses chosen to increase tocopherol and total
phenolic content , minimize viscosity
while maintaining genetic
diversity
• Decision tools for improving underused Portuguese
maize landraces at ITQB-NOVA & IPC:
– see ML Alves poster
16
17. 17
• On-going PPB on bread wheat since 2006 in France (INRA
& RSP). First 10 PPB population-varieties evaluated on
farm for agronomic performance, nutritional and
organoleptic qualities.
In the middle: Renan, short,
poor weed competitor, low
bread making quality
Aside and below: PPB
varieties, tall, robust, good
weed competitor, lodging
resistant, good bread making
quality
Original and interesting populations-varieties
developed through PPB at INRA & RSP
PPB varieties showed
higher level in Mg, Zn,
Ca, Cu and K than
commercial varieties.
18. Instability
(VC %)
Farm Year +
Year x Farm
R Farm Year +
Year x Farm
R
PPB
Populations
1% 24% 6% 23% 28% 17%
Commercial
varieties
0% 35% 5% 37% 35% 26%
• First 10 PPB population-varieties evaluated on 6 farms x
2 yrs for agronomic performance
Wheat PPB populations are more stable
Protein content Yield
Thèse G van Frank (Dec 2018) + see Gaelle’s poster
a 32 qx/ha
29 qx/ha
19. Collective assessment in PPB
• Participatory tomato breeding at Arche
Noah:
– Networking and cooperation between different
stakeholders (farmers, consumers, retailers,
chefs, scientists) => to define breeding
strategies.
– Collective breeding activities: participatory
assessment of quality traits.
19
20. Row
1
Row
3
Row
4
Row
5
Row
6
Row
2
Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 Col 4 Col 5 Col 6
Innovative statistical methods, designs and
tools
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• Participatory on-farm experiments means:
– Numerous but small trials (few plots / trial)
– Few replication within and among farms
– Farmers evaluating different populations
– Broad range of traits selected
⇒ Innovative methods for statistical analyses and data mining
specifically suited to PPB (RSP, RSR, IPC, ITQB, INRA)
• M1. Non parametric multivariate approaches
for agronomic and nutritional traits
• M2-M3. Multivariate and clustering approaches
for molecular and quality data
• M4-M5. Spatial analyses with optimized randomization & incomplete block
designs for agro./nutri. traits
• M6. GxE analyses for agro./nutri. traits
• M7a-b. Models within the Bayesian framework
for agro./nutri. traits
• M8. Analysis of network of seed circulation
• M9. Multiple factors analysis for sensorial data
21. 21
Technical booklet #3 – “Methods and tools for decentralized
on farm breeding”
⇒ A decision tree including all possible analyses organized
according to the type of trait, their objectives and
the experimental capacities (RSP, INRA, RSR, IPC, ITQB)
Innovative statistical methods, designs and
tools
22. PPBstats : An R package for PPB
statistical analyses
• Objectives:
– (i) to have a single package capable of performing all
analyses required for PPB programmes with
comprehensive documentation
– (ii) to create a community working on PPB programmes
in order to improve the package, exchange on how to
process data from PPB programmes and develop good
practices.
• Methods:
– Freely available package based on the R software
– Collaborative plateforme on github
22
23. PPBstats : An R package for PPB
statistical analyses
• Worlflow of analyses on data collected during PPB
programs at four levels: network of seeds management,
agronomic and nutritional trials, organoleptic tests and
molecular analyses.
• A website dedicated to PPBstats with full documentation
and a comprehensive tutorial to collaborate and use the
package can be found at:
https://priviere.github.io/PPBstats_web_site
• Use and contribute !!!
23
24. Key features and outcomes of PPB
• New populations developed and adopted by the farmers
• Complementary to ex-situ conservation: create and renew crop
genetic diversity, increase use of landraces
• Relies on a collective organisation
– Very inclusive multi-actor approach with various types of
stakeholders involved: researchers, farmers, breeders, processors,
cookers / chefs and consumers
– Generic tools and methods for supporting collective selection /
management of diversity
• Building capacity and empowering farmers to enact further
change
26. Bottlenecks and levers for a
transition
• A long term process.
• Scaling up and/or making these small scale systems sustainable
is a matter of training / organizing / funding.
Need to:
– Train farmers’ organisation facilitators: they are key to the collective
organization
– Increase sharing of tools and methods for PPB among local groups
through common framework and perenial platforms
– Develop multi-stakeholders participatory research platforms to allow
for recurrent funding
– Find sources of funding to make local community seed banks
sustainable
– Create a status for varieties derived from PPB
27. 27
Thanks to the DIVERSIFOOD partners
(WP3)
Thank you for your attention !
PPB bread wheat population-variety Japhabelle
28. Ten bread wheat varieties derived from PPB
Nom Origine Type
Saint-Priest F Mercier, Maine-et-Loire Issue d’une variété Suédoise (Progress)
Rouge du Roc JF Berthellot, Lot-et-Garonne Sélection massale dans Rouge de Bordeaux
Pop dynamique 2 F Mercier, Maine-et-Loire Mélange de 3 variétés de pays et 2 variétés + récentes
Mélange-5
Bourguignon
B Ronot, Côte d’Or Mélange de 11 variétés de pays locales
Mélange du Sud-Ouest JF Berthellot, Lot-et-Garonne Mélange de ~ 20 variétés de pays locales
Savoysone R Balthassat, Haute-Savoie Issue d’un croisement entre 2 variétés de pays
Rocaloex R Balthassat, Haute-Savoie Mélange de 11 populations issues de croisements
Mélange-1 13 pops B Ronot, Côte d’Or Mélange de 13 populations issues de croisement
Dauphibois C Dalmasso, Isère Mélange de ~25 variétés de pays, populations issues de
croisements et variétés récentes
Japhabelle JF Berthellot, Lot-et-Garonne Mélange de ~25 populations issues de croisements et
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