Improving access to vegetable seeds for resilient family farms in Costa Rica
A group of coffee farmers in Turrialba, Costa Rica, is successfully exploring diversification options with horticultural food crops. This is being done in collaboration with two vegetable seed banks that allow family farmers to use varieties freely under the multilateral system of FAO´s International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Title of publication: Farming matters: Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources
Issue: Special Issue
Page range: 14-17
Author: William Solano
Other authors: Maarten van Zonneveld, Lindsey Hethcote, Nelly Vasquez
Organization: ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Other organizations: Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE)
Year: 2016
Country/ies: Costa Rica
Geographical coverage: Central American Integration System (SICA)
Type: Magazine article
Full text available at: https://www.ileia.org/2016/04/16/improving-access-vegetable-seeds-resilient-family-farms-costa-rica/
Content language: English