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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
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Issue: Special Issue
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Nombre de pages: 14-17
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Auteur: William Solano
Autres autheurs: Maarten van Zonneveld, Lindsey Hethcote, Nelly Vasquez
Organisation: ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Autres organisations: Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE)
Année: 2016
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Pays: Costa Rica
Couverture géographique: Central American Integration System (SICA)
Type: Article de revue
Langue: English
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