The project "Establishment of a preliminary network of community seed banks in vulnerable regions of Guatemala to provide seed in the event of a natural disaster", supported with funds from Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty and implemented by the 

This articles summarizes the interventions made in the side event “Strengthening Smallholder Seed Enterprises for Food, Nutrition and Income Security" of the 44th session of the Committee on World Food Security. 

In Africa, traditional agriculture accounts for more than 375 million farmers, of which, 80 to 90% of this farming population are smallholder farmers who depend and rely on and use their own farm-saved seeds. The farmers depend on diversity of...

The manual "Building on Gender, Agrobiodiversity and Local Knowledge" is based on experiences collected in numerous training workshops carried out under the FAO-LinKS project in Eastern and Southern Africa. This training manual constitutes a conceptual guide for trainers that can...

The civil society – independent of the private sector and government – plays a unique role in promoting and advocating Community Seed Production (CSP) for smallholder farmers. Oftentimes, farmer groups, farmer associations and...