Despite their current and potential value, farmers’ varieties are usually not sold in the open market and tend to be limited to farmers’ informal networks. Why is this? Why haven’t farmers’ varieties found a place in national and global seed...

FAO and AfricaRice joined efforts to document, throughout Africa, success stories of small and medium-sized seed enterprises dealing with non-hybrid food crops and identify the factors behind their success. The cases presented in this book provide an overview...

Community seed banks in Nepal have a long and rich history, but it is only recently that they have come together to form the legally registered national Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal (CSBAN), probably the first such association anywhere...

The main objectives of establishing community seed banks are to halt the rapid erosion of local varieties and their on-farm management, improving local livelihoods and resilience through providing easy access to quality seeds of diverse crops and varieties...

To protect our food supply against disease and drought, seed bank stores billions of seeds and samples for every crop and animal important to agriculture. This video presents an example of genebank: the Fort Collins facility in Colorado, United States. ...