This example from the Philippines demonstrates how agro-biodiversity can be maintained and increased through benefit-sharing mechanisms as participatory plant breeding, distribution of traditional varieties and related information, and conservation activities.

Alberto Salas is an agronomist specialized in potato wild relatives. He has dedicated his life to finding, researching, and preserving potato wild relatives. He's crisscrossed the Andes, calculates that he’s taken around 300 trips to collect and catalog potato wild relatives. The...

This article argues that new approaches to agricultural development research are needed to conserve agricultural diversity, improve crops, and produce food of quality for all. Such an approach should enable small farmers on marginal lands to participate as...

GRAIN is an international non-governmental organization which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people’s control over genetic resources and local knowledge. Established at the beginning of the 1990s, it focuses on what...

This handbook presents some basic information for establishing a small scale seed production business, as one which provides important services to a community: permanent availability of good quality seed, or the possibility of introducing new varieties. Issues covered...