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 farmers to use varieties freely under the multilateral system of FAO´s International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Topic(s)
Sustaining local crop diversity, Policy for sustainable use
Subject area(s)
Enhancing crop diversity for local needs
Subject category(ies)
Access and benefit sharing, Participatory plant breeding
Publisher
Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA)
Publication date
2016
DOI
Resource link
Resource type
Case study
Resource format
PDF
Primary geographic focus
Latin America and the Caribbean
Open access
Yes