1995 Global Meeting
July, Rome, Italy
Major objectives, hypotheses and preliminary activities for the project were decided upon by IPGRI and National Partners at the First Participants Meeting held in Rome in July 1995. The three main objectives of the project are:
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to support the development of a framework of knowledge on farmer decision-making processes that influence in situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity,
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to strengthen national institutions for the planning and implementation of conservation programmes for agricultural biodiversity
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to broaden the use of agricultural biodiversity and the participation in its conservation by farming communities and other groups.
To achieve these objectives, three main strategies were agreed upon:
(1) multidisciplinary work in the areas of population genetics, ecology, agronomy and social sciences carried out by multi-institutional teams from formal institutions and community-based organizations,
(2) community participatory breeding and agronomic work, including community and locally based conservation activities involving market development, non-market incentives, and community-based training that will support sustainable agriculture, and
(3) international coordination and scientific synthesis to create a global framework for supporting in situ conservation by farmers.
As a result of the 1995 meeting, the national partners formulated the following key research questions:
(1) to determine and understand the situations in which local cultivars are maintained by farmers,
(2) to identify the key factors which affect farmer decisions to maintain local cultivars,
(3) to understand how farmer decision-making affects the amount of genetic variation within crop populations over time, and
(4) to find ways to assist the continued selection of local cultivars or cultivars that conserve local germplasm.
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