Use of Information

IIa. Outputs not specified in the original project document but currently planned or in progress

 

 

Outputs

Achievements

Burkina Faso

Mexico

Morocco

Nepal

Vietnam

Others -Ethiopia Hungary, Turkey, Peru

Output #: Market development for the maintenance of on-farm diversity (including better processing, marketing, consumer awareness)

 

Market investigation in progress by FUGN

Sale of processed products in addition of grain or forage for Maize

Use of by-products of maize

 

 

Market investigation in progress

Sensitising communities and consumers to local varieties for Rice

Taro

Sponge gourd

Actively searching for new markets: hotel food for eco-tourists

   

Output #: Improved access of materials to farmers through seed networks, community genebanks, diversity fairs and farmer information databases

  1. Supporting the development of seed units
  2. Recognition of the informal seed supply system by the formal system as important
  3. Diversity fairs
  4. Using local seeds to enhance seed networks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

Alfalfa

 

 

 

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethiopia

 

Use of Information

IIb. Outputs not specified in the original project document but currently planned or in progress

 

 

Outputs

Achievements

Burkina Faso

Mexico

Morocco

Nepal

Vietnam

Others -Ethiopia Hungary, Turkey, Peru

Output #: Integration of locally adapted crop varieties and farmer preferences into national and local development and extension projects

  1. training of local development workers of the added option of using local crop diversity and field visits to see the value of farmer varieties

extension workers

development workers

extension workers

extension workers and development workers

extension workers

 

Output #: Curriculum development in the formal sector (primary school, secondary school, extension workers, university)

 

Evaluation of the present formal education system

     

Turkey

(Evaluation of the present formal education system)

Output #: Identifying farming systems practices where the use of local crop resources improves ecosystem health

 

 

swidden agriculture Milpa

   

 

uplands – reduces fertiliser inputs

 

Output #: Public awareness at all levels on the importance of diversity maintained by farmers for present and future agricultural development

 

highlighting the social importance of PPB for Maize

   

highlighting the social importance of PPB for Rice

 

Output #: Identification of limiting factors to the maintenance of crop diversity on-farm

X

X

X

X

X

 

Output #: Identification of farmers and communities to link into national/provincial PRG system

Maize farmers in the Yucatan

Alfalfa seed breeders

 

Ethiopia

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