Sustaining Local Food Systems, Agricultural Biodiversity and Livelihoods
Initiative I0028
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| Organisation de mise en oeuvre | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Institut sur l’environnement/le développement) |
Résumé
Sustaining Local Food Systems, Agricultural Biodiversity and Livelihoods is a research initiative that aims to analyse how and under what conditions can decentralised governance, farmer participation and capacity building promote the adaptive management of agricultural biodiversity in the context of local food systems and livelihoods. This will be achieved by:
• identifying forms of decentralised governance, co-management agreements, and markets and property right institutions that can sustain agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods;
• strengthening the capacity of farmers and other actors, including producer organisations, and in doing so increase their benefits, and promote awareness and responsible action;
• developing indicators to analyse the links between livelihoods and agricultural biodiversity, with a special emphasis on local definitions of well being, equity and culture;
• applying participatory assessment methodology for valuations of agricultural biodiversity and the various systems (e.g. livelihoods, food and rural development) in which local biodiversity is embedded;
• making recommendations on effective policies and processes that will help build capacity and institutionalise the adaptive management of agricultural biodiversity in the context of localised food systems and rural economies.
Rendement
Through participatory research and dialogue in India, Iran, Peru and Indonesia a range of impacts have been achieved:
• International Farmers Exchange for Mutual Learning on Privatisation of Knowledge and Seeds;
• a citizens’ jury was initiated in Andhra Pradesh (India) to include small farmers and indigenous people in participatory assessments of different visions of food, farming and rural development futures;
• a cultural and technical exchange was organised between Indian farmers and indigenous communities in the Andes of Peru. The farmer to farmer exchange focused on capacity building for the local level management of agricultural biodiversity, the documentation of indigenous knowledge in the form of Community Biodiversity Registers and training in digital video technology;
• support and conceptual inputs were provided to the Growing Diversity Initiative and an international workshop in Brazil, in which participants reviewed emerging issues and challenges for the decentralised management of agricultural biodiversity in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Commence
2001
Gens
Michel Pimbert, Project Co-ordinator, IIED
E-mail: michel.pimbert@iied.org
Enregistrements associés au-dessus de celui-ci:
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Organisation O0040)