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the roles of community seed banks in climate change adaption, Key policies…

- - - - ex. maize to millets in rain stressed areas
      - use better adapted varieties of the same trio developed through their own on-farm selection
      - formal sector crop improvement programs
      - collaborative effort
        
        participating in plant breeding
- - - - Ethiopia
      - India
        
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        Farmer Research Groups
        
        15, 000 farmers
        
        24 Districts
        
        Seed bank in Blarampur district
        of Uttar Pradesh
        
        92 accessions of 20 crops
        conserved
        
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        Working of varieties of:
        
        Wheat
        
        Better traits in response to
        climate change stress
        
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        Rice
        
        26 rice varieties
        
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        11 new community Seed Banks
        
        20 more, in the pipeline
        
        Goal: Access and Availability
        
        maintenance of locally adapted seed at a low cost
        
        fostering of seed exchanges at local and supralocal levels
        
        accessing novel diversity not conserved locally
        
        accessing seeds from areas where
        plants have adapted to extreme weather conditions
        
        Seed longevity
        
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        farmers are allowed to sell small quantities of quality declared labelled seed at the local level.
      - Papua New Guinea
    - - Extreme Heat issue
        
        Wheat, sensitive to heat when flowering
        
        Solution: growing the wheat earlier to avoid the extreme heat
    - - Mapping with GIS technologies
      - Farmers varietal preferences,
        recorded onto servers
        
        Real-Time Data aquisition
        
        collecting data by crowdsourcing
        
        Researchers merge and analyze data from all trials
        
        Farmers identified
        promising varieties
        
        Community Seed bank established in Meket Woreda, in 2014
- - - - "Living" seed banks (Keeping seed in public domain video)
        
        Dynamic model
        
        High adaptation capacity compared to seed vaults or governmental seed banks for conservation purposes
        
        Interactive
        
        Allows for education to be transmitted
    - - Maintains varieties within the community
        
        prevents genetic erosion
      - Allows farmers to have better access to locally-adapted seeds
        
        Seeds adapted to climate for more resiliency
      - Allows community to learn about new varieties
        
        Allows for enhanced food sovereignty because farmers and growers can make their own choices about the varieties they wish to grow
    - - Affected by changing climate and weather patterns
  - - - To ensure sustainability of the seed bank, farmers return twice the amount of good quality seeds initially borrowed
      - Seed quality, production and management education
  - - - Helps to track varieties used based on climate and geographical location
      - Helps identify a relevant portrait of crop diversity within certain geographical areas
      - Helps to verify crop suitability depending on geographical location
        
        E.g. Some rice crops were developed to resist to saline environments in case of floodings (connection from AGR333 Climate change, Agriculture and Food Security with Dr. Jane Morrison)
      - Helps to create crop variety modelling within certain geographical areas
- - - - most common
  - - - chalanges include lack of legal recognition and scarce financial resources
  - - - including reviving lost local varieties
      - conservation of a portfolio of diverse seeds of crops and crop varieties
      - conservation of seeds from plants that have high capacity to survive under extreme weather conditions
      - restoration of lost varieties
        
        especially those with good adaptation potential
    - - platforms for multiple channels of access and availability of seeds at community level
      - accessing novel diversity not conserved locally
      - accessing seeds from areas where plants have adapted to extreme weather conditions
      - provision of adapted seed to marginal communities not served by commercial seed dissemination efforts
- - - - Mexico recieves financial and technical support from the federal government and is now part of the national conservation system.
        
        Nepal has paid closer attention to community seed bank after a devastating earthquake in 2015. Over 20 tons of seed has been provided.